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* As of [[Noodling About]]:  Working on Zhao Feiyan to get her help.  Cai Wen has homework for getting her full backing.  She warns that "The Spire Of Taxation" is really unlikely to go well.  Takanata suggests "Allow sorties into the South" as an edict that we want from the Regency Council.
 
* As of [[Noodling About]]:  Working on Zhao Feiyan to get her help.  Cai Wen has homework for getting her full backing.  She warns that "The Spire Of Taxation" is really unlikely to go well.  Takanata suggests "Allow sorties into the South" as an edict that we want from the Regency Council.
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[[Category: Renaming Countries]]

Revision as of 18:28, 20 April 2015

The Black Spire, before it burned down, was called the Jade Spire, and belonged to the Empire.

The Immortal Sage commented thusly: It is, perhaps, a little obvious to center the Working on a Spire, but there is a symmetry to it, and a rightness. It will mean that the plan may be more obvious, however. The Chi of this country has been turned inward, away from the Empire as a whole, so it is that bond which must be reforged.

Build a Spire, or buy one with no notable history. Name it something dull and long-winded.

Building or transferring a suitable Spire is rare; happens once every few years. Building requires royal permission (Probably a favor + a respectable plan).

Cost of building or acquiring is likely in the 5-15 tael range.

Arrange to have three or more separate Imperial offices take residence, or open a "branch office" in the Spire. The Dragon Army, the Imperial Tax Service, the Imperial Spy Service - any number of these services have headquarters outside the Throne, though convincing them to share their address may be difficult.

Some ideas:

  • A Dragon Army subcommand. Candidates are:
    • Construction -- Mushashi Nori
    • Roads -- Chang Hu
    • Rivers -- Ning Guan-pei
  • An official office of the Regency Council (probably hard; see below)
  • Imperial Spy Service
  • Imperial Tax Service Zhao Feiyan advises against this one
  • Imperial Cultural Office (acquires good stuff to adorn the capital)

Arrange to have an edict passed by the Regents, after a majority of the votes have been garnered in the Spire, rather than in the Throne. Having the Taiga Regent in residence and issuing invitations will likely be key here, though he will not count as an Imperial Office unless you somehow manage to convince the majority of the Regency Council to meet in the Spire.

Regents occasionally meet outside the Dragon's Throne, but meetings of 3 are rare and meetings of more than that are epically rare. Presumably if any Regent entertains other regents frequently, it would be the Taiga Regent.

Outwardly decorate the tower with some iconography or statuary of the Dragon, such that the populace 'naturally' begins to call it the Dragon Spire, or the Tower of the Dragon, or something like. I do not say that you cannot help the populace along with this naming, but it is important to have it appear to arise from the people of the Taiga, rather than be imposed by outsiders (even Imperial outsiders), or be an official name.

Sounds like what I need here is an architectural masterwork...

Finally - and this is the place where you should seek to have a spirit make a change in the World Above if you so wish - ground the Imperial nature of the spire into the Fox-nature of the Taiga, with a great speech given from the steps of the Spire, to mark something of sufficient note." (Charisma plus Chi, using both Oratory and Chi Mastery (and possibly other skills, if relevant.) Aspire to 20 successes.)

Well, there it is. I can certainly give a speech.

Assets

The category of things about which one might later ask "Why did you not list that among our assets?"

Friends and allies:

  • Zhao Feiyan, the Pearl of the Taiga. Cai Wen considers her a solid ally.
  • Li Kao will be standing right there, probably not helping overtly, but will probably see if the plan is running off the rails.
  • Cai Wen's molls (not recommended to seek help from both at the same time...)
    • Bao, the Bandit Queen
    • Fen-Si, a servant at the Royal Spire

Other things:

Players

  • The King. We actually know very little about him. His father was king at the time of the burning of the Jade Spire.
  • The Regent, Zi Miro Khan. An interesting line from Cai Wen's recent info-gathering about him: The one place where his own agenda is believed to diverge from the King's is that he dislikes the Savanna more. Perhaps this means the King is more outward-looking and would welcome the change...not that I plan to ask him, as such.
  • The Dukes (Note that the recent emergence of a Black Duke and re-emergence of a Purple Duke has stirred things up)
    • The Water Dukes:
      • Blue: Duke Lan, who the party saved from being buried alive that time, and likes us.
      • Green: Duke Lu
    • The Fire Dukes:
      • Red: Duke Hong, who tried to bury Duke Lan alive that one time, and is not so keen on us for interfering. We also frame him for things from time to time.
      • Yellow: Duke Huang, also generally annoyed with us.
    • The Other Dukes:
      • Purple: Recently reclaimed by Chio Yasha (The Castle of Doctor Wu). Probably still building.
      • Black: Min Feng's half-brother, Song Yuanjun. We have a strange relationship with him. He's ambitious and occasionally creepy, but whenever we see him, we usually randomly help him. So we can probably get him to help us.

Action

  • As of Noodling About: Working on Zhao Feiyan to get her help. Cai Wen has homework for getting her full backing. She warns that "The Spire Of Taxation" is really unlikely to go well. Takanata suggests "Allow sorties into the South" as an edict that we want from the Regency Council.