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*spoiler* The aspect of this that makes little sense to me.


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OK, first it's the king and queen dying and the "prime minister" taking over. Um, huh? prime minster is a term for a democratically elected leader, that must be the wrong term.

 

Then there's this- http://vatoto.com/read/_/167478/the-rose-princess%E2%80%99s-awakening_by_transient-mirage/10

 

It is tough to determine exactly what is being said here, but perhaps it is saying because the king wasn't listening to the general, the general isn't advising the "prime minister"?  But I don't get why that would have any bearing on anything. Why would whether the king listened to the general have a bearing on whether the "PM"  listened to the general (even if the "PM" was the reason that the king wasn't listening to the general) and why would that in turn relate to any of the rest of this?

 

The son of the dictator/"prime minister"  who helped get the princes away, why was he asking the general at all if it were that easy to raise a army? It's not like he needs the generals approval to have a military coup using forces he himself rounded up.

 

If this general is so powerful, why wouldn't the" prime minister" just fire/replace him?


Edited by truepurple, 24 April 2013 - 08:40 PM.


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Although modern Prime Ministers are associated with parlimentary democracies, the term is slightly older than the modern constitutional role. Thus it's an acceptable translation for the "first" minister in a cabinet appointed by and responsible to a monarch. For example, you'll often see the term "Prime Minister" used for a non-hereditary senior civil office in the English subtitles for historical epics set in imperial China.

 

Re the role of the general: It's not uncommon for generals to have their own power base, and it may be relatively difficult to dismiss such a general. In this story the Prime Minister has tried to supplant executive authority that remained with the royal family. If previously generals served at the pleasure of the king, the new leader might find it hard to replace one without good reason. (Heck even in the U.S. some generals have made political trouble for Presidents after getting fired. See Lincoln and McClellan, or Truman and MacArthur.)  In a coup d'etat or the restoration of a monarchy, the support of one or more formerly powerful and trusted military leaders from the old regime may be critical for establishing the popular legitimacy of a new government. (See recent examples from North Africa and the Middle East.) Hence I didn't find it unrealistic for a rebel leader to rely on the support of a semi-retired senior general to put the movement over-the-top.

 

Yes I found the politics-of-state in this one a little muddled, but not enough to undermine the story for me.