Autumn Moon, eleventh day, rain!
It happened to be Great Zhou's once-every-ten-days Grand Court Assembly. Officials of every rank streamed toward Luoyi Imperial Palace from both the inner and outer cities of Luoyi, as countless as carp crossing a river.
Within Luoyi, there were basically no secrets. Rumors that the Ancestral God Hall was replacing its Grand Priest flew everywhere. Some even said that during today's Grand Court Assembly, His Majesty the Emperor would personally endorse the matter of replacing the Ancestral God Hall's Grand Priest.
Replacing a Grand Priest before the end of his term was rare in Great Zhou. This was the first time it had happened in several thousand years.
Thus, many idle court officials had come at the scent of the wind. Even if attending court merely meant standing there like wooden posts for a while, they could still witness something fresh and exciting.
Before the appointed hour arrived, more than a hundred rows of officials already stood packed tightly within Qiankun Hall. Many officials cautiously searched for their places, especially those idle nobles who had not attended court for a long time and could no longer even find where they were supposed to stand.
Suddenly, a commotion arose at the front of Qiankun Hall. Many officials who had already taken their places voluntarily stepped back, throwing the idle nobles behind them, who were still looking for their positions, into fresh disorder. Several old hands even grumbled under their breaths.
But someone sharp-eyed suddenly spotted a figure—the Duke of North Sea Prefecture, Governor of North Sea, Hall Master of Fire Spirit Hall, Western Patrol Envoy of the Heavenly Patrol Division, and second-ranked Wind Patrol Envoy, Ye Zhen, had actually come to court.
The sight of this stirred inexplicable excitement in the hearts of many who had