Minister's Province.
The power center of the Great Sage Dynasty.
No fewer than a thousand officials, great and small, gathered here.
They worked here day after day, and every day, hundreds upon thousands of imperial decrees were dispatched from this place to every prefecture and county throughout the Great Sage Dynasty.
The Ministry of Rites lay on the easternmost side of the Minister's Province.
After seeing the badge Zeng Anmin presented, the guards at the outermost perimeter of the Minister's Province grew visibly serious.
"Young Lord Zeng, do you have an investigation warrant?"
To outsiders, the Imperial City Department's investigators were vicious hounds, as ferocious as tigers and wolves.
But in this center of power, the Minister's Province, they were not so impossible to resist.
Even though the officials of the Six Ministries appeared fearful, they did not truly fear the Imperial City Department all that much.
"Since when did the Imperial City Department need an investigation warrant to handle a case?"
Zeng Anmin frowned deeply and stared straight at the guard.
Bai Ziqing's disappearance had already become the foremost matter in his heart.
At this moment, he had no desire to waste words.
"His Majesty issued the order only a few days ago."
The guard looked earnestly at Zeng Anmin.
"Commander Ji is absent, so the Imperial City Department is temporarily overseen by Commander Bai. But Commander Bai departed for Jiang Kingdom on a diplomatic mission some days ago, so His Majesty ordered Eunuch Si to supervise the Imperial City Department for the time being."
"Now, for the Imperial City Department to handle cases, an order must come down from Eunuch Si before officials such as us may cooperate."
Si Zhongxiao.
Zeng Anmin drew a deep breath.
This was already the second time he had heard that name.
He