Your Majesty enjoys reading history, likes to gain experience and lessons, and also enjoys confiding in me. Once, he passionately criticized Great Huang with me, saying Great Huang set up several advisors tasked with safeguarding the throne and always liked to appoint several to balance each other. Great Huang's downfall was due to this, which later gave Great Qian the opportunity to usurp the throne."
"Why is that…?"
"I asked the same question, balancing power among advisors to prevent any one from becoming too strong—doesn't that seem like a good thing?
Who would have thought His Majesty would say that this so-called imperial strategy is actually just clever trickery and insincerity. To entrust someone with guarding the throne, one must clearly establish a core, so the core can legitimately wield power and form proper private relationships between the young ruler and ministers, such as a mentor or even acting as a parental figure.
