Chapter 64 Build a brothel in the imperial city

After this confrontation with the courtiers, Ming Wuzong, who was playful by nature, could no longer bear the rigid and rigid "standard" emperor's life.He didn't like the palace either.According to Xiaozong's edict, in August of the second year of Zhengde (1507), he held a big wedding to marry Empress Xia, and later married two concubines, but he had no interest in them.Moreover, the imperial confinement management in the Ming Dynasty was strict, and every move of the emperor was monitored by someone, and they had to be specially recorded for later inspection.Wu Zong hated this system of restraining people, but he had experienced the "power" of courtiers and knew that it was impossible to change this system, so he set his sights outside the palace.

The place Wu Zong chose was called "Leopard House".The Leopard Room is located on the south bank of the Taiye Pond outside the Xihua Gate of the Imperial Palace. It was originally a place where the royal family kept wild beasts. Rare animals that were paid tribute by the Wuzong Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty were also kept here. It is actually a royal zoo.Wu Zong chose this zoo to build his own comfort zone, and expanded on the original basis. He was very happy to call this his "new house".From then on, Wu Zong lived here until his death, and the political center of the Ming Dynasty actually moved from the center of the palace to the Leopard Room.

Although the Leopard Room can be regarded as within the scope of the imperial palace in a broad sense, it does not belong to the palace after all, so Wu Zong no longer has to be troubled by those red tapes here, and can freely develop his interests from now on, and I also criticize official documents and so on while having fun.He also has a wide range of interests, and he is talented, and he can learn everything at once.As long as it has nothing to do with being an emperor, he knows everything from cockfighting and running dogs, horseback riding and hunting to playing and singing, and even Sanskrit and Arabic.Since the leopard house was originally a zoo, Wu Zong moved in and raised many ferocious tigers and leopards. He watched these beasts fight back and forth when he had nothing to do. hurt.Of course, the emperor couldn't fight tigers and leopards by himself, he had to have a lot of bodyguards and accompanying fighters, so he called people who were good at fighting tigers and leopards from all over the world to enter the leopard room to be "warriors".There were tens of thousands of people elected to Beijing, and Wu Zong selected a hundred warriors from the ten thousand people, raised them in the leopard house, and named them all his "adopted sons".But just fighting leopards was rather monotonous, and the emperor soon began to develop another hobby of his.

This hobby is also commonplace, which is to condemn the "lewdness and lust" that every foolish king can't do without.There seems to be no doubt about Wu Zong's lust, but he also has his own special feature, that is, he is not interested in the concubines in the harem at all, but likes to have a slightly exotic tone.The governor of Jinyiwei knew that Yu Yong was a perverted man who was good at housework and so on. Wu Zong summoned him into the Leopard Room, and he was extremely favored.He recommended Semu women to Wu Zong, saying that they were all beautiful and enchanting, with fair and delicate skin, and they were a hundred times better than the women in Central Earth, so Wu Zong was very moved.At that time, Captain Lu Zuo was also from Semu, so Yu Yong asked him to present twelve dancers from his family who were good at singing and dancing in the Western Regions.When the beauty came, Wu Zong was very happy to see that the beauty from the Western Regions was really extraordinary, and watched the singing and dancing day and night.He felt that these twelve beauties were not enough, so he searched those seductive families in Kyoto, and recruited their women to sing and dance. Among them, the most beautiful ones were reserved for him to play with.Later, when he heard that Yu Yong's daughter was very beautiful, he asked him to present her as well.Yu Yong didn't want to, so he sent the daughter of his neighbor Bai Huizi to the palace as a substitute.The emperor didn't notice it either, and was quite happy to see that the woman was beautiful.But Yu Yong knew that he had committed the crime of deceiving the emperor, so he was worried all day long.Later, he pretended to be Fengbi and resigned to the emperor, allowing his son to inherit his position.Yu Yong persuaded the emperor to search for Semu girls wantonly, which disturbed those Semu families and made Yu Yong gnash his teeth with hatred.Seeing that he has actually retreated without losing his wealth, he feels even more dissatisfied.However, due to the power of the emperor, no one dared to report him, so he had to let him go.

Another woman that Ming Wuzong liked was Wang Mantang, and her story was even more bizarre.She is the daughter of Wang Zhi, a commoner in Bazhou. She was pretty and charming since she was a child. She had participated in the selection of concubines by the emperor, but she failed.Wang Mantang, relying on his beauty, couldn't bear such a blow, so he had a dream, dreaming that a man named Zhao Wanxing was going to marry him, and this person would be "indescribably precious".So she refused to marry casually, and waited for this "Zhao Wanxing" every day.It seemed that the little girl was stimulated and became a little deranged.But her family believed in her nonsense, so they asked her everywhere about this person named Zhao Wanxing.At this time, a Taoist priest heard about this incident and learned that the Wang family girl was as beautiful as a flower, so he had the idea of ​​impersonating her.He first bribed a monk and asked him to tell the Wang family: "Your family has a nobleman coming tomorrow." The next day, when he arrived at the Wang family, he asked his name and said, "My name is Zhao Wanxing." As soon as the people heard this, it was this noble man. They surrounded him happily and worshiped him, and immediately let him marry Wang Mantang.

Ordinarily, this Taoist priest kidnapped a beautiful daughter-in-law, so he should be content.But it may be that Wang Mantang often said to him that he was too expensive, which made him dizzy, completely forgot that he was a liar, and actually regarded himself as a real noble, so he was ready to rebel.He also incited many people to follow him, change the Yuan Dynasty to "Dashun Pingding", and become the emperor himself.Of course, this kind of crazy tossing will not have any good results. They have been arrested by the local government before they have any real action. Treason is a great crime.But when the emperor heard about this, he also found it ridiculous, so he released the foolish people who followed him, and only executed "Zhao Wanxing" and the two Confucian scholars who followed him.And Wang Mantang was originally the "culprit", but when Wu Zong heard that she was a beauty, he was moved and specially sent an imperial decree to pardon her.In order to deceive others, he first sent her to the Clothes Bureau in the palace, and then called her into the leopard room, pampered her greatly, and even jokingly called her the queen.Wang Mantang's dream of marrying a nobleman has come true at this time.

From this point of view, Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty liked these weird women with unknown origins.Such women are all ridiculous in the eyes of the courtiers, and naturally they cannot be included in the imperial concubine system, so Wu Zong placed them all in the leopard room.For a moment, the beauties were like a cloud, and the leopard house was changed from a zoo to a big brothel, but the only customer was Da Mingzi.But even so, Wu Zong wanted it to look decent.He opened a street market in his house, with six shops including Dinghe and Baoyan.He himself was dressed in the clothes of a merchant and the hat of a little eunuch.Doing business with them in these six shops, keeping books and accounts, bargaining, doing fake shows for real, having a good time.This street market is still very lively, there are various jugglers on the streets, jumping apes and flat horses, fighting cocks and chasing dogs; along the market there are also beautiful women who sell wine.But Wu Zong still didn't think it was enough, so he let the beauties in the leopard room pretend to be kabuki fans, and he went from door to door to listen to their singing, and had some lewd pleasure when he was interested.In order to play comfortably, he also specially built a "music room", with mirrors embedded in the walls and roof, and a thick brocade quilt on the ground, where he ordered two beauties to accompany them, and the three of them were naked together. The carpe diem, reflected in the surrounding mirrors, is just a picture of "live erotic palace", but it can really make the world's number one big prostitute.

Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty had had enough of playing with beauties, and suddenly had a whim, and planned to taste the taste of this masculinity.He selected those who were handsome and smart from among his ministers, and named them "Lao Er Dang"; especially those favored by him were called "King Kong Lao Er Dang", who could also interfere in political affairs and had great power .He dotes on the one named Channing the most, and he stays with him every day, often sleeping on his lap in the leopard room.The officials couldn't see the emperor, so they judged the emperor's whereabouts based on Qian Ning's actions.As soon as he saw Qian Ning walking out of the leopard room with a yawn, he knew that the emperor was about to come out.

In the leopard room there were hordes of tigers and leopards, and there were clouds of beauties. Ming Wuzong, who enjoyed it, would not have much time to pay attention to the memorials of the officials, so Liu Jin, who was considerate, came to "share his worries" for him.Liu Jin often went to show the memorial to the emperor when he was having fun, so the emperor waved his hand impatiently and let him handle it by himself.As a result, Liu Jin monopolized power and became powerful.At that time, it was said in the capital: There are two emperors in Beijing, one sits the emperor and the other establishes the emperor; one is the Zhu emperor and the other is the Liu emperor.Once this "Emperor Liu" came to power, he naturally couldn't forget to take revenge, and regarded the courtiers as a thorn in his side.Once, under the pretext of an anonymous letter written by courtiers to scold him, they were punished to kneel under the sun at noon. Some of them were physically and psychologically poor, so they died of being frightened and exposed to the sun.However, the overwhelming power of "Emperor Liu" also attracted the attention of other members of the "Eight Tigers", so the courtiers seized this opportunity and asked one of them to cry in front of Emperor Wu every day that Liu Jin was going to rebel.The emperor didn't believe it at first, but when he actually found hundreds of armors in Liu Jin's house, he was shocked and ordered Liu Jin Lingchi to be executed.Liu Jin's misbehavior had already made the people gnash their teeth. When he was killed, people bought his meat one after another, and the executioner made a small fortune because of it.But even though the emperor killed Liu Jin, he still behaved unchanged and made more trouble.