Huo Yushen said lightly, "I am only utterly loyal to the person sitting in that position."
The implication was that if someone was not sitting in that position, they could forget about winning his allegiance.
Quan Juntai's expression changed abruptly. His lips moved as though he wanted to say something, but in the end, he said nothing and left with a sweep of his sleeve.
His lack of objection amounted to permission.
The Senate's two Speakers also thought this was a good arrangement.
With the Emperor incapacitated, even with the Crown Princess and Nine Doubts Consort jointly acting as regents, they all knew perfectly well what it meant: the decline of imperial power.
It was their turn to rise.
But among these departments, their Senate was the weakest.
Unlike the Cabinet, they had no executive power.
Nor were they like the military, which held military power.
They had only vague legislative and representative powers, without even the ability to enforce them.
If the Special Security Bureau could oversee all three parties, then the most restricted would not be their Senate, but the Cabinet and the military.
That way, their Senate could in fact form an alliance with the Special Security Bureau and jointly oversee them...
Thinking this, the Senate's two Speakers exchanged a glance and saw satisfaction in each other's eyes.
Speaker Li of the Senate's upper house, who came from the Nobility, nodded and said, "The Senate's upper house agrees to Chief Inspector Huo's proposal."
Speaker Kang of the Senate's lower house, who came from the Commoners, also nodded. "The Senate's lower house agrees to Chief Inspector Huo's proposal."
Speaker Li of the upper house said, "Our Senate has legislative and representative powers. We represent the Nobility, Citizens, and Commoners of the Beichen Empire, and we agree that the