"Everyone, a motion from Chief Zhang Xing: with the increase in gang affairs and the growing prominence of chiefs outside the military, the Military Law Department shall become the Gang Affairs Department, with Xiong Bonan remaining General Manager. In addition to calculating military merit and administering rewards and punishments, it shall assess the merits and faults of gang chiefs and administer and enforce their rewards and punishments... Great Chiefs and above shall vote on this motion by show of hands... You may raise your hands to discuss it first... Does no one wish to speak?
"Thirty-one hands. Passed."
Just then, some chiefs in the outer ring suddenly shouted. A few failed to react at first, but once they remembered what this was, they hurried to join in, leaving the envoys and newly admitted chiefs inside the hall startled and uncertain... Then they immediately realized that this seemed to be an expression of approval, rather like applause.
"Everyone, a motion from Chief Zhang: revise the Grand Traveling Office's structure and establish a system of accountability.
"For instance, the Inspection Department, Military Intelligence Department, and Internal Affairs Department may answer to the Jing'an Department. Local authorities facing exceptionally serious criminal cases may also request assistance from the Jing'an Department through the Patrol Cavalry Battalion. The King's Wings Unit, Agricultural Garrison Department, Military Intelligence Department, field battalions, and Garrison Battalion must answer to the Military Affairs Department. However, all internal affairs of the Grand Traveling Office must answer to the Clerical Affairs Department; all gang chiefs must answer to the Gang Affairs Department; and all external affairs of the Grand Traveling Office, local traveling offices, and military and civil regulations must answer to the Grand Traveling Office itself...
"One point requiring particular mention is that accountability shall not follow a single chain. For