"How do you view our relationship with the northern barbarians?"
Mr. Shah asked the question that he was more concerned about currently because he did not care much about how Alex had solved the problem of the drought.
While it was praiseworthy and remarkable and certainly worthy of recognition it was not enough for him to come in person and travel all this way from the capital.
If Alex could solve something as dire as the drought that countless ministers of his had failed to solve and even spent fortunes trying and exhausted every possible solution.
But he came and solved within days so then he would surely have some opinions about the current ongoing tension between the empire and the neighboring barbarian kingdom, right?
Surely someone with such capability would have thoughts on such matters.
But as soon as he finished speaking the entire room fell into tense silence once again and nobody dared to breathe too loudly.
