Chapter 1554 -s 1502–1503 Imperial Honors’s Anxiety, Zi Wei’s Ambition
A state within a state, a court within a court.
Such a structure is actually quite bizarre; it shakes the status of those in high positions and affects the extension of their management and authority. When it comes to centralization, it is in fact fraught with disadvantages.
Yet, the Heavenly Court is merely a coalition formed by various powers; it is not a genuinely unified institution. Within this Heavenly Court, commands do not come from a single source, and even the so-called Emperor of Heaven is nothing more than an external appellation.
It should be understood that in the official proclamations of the Heavenly Court, there is no Emperor of Heaven who reigns supreme alone, only the Central Jade Emperor. And though the Jade Emperor’s position is revered, he exists alongside several other Imperial Honors at the same hierarchical level.
Therefore, the Jade Emperor has only nominal command over the Gods under the other Imperial Honors, and in reality, his orders are unable to direct these other Gods, holding no sway over them at all.
Thus, under the Jade Emperor’s command, the functioning of his power structure still relies on the original operation structure of the Great Ming Divine Dynasty, after all, this Cabinet framework is a mature system verified by countless years of the Great Ming Divine Dynasty.
Perhaps in times past, this Cabinet system had its imperfections and disadvantages, with the possibility that the Cabinet’s power, being overly expansive, could overrule the Emperor.
But once the Jade Emperor possessed great strength, this disadvantage of the Cabinet was easily eliminated. For in the world of ordinary people, usurpation might exist, but in an era when extraordinary power is itself vested, all schemes of power become meaningless before invincible strength.
Thus, over these ten thousand years, the Jade Emperor once again won over all hearts, continuing to employ the structure of the original Great Ming Divine Dynasty.
Not just the Jade Emperor, but the other Imperial Honors also possess their own forces and organizations, each with their own subjects and structures.