As opposed to Barcan's seeing what is wrong with their realm, Barcan's deciding on how to deal with it, Barcan's resolving their own problems and not just having Mendicant doing it all for them.
The issue is they don't know what problems need to be fixed and thus can't fix them. Did you want a change in goverment type? Did you want lords to be appointed not elected? Did you want the general to act differently? I am just throwing out random crap because how the heck are they supposed to know what you think is wrong. If you want their lords to be appointed not elected and they told their general to act differently which wasn't the problem in your mind but they didn't know what was then they are going to be "fixing" things that don't need to be changed.
