According to Princess Changle, the investiture ceremony she had conducted at the post station that day, appointing Ye Zhen as the Left Grand Chief Priest of the Barbarian Spirit Hall under the Ancestral God Hall, had only completed half of the Left Grand Chief Priest's formal inauguration.
The Ancestral God Hall's positions were not as complicated as those of the Heaven Temple.
There were only the chief and deputy chiefs of the various halls, the Left and Right Grand Chief Priests, and a number of officials.
However, within the Ancestral God Hall, a hall chief was also called a priest. For example, Bai Xiang was actually the current chief of the Ancestral Gospel Hall, also known as the Grand Priest of the Ancestral Blessing Hall.
Below the hall chief were deputy hall chiefs. Yet, influenced by Great Zhou's rigorous official hierarchy, the Ancestral God Hall's ranks were likewise extremely clear-cut.
No matter how many deputy hall chiefs a hall had, every one of them had a ranking.
For instance, First Deputy Hall Chief, Second Deputy Hall Chief, Third Deputy Hall Chief, and so on. Nor were those rankings merely for show.
For example, if two deputy hall chiefs disputed a matter and, after all the Ancestral God Hall's rules had been applied, still could not settle it, then the one with the higher rank would have the final say.
In other matters as well, the ranking of deputy hall chiefs represented authority. Their assigned duties and their right to speak were all different.
Of course, a hall chief could not simply make arbitrary decisions alone. Outside of wartime, if most of the deputy hall chiefs opposed something, the hall chief's decision could not pass either.
Below the hall chiefs, every hall had Left and Right Grand Chief Priests. These Left