Internal Affairs Minister

Basic Description
The Internal Affairs Minister has a number of duties, including upgrading the castle, fixing the walls, ensuring the peasant towns are happy and have coin, hiring for viceroyalty points, fixing corruption, dealing with the clerks and handling the feeding/purchasing of animals in the ranch.

Castle Status Duties
There are a couple of important things to pay attention to here: 1. The Towns button allows you to see the Morale, Loyalty and cash reserves of all the towns in the viceroyalty. You have the ability to send frenzics to the towns, which gives a chance for the towns to improve the standing in the categories mentioned prior.

2. Castle Walls - It is important to maintain the walls and keep them fixed. It requires stone to fix the walls. The Finance Minister can purchase more stone via grants if needed. Make sure you keep in good communication with them.

3. Upgrading the Castle - You can post jobs to upgrade the castle if needed.

Viceregal Points Duties
This section gives you an overall look at the available Army Points, Judicial Points, Communication Points and Audit Points. If the points get low, you can Hire out for more points. Note that any category that has more then 100 points will automatically drop every day by a couple of points until it reaches 100.

Internal Affairs Duties
The important piece here is the clerical happiness. The happiness goes down when members of the council fail to visit their offices at least once every 48 hours. The longer they are absent, the faster the happiness drops. As a short term remedy, you can make extra payments (120f will raise the happiness about 10 points). The long term remedy is for the council members that don't visit their offices to be notified and asked to visit their offices.

Another important factor to watch is the corruption %. It can be lowered by spending Audit points.

Viceregal Ranch Duties
Here, one can breed, feed, kill and set the price for selling animals to the entire kingdom. Chicken and sheep eat corn, while cows eat wheat. When breeding or feeding the animals, one can see how much food is left for the animals. When low on food stock, make sure to get in contact with the other council member to ensure more food is purchased for the viceroyalty.

Feeding the animals will increase their happiness. Not feeding them will decrease it.

Tip: Folks tend to purchase animals in even numbers (e.g. 4 chickens at a time). Try to have an odd number of animals in the ranch (e.g. 5), so you have an animal left over after the purchase. This way, when you buy new animals to replace the sold ones, their happiness level will be retained. If all the animals are sold (you're down to 0), when you purchase new animals they will start in mid-70's happiness.

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