Ming Shizong Zhu Houxi (September 16, 1507 - January 23, 1567), known as Yaozhai, Lei Xuan, Tianchi Diaosuo.

Born in Luzhou, Huguang, he is the grandson of Zhu Jianshen of Ming Xianzong, the nephew of Zhu Youzhu of Ming Xiaozong, the son of Zhu Youqi, the king of Xingxian, and the cousin of Zhu Houzhao of Ming Wuzong.

The eleventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

In the sixteenth year of Zhengde (1521), Wuzong Zhu Houzhao died and had no children to succeed to the throne.

According to the ancestral motto of "brother to brother and", Zhu Houxi, the 14-year-old son of King Xing, inherited the line, and the year name was Jiajing.

Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Houxi, two cousins, are really not a family that does not enter the door.

Zhu Houzhao believed in Buddhism, and Zhu Houxi believed in Taoism.

One is the Daqing Dharma King Department of Jue Dao Yuanming Freedom Dading Abundant Buddha.

One is the Heavenly Da Luo Heavenly Immortal Purple Pole Immortal Saint Wisdom Zhao Ling Tong Yuan Zheng Ying Yuxu is in charge of the Five Thunder Great True People Xuandu Realm.

Zhu Houzhao, who believes in Buddhism, is still quite reasonable, and he can recite this name if he wants to read it.

As for Zhu Houxi, it's a bit nonsense, and it is enough to be able to read it completely.

That's it, it's just one of Zhu Houxi's many titles.

Like what else, the Nine Heavens Hongjiao Puji Shengling Palm Yin Yang Gong Guo Dao Siren Ziji Immortal Weng Yiyang Zhenren Yuan Xuyuan should be enlightened and subdued demons and loyal and filial piety emperors.

There is also Taishang Da Luo Heavenly Immortal Zi Ji Immortal Sage Wisdom Zhao Ling Tong Yuan Zheng Ying Yuxu General Commander of the Five Thunder Great True Persons Yuan Capital Treasure Realm Wanshou Emperor.

It sounds like a cow batch PLUS, which makes people feel like a big head.

But Zhu Houxi is very happy about this.

Zhu Houxi can be said to have opened a precedent for the Ming Emperor.

The other Ming emperors were either eating, drinking, and merrymaking, or engaged in carpentry work.

But in Zhu Houxi's case, he actually started cultivating immortals.

This immortal cultivation is to cultivate for decades.

Therefore, Zhu Houxi is also known as the Emperor of Immortal Cultivation in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Xiu Xian cultivated to the back, and even didn't care about the major affairs of the court, almost all of them were handed over to the traitor Yan Song.

Zhu Houxi himself only cares about meditating and cultivating every day, alchemizing and taking medicine, praying that he can live forever.

He also dreams of immortality all day long.

For the sake of alchemy, Zhu Houxi even did a lot of absurd things that made people feel incredible.

even made a change in the Renshen Palace.

The change of Renshen Palace, that is, in the year of Renshen, the concubines and palace maids of Zhu Houxi's harem colluded with Zhu Houxi to assassinate Zhu Houxi.

This was almost done by these palace maids.

These palace maids took advantage of Zhu Houxi's sleep to cover Zhu Houxi's neck with yellow silk cloth, and then pulled hard, trying to kill Zhu Houxi.

But because of the panic, he tied the step to death, and instead of strangling Zhu Houxi, he woke Zhu Houyu up.

Then these palace maids stabbed Zhu Houxi with sharp jewelry such as hairpins and hairpins, but Zhu Houxi had already woken up and avoided from time to time.

So he still didn't let Zhu Houxi die.

Between the constant entanglements, one of the timid palace maids sneaked out because she was scared and reported the matter of Zhu Houxi's side to Empress Zhu Houxi.

The queen was shocked when she learned about this, and hurriedly led people to Zhu Houxi's bedroom to subdue all the palace maids who had assassinated.

In the end, these palace maids who tried to assassinate Zhu Houxi were all executed by Ling Chi.

was assassinated by the palace maids, which is unique in all dynasties.

Even on the entire historical level, it is extremely explosive.

The occurrence of this assassination also had an extremely important impact on the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi.

Because he was assassinated by the palace maids, Zhu Houxi lived alone in Xiyuan from then on, and began to pay almost no attention to the political affairs of the court.

Zhu Houxi thought that his ability to survive this time was the reason for his sincerity in cultivating Taoism, so he believed in Taoism even more, and put almost all his thoughts on cultivation.

I don't care about anything else.

It is precisely because of Zhu Houxi's lazy government and his ignorance of the government that it indirectly led to the emergence of Yan Song's dictatorship and disorderly government.

It can even be said that the Renyin Palace Change was a very important turning point in the Jiajing Dynasty.

In fact, you can't blame the palace maid for this.

If you want to blame it, it is to blame Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi's cultivation is really terrifying, and it is a little too much.

It can even be said that Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi is a little too perverted, and the palace maids can't stand it.

So I want to kill him in exchange for a relief for myself.

It turned out that because Zhu Houxi was obsessed with cultivation and alchemy, he took some detours.

The views and practices on some things are also unique, and even a little perverted.

Everyone knows very well about alchemy, it is almost a poison that pierces the intestines.

Generally, mercury and arsenic are added to it.

But then again, Zhu Houxi has cultivated for so many years and has eaten countless elixirs.

Mercury and arsenic went down every day, and he actually lived to be sixty years old.

I have to say, this is also a miracle.

Zhu Houxi's alchemy is different from others, and I don't know if he listened to anyone's nonsense or if he had a whim.

When he was alchemizing, he not only added mercury and arsenic, but also added some women's essence and blood.

That's pretty.

Everyone thinks it's very, very outrageous.

The palace ladies thought so too.

But Zhu Houxi didn't think so, he was very superstitious, so he felt that he had to add some essence and blood when refining the pill.

It's the first time I've seen such a perverted request for palace maids.

But do you think that's all there is to it?

It's much more than that.

In order to ensure the purity of the elixir, Zhu Houxi did not let the palace maids eat indiscriminately.

To put it mildly, it is not to eat indiscriminately, and to say it directly is not to let the palace maids eat.

Let the palace ladies eat only mulberry leaves and drink dew every day.

It's nothing short of torture.

As the saying goes, the people take food as the sky, and cutting off people and eating food is like killing their parents.

Zhu Houxi didn't even let the palace maids eat, can the palace maids have no complaints in their hearts.

That's not all.

Zhu Houxi not only didn't let the palace maids eat indiscriminately, but he didn't eat much indiscriminately himself.

However, Zhu Houxi is not stupid enough to eat only mulberry leaves.

But when it comes to drinking water, he only drinks dew.

Zhu Houxi believes that dew is spiritual water, and it is the source of spiritual energy that God gives to the world every day.

Therefore, Zhu Houxi asked the palace maids to get up in the early hours of the morning to collect dew for him to drink.

That's not all, Zhu Houxi has a more brutal side.

I don't know if it's because I ate too much elixir or what, Zhu Houxi is moody and ruthless.

At every turn, he will scold those palace maids and even do it directly.

When Zhu Houxi is unhappy, he will be killed directly.

It is said that there were more than 200 palace maids who died in the hands of Zhu Houxi, and they were all beaten to death.

Therefore, serving Zhu Houxi also risks being killed at any time.

In this way, those palace maids did not have enough food and clothing, and they had to get up in the early morning every day to collect dew.

They also face the possibility of being killed every day.

Serving by the side of Zhu Houxi, a pervert, he has to face both physical and psychological oppression, and he can't stop worrying every day. 、

The palace ladies did not eat or sleep well, and they were getting older day by day, and some people fell ill every day.

In this way, the palace maids couldn't bear it anymore.

Instead of suffering such oppression, it is better to jump up directly and Zhu Houxi.

Therefore, they began to plot to kill Zhu Houxi.

I don't know if Zhu Houxi really has a big life, or if those palace maids have no food to eat and no strength.

Unexpectedly, several people couldn't kill a sleeping Zhu Houxi, and they were killed by Zhu Houxi.

In this way, Zhu Houxi believes that he is the chosen one even more.

It's the material for quick immortal cultivation.

Seven or eight palace maids failed to kill themselves in their sleep, and that wasn't talent.

Zhu Houxi began to sink in this kind of self-confidence, and he became more and more diligent in his cultivation.

Any major affairs of the government or any major state affairs have nothing to do with him.

He just wants to cultivate an immortal quietly and live a long life quietly.

Therefore, Zhu Houxi began to not go to the court for a long time, so that Yan Song began to completely control the court.

However, Zhu Houxi is also a smart person, although he does not go to the court, he will call the ministers of the court and beat him if he has nothing to do.

This kind of behavior of only clocking in and not going to work is something that only he, the boss, can do.

He was telling the officials of Daming, although he, the boss, did not show up in the company every day.

But he will still pay attention to the company's every move in secret, so that these ministers of the DPRK and China should not have any careful thoughts in their hearts, and they should not make any small moves.

For the emperor's mental tricks and scheming, Zhu Houxi is more powerful than his immortal cultivation.

In the face of Zhu Houxi's cultivation of immortals, many court ministers couldn't stand it.

The immortal cultivator almost had to be killed by the palace maid, and he also cultivated a fart immortal.

It's a shame, but the courtiers don't dare to say it.

But there are still some people with strong temperament who will write to Zhu Houxi, saying that he should not cultivate immortals.

Cultivating immortals misleads the country and the people, and cultivating immortals is just a trick of some little Taoist priests to deceive people.

For these, Zhu Houxi can't bear it.

Regarding his cultivation of immortals, in Zhu Houxi's opinion, it is absolutely true.

No matter who it is, as long as it hinders him from cultivating immortals, then there is no emotion at all.

If someone dares to say that he should not cultivate immortals, saying that cultivating immortals is ridiculous, then he will be killed directly.

Never say more than one word of nonsense.

Taifu Qing Yang said that the matter of cultivating immortals was too ridiculous, and Zhu Houxi immediately killed him with a cane, without mercy.

Zhu Houxi used his thunderous means to express his attitude towards cultivating immortals, so no one dared to dissuade him from cultivating immortals from then on.

There are even many flattering ministers who began to echo Zhu Houxi, saying that Zhu Houxi will definitely be immortal.

Under this atmosphere, Zhu Houxi became more and more interested in cultivating immortals.

However, Zhu Houxi's cultivation of immortals also made a lot of contributions to Taoism in China.

In the Ming Dynasty, because of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, they all believed in Buddhism.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a monk before the incident, and Zhu Di's martyrdom was only successful because of Yao Guangxiao's help.

With the support of these two emperors, Buddhism was in full swing in the Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Houxi no longer believed in Buddhism, and began to favor Taoism.

To a certain extent, it also promoted the development of Taoist culture.

Because he was obsessed with cultivating immortals, Zhu Houxi promoted Yan Song.

Yan Song almost became Zhu Houxi's spokesperson in the later period.

Because he was obsessed with cultivating immortals, Zhu Houxi did not establish the position of prince.

All of a sudden, the entire Ming Dynasty Hall almost became Yan Song's Yiyan Hall.

Even the imperial power Yan Song dared to get involved.

Because no one could suppress him, even Zhu Houxi's two sons had to tie up with Yan Song at one time.

Yan Song relied on Zhu Houxi's trust, so he gradually began to persecute dissidents in the Ming Dynasty.

Not only that, but he and his son Yan Shifan began to wash the Ming treasury together.

kept swallowing up the silver taels of the imperial court, and even the military salaries of the border soldiers dared to be greedy for ink.

This also directly affected the military defense of the border passes during the Jiajing period, resulting in the border passes being very unstable during the Jiajing period.

even made the Ming court suffer a lot of defeats.

For all this, in fact, Zhu Houxi saw it in his eyes, but he was too lazy to care.

Yan Song's actions were also mentioned by many cabinet ministers in front of Zhu Houxi, but Zhu Houyi didn't care about it, and seemed to be very partial to Yan Song.

This situation made Yan Song even more arrogant.

Not only is it becoming more and more domineering above the court, but it is also becoming more and more unscrupulous among the people.

It has led to unspeakable suffering for the common people.

At one time, there was Jiajing Jiajing, a clean satirical ballad.

Under normal circumstances, when there are great traitors, there will often be great loyal ministers, to form a sharp contrast.

Even according to the script, this loyal minister should be able to awaken the conscience of the mediocre emperor, make him change his face, and let the people out of the miserable life.

And Hai Jui is this loyal minister.

In the face of Zhu Houxi's ignorance of government politics and dedication to cultivating immortals, Hai Rui couldn't stand it for a long time.

He felt that he was going to do something for Da Ming.

On February 1, the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566), Hai Rui bought a coffin for himself in the coffin shop.

Then he entrusted his family to the care of a friend.

After settling his family, Hai Rui presented a letter to the court with the determination to die.

This is the famous "Public Security Sparse", which is called the first sparse in the world by later generations.

In this letter, Hai Rui directly criticized Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi for his superstitious belief in witchcraft, his luxurious life, and his disregard for government affairs.

The words are merciless, direct and hard.

Because Hai Rui had already prepared a coffin for himself and was determined to die, he wrote too radically in the fold.

The whole article is almost open, high-energy to the line, without the slightest tactfulness.

When this letter was sent to Zhu Houxi, Zhu Houxi was naturally very angry.

He didn't expect that someone would dare to say that about him, and he would dare to talk about the immortal arts and witchcraft he cultivated.

Dare to say that he wastes money and lives extravagantly.

Zhu Houxi is a person who cultivates immortals, and he can't bear it in the face of Hai Rui, a mortal.

immediately ordered someone to arrest Hai Rui and put him in prison.

Zhu Houxi had the intention of killing Hai Rui at the beginning, but then hesitated.

With the persuasion of his cabinet minister Xu Jie and his courtiers, Zhu Houxi saved Hai Rui's life.

It was precisely because of Hai Rui's life that Zhu Houxi's reputation collapsed not so much.

Although Zhu Houxi has mainly been cultivating immortals all his life, which is ridiculous, he cannot be directly denied.

Zhu Houxi still has some political achievements.

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