Zhang Tie woke on October 12. He had spent less than two days in You Province City before boarding Huaiyuan Hall's airship on October 14, preparing to return to Golden Light City.
During those two days in You Province City, as the newly appointed Chief Justice of You Province, and with the mindset of ringing the bell for as long as one was a monk, he had no choice but to make an appearance at You Province's Office of the Chief Justice, where he learned about his duties and the agencies under his command.
The office of Chief Justice was initially somewhat difficult for people from other subcontinents to understand, but once one knew what those two characters meant among the Hua Clan, it became easy to understand what this office did.
Ting meant fairness; a broad heart free of grievance was ting. Wei meant guard; donning armor, wielding sharp weapons, defending and protecting was wei. Thus, from the Hua Clan's literal meaning, one could tell that a Chief Justice was a guardian of fairness. In the Siberian terminology of the Weiyi Subcontinent, it could even be rendered with a very fashionable meaning—an emissary of justice. When a nation called one of its most solemn and important officials an emissary of justice, what lay sedimented in that nation's bones were incurable romantic genes—at least, that was Zhang Tie's understanding.
Great Xia's Chief Justice institutions were headed by the Office of the Chief Justice. At the provincial level, there were Courts of the Chief Justice; at the commandery level, Offices of the Chief Justice; at the city level, Bureaus of the Chief Justice; and at the county level, Inspectorates of the Chief Justice. Below the county level, in villages and towns, there were no Chief Justice institutions. As the Chief Justice