Half a wise emperor, half a faint emperor, a romantic emperor with a horde of wives and concubines, beauties like clouds, arrogant and extravagant, drunken and dreamy, created the miracle of reigning for forty-eight years and not coming to court for thirty-eight years. He squandered the national power accumulated by Zhang Juzheng for ten years of miserable management, thus ringing the death knell of the Ming Empire.