Qiankun Hall in Luoyi, Great Zhou, was generally opened only for court assemblies, but today it had made an exception and opened at noon.
In the past, even in the era of Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long, the remonstrance officials and censors would have berated them half to death for this.
This was a vital place of the state, where all officials under heaven gathered to deliberate. How could it be opened or used at will?
Yet over the past two years, Ji Ao, the New Monarch—who was in fact Founding Ancestor Ji Bang—had first purged the domestic rebellions, sweeping away the separatist power of the various Kings and restoring unity within the realm.
Moreover, while crushing the rebellion, he had dealt a severe blow to Heaven Temple's unparalleled prestige.
Afterward, he raised troops for an eastern expedition. Having reclaimed the Human-Demon Defense Line in one stroke, he fought a decisive battle against the Devil Race elites at Great Long Mountain, crushing the Devil Race and inflicting grievous losses upon their main force. The Eastern Expeditionary Army then continued its triumphant advance, steadily reclaiming lost territory. In merely a few years, he had already been hailed within the realm as a heroic sovereign who had restored the dynasty.
He was thus abroad, and his methods of internal reform were equally fierce. The civil ministers and valiant generals each brought every means at their disposal to bear, bringing peace to Great Zhou. Within and beyond Luoyi, Founding Ancestor Ji Bang had already attained the authority to make all decisions on the affairs of state alone.
It was merely opening Qiankun Hall at noon. Who dared raise an objection?
Of course, there were still those bold enough to do so.
But all the bold ones had been dispatched to the recently reclaimed lands