Ling Liang sighed softly. Ever since Operation Zero had been put into action, she and Hari Seldon seemed to have been lumped in with the faction of sycophantic ministers by some people within the Duchy of Dawn.
In truth, every regime had people like that. Those with no principles, who sought advancement only by catering to the ruler's wishes, were looked down upon by everyone.
There was a fundamental premise: any one person's abilities were ultimately limited. Yet governing a vast regime involved every conceivable field, from industry and public welfare to economics and medicine... That was why a nation needed countless specialists to manage it together.
The officials at every level beneath a ruler were those specialists from all walks of life. Within their respective fields, they were certainly more professional than the ruler. Thus, most of the time, the opinions they offered were more detailed and expert. What the ruler needed to do was choose between the proposals put forward by those experts and their possible consequences.
So at such times, if someone had no stance and no principles, and simply treated whatever the ruler said as absolute truth, how would that differ from the ruler managing the country personally? Letting someone unqualified manage a professional field would likely result in a complete mess.
Take Tang Xiao, for example. He knew he was wholly unsuited to military command, so he rarely interfered directly in it.
With people like that, although they might hold office, the decisions being made would actually be Tang Xiao's own, not necessarily correct, wishes. Such people were bound to be unwelcome in the country, regarded as bad apples.
At present, the person within the Duchy of Dawn considered to be such a sycophantic minister was Helmut Zemo.
This time, Tang Xiao had pushed Operation