Chapter 1161 - 1102. News Of Unification Reached Xiapi
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He interjected occasionally, asking highly specific, piercing questions about tax yields and crop rotations that forced the sweating officials to constantly double check their ledgers. As the agricultural report concluded and Chen Gong, Minister of Law, stepped forward to present a petition regarding maritime law in the eastern ports, a subtle, almost invisible shift occurred at the periphery of the throne.
A young man, dressed in the dark, unassuming tunic of a palace page, slipped silently from the shadows behind the towering pillars. He moved with the absolute, supernatural grace of an Oriole Agent.
He approached the raised dais, his head bowed, and completely bypassed the standard, heavily guarded bureaucratic channels. He stepped up beside the senior Imperial Maid who stood in constant attendance near the Emperor’s elbow.
The Oriole Agent slipped a small, tightly sealed bamboo tube into the maid’s hand, offered a microscopic nod, and vanished back into the shadows before the majority of the court even registered his presence.
The Imperial Maid, trained to absolute perfection, seamlessly stepped forward. She carefully extracted a small, finely woven silk scroll from the bamboo tube. Waiting for a natural pause in the Minister of Justice’s presentation, she bowed deeply and offered the scroll to the Emperor with both hands.
"A priority dispatch from the western theater, Your Imperial Majesty," she murmured softly.
Lie Fan raised a hand, pausing the Minister of Justice mid-sentence. The entire, massive court fell into immediate, breathless silence, recognizing that a direct dispatch delivered via the Oriole network superseded all other matters of state.
Lie Fan unrolled the small silk scroll. His dark eyes scanned the dense, coded calligraphy written by Chancellor Jia Xu’s spymasters, relaying the direct, official report from Chen Deng and Fa Zheng.