The post of Grand General of Cavalry was not a standing military office in Great Zhou.
It was an extremely high-ranking temporary military post.
It was somewhat like the Grand Marshal of Great Zhou's armies.
However, since Great Zhou's founding, the highest military office, Grand Marshal of the Armies, had by default belonged to the emperor. Below the Grand Marshal came such military posts as Founding General, Grand General of Cavalry, General of Chariots and Cavalry, and so on.
For example, the former Grand Governor of the Human-Demon Battlefield had been the supreme commander of that war zone, but his authority had been limited to the Human-Demon Battlefield war zone.
The authority of the Grand General of Cavalry, however, could span multiple war zones.
An Imperial Decree would generally define the scope, granting command over the armies on several fronts and the power of life and death over the generals on those fronts.
The authority was immense.
Yet the extent of that authority was extremely complicated when examined closely.
The Grand General of Cavalry had no fixed war zone as its foundation. In a sense, its authority came from imperial power.
Prince Li Ji Yuan, the former Grand Governor of the Human-Demon Battlefield, had been able to establish his own independent domain because his position as Grand Governor came with a foundational war zone, allowing him to grasp both military and civil affairs in one hand.
But in Great Zhou's hierarchy of generals, the Grand General of Cavalry ranked above the Grand Governor. A Grand General of Cavalry could command a war zone's Grand Governor, but a Grand Governor could not command a Grand General of Cavalry.
Its status was extraordinarily special.
Its status was extraordinarily high.
Thus, by custom, when a Grand General of Cavalry set out on campaign,