When Li Wei returned to the Imperial Study, Gu Jinzhi had already prepared the decree.
The bright-yellow Imperial Decree lay spread across the imperial desk. The ink had not yet dried, and the phoenix seal had already been stamped. It was only waiting for Li Wei's vermilion approval.
To put it nicely, Li Wei's handwriting was wild and free, unconstrained by convention. To put it bluntly, it looked like ghostly scrawls.
And yet, this was precisely what the court ministers recognized nowadays.
After all, the Empress Madam's brushwork resembled the tracks of a dog crawling through mud. Not a single piece looked exactly like another, but the same carefree, uninhibited spirit always shone through.
That spirit was precisely what no one else could imitate.
She picked up the brush and gave the contents of the Imperial Decree a rough scan.
She could not understand a single sentence of the classical phrasing, but she still recognized the large characters for "Minister of War" and "General Commander of the Four Provinces' Campaign Against the Bandits."
"You're playing pretty big, huh?"
Li Wei wrote the words "Approved" on it, tossed the brush into the brush washer, and said brazenly,
A faint smile touched Gu Jinzhi's lips. "Things have to be done with justification and legitimacy before they can proceed."
Li Wei curled her lips and reminded him, "Getting those arrogant soldiers and fierce generals to obey meekly isn't something one decree can solve."
Gu Jinzhi smiled. He seemed not to have expected her to consider this layer, so he patiently explained, "Xu Yuncheng was Wen Boyuan's classmate from the imperial examinations, and he has some friendship with Xia Heng as well."
"I'll have the two of them write letters, which Min Zimo will take along."
"Besides that, I plan to have Fu Man