His ethereal eyes sharpened with seriousness. "I'll do as you say and abstain from reaching out to stakeholders until after the Royal Funeral. However, I still need someone to help me understand the interests and strategic outlook of all the stakeholders of the Kandrian Empire, and how best to appeal to them within the framework of my vision. That person also needs to be an extremely knowledgeable and wise statesman, if they are to help me flesh out my own path as an Emperor to become a leader to match my father."
He wanted his strength to become the strength of the nation; he wanted to help the nation adaptively evolve past all the impediments that stood in its way, and he wanted all the stakeholders whose support and approval he sought to also benefit from that. More than anything, he wanted his vision to come to fruition on a scale spanning an entire nation and an entire continent.
