He likes keeping cats very much. When Ming Wuzong died childless, he made his cousin emperor. Emperor Jiajing reigned for 45 years, but he had no mind to govern the country.

It can even be said that there is no merit. During his 45 years in power, he has never been to North Korea for almost half of the time. Only two things can interest him. The first is refining Dan medicine.

This is the desire of emperors to pursue longevity, and another is to keep cats. It has been recorded in "Responsibilities of the Internal Government" that Emperor Jiajing set up a cat-keeping institution in his palace in order to raise those cats, and even stipulated some grading systems for cats, and selected the best varieties from them and gave them to the emperor.

Anecdotal allusions:

At a banquet, Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty talked about the chapter "Ceng Zi is ill" in The Analects of Confucius, and deliberately avoided the sentence "People are dying". Ming Shizong said, "Death is common sense. Why doubt it?" Order to make up. But later, I gradually became taboo about "death" and its homophones.

Ming Shizong was extremely sensitive to other people's languages and had many taboos. When I first acceded to the throne, I once wore a long dragon robe. Ming Shizong always wanted to pull it up and was very unhappy. Yang Tinghe, the first assistant to the cabinet, said, "Your Majesty hangs down his clothes and rules the world!" Ming Shizong immediately turned anger into joy.

In his later years, Imperial Hospital asked Xu Wei to feel the pulse of Ming Shizong. Ming sejong's dragon robe dragged on the ground, and Xu Wei dared not go near it. When Emperor Shizong asked why, Xu Wei said, "The emperor's robes are on the ground, and I dare not enter."

Ming Shizong took his robes and asked him to feel his pulse. Later, Ming Shizong wrote a personal letter to the cabinet minister, which wrote: "I am worthy of being called to the ground, seeing loyalty and seeing love." On the ground, people are also; Underground, ghost. " When Xu Wei saw it, he suddenly realized that he was glad that he had saved his life.

Coupled with the successive years of aggression by Mongolia during Jiajing period, Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty also hated the word "righteous emperor". Every time he writes the word "Yidi", he will write it very small to show his derogatory meaning.

In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1565), Gao Gong's exam topics were "Sui Dynasty coming" and "mourning for its death", and "Yi". Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty was furious after reading it, and wanted to severely punish Gao Gong, only to give up under the defense of Xu Jie.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhu Houzong