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Li Yao wandered out of Pepper Chamber Palace. Its location within Weiyang Palace was relatively far north.

In the actual layout of Weiyang Palace, Pepper Chamber Palace had originally been the main hall of the imperial harem. But since Lin Xiaowei was the Empress and rather lazy by nature, she had simply converted Pepper Chamber Palace into a place for deliberations, its status similar to the Grand Secretariat or Southern Study of later eras.

Ahead lay the front hall.

That was where the Imperial Court Assembly was actually held.

However,

Lin Xiaowei was hardly the sort of diligent Empress, and Li Yao had always felt that all that talk of diligence was just something written into history books to fool ghosts.

What the hell could several hundred people standing around in court possibly discuss? Hadn't anyone seen how fiercely the Lower House and Upper House of the Great Corrupt Empire argued whenever they convened?

During the Ming dynasty, several indolent monarchs had still maintained considerable control over the court.

To put it bluntly, the court assembly in the front hall was just a place for everyone to trade insults. Those with grudges could settle them, while those without could flatter others or play the victim.

It was just a show! That was why Pepper Chamber Palace had become the most coveted secretive hall among the senior ministers of the Han Plane's various nations! Meanwhile, the front hall court assembly was generally held only once a month, followed by a major meeting every six months and an annual grand duty-reporting ceremony.

That was a fairly reasonable arrangement.

Important institutions were scattered around the front hall, such as the Royal Library, Imperial Finance Department, and Royal Garden... The gardens lay southwest of the front hall. Li Yao strolled around the front hall,