Chapter 778: The Process
After the Prime Minister made a round through the Privy Council, he entered the inner conference room.
Since the Privy Council was an administrative body, there was naturally a hierarchy.
In the past, when the Council still exercised real authority, its highest-ranking members were known as Elders.
For a time, the Council was even nicknamed the Elder Council, implying that the Elders controlled everything and their word was law.
Beneath the Elders were the Senior Councillors. The distinction between the two was simple. Back then, nobles weren’t as obsessed with appearances as they are now.
They used to wear linen robes. Elders wore robes adorned with golden barley sheaves, while Senior Councillors had silver wheat sheaves—this was how their ranks were differentiated.
Other nobles wore robes bearing only their family crests, without any grain emblems.
As the Council’s authority gradually eroded, Elders began setting aside their pride in attempts to unify the nobility. Unfortunately, political reforms and power shifts rendered their efforts mostly meaningless.
The conference room here was once reserved for Elders and Senior Councillors. The nobles in the outer hall weren’t allowed in without permission.