C3781 (1/2)
Before the Tongzhi Emperor came to power, the Grand Commission would never open it. This meant that the Supreme Harmony Hall was only opened on a special day of celebration!
The royal family controlled everything in the empire, and the East Warm Pavilion was the place where the royal family ruled!
However, this Yangxin Palace was indeed too small, it was simply unable to hold the officials of the Six Division's Nine Sisters. Thus, the public administration system had always been a very small part of the senior officials discussing State matters with the empress dowager!
Most of the time, it was impossible for even the heads of the six divisions to participate in meetings. The empress dowagers and the Military Secretary held common meetings, and if there was any department involved in today's matters, they would summon their officials to attend!
That is to say, as long as you observe carefully, you will be able to roughly guess what the topic is about by observing the officials attending the assembly today!
On the surface, the guards of the sect looked like clay statues. However, they were constantly calculating in their hearts who had come today and what secrets they had.
It was not as if he was a spy. Sometimes, he was just curious. Today, he was trying to figure out a secret. At night, he could brag while drinking!
Isha, the face of this Ci Xi could be said to be completely red in the Forbidden City. Besides guarding the Qixiangmen, she also handed over the authority of protecting the Heart Nurturing Gate to the first stage Knife guard.
Isha naturally did not need to stand guard like a wooden stake. He stood in a secluded corner of the Resting Heart Door's inner plaza, eyes rolling around wildly, looking at the numerous officials who had entered, her mouth muttering to herself.
”Yi, Yi Xuan, Prince Li, Yi Kuang … Yi Cong's Fifth Master is here too, so many of them! ”
”Qing San Ye of the Great Clear Telegraph Office, Master Weng Tonghe, Master Li Hongzao … Oh wow, the Great Marshal Zeng is here too? ”
”Minister of Revenue, Bao Yun? It really had been a long time since they last met. ”British cinnamon?”
”The Minister of Revenue and the Minister of War have arrived. The Hanlin House of the Ministry of Rites and several other officials of the royal family have also arrived …” What exactly was he talking about today? Didn't they say that they were discussing His Majesty's wedding? ”Why is someone from the military here too?”
”Something's not right …” There are still a few people behind who are unfamiliar with it, so is young they are from Hanlin House? ”
”Someone come!” Send a message to Eunuch Li Lianying and ask if the candidate for today's assembly was decided by the empress dowager. If that's not the case, then let everyone know about the news today! ”
Isha's response was still correct, because there were two ways to decide who would be the leader of the assembly. One was chosen by the empress dowager, and the other was decided by the Military Secretary.
It was impossible for the empress dowager to be absolutely courteous to him. Sometimes, specific matters still needed to be handled by the lower echelons, so sometimes the elites would have to choose according to the topic!
Isha felt that the taste was not right, so she had to hurry up and report to the empress dowager so that she would be mentally prepared!
Sure enough, when Li Lianying reported the list of officials who had entered the palace in a line, the empress dowagers's brows tightly knitted together. ”Today's discussion is about the emperor's grand wedding. Why would his military department be so excited about it?”
”There's also people from the Hanlin House. Since he, Weng Tonghe, has already come here, why has someone else who isn't related to him come?”
”Who was the one calling him?” Ci An and Ci Xi said at the same time, staring at each other, they both thought that these were each other's names!
The empress dowagers did not call for these unrelated people, but for this person to suddenly send so many people, there was a way!
Ci An let out a long sigh, ”What should come will eventually come. Hail has been through so many moves, now the other party is going to retaliate!”
”Call His Majesty in!”
At that moment, Ci An and Ci Xi were sitting on the soft ground of the Three Sheath Hall on the west side of Yangxin Palace, while Zai Chun was standing in the Changchun Book Hall, letting Da Sixi and the others clean his dragon robe.