Is Reform Possible Without Complaints?

Notables seized on a recent shady land swap that greatly enriched some of cologne's friends to push the idea that they completely agreed with the need for reform, but had now lost faith in the controller general personally. Brienn slipped a note to marie antoinette, summing up the general feeling that the sticking point was now calogne himself. The king caved in to the pressure and appointed brienne as his new finance minister. But unfortunately, brienne would be no more successful than his own rival in achieving fiscal salvation - especially once he went to war with the parliament.