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In the early days, when the Confucian School held power, it was particularly fond of supporting puppet emperors. That was because they were easy to replace.
During the Jin Dynasty, emperors frequently went mad. During the Wei Dynasty, emperors frequently drowned. As long as an emperor displeased the Confucian School, he could simply be replaced. In any case, there was no shortage of those with royal blood. Thus, apart from the first two generations of emperors, who retained some degree of freedom, later emperors were little more than birds trapped in cages.
However, this created another problem. If emperors were to be treated as puppets, they could not be allowed to attain cultivation levels that were too high. Otherwise, they would become difficult to control. Yet if the emperor was too weak, manpower had to be expended to protect him. After all, replacing emperors too frequently would create instability. If opponents of the Confucian School did nothing but carry out assassination attempts all day long, it would become a serious headache for the Confucians.
In fact, Elder Xu of the Daoist Order had done precisely this in his day. He had assassinated members of the Confucian School, the Daoist Order, and the Buddhist School, creating tremendous chaos.
Thus, once the Daoist Order came to power, it completely relaxed restrictions on...
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