"Your Majesty! That is absolutely unacceptable!"
Inside the grand hall, just after Ye Ze'an finished stating his proposal, an elderly minister immediately stepped forward.
He was a member of the Internal Affairs Pavilion.
There had always been a malicious saying: when Ye Ze'an spoke in the cabinet, his words carried more weight than the Emperor's!
Although that might not have been the truth, it was enough to show the influence Ye Ze'an wielded over the cabinet.
Of the Six Pavilions, his control over the Internal Affairs Pavilion was the strongest.
It would be no exaggeration to say that the entire Internal Affairs Pavilion was a one-man show ruled by this Chief Secretary! Yet now, the first person to leap out and oppose him was actually someone from the Internal Affairs Pavilion.
It was clear just how unpopular his proposal was! "Your Majesty, the former Emperor Xuanjing established the Azure Sky Bureau to centralize power in the Central Authority and dispatched the Azure Robe Guard to supervise the realm and arrest officials and commoners. In the end, they brought calamity to all four corners, threw the court into turmoil, and left the people unable to make a living! With such a warning before us, how could we repeat the same mistake?"
The elder of the Internal Affairs Pavilion spoke in a solemn voice, his words ringing through the hall.
Li Fei's heart stirred when he heard this.
He had read history and knew that the Azure Sky Bureau and Azure Robe Guard mentioned by the man had existed under the former dynasty.
They were similar to the Eastern Depot and Embroidered Uniform Guard of his previous life.
Both were secret-police agencies whose authority included surveillance, investigation, arrest, and interrogation.
"Constables everywhere, the realm thrown into chaos"—that was precisely what such secret-police