Kobavelli's The Prince : a guide to breeding the perfect statesman.

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would like to point out the fundamental flaw in creating "the perfect statesman",

the upkeep of his body guard is quite high, and often you need close to ten just to be paying the bills,

then all you have left is a high chivalry to increase loyalty, but surely if he has high chivalry he'd serve his nation better on the battlefield,

probably the only time i might use such a person even if i had one is perhaps in a distant city like constantinpole or jeruslem, where you need all the loyalty you can find

That's why you don't want them in every crappy little backwater hole in your empire. But when a governor ups the income from a city by a factor of 2 just by sitting there, and when that city is Venice or Antioch or whatever city makes crazy cash even without building anything in it, his bodyguard upkeep is the last thing I care about

But great find on the king's piety thing ! Didn't think it would matter as I'd never really noticed it back in RTW. I'll edit the guide accordingly.