内阁

The council

内阁（英文：Council）是帮助角色统治领地的一个五人组织，五人各担任一个职位，每个职位都和一项属性挂钩。

每位内阁成员都有四个可以进行的工作，你也可以把它称为内阁能力或者内阁任务。内阁成员在同一时间内只能进行一个任务，他们在进行任务的时候不能担任军队指挥官。当领主给内阁成员分配了任务之后，他们会得到一个“进行任务中”状态。

和内阁职位对应的属性会影响到内阁成员的工作表现以及你领地的国家属性。他们其余的属性很大程度上对你来说是没有意义的。但是由于内阁成员会有双倍的阴谋影响力，如果一个不忠诚的内阁成员拥有很高的密谋能力的话，对你来说是十分危险的。

解雇内阁成员会招致他们的不满，并在一段时间内阻止他们被再次任命。

商业共和国的贵族封臣以及可汗国内的附庸汗王会希望自己在内阁中占有一席之地。如果他们没有被任命进入内阁，就会对统治者不满。

在拜占庭和罗马帝国，由于帝国独特的帝国选举制，内阁成员在继承法中拥有投票权。另外，帝国的军事总管是可以继承帝位的被选举人，除非他是残疾的（被阉割或致盲）。

职位

	职位	主要属性	Dignity	对领主好感加成	月薪	每月威望加成	每月虔诚加成
	外交总管	外交	0.33	+15	0.10	0.75
	军事总管	军事	0.33	+15	0.10	0.75
	财政总管	管理	0.33	+15	0.10	0.75
	间谍总管	密谋	0.10	+15	0.10
	宫廷司祭	学识	0.15	+15	0.10		0.5

威望、虔诚和薪水是按内阁等级来计算的：在公爵级内阁任职数值是上表的两倍，在王国级内阁任职数值是上表的三倍，在帝国级内阁任职数值是上表的四倍。此外在商业共和国内阁任职，薪水会在此基础上再翻倍。

变种名称

上表所列出的内阁成员的职位名称是默认情况下以西欧文化天主教为基准的。在不同的宗教和文化组中这些职位名称可能会有所变化，但是他们的本质是一样的（伊斯兰教除外：穆斯林的伊玛目/毛拉没有【提高宗教关系】的任务，此任务被【施舍】所取代）。

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文化/宗教	外交总管	军事总管	财政总管	密谋总管	宫廷司祭
东正教	总理大臣	大司马	财政大臣	机要秘书	教会牧长或牧首1
基督合性派	—	—	—	—	宫廷司祭或牧首1
逊尼派	—	—	—	—	宫廷伊玛目
什叶派	—	—	—	—	宫廷毛拉
原始宗教(日耳曼多神教和阿兹特克除外)	—	—	—	—	祭司
日耳曼多神教	—	—	—	—	先知
阿兹特克（宗教）	蛇女	人类切割者	赋税总管	暗殿守卫	大祭司
祆教	阿斯塔巴兹	伊朗薛波勃	达力克-帕特	—	穆贝德
希腊文化	总理大臣	大司马	财政大臣	机要秘书	—
波斯或阿拉伯文化	大维齐尔	—	—	—	—
犹太教	—	—	—	—	宫廷拉比
印度文化	—	—	—	—	传戒师
吐蕃文化	论茝	—	聂巴	—	占卜师
道教	丞相	行军司马	财务总管	—	祭酒

注1：一般来说是教会牧长或宫廷司祭。如果你是国王或者皇帝，并且不是普世牧首或科普特教宗的领主，那么你的宫廷司祭的头衔为 牧首，并且他是你领地的宗教领袖(他会出现在宗教页面自主牧首的名单上)。

Requirements

In all cases your councillors must not be or in prison. They must be your courtiers or direct vassals.

Most council positions are only open to men. The exceptions are as follows:

• The Spymaster may be your wife or mother. If you appoint your wife, note that her Intrigue is only added to your state Intrigue once as your spymaster, not one and a half times as both your spymaster and your wife. Additionally, pagans may appoint female pagan spymasters. Muslim rulers may also appoint their secondary wives as spymasters.
• Religions that allow female temple holders also allow female spirituals (Pagans other than Aztec, Tengri and Zunist; Cathar, Messalian, Bogomilist; Mazdaki, Manichean; Buddhist)
• Cathars/Messalians may appoint coreligionists to all council positions, regardless of gender.
• Some characters have flags marking them as an exception to the usual rules. If they have it, they may be appointed to the appropriate position despite being female or a child. For example, the Marshal position is open to Jeanne d'Arc and Germanic pagan women appointed as Shieldmaiden.
• Conclave DLC adds Status of Women laws, gradually opening all secular council positions to women.
• Conclave DLC adds Female councillor events. Women appointed through these events generally can't be appointed again if they lose the position.

The lord spiritual must share the liege's religion, and has additional requirements depending on religion:

• Non-Muslims:
  • Can only appoint courtiers, theocratic vassals (such as bishops), or clan leaders
  • Orthodox rulers (and other with autocephaly) cannot appoint courtiers unless they have no bishops (or are tribal)
  • Hindus must be caste or ascetic to hold the office of Upadhyaya
• Muslims:
  • Can only appoint characters with one of the religious education traits.
  • Cannot fire their imam (except indirectly, e.g. by causing them to become imprisoned or transferring vassalage)

外交总管

Abilities

• Improve Diplomatic Relations
  • Success: A four-year +30 opinion modifier with a random local ruler (who is either count+ tier or your direct vassal). Can stack multiple.
  • Failure: A two-year -20 opinion modifier with a random local ruler (including barons).
• Fabricate Claims (not available to nomads)
  • Success: Creates a strong uninheritable claim, usually on a county.
    • MTTH falls quickly to 85 months at 14 diplomacy skill, then slowly to 63 months at 20 diplomacy skill
    • The tier of the claimed title depends on secondary rolls:
      • Kingdom claim: Requires the "Become King" ambition, but works on any de jure kingdom. Chancellor must be stationed in a county which is both de jure a part of the kingdom in question and within the demesne of the king. Once per lifetime. The chance of this occurring depends on the value of the Chancellor's diplomacy: 20% chance if Diplomacy is 22 or above, 10% chance if Diplomacy is between 18 and 21, 5% chance if Diplomacy is between 15 and 17, 2% chance if Diplomacy is 14 or below. Costs 2 years' income.
      • Duchy claim: Chancellor must be stationed in a county which is both de jure a part of the duchy in question and within the demesne of the duke. The chance of this occurring depends on the value of the Chancellor's diplomacy: 10% if the chancellor's diplomacy attribute is between 15 and 17, 20% if between 18 and 19, and 30% if 20 or above. Costs 2 years' income.
      • County claim: This is the result if the conditions or rolls for higher title claims fail. Costs 1 year's income.
    • Lose prestige based on your current tier, and lose scaled_wealth based on the tier of the claimed title. You are allowed to go negative.
  • Failure: The target gets an event letting them attempt to assassinate or bribe the chancellor.
• Sow Dissent
  • Success: A negative temporary opinion modifier both ways from the vassal at the targeted province and his liege.
  • Failure: Discovery and negative opinion of sender.
• Improve Clan Sentiment (nomads only; replaces Fabricate Claims)
  • Success: Improves the clan sentiment (not the same as regular opinion) of another clan towards yours.

军事总管

Abilities

• Suppress Revolts
  • +1% chance/skill of imprisoning characters in province.
  • -1% chance/skill of revolt in province.
• Train Troops
  • Levy size +2.5%/skill. Applies to every holding directly held by the liege in the province.
  • Reinforce rate +5%/skill. Applies to every holding directly held by the liege in the province.
  • Success: +50% reinforcement rate for 1 year in province.
  • Failure: Anger vassal with Ambitious or Deceitful traits, -200% province reinforcement rate for 6 months.
• Research Military Tech (not available to tribes)
  • +5% Military tech spread rate/skill.
  • Success: Local lord with 8+ Military skill and either 7+ Diplomacy or Gregarious trait gets improved relations, 50 Military points.
  • Failure: Marshal wounded (75% chance) or maimed (25% chance).
• Organize raid (only for tribes; replaces Research Military Tech )
  • Success: Get event troops (Three stacks each 2.5% of realm levies, minimum of 100 and maximum of 3000), which must be used to raid within 5 months or else be disbanded, costing money. Must be at peace to trigger.

财政总管

Abilities

• Collect Taxes (not available to tribes or nomads)
  • +2.5% tax/skill. Applies to every holding directly held by the liege in the province.
  • Success: Get bonus money equal to 50% of annual income.
  • Failure: Steward is chased by peasants and potentially wounded or killed; liege loses 10-15 prestige.
  • Failure: Peasants angered; increasing revolt risk and annoying local lords.
• Oversee Construction
  • -2.5% construction time/skill.
  • Success: Steward becomes permanent Master Builder, reducing construction time by a further 5% wherever present (this continues to apply even if fired from stewardship job).
  • Failure: Local noble sabotages building, decreasing relations and increasing build time by 30% for one year.
• Research Economy Tech (not available to tribes)
  • +5% Economy tech spread speed/skill, from other provinces to this one
• Build Legend (only for tribes)
  • +0.1 Prestige per skill per month
  • Success: Get event troops (Three stacks, each 7.5% of realm levies, minimum of 100 and maximum of 3000), which must be used in battle within one year (plus or minus three months) or else be disbanded, costing prestige.) Troops are automatically disbanded when war ends, although they will remain if another war was declared before ending the first one.
• Settle Tribe (only for tribes)
  • Success: Target province converts to owner culture. (Can target only provinces in your own demesne)
  • Failure: Steward injured.
• Collect Tribute (only for nomads)
  • Must be sent to a vassal or tributary.
  • Success: collected extra income.
  • Failure: relations penalty.

密谋总管

Abilities

• Scheme
  • +1% increased chance of detecting plots per skill, in a given province^{[Who must be in the province? Plotter? Backers? Target?]}
  • Success: An event allowing you to discourage a vassal from being a member of factions in your realm. (MTTH min 26 months with 17 intrigue skill)
  • Success: An event allowing you to encourage a fellow vassal to join your faction.
  • Success/Failure: Discovers a local character's plot. Survival depends on the plotter's opinion of the spymaster.
  • Failure: The spymaster is attacked by thugs. Survival depends on Martial skill.
• Build Spy Network
  • +0.5% plot power per skill point
  • Success: Liege can attempt to blackmail a male homosexual ruler
  • Success: Liege can accuse a ruler of corruption and attempt to fine them
• Study Technology
  • Must be placed in province you do not control, with at least one tech further advanced than your capital.
  • Technology spreads from target to capital (faster based on skill) (multiplicative with other councilors in "Research" jobs)
  • Success: Gain 50 tech points in a random field. (Faster with intrigue skill up to 13 and with Scholarship focus.)
  • Failure: The ruler of the target province discovers the spymaster, likely imprisoning him/her.

Bonuses

• Discovers plots. If you have no Spymaster, you will not discover any plots.
• If the Spymaster is plotting against you, they won't tell you! It is very important to for your Spymaster to have a high opinion of you. Ideally they also have high ai_honor, although most traits that increase Intrigue skill also decrease ai_honor.
• Removes fog of war from the job province and all neighboring provinces, making both "Study Technology" and "Build Spy Network" useful for scouting.

宫廷司祭

Abilities

• Proselytize in own realm
  • Success: A vassal or courtier in the province converts to your religion (high frequency).
  • Success: The county is converted to your religion (low frequency).
    • More likely if councilor has the correct culture for the province, with high moral authority, and with high skill (up to 13 learning). See Religious_conversion#Court_Chaplain_2 for details.
  • Failure: The chaplain is attacked, being killed or injured. You lose 10 Prestige.
  • Failure: The chaplain accuses a vassal of heresy. The vassal gives you an event in which you can choose to back them up or back up your chaplain. You get an opinion bonus with one and a penalty with the other.
  • Failure: Local population resists conversion, causing increased revolt risk for 1 year.
• Proselytize in pagan capital
  • Success: Allowed to stay. Liege gains 20 piety. (May be imprisoned instead.)
  • Success: Converts pagan courtier. (May be imprisoned afterward.)
  • Success: Attempts to convert pagan ruler. (Expelled if unsuccessful.)
• Research Cultural Tech (not available to tribes)
  • +5% cultural spread rate/level
  • Success: The chaplain finds a great philosopher. You get an event with the option of paying money to gain 50 Cultural tech points.
  • Failure: The chaplain converts to a heresy and gives you an event allowing you to choose to do the same or imprison them. (MTTH falls to 26 years as learning increases to 13) If you choose to practise the heresy in secret, the chaplain will also practise the heresy in secret.
• Improve Religious Relations (non-Muslim only)
  • Success: A local religious ruler gives you +40 opinion for two years (high frequency).
    • Useful for your religious head, especially the Pope. Try to pick a province where the Pope personally holds all churches.
  • Success: A local religious ruler gets a -15 opinion penalty toward their religious head.
    • Potentially useful for vassal Catholic bishops, so they pay taxes to you instead of the Pope
• Perform Charity (Muslim only)
  • -1% revolt risk per skill in the target province.
  • Success: You gain 15 piety (MTTH: 57 months with 13+ skill).
  • Success: Improved relations with vassal of same religion (MTTH: 70 months with 13+ skill, modified by moral authority).
  • Failure: The imam / mullah is attacked by a mob, being wounded or killed.
  • Failure: The imam / mullah embezzles money. You may pardon or imprison him.
• Build Zeal (Tribes only)
  • +0.05 piety per skill per month
  • Success: Raise zealot event troops. Three stacks, each 7.5% of realm levies, minimum of 100 and maximum of 3000. If not used in a religious war within one year (plus or minus three months) or explicitly disbanded, they will leave, costing piety.

内阁成员的正面特质

Depending on your councilors' skills and traits, they may be able to trigger additional events, regardless of their current mission.

Job	Councilor requirements	Liege requirements	DLC	Event
Chancellor	12+ skill and Smart	Not tribal or nomadic		Choice of +25 feudal vassal opinion or +25 republic vassal opinion Capital prospers (if The Reaper's Due is enabled)
Chancellor				Improved opinion from a random vassal, with spouse, or with all courtiers
Chancellor	or (12+ and )	Adult None of		For a favor, chancellor helps you become multilingual (+1 diplomacy, +1 learning)
Marshal	12+ skill and Smart			Choice of +10% morale (global) or +10% levy size (where marshal is working) Capital prospers
Marshal	and landless			Liege may imprison the marshal for a chance to become
Marshal	or			Spend 30 wealth on experiments that may yield +50 military tech points
Steward	12+ skill and Smart	<50 wealth and 2% revolt risk		Choice of +10% tax income (?) or -5% revolt risk (demesne provinces) Capital prospers
Steward				-5% revolt risk in a random demesne province (Justice Prevails)
Steward	or	Epidemic in demesne		reduce_disease = 0.33
Steward				Liege may seize steward's wealth (Only without Conclave)
Steward	NOT 8+ skill and	Can borrow from Jews		-50 wealth via forced loan from Jews, but liege can become more or more
Steward	15+ skill and			+300 wealth (and possibly a followup request to be granted a county)
Steward	15+ skill and Any of	Adult Less than 10 stewardship		Join your steward on a full day's work Gain and (or an alternative stewardship bonus) Or leave early to become or , if you prefer.
Spymaster	12+ skill and Smart			Choice of +10% arrest chance or +10% plot power Capital prospers
Spymaster	or			Precautionary safety measures
Spiritual	12+ skill and Smart			Choice of +25 church opinion or +0.1 monthly piety (For Muslims: +0.2 monthly piety) Capital prospers
Spiritual	and 350 wealth	250 wealth		Spiritual offers to pay 250g toward the construction of a new temple, if you also spend 250g.

其它相关特质

Councilors have increased plot power against you. Watch out for councilors who have traits that increase inclination to join assassination plots, such as . This is especially crucial if they have low opinion of you, high intrigue skill, or the spymaster position.

For the post of Marshal, consider appointing a character with high Martial score, but also have the trait, since such characters are usually not good commanders.

With Conclave:

• and with certain traits may trigger an "abuse of office" event that gives them 100 wealth. This isn't possible for , or councilor. If the councilor is a courtier, you'll have an opportunity to seize or inherit this wealth. This event is more likely if he is , or , and less likely if he is or . Beware: for the , his location province (usually the capital) will get 3 years of peasant unrest modifier giving -50% taxes and 10% revolt risk.
• Councilors who are are more likely to select the stance. On the other hand, content vassals rarely join factions, so they are less important to pacify with council jobs. They are useful to have on the council when voting for law changes.

With The Reaper's Due:

• Landed rulers who are may go into seclusion even when there is no epidemic disease present in their capital. They will be unable to trigger mission events or clear fog of war while in seclusion. Frequent seclusion is especially problematic for a Chancellor, as being in seclusion reduces Diplomacy skill.
• You may wish to appoint the same character as Lord Spiritual and Court Physician. Both depend on learning skill, and the +10 opinion from the council position will sometimes earn you better treatment for your diseases. If you choose to do so, traits that affect court physician efficacy should be your primary concern.

仅适用于 御前会议DLC

Council power and voting

Depending on your council laws, some actions will require a council vote. Bypassing the council's decision is considered an act of tyranny. Vassals may create a faction to demand increased council power; they are more likely to do so if the council is not empowered.

Powerful vassals

With the Conclave DLC active, a player's most powerful vassals will clamor for a seat on their liege's council. Those who are eligible for a position, but do not have one, get a -40 opinion penalty toward their liege (except if the powerful vassal is in hiding). This can stack with similar opinion penalties for patricians in a merchant republic or khans in a khaganate.

The maximum number of "powerful vassals" is one less than the maximum number of voting seats; this means that kings and emperors usually have more "powerful vassals" as they can have Advisors. This allows for the fact that most rulers cannot appoint a powerful vassal as Court Chaplain. Also, vassals must have a certain level of military power compared to their liege before they qualify as "powerful".

Strategies

• Nomads usually do not have a fixed number of powerful vassals; Khagans should aim for 3 vassal clans (or less, for the 2 Advisor and Marshal slot as nomads tend to have high Martial scores) so that councilors can be chosen based on competency, while khans should choose their CBs carefully while waging war so as not to acquire count or duke vassals.
• Consider manipulating competent vassals to become "powerful" ones by lawfully revoking titles of powerful but incompetent councilors; realms with Iqta or Imperial Administration can do this by redistributing duchies.
• If not using viceroyalties, consider educating the heirs of powerful vassals so that they can remain in the same council job upon succession.
• Conversely, engineer powerful vassals to enter regencies so that they vacate their seats, allowing you to appoint competent councilors as replacements. In particular, you can fire powerful vassals who went into hiding.
• Consider creating a powerful vassal theocracy. The priest can serve as Lord Spiritual, possibly freeing another council position for a competent sycophant.

Councilors not joining factions

When the council is empowered to vote on War Declarations, councilors cannot join factions while the council is content. The council is considered discontent for several years after succession or tyrannically bypassing a council vote. Tribal councilors are not prevented from joining factions.

Advisors

Advisors are extra voting positions in kingdoms and empires. Kings have 1 advisor slot and emperors have 2 slots. The council must be empowered for advisor slots to appear. Advisor seats are only visible in the "My Council" tab.

Advisors do not affect state attributes or job action performance, so their skills are unimportant. These seats are typically given to "powerful vassals" whose abilities are too low for any standard council seat. Advisors can be useful as active commanders, since they are not busy with job actions. Also, note that in the Byzantine and Roman Empire, advisors are considered electors for imperial elective.

Councilors can be swapped into advisor roles instead of being fired. This is useful if a poorly skilled vassal uses a favor to force their way onto the council, or you wish to make adjustments due to your powerful vassals passing away and their heirs having a different skillset from them. To ensure the correct advisor takes the main council seat, right-click the existing advisor rather than the main councilor.

During a regency, if the regent happens to be a councilor, swapping the regent/councilor into an Advisor slot can increase the relevant state attribute. However, the regent/Advisor still only has 1 vote when voting on actions to be taken; the other vote defaults to "no" as 1 seat is considered to be empty.

仅适用于修道士与密契者DLC

不在地图上进行的工作

Every councillor has an additional council job option, which keeps them busy without having them go to a specified place (except for Spymaster, where Scheme becomes offmap instead).

• - Perform Statecraft: increases threat decay speed, and can fire events which improve relations with random vassals, neighbours, or liege.
• - Organize the Army: lowers the upkeep cost of retinue (or horde), and can fire events to train existing or find new commanders.
• - Administer Realm: increases the speed of cultural conversion in realm provinces, and can fire events adding economic bonuses to any province.
• - Sabotage: target province will suffer damage, gain unrest, and may even be made easier to siege.
• - Hunt Heretics: hunts for members of secret societies. If any are caught, you can given several options on how to deal with the character:
  • Burn the character at the stake for some Piety
  • Imprison the character and brand them.
  • Brand them.
  • Letting them go free.

寻找宝物

Your councilors can hunt for artifacts, and their traits may affect their success. See Selecting councilors for artifact-hunting abilities.

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