Feng Nanzhi: Ancestor, I Have a Secret

As the old year ended, a new one began, and all things took on a fresh look.

Great Xuan changed its era name to "Xuanzhang," marking the First Year of Xuanzhang.

"Zhang" originally meant patterns and literary splendor. It also referred to the sections of music, and by extension, the paragraphs of poetry and prose. Since laws were clearly structured clauses written in paragraphs, the word eventually came to mean rules and statutes as well.

This change of era was widely viewed by the outside world as Great Xuan's court sending a clear new signal.

The change from "Zhenghe" to "Xuanzhang" marked the end of Great Xuan's defensive stance, which had lasted for nearly an entire sixty-year cycle. The meaning of Xuanzhang was to use the profound as its pattern. In other words, Great Xuan was about to start setting new rules for the world.

What rules?

My rules are the rules!

Then there was the Department of Deviations, whose fearsome power was flourishing at the Great Xuan Imperial Court. Ever since that person had taken office, he had established the Azure Sky Executioner to cow the Noble Families and Sacred Clans, slain water demons and reclaimed the world's water authority, set up the Sea Supervisor to guard Great Xuan's maritime borders, and raised the Expeditionary Army to flatten the Gu Sect!

He had never stopped!

Now, the Legal Minister's originally last-ranked position among the Four Pillars had already surpassed the Political Minister in prestige and was faintly keeping pace with the Military Minister.

Moreover, judging from how that person had emphasized the concept of "governing the nation according to law" in his New Year's address, it probably would not be long before the Legal Minister overwhelmed Minister Wen and possibly even took first place among the Four Ministers!

Would