For Eldest Princess Annie, reviewing documents is truly a torment.

It's not that she lacks the capability, but Eldest Princess Annie deeply despises reviewing documents.

Although she was once forced by Her Majesty the Empress to learn how to handle state affairs for a while, it can only be said that she is indeed not suited for this.

Does Her Highness the Princess have the ability to handle state affairs? The answer is of course yes.

After all, being meticulously trained by Her Majesty, even if she were totally incompetent, she should have some basic governance skills.

Moreover, this Eldest Princess possesses commendable ability and wisdom and has earnestly learned a few things. Overall, while not a genius, she can be considered competent.

Additionally, with advisors and strategists prepared by the Empress at her side, while the Eldest Princess may not be known as a wise and illustrious ruler of her era, she can certainly be regarded as a ruler capable of maintaining stability.

However, as Perfikot has evaluated her, in peaceful times, under normal circumstances, this Eldest Princess would be a benevolent ruler capable of maintaining the country's and Empire's control without any issues.

The Empire is immense; even if she were somewhat idealistic, it could bear the strain, and for the common people, having an empathetic ruler might not be a bad thing.

But these are not peaceful times, and the Empire needs a strong, firm ruler, even a tyrant, over a kind but indecisive one.

The reason is simple: for the Empire now, it's crucial to make sacrifices and decide which parts must be abandoned.

In situations where the entire Empire cannot be saved, abandoning unsalvageable parts is the most appropriate course of action for the Empire.

In this regard, the Empress herself is undoubtedly qualified.

Even when making critical decisions like abandoning the Empire's homeland, she can make decisive choices for the Empire's best interest.

From this perspective, one can see her experience and decisiveness as a ruler. Not to mention, to bet the entire Empire's fate on Perfikot is a decision beyond the reach of ordinary monarchs.

For a regular ruler, even knowing an apocalyptic crisis is looming and that Perfikot offers a solution, it would be impossible to entrust such an important task to a teenage girl and let her do as she pleases.

Even if Perfikot herself were in a similar position, she doubts she could trust herself as implicitly as the Empress trusts her.

Not to mention, the stakes involved here go beyond simple trust.

This is entirely wagering the Empire and millions of citizens on the hope that Perfikot can truly come up with a salvation plan and execute it successfully.

It can be said that, while Perfikot knows little about the Empress's daily governance, just this single matter allows Perfikot to understand the Empress's formidable decisiveness.

Describing her as resolute and fiercely decisive would not be an exaggeration, according to Perfikot.

Compared to this, Perfikot's assessment of Eldest Princess Annie falls considerably short; hesitant is insufficient to describe the Eldest Princess's shortcomings.

Perfikot often wonders how she managed to serve in the military for so many years and make a name for herself.

After all, Eldest Princess Annie's decisiveness is far from commendable.

Take now, for instance, the Eldest Princess has come for help, just for the impoverished folk outside Langton City, who can't even receive the Empire's relief, not to starve to death.

This matter she could handle herself; she could either order an Imperial department to take care of it or issue a decree to Perfikot to solve the problem.

Because, after all, she is the Empire's Eldest Princess, the current first in line to the throne in legal terms.

She holds the Empire's power second only to the Empress herself! Though this power has gradually been ceded to the Noble Council and the elected council due to changes in the Empire's political system over the years, making the Empire more like a country with a tripartite division of power.

But as the first in line to the throne, the representative of imperial power, Eldest Princess Annie still holds a very high status in this political structure.

So, even if her order would disrupt and affect Perfikot's original plans, if Eldest Princess Annie truly insists Perfikot do something, Perfikot would have no means to refuse or defy the order.

Though with Perfikot's influence today, rejecting one or two unreasonable commands is not an issue, and even the Empress wouldn't punish her for it, she rarely does so.

Ultimately, even with Perfikot's power and status today, she still has to consider the overall Empire's reaction; becoming a power-craving figure like Cao Cao or Dong Zhuo is not what Perfikot desires.

Compared to that, Perfikot admires Huo Guang more.

In a way, Perfikot feels her current role is distinct yet akin to Huo Guang, the one who deposed and enthroned emperors.

Except Huo Guang had options beyond Liu He, like Emperor Xuan, while Perfikot only has Eldest Princess Annie before her.

If Eldest Princess Annie is truly unfit for the heavy responsibilities, Perfikot cannot quickly find a replacement for her.

Although an emperor is not strictly necessary, in these critical times approaching the apocalypse, any upheaval might cause irreversible consequences, and Perfikot doesn't hope for significant changes and disturbances in the Empire's core at such a moment.

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