Emperor Jiajing heard the news that Huo Tao died of a sudden illness in Zhilu of Wuyi Hall while discussing mysteries and Taoism with Tao Zhongwen, the real person of the Imperial Preceptor.
For this reason, Emperor Jiajing stopped his Taoist exercises and was in a daze for a while.
The death of every person close to him would touch Emperor Jiajing's heart. Huo Tao was one of the first people whom Emperor Jiajing hired after he ascended the throne, and it has been more than twenty years now.
So far, all the Lili faction that started to promote more than 20 years ago are gone.
Emperor Jiajing said to Tao Zhongwen: "Why have you made no progress in your cultivation these days?"
Tao Zhongwen thought of someone from Qin's request, and after careful consideration, he said, "Your Majesty has to take care of everything."
This means that too much official duties will affect your cultivation of immortality.
According to Qin Dewei's past instructions and Tao Zhongwen's own principles, although he assisted and praised Xuanxiu at the side of Emperor Jiajing, he would not get involved in politics at all.
In fact, it is safest to stay away from Emperor Jiajing and not get involved in government affairs. This is also the experience of the previous imperial master Shao Yuanjie who died a good death.
But Qin Dewei had a new idea, so Tao Zhongwen had to break the rules and take a little risk, saying something outside the Taoist law.
Moreover, Duan Chaoyong, a newly-rising alchemist, also said that Emperor Jiajing did not react particularly if the emperor was asked to practice in seclusion for a few years.
So Tao Zhongwen also gave a little guidance in this direction, and it should be within the safety line.
Although Emperor Jiajing was obsessed with cultivating immortals, he was unwilling to delegate power. For example, he basically read the memorials and personally summoned the ministers of Wuyi Palace for important matters.
These affairs have indeed caused a great deal of "interference" to the practice of Buddhism, especially recently there have been a lot of border affairs, and there have been urgent official documents of six hundred miles, which have frequently interrupted Emperor Jiajing's practice of Buddhism.
Especially the experience of being woken up from the fourth watch twice made Emperor Jiajing even more upset.
After pondering for a while, Emperor Jiajing said: "From now on, the time for reviewing memorials can be concentrated late at night without interrupting daytime practice."
Naturally, Tao Zhongwen could not express his opinion. Whatever the emperor said was what he said.
It's just that the ministers who enter the Zhiwuyi Hall will have to work harder in the future. They are likely to be summoned by the emperor for inquiries at midnight, or receive small notes from the emperor in the middle of the night, and they can only stay up late to reply to posts.
Then I heard Emperor Jiajing say: "For example, urgent official documents are the most disturbing to spiritual practice, so what should I do?"
Urgent official documents are usually emergency events such as enemy situations, disasters, rebellions, and civil commotions, which must be responded to by the court as soon as possible.
According to regulations, urgent official documents must be delivered to the emperor as soon as possible.
Especially for the Six Hundred Mile Express, the emperor had to be woken up even in the middle of the night to watch. Yan Song did this twice some time ago, which left a deep impression on Emperor Jiajing.
It can be seen from the official document process that urgent official documents will definitely disturb the emperor's cultivation of immortality the most.
For example, in the middle of praying to heaven, an urgent official document suddenly comes. Do you want to stand up and read it?
However, the urgent documents involved matters that were both sensitive and urgent, and Emperor Jiajing was reluctant to completely delegate power.
Tao Zhongwen replied with emotional intelligence: "This kind of matter cannot be done by a minister alone, nor can it be completely entrusted to the cabinet gentlemen. Others cannot bear the heavy responsibility, so your majesty can only do more work if you are able!"
Of course, everything cannot be entrusted to the cabinet. Although Emperor Jiajing expanded the power of the cabinet, he also always guarded against the dictatorship of the cabinet.
In this kind of emergency response involving war, disaster, and civil commotion, there are too many tricks that can be exploited.
However, when he heard Tao Zhenren said, "Others are even more unbearable," Emperor Jiajing suddenly remembered that when the news of Anda's invasion came two months ago, Qin Dewei had requested to set up some kind of military aircraft office in Wenyuan Pavilion for efficient military operations.
Respond to military emergencies.
At that time, Emperor Jiajing was very angry and thought that Qin Dewei had no regard for the overall situation and only wanted to fight for power. Even in such an emergency, he did not forget to seize power from the cabinet and almost hit Qin Dewei with a royal stick.
Looking back now, it seems like a wonderful organizational structure to set up the military aircraft department separately in Wenyuan Pavilion, separate from the cabinet?
Cabinet ministers enter the Zhiwuyi Hall and are responsible for the operation of government affairs; the military aircraft office located in Wenyuan Pavilion is specially used to handle urgent official documents.
In the future, urgent official documents can be sent to the military aircraft department first, and after the handling opinions are provided, they can be submitted to the imperial court and then sent to the cabinet for review.
This can greatly save the emperor's energy, and he will not have to disturb the emperor once for each urgent official document. Moreover, it is difficult to deal with it on the spot after the interruption, and he will have to disturb the emperor again after he has a complete handling opinion.
At this time, Emperor Jiajing was already considering further reducing the energy spent on official affairs. In addition to making himself more relaxed, preventing ministers from taking the opportunity to monopolize power was his top priority.
Therefore, the second benefit of setting up the Military Aircraft Department, besides reducing the emperor's burden, is that it can check and balance each other with the cabinet, and there is no risk that one party will form a dictatorship. This made Emperor Jiajing very excited.
Looking at the current personnel, Qin Dewei from Wenyuan Pavilion has strong adaptability and is good at making plans when the situation arises, which is suitable for the nature of the Military Aircraft Department.
Xia Yan, Yan Song and Qin Dewei were not at odds with each other, and the cabinet was able to restrain Qin Dewei from taking advantage of the opportunity to act recklessly.
Of course, any change in organizational structure cannot be accomplished overnight, especially top-level changes such as the establishment of a military aircraft department.
Emperor Jiajing just had some preliminary ideas today because he was tired of government affairs and under the deliberate guidance of Tao Zhenren.
If Yan Song knew that his behavior of waking Emperor Jiajing from his sleep twice might have been the direct reason why Emperor Jiajing had the idea of establishing a military aircraft office, would Yan Song have fainted in the toilet from crying?
Before Tao Zhongwen left, he thought for a while and said to Emperor Jiajing: "If your Majesty has any intention to change, you may wish to read the history books, which will naturally contain lessons from predecessors."
The Jiajing Emperor, who prided himself on being a man of power, had always loved reading history books. He didn't need to flip through the books. Several similar examples immediately came to mind, such as the anecdote that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up a ministerial desk in addition to the prime minister.
From the perspective of monarchy, most of these examples seem to be successful examples. To use the terminology of five hundred years later, they all further strengthened the "autocracy of monarchy".
Thinking of this, Emperor Jiajing suddenly felt that there was great potential in establishing a military aircraft office, at least it would not get worse.
Tao Zhongwen came out of the palace and wiped his sweat secretly.
As the saying goes, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger, especially for a suspicious emperor like Emperor Jiajing. Every word must be carefully considered to avoid making Emperor Jiajing doubtful.
Even though the memorial and answers just now were very lighthearted, in fact Tao Zhongwen had already risked his life, all for Qin Dewei's entrustment.
After walking out of Renshou Palace, Tao Zhenren secretly made up his mind that he would never discuss politics with Emperor Jiajing again, and would just be a pure stickman.
Politics is something people like Qin Dewei play, so most people would be better off touching it less!
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