It's worth noting that you've accrued some credit here in all the things you've done for Lihua/China.
IE: Stuff Done - Rewards = SL Start
Starting with rescuing Chinese citizens and Xingke from Pirates unknowing of Xingke's position in a demonstration of good character.
Thwarted New Heaven invasion with no civilian casualties or extensive docks aid.
provided Xingke with sanctuary from Eunuch retaliation.
Raise an army and commit to aiding Lihua in the war, taking Guangzhou with few to no civilian casualties.
flip the Guangzhou naval and land garrisons, and support Xingke's offensive logistically.
capture the Eunuchs and rescue Meihua in the course of preventing intervention in the war by ambitious Japanese political faction.
overall, we could easily have 7-9 SL between all these.
The benefits of a place in her administration would be acting with the authority of the Chinese Empress and the Chinese Federation as a whole, a very large budget (depending on your specialty), and a rather immense allowance to work on personal projects.
The way it would work is that Lihua would communicate priorities for your sector and you would then decide what to focus on. As long as you have a good explanation for skirting her directives, you can get away with a lot.
Do so too much and you may see consequences, though. Specifically having your budget cut, projects audited, or having oversight increased on your staff. You'd have to do pretty badly on that note, though. Unless you start actively bucking her authority, she's not going to pick fights she doesn't need to. She has plenty of fights already.
Ninja'd.
My main thing is that research is more tech and piety is more talent and technique, typically. I'm also not sure how much of a priority Piety is for Lihua. I know that Stewardship is big, and that the kind of actions we'll be expected to complete will be important to her and likely improve our rep.
- Australia is still one of our long term goals
- We need land to fend of the complains of our knights
Australia is a goal we can accomplish without aid if we just get started on it next turn.
We can gain land to give our knight next turn two simply by buying out the Crowns this turn and moving against a few pirate factions on the eastern coast, easy peasy, no aid needed.
Is that correct @Randino Treviani?
Mostly. We'll be able to further development of Psionic knowledge and individual application with piety, but tech is research and requires the foundation to gain another action.
[X] Plan A Better China
-[X] The Empress' Hand in Marriage.
--[X] As First Husband.
-[X] A Place in Her Administration.
--[X] Stewardship
-[X] Key Natural Resource Monopolies in Extraction Rights.
-[X] Psionic Recruitment & Research Foundation on Chinese Soil.
So, here is a plan where we forgo aid in Australia cause we can already handle all but the bigger fish between our fleet, the crowns, and our ninja, who we will be able to handle once we gobble all those smaller pirate groups up.
We take first consort but make it up to Lihua by assisting with war recovery and her Stewardship ambitions, generate jobs for her people with a resource extraction company, and Introduce psionic tech developments to better her peoples Lives. Basically doing everything we can to make the marriage worthwhile for her while still benefiting ourselves.
[] Plan A Union of Dynasties and Economies + Personal Agenda.
-[ ] The Empress' Hand in Marriage.
--[ ] As Second Husband.
-[ ] A Place in Her Administration.
--[ ] Stewardship
-[ ] The Taklamakan Desert Research Grant & Small Political/Trade Favors (For Charles).
-[ ] Psionic Recruitment & Research Foundation on Chinese Soil.
We are marrying the Empress, I hope, so we can take a stewardship admin position and help the OSI and Directorate rebuild the thought elevator more for brownie points, as we could honestly dismantle a third of of the pirates already between our fleet and Ninja's.
[X] Plan: Imperial Alliance & Mutual Benefits
[X] Plan A Better China(as Second Husband)
[X] Plan A Better China with Uncle Victor
-[X] The Empress' Hand in Marriage.
--[X] As First Husband.
-[X] A Place in Her Administration.
--[X] Stewardship
-[X] Psionic Recruitment & Research Foundation on Chinese Soil.
-[X] The Taklamakan Desert Research Grant & Small Political/Trade Favors (For Charles).
