Chapter 50 2. Zhengde Leopard Room

Emperor Zhengde was the tenth emperor after Hongwu, Jianwen, Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, Zhengtong, Jingtai, Chenghua and Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty. He succeeded to the throne at the age of 15. He is intelligent, does not study, is good at riding and shooting, and likes touring. He is a playful emperor.What about the leopard room?Not in the palace, but outside the palace.In August of the second year of Zhengde (1507), he "made a leopard room" (Volume 16 of "Ming History Wuzong Benji").It is about to the west of today's Beihai Park.Why is it called the Leopard Room?It started to get its name from raising leopards.The Leopard House occupies a large area and has many buildings, such as the Taisu Hall, Swan House, and Dock. It also built forbidden gardens, palaces, and secret rooms. .He called himself "Xinzhai" and "Home".Emperor Zhengde reigned for 16 years. Generally speaking, the first half lived in the imperial palace, and the second half lived in the leopard room.What did Emperor Zhengde do in the Leopard Room?

First, music and dance.Emperor Zhengde called the musicians of Jiaofang to perform in the Leopard Room.The Ministry of Rites issued a document to take Hejian and other Fule households to Jiaofang to accept them.So the officials escorted the actors, hundreds of them a day, to the capital.After arriving in Beijing, select those with superb skills, give rations, and build houses.Emperor Zhengde went to the Jiaofang Division at night to watch the music, dance and performance of the musicians.Emperor Zhengde was still playing in the leopard house, "the daily rate of the small yellow gate is a play of corners and scorpions, and he stays wherever he goes, drinks and sleeps without returning, and he enters the middle palace and the east and west palaces for only four or five days a month." ("Wu Zong Wai Ji") Gong Ci said: "One or two lines of Huamao Jiancheng, cold autumn frost outside the Xihua Gate. The crimson gauze chariot blows the incense, and goes to accompany Luanyu to stay in the Leopard Room." "Volume 3) Leopard House Chengchen Youqian Ning.Qian Ning, entered the emperor with a secret play.Emperor Zhengde was in the leopard room, enjoying his voice and tricks, and indulging in lust for pleasure.After Qian Ning's incident happened, he was tied up naked and had no family property. He got 2,500 bundles of jade belts, more than 100,000 taels of gold, and 3,000 boxes of platinum.Afterwards, Qian Ning was in the city.Eleven of his adopted sons were all beheaded, and his son Yongan was the governor at the age of 6, and he was spared from death when he was young. (Volume 370 of "History of the Ming Dynasty·The Biography of Qian Ning")

Second, licentiousness.Emperor Zhengde ascended to the throne at the age of 15. He set up a laundry bureau in the leopard room, raised female pets, collected musicians, beauties, eunuchs, etc., and lived here day and night instead of living in the inner court. ("Wu Zong Wai Ji") Chengchen presented twelve Hui women who were good at singing and dancing into the leopard room, singing and dancing day and night, which was still not enough.Later, Emperor Zhengde often went out of the palace in micro-clothes, and even visited other places.During the tour, I selected beauties and filled the clothing bureau. The number is unclear, and the annual charcoal consumption alone is as high as 160,000 catties.Wherever the car drove, the servants first plundered the women of the people, so as to be lucky, and there were dozens of cars.Virgins and widows from all over the country heard that the emperor was coming to travel, and they chose to marry one after another. Some robbed widowers and forced them to marry, and they died overnight.When Emperor Zhengde was traveling, he ordered dozens of large carts, with monks and women sitting in them, dozens of people in each cart, with a ball hanging from the cover, and they drove quickly. Laugh out loud for fun.Give three examples.

Ma Meimei, the younger sister of Ma Ang, a general who lives at leisure, is beautiful, married and pregnant, flattering and contributing, and sent to Leopard's room.Mrs. Ma is good at riding and shooting, Changle dance, especially the music and dance of the Western Regions, as well as the national language, so he is very fortunate.As a family of Martens, chickens and dogs rise to heaven.No matter how big or small, they will all be given python clothes.And in Taipingcang bestowed the title, smoked and moved the capital.Emperor Zhengde tasted his first feast after riding several times.The speech officer Lu Jing and others said: "Now Ma Ji is favored inside, and Ang and others are in power outside. If you want to avoid disaster, get it?" None of them will be reported.Some censors took Meixi Fa Xia, Da Ji Fa Shang, and Bao Si Fa Zhou as examples, and risked their lives to remonstrate: "Ji Xia, Shang, Zhou, Han, Jin, and Tang suffered from it for a while." report. (Volume 4 of "Supplements to the History of Sheng Chaotong") Emperor Zhengde won Liu Meiren, but Ma's favor declined.

Liu Meiren is a famous prostitute in Lehu of Jinwangfu.In the twelfth year of Zhengde (1517), Emperor Zhengde was lucky to be in Datong, and all the girls were happy in Taiyuan.Liu Meiren came in together with all the prostitutes. Emperor Zhengde saw the beauty from afar, pleased with her look, and returned home with her life.He first lived in Leopard's room and was given a special bed.Diet and daily life, must stay with each other, always listen to what you say.Left and right or touched by anger, secretly begging Liu Meiren, always laughing away.The great eunuch was arrogant and arrogant, but when he saw Liu Meiren, he touched the ground and kowtowed, as if he was a biological mother, and called him "Liu Niangniang".Emperor Zhengde wanted to march south, and secretly transferred Liu Meiren to Luhe (now Tongzhou), and agreed that the big driver would go first, and then his boat would welcome the beauty.Liu Meiren took off a hairpin and gave it to Emperor Xing, and said: "Go after seeing the hairpin." Emperor Zhengde hid the hairpin in his clothes, crossed the Lugou Bridge, and lost the hairpin on his horse.When he arrived in Linqing (nearly thousands of miles away from Beijing), he sent internal officials and eunuchs to call for the beauty, but the beauty resigned: "I dare not do it without a token!" So Emperor Zhengde took a boat alone, sailed day and night, and returned to Tongzhou to meet Liu beauty in person, and went with him And south. (Volume 4 of "Supplements to the History of Sheng Chaotong") Emperor Zhengde's southward journey, the courtier Shu Fen and others advised him to stop, ordered him to stick, and insisted on going his own way.

Wang Huanyi, Ming Mantang, the daughter of Wang Zhi, a citizen of Bazhou (now Bazhou, Hebei), was elected as a lady because of her beauty, but she was rejected and returned home, refusing to marry.She had a dream one day, and the dream said that Zhao Wanxing would come to hire her before she could get married.A monk in the village came and went to Wang's house. He knew about the dream and spread the word.When a Taoist heard about it, he changed his name to Yi and bribed the monk to come to the woman's house the day before and say, "Your family will have a nobleman tomorrow." Zhao Wanxing too." The whole family bowed down and got married.This person was later arrested and beheaded in the West Market after he raised an incident in the area of ​​Niulan Mountain.Emperor Zhengde made a special decree not to kill Wang Mantang, and he was not allowed to enter the Huanyi bureau and entered the servant's room, which was greatly favored.Emperor Jiajing succeeded to the throne and released the clothing bureau.Known as "Wang Huanyi". (Volume 4 of Supplements to the History of Sheng Chaotong)

Third, play martial arts.Emperor Zhengde liked to play with martial arts.Later, Jiang Bin and others will be lucky enough to enter the Leopard Room.Also set up an inner teaching field.Select a lucky person, give the country's surname (Zhu) as the adopted son, among them, in September of the seventh year of Zhengde (1512), "given the adopted son 127 people the country's surname". (Volume 16 of "History of Ming Dynasty Wu Zong Benji") What are the "Four Town Soldiers" and "Four Foreign Armies" set up, with the minister Jiang Bin part-time as the commander.Emperor Zhengde led a battalion of eunuchs who were good at riding and shooting, called the Chinese Army.Exercise in the morning and evening, shouting and firing cannons, the sound of artillery reaches nine gates.At that time, all the armies were wearing yellow armor, that is, Jinfei brocade, which must be covered on the armor.Emperor Zhengde personally inspected it, and called it "Guo Jin", which means seeing it like a brocade.The internal army wears indigo-dyed swan feathers on their sun visor hats to show their dignity-the big one drags three ying, and the second one drags two ying.Shangshu Wang Qiongde bestowed a ying, and it was an honor to wear it off the teaching field.The servants, governors, censors, etc. also dressed in the same way when they visited the places they visited after hunting, and kowtowed to Emperor Zhengde. ("Wu Zong Wai Ji") This is really a big farce!

Fourth, raise animals.The emperors of the Ming Dynasty liked to keep animals. There were tiger houses, leopard houses, bird houses, eagle houses, dog houses, cat houses, etc., which were regarded as royal zoos.There are tigers, leopards, dogs, elephants, rhinos, white buffaloes, seals, dogs (Tibetan mastiffs), minks, lynx cats, giraffes, etc. The aviary house is dedicated to raising rare birds and birds, such as peacocks, white cranes, and mandarins. Pheasant, money chicken, colorful parrot and so on.The number of domesticated animals is recorded in historical records: "In the reign of Tianshun, there were more than 23,000; in the reign of Hongzhi, there were more than 29,400; in the reign of Zhengde, there were more than 29,300." ("" Volume 11 of Special Domain Zhou Zilu) The Ming Dynasty managed these animals. Tigers, leopards, rhinoceros, elephants, etc. each had their own ranks and ranks, such as the salary of the general who eats tigers, and the salary of commanders who eat elephants.Raising animals is costly.During the Jiajing period, the leopard house raised a local leopard, "there were 240 warriors who served, and the annual rent was 2,800 shi, covering an area of ​​10 hectares, and the annual rent was 700 gold." (Volume 3 of "Supplement to the Compilation of Wanli Yehuo Inner House Leopards") Emperor Zhengde played with tigers and admired leopards. Once, "the emperor was injured while playing with tigers and ignored the imperial court".

Fifth, alcoholism.Emperor Zhengde was addicted to drinking, and he often carried wine glasses, wine spoons, and wine poppy (ying, urn) with him wherever he went, where he drank, where he got drunk, and where he slept.There is a book recorded: "Whenever you get drunk, you will go back when you wake up, and you will go back to it every day." ("Wu Zong Wai Ji") Once, Emperor Zhengde went to Xuanfu (now Xuanhua, Hebei) and "ordered all the ministers to have colorful tents and sheep wine. Welcome to the suburbs, congratulations to the Imperial Tent Hall." (Volume 16 of "History of Ming Dynasty Wu Zongji") This tent hall is "paved with flower felt, one hundred and sixty-two rooms, made and separated from the palace, etc., and the emperor travels and travels with luck."Emperor Ming, lying drunk in his tent.The sycophant Jiang Bin, who guided the emperor, entered people's homes many times at night, raped women, indulged in wine and sex, forgot to go back to the palace, and stayed overnight in private houses, which he called "home".Emperor Zhengde and Jiang Bin rode armor together, and it was difficult to distinguish between the emperor and his subjects. They entered the leopard room and lay down together. ("History of Ming Dynasty Jiang Bin Biography" volume 370) Emperor Zhengde was in the Leopard Room, often drunk and pillowed on Qianning, sleeping soundly.Hundreds of officials waited for the court, and in the evening, the emperor's shadow was not seen.

Sixth, the west tour.You Dong, a talented Suzhou scholar, wrote "The Mighty General", describing Emperor Zhengde's tour: "Flags hunting and stationed in the north, buildings and boats swaying to look at the south crossing, the leopard's house is not finished, and I look for the spring river and the moon." ("Chibei") Occasionally Talking Ming History Yuefu "Volume 18) In the ninth year of Zhengde (1514), Emperor Zhengde began to travel.During the Lantern Festival this year, the Qianqing Palace was on fire.Emperor Zhengde said: "What a shed of fireworks!" In order to rebuild the Qianqing Palace, "add one million to the world". (Volume 16 of "History of Ming Dynasty Wu Zongji") After that, Emperor Zhengde began to walk in a small way.Emperor Zhengde visited Shanxi and Shaanxi three times.Once, in the middle of the night, I went out of Deshengmen and arrived at Juyongguan, but was stopped.He changed the gatekeeper and left the gate again. Fortunately, Xuan Mansion claimed to be the governor of military affairs, the mighty general, and the commander-in-chief.For this reason, one million taels of silver was allocated to Xuanfu.In the thirteenth year of Zhengde (1518), Zhengdan celebrated the New Year in Xuanfu.Emperor Zhengde often took Xuanfu as his home.In addition to the western tour, there is also a southern tour.

Seventh, the southern tour.In April of the fourteenth year of Zhengde (1519), Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao rebelled and captured Jiujiang.Wang Shouren led his army to recover Nanchang and captured Chenhao.The good news is played in Beijing, but the secret is not made public.In August, Emperor Zhengde marched in person.In December, go to Yangzhou and go to Nanjing.At that time, there was a great hunger in Huaiyang, and people ate each other.On a whim, Emperor Zhengde issued an edict to all places, because Zhu and pig have the same pronunciation, "three prohibitions" on pigs: no feeding, no slaughter, and no trading.Offenders, the whole family, old and young, will be sent to the far side to be exiled into the army.The folks slaughtered pigs and cured meat one after another. (Volume 1 of "Wanli Yehuobian·Forbidden Slaughtering Pigs") In the first month of the fifteenth year (1520), Emperor Zhengde celebrated the New Year in Nanjing.In August, Chen Hao was offered as a prisoner in Jiangxi.Order to set up square uniforms, set up a big banner, and surround the army.Release the prisoners, remove the shackles, beat the drums and sound the gold, capture them again, add prison equipment, and the team returns to the north.When Emperor Zhengde returned to the north, he ordered Zhu Chenhao's boat and Emperor Zhengde's boat to link up end to end and go together. Emperor Zhengde wanted to put Chenhao in the lake and captured it himself.All remonstrance is stopped.In September, I returned to Qingjiang, fortunately eunuch Zhang Yangdi.After staying for three days, I took a small boat to fish in a pool of accumulated water, the boat capsized and I drowned.The attendant was terrified, entered the water, and tucked it out.Emperor Zhengde was frightened and choked on water again, so he fell ill. Eighth, violent death. "Since the emperor toured the south, the second watch is the first day of the year." Zhengde toured the south for nearly two years.In December of the fifteenth year of Zhengde (1520), Emperor Zhengde returned to the capital.He killed Chen Hao and made a sacrifice to the southern suburbs.Not long after the victory ceremony was held, he suddenly coughed up blood, and the ground was bright red.Before the ceremony is over, it's time to start.In the 16th year of Zhengde (1521), on March 14th, he died in Leopard House, thirty-one years old.Only two eunuchs were by his side when he died.The eunuch reported the bad news to the imperial court, mourned from top to bottom, and released the monks, women and musicians in the teaching workshop to the leopard room.Disasters and disasters are frequent, the people are in poverty, the soldiers are looking for each other, the savings are empty, the scars are everywhere, and they are extremely exhausted.It was Emperor Zhengde's cousin Zhu Houcong who took over this mess, who was Emperor Jiajing.