To find out why Jiajing wanted to reuse Yan Song, we must first understand the specific situation of the emperor. As an emperor, on the surface, he was the ruler of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, but in fact, facing the civil and military affairs of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor was alone. The bureaucratic groups in ancient China had their own interests and Confucian ethics. Even the emperor can't go against these two points too much. Otherwise, it is light to be called a bad king. If you kill them, it will be even more troublesome, and the history books will leave a bad name for future generations. Things need to be done by ministers, and imperial edicts need to be carried out by ministers. Even the emperor's own food and clothing, weddings and funerals depend on the following people. And the emperor is really the only one who has to face such a huge empire. I can't control it, and there is no possibility of it.
What should I do at this time? The emperor made many attempts. For example, reuse eunuchs against foreign countries. When eunuchs are in chaos, they reuse their consorts to deal with eunuchs. Then, the consorts took control of the imperial court ... In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang pushed the power of the autocratic emperor to the peak. Empresses and concubines in the Ming dynasty must be children of civilians, and consorts should not make trouble. Although there are a few eunuchs in power occasionally, it is basically the degree that the emperor can give death with a piece of paper.
At this time, the only thing that can confront the imperial power is the bureaucratic group. And if the bureaucratic group is disobedient, the emperor is not allowed to make an alchemy, the emperor is not allowed to do so, the woman he likes is not allowed to be the queen, and his son he likes carefully is not allowed to be the prince, and so on ... What about the emperor? Only those who are willing to listen to themselves and oppose the whole bureaucratic group. And Yan Song, is such a person.
Yan Song is equivalent to the emperor's urinal. He can undertake all kinds of things that the emperor wants to do but is afraid of getting his hands dirty. He can carry out the emperor's will to the letter. He can bear hardships and do practical things. Jiajing used Yan Song so well, so why not?