Oh absolutely, but again we are the hidden hand of our mistress and we are currently in the process of putting a blinking light on our fingers so that everyone sees us coming.
We're really not, that was what she originally hired Ling Qi for, but decided she was better used as an envoy, diplomat, and problem-solver. That our access to lots of contacts also tends to give Ling Qi a pretext to stick her nose into suspicious things and sort things out before they go terminal is just bonus. She's playing Diplomat in the context of "Someone who also gathers a lot of information from her network of contacts and can often identify Suspicious Things in advance, with the authority to Resolve That Thing before it becomes a Problem"
I don't really see this as anything but formalizing something we
already tended to do though? Ling Qi generally stays in her wheelhouse until someone provokes her to be nosy, and then she finds out what the fuck and finds a solution.
I don't see us--at least nowadays anyway--being the sort of person who'd just sight unseen go "I don't like this person's face, I'm going to dig into them and ruin their life." It's an admonition to act in good faith whenever there's no compelling reason to act otherwise, such as "The other side is not negotiating in good faith." It's part of why I'm not especially worried about Territorial Moosebart, Zhengui's already signposted that we're likely to run into problems because he's monopolizing a large chunk of the local geomancy and making the whole system less stable than it could be. I don't think he's going to
stop just because we asked him nicely, especially if we can't just drop a Bigger Fish on him to cow him into submission, we don't have that degree of monopoly of force.
The point remains, "It's better to deal in good faith than it is to assume everyone's out to get you." There are genuine limitations on our behavior that we get, but there's a degree of power involved too--especially to those who are in a position to sense your own vibes and understand that if they bargain fairly, you'll reciprocate.
