"Any problems with issuing the edict like this?"
Cao Mao sat in the Central Secretariat, looking at the ministers before him.
After Chen Ben returned to the Imperial Court, the structure of the Central Secretariat changed once again.
Hua Biao served as Secretary of the Central Secretariat, while Chen Ben succeeded him as Director of the Central Secretariat. These two helped Cao Mao draft and issue imperial edicts.
There was little need to say more about Hua Biao. He was one of the few senior ministers of deep experience Cao Mao currently had among his ministers.
With Cao Mao's support, his prestige at court had soared lately, and he had already become a much-sought-after figure in Luoyang.
One reason Cao Mao wanted to give Chen Ben an important role was that Chen Ben's clan was only just getting started and really was not particularly powerful. At least in size, it could not compare with those long-established great clans.
Another reason was Chen Ben himself. He took his work seriously, attending to every detail, and was an extremely dependable and capable man, the complete opposite of his younger brother. Chen Qian liked taking risks, disliked following the beaten path, and was radical in his approach, whereas Chen Ben was steady.
Cao Mao always felt that these scions of the great clans had all been cast from the same mold.
The elder brothers were always steady, and the younger brothers radical.
Oh, except Sima Anshi.
Then they all had "discord between brothers."
And almost every one of them had been appraised by a renowned scholar in his youth and judged certain to achieve great things in the future.
Oh, Sima Anshi was still an exception.
In any case, judging purely by their experiences, they seemed to have come off the same industrial