Sitting in his office, Mr. William, the Chief Minister of the Imperial Cabinet, stared blankly at the gray sky outside the window, rhythmically tapping his fingers on the table, his gaze somewhat confused.
Beside him lay a piece of intelligence, and on the desk was a handwritten letter from Empress Sylph.
He was utterly numbed, having expected Sylph to stir up some commotion overseas, but not on such a scale.
Everything she did was within the rules, yet it always caught Mr. William off guard.
As the Chief Minister of the Empire, he bore responsibility for thirty-four provinces and nearly a hundred million people...
Well, since last year, it had been thirty-five provinces and a hundred million people.
Although it was a small overseas province, it was the Empire's first pioneering achievement of establishing a new province in nearly seventy years, which also skyrocketed the Empress's popularity among the lower classes.
