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The so-called Three Departments refer to the Ministry of Punishments, the Metropolitan Censorate, and the Court of Judicial Review. Getting a joint trial by these departments implies either an important court official is involved or the case is a significant scandal.

Song Jiyun was momentarily baffled upon hearing this.

Was her case really so complicated?

She instinctively felt something was amiss.

Since it was an imperial appeal, the Emperor should have first referred it to the Metropolitan Censorate or the Court of Judicial Review for investigation. Why would he, without saying a word, have the three departments jointly review it? Moreover, who had filed the imperial complaint, and how could they assert with certainty that her family's sacrificial porcelain included added human ashes?

It is known that any kind of porcelain follows a specific recipe. As long as she presented the formula, such false accusations would naturally disprove themselves.