History is written by later generations. It has always been a tradition that Emperor Daming can be discredited. Don't think that History of the Ming Dynasty was compiled by the Qing Dynasty, and the historians of the Qing Dynasty were smearing the former emperors. Although most of the smearing work was done by them, it was always the Ming dynasty's own emperor who really began to smear the former emperors.
After Zhu Yuanzhang's successful expedition to the south of the imperial capital, he not only tampered with the identity of his birth mother, but also truly recorded that the throne was not right and Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to stand in Shandong. After the death of Emperor Wuzong of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzong, the captaincy, went to Beijing to inherit the unification, which was called Jiajing Emperor in history. From the moment he came to power, he deliberately discredited Emperor Wuzong as an absurd emperor, refusing to do anything, favoring treacherous court officials, setting up leopard houses, playing with women and so on.
These are the ways that later emperors poured dirty water on the dead in order to improve their status.
(The network picture spoofs the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao)
The carpenter emperor? Zhu Youxiao's treatment is similar. He is a famous carpenter in history, much more professional than the emperor. He is comparable to Song Huizong in the Song Dynasty. Song Huizong left many books and paintings with high artistic level, which proved that Song Huizong was an artist and worked like an emperor in his spare time.
It is true that the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao's personal hobby is carpentry, but it is wrong to say that he is diligent in carpentry regardless of state affairs. At that time, in the last few decades of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor ignored politics, and it was estimated that the world would have been in chaos. Zhu Youxiao is actually a good emperor, but his life is too short. He likes Wei Zhongxian too much. The main responsibility for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was not his younger brother Chongzhen Zhu Youjian, but most of the pots were left to Zhu Youxiao.
(The works of Emperor Apocalypse that have been handed down to this day don't feel very good! )
If we have to discuss it? The carpenter emperor? It's really hard to say how good carpentry is in Zhu Youxiao. After all, things made in Zhu Youxiao that spread all over the world have not been discovered. If we look for some official history, unofficial history and miscellaneous notes, we can find many works about the carpenter emperor Zhu Youxiao.
There are wooden bucket fountains that can run automatically ("Deliberation in the Heart" written by Liu Ruoyu, the eunuch in the inner palace), folding wooden beds that can adjust the height and inclination, and even jade carvings, attics and lacquerware. Although there is no physical object, it is recorded in many ancient books of Ming and Qing Dynasties. How exquisite each object is, I won't say more. In short, it's wonderful and exquisite.
Is the real Apocalypse Emperor Zhu Youxiao really an emperor who only indulges in wood work and wastes it on politics? This is definitely smeared and exaggerated by future generations. If Zhu Youxiao is really like this, it won't be his brother's turn to be the king of national subjugation.