"Your Majesty, an envoy from Shenmu requests an audience!"
Just as Yang Jijue was handling memorials, an old eunuch with a pale, beardless face said softly.
This old eunuch was none other than Li Shangxi.
Li Shangxi was definitely an old fixture of this Imperial City. The first he had served was Emperor Yanping, and he had also served Emperor Jianxing. Now, with Yang Jijue, he had already served five emperors.
If one spoke of seniority, in the entire Great An Dynasty, there probably were not many people who could compare to him.
"An envoy? Who has come?" Yang Jijue asked.
According to the rules Yang Zhengshan had set down, there was no distinction of superior and subordinate between Shenmu Island and the Great An Dynasty, and the Yang Family and the Great An Dynasty had no relationship of vassalage. Though this Great An Dynasty was the foundation of the Yang Family, it did not completely belong to the Yang Family, but to the countless people of the Great An Dynasty.
In order to prevent other members of the Yang Family from excessively interfering in the government affairs of the Great An Dynasty, Yang Zhengshan had drawn a clear boundary between the Great An Dynasty and the Yang Family from the very beginning.
The Yang Family only had the right to supervise the Great An emperor, and had no right to interfere in Great An's court politics. If the Great An emperor was a muddleheaded ruler, the Yang Family could carry out the act of deposing the sovereign.
In the past, this rule had not been considered formal, but in recent years, after the Spirit Source Land and Shenmu Island were connected, the Clan Council had formulated many rules, among which was the right of supervision over Great An and