You need to understand. It's my job as "the old guy" to be a stickler about tradition.
but... in honesty. This is your first time as Kaiser, And my memory doesn't recall you having a large amount of experience in the upper levels of the government before becoming Kaiser. With that said, you have tried a number of times to implement laws that change some of the older institutions of the nation. Namely the recent decree to change the ministries. You are Kaiser and can change things at will, but you seem to like to kinda fix things people think don't need to change, or at least not drastically.
Honestly I think Jacobus may have said what I mean to:
The effective way to do these things is to float the ideas in the forum or the Landsraad. Throwing around decrees with ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY that no one pays attention to merely waters the Kaiser's authority and hastens the day of Mors V!.
Something I've noticed in recent times, is the attempt by Kaisers/Steward to wield blunt and unchecked power. While the Kaiser IS all powerful, we have to remember, this isn't real life, people can leave, they can rebel, then can ignore you. Absolute power needs to be managed. I myself made this mistake a lot early on. And it drove me out of power.
This is part of the reason I've been so active as Arbiter. Under Hasan, and with Ardy, I kept having to try to check their use of blunt power, especially when it violated the charter. And, along with the rise in legalistic tactics by some, this nation is drifting in a bad direction.
You aren't a bad Kaiser, but you need to remember, as much as we like to pretend we are an absolute monarchy.. we still get our power from the people. As Kaiser you have absolute power, until people don't like you anymore. Right now people like you. But if you just start changing things out of nowhere, that can change.
Also, on occasions when your intervention would have been useful, you have not said a word. Since it effects me, I mostly refer to various legal battles I have had to face as Arbiter, and the complete lack of support I have received. Hasam and Ardy have numerous times gone out of their way to challenge court rulings about laws, to the point of absurdity. When I pointed out that the Steward could not fire the Praetor, or order him about, the whole fight about whether the praetor was a member of the landsraad.. and various other ludicrous legalistic maneuvers really angered me. In the end, I myself was forced to use blunt power and tell them to shut up and accept my ruling. Which led to accusations of Empire building by the court, which are true to be honest. But as the Judex has never had any outspoken support from the Kaiser, we've been forced to entrench and slug it out.
The fact that you even come to the IAC shows that you have skill as a Kaiser, even if you ignored us, if you at least honestly sought to hear what we had to say.
I think all that really needs to happen is you need to more thoroughly acquaint yourself with the traditions and institutions already in place in this nation. I point out your attempt to create a cabinet for the ministers to advise you, when you already had the IAC, though not active yet.
I don't mean any of this to discourage you, or break your spirits. If it means anything I don't seek your removal or abdication or overthrow or any of that. I do support you as Kaiser. Perhaps just ponder ideas a bit more, ask us for advice.. etc.
As it stands you are one of the more prolific Kaisers, in terms of decrees. Perhaps that may indicate something. Perhaps not.
