Why is the life of Emperor Zhu Houzhao called a joke?

We all know the saying "Don't joke". As a king, you have no right to joke. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, when Zhou Chengwang was playing with his younger brother Yu Shu, he joked with a plane leaf and said, "I will give you a leaf to be a vassal." Cheng soon forgot about it, but Duke Zhou reminded him that you were joking. Every word of the emperor will go down in history. So I had to give a seal shaped like a leaf, which was called "one leaf seals the Tang Dynasty" in history.

However, there was an emperor who spent his whole life joking with his ministers and people. He is Zhu Houzhao, Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty, and his title is Zheng De.

He is a sports enthusiast. When he was a prince, he posed as the Eight Tigers headed by eunuch Liu Jin, and held the Olympic Games in the East Palace, including skating, sumo wrestling and cuju.

He is a lover of acrobatic performances, and there are many jugglers in the palace. If you have nothing to do, give him a performance of spitting fire, shadow play, swallowing swords, breaking chest and big stones, etc.

He is also an animal protector. He ordered the state treasury to fund the establishment of the "Leopard House", namely the Royal Zoo, where tigers, elephants, lions, giraffes, eagles, pigeons and other national protected animals are kept. Later, because his surname was Zhu and he was a pig, a "pig ban" was promulgated to prohibit people from killing pigs. Pork is a very important food for human beings, not to mention ordinary people. Even the emperor's dinner table was empty soup, so the "pig ban" was abolished after only three months.

He is still a big businessman. He ordered a commercial street to be built for him in the palace, and the goods were widely circulated. Palace eunuchs acted as vendors. At this time, he came to power, bargained with these vendors and made a lot of money by buying and selling.

He is also a traveler. In the twelfth year of Zheng De, Zhu Houzhao sneaked out of the palace and went straight to Juyongguan. Fortunately, Zhang Qin, an imperial envoy of Juyongguan, died in battle and didn't open the door for him. Finally, court officials came after them, and then they persuaded their emperor to return to the palace.

He is even a military enthusiast. When the news of Wang Ning rebellion reached the capital, Zhu Houzhao was not angry, but happy. He immediately set about preparing his personal expedition. The example of civil engineering reform in Ming Yingzong still exists. Although civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty tried to dissuade him, he went his own way. No sooner had his army left the capital than good news came from Nanchang. Governor Wang Shouren suppressed the rebellion of King Ning. Disappointed by the good news in Zhu Houzhao, the army continued to March south for four months. He felt that he wanted more and asked Wang Shouren to release the captured prisoners. He mounted his horse and fought with the prisoners again, but he still caught Cai.

So he is still a general by rights. He gave himself a new name, Zhu Shou, and named it "Zhu Shou", as a powerful general governor in military affairs, and the city of lord protector. He led the army to fight against the Tatars, killing them 16, with more than 600 casualties.

Zhu Houzhao lived a dissolute life at the age of 3 1 year. Although there were many beautiful women in the harem, he was extremely irresponsible and left no children, so he had to be succeeded to the throne by his cousin Zhu Hou.