Although he cut direct ties between the Emperor and his trusted close advisors in the Imperial court by assigning them to Imperial court councilor under the jurisdiction of Minister of the Imperial Households, he showed his respect for the Emperor and the close advisors' royalty for the Emperor by continuously treating Motoda, who gained both domestic and international prestige as a scholar of the Chinese classics, as the private advisor to the Emperor and by conferring the dignity of a peerage to other close advisors.
また、天皇の信頼する宮中側近を宮内大臣の管轄下の宮中顧問官に任じて天皇との直接的な関係を絶ったものの、漢学者として内外の信望の厚い元田を引き続き天皇の私的顧問として遇し、他の側近には爵位を与えて天皇と彼らの天皇への忠誠心を尊重する姿勢も見せた。