Ioannis stands up and addresses the Megas Logothetes:

I would like to remind Grandmaster Ksanthopoulos that my vassal, Ioannis Kantakouzinos, has now reached the rank of Hypatos, and therefore requires a private army.

I also wish to prioritize the upgrading of Yerevan's walls to Large Wooden Walls, so that her population and general usefulness to the empire may flourish.

And finally, I grant you permission to move those two companies of peasant archers out of Dardanellia in order to make up private armies. This is an exception, and not the norm. I expect my permission to be required before such an action happens again.

Ioannis sits down.