Zhao Fu stationed heavy forces along the border between the two sides, then stopped paying it any further mind. He knew the other side would not dare attack at this time, so all he needed to do was focus on expanding his own power.
After Zhao Fu repeatedly employed that despicable method, the results proved remarkably effective. Every day, over a hundred City Lords joined him.
Although the other side was also desperately recruiting people into their faction, their rate of expansion could not possibly compare to Zhao Fu's. Zhao Fu's faction would inevitably far surpass theirs; the unification of the Darkwater Continent had already become a foregone conclusion, leaving nothing to worry about.
Zhao Fu remained there for a few more days. Seeing that the situation had stabilized, he returned to Great Qin once more.
By then, Great Qin had finished celebrating the Spring Festival and had fully resumed operations. The soldiers began clearing the regions, every department actively carried out its duties, and with nothing amiss in the various places, Zhao Fu finally settled down to handle state affairs.
He looked through the memorials that had accumulated over the past few days and found that several ministers had proposed improving the hierarchy system. Their reason was that, while it did impose punishment, it was detrimental to national unity.
Furthermore, there were many loopholes in the process by which lowborn people were elevated to commoners. Effective oversight was lacking, and many people profited from it, causing public resentment. If this continued over the long term, there might be future trouble. They requested that His Majesty reconsider the commoner rank system.
After reading the memorials, Zhao Fu frowned. Though they claimed to be proposing improvements to the commoner rank system, their true intent was to abolish it. They simply did