The first thing Jiang Xian noticed was that Qingliu Hall kept no meeting minutes.
This was because keeping meeting minutes wasn't yet a common practice in the Yan Chichao dynasty.
Detailed records were only kept for major occasions, such as when the Emperor decreed that scholars from different factions should gather to debate a specific topic. China's history had such precedents—the famous "Discourses on Salt and Iron," for instance, later became an invaluable historical resource.
But for the discussions in Qingliu Hall, decisions were made and immediately carried out.
At first glance, this seemed fine. These were all top scholars; how could they possibly forget what was discussed in the last meeting? They remembered just fine, but the Emperor often got the details mixed up.
After all, the sheer volume of memorials he had to review each day was on a completely different scale from theirs.
