Zhongzhou, Rucheng.
At dawn, a team of couriers bolted out of the city gates on fast horses, the leather saddlebags on both sides bulging with proclamations carved and printed overnight. Standing on the city tower, the post station master watched the receding dust and muttered, "Within three days, these official documents will spread across all eighteen prefectures..."
Behind him, a minor official lowered his voice and asked, "Sir, if we spread the proclamation denouncing the Empress Dowager so openly, won't it..."
Chapter 251