Spend most of the money on earthquakeproofing all nine provinces (including the six we don’t own), to greatly decrease the probability of black dove sightings (doves and quakes correlate super hard for some reason), so they can’t predict plagues, so no plagues happen.
In addition to this being inherently ridiculous, it’s rendered extra-implausible by the fact that:
Doves seem to have been getting slightly more common over time, but plagues (and for that matter every other omen and disaster) haven’t, suggesting that causality doesn’t work that way.
Insane, unendorsed bonus plan:
Spend most of the money on earthquakeproofing all nine provinces (including the six we don’t own), to greatly decrease the probability of black dove sightings (doves and quakes correlate super hard for some reason), so they can’t predict plagues, so no plagues happen.
In addition to this being inherently ridiculous, it’s rendered extra-implausible by the fact that:
Doves seem to have been getting slightly more common over time, but plagues (and for that matter every other omen and disaster) haven’t, suggesting that causality doesn’t work that way.