Qinzheng Hall.
All the officials had assembled. The Emperor presided over the court, while the Empress Dowager listened to state affairs from behind the beaded curtain.
Hong Chong, the Drafting Eunuch of the Directorate of Ceremonial, was away on business, so his foster son, the Director of the Directorate of Ceremonial, Hong Song, stepped slowly into the hall holding urgent memorials from various regions.
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