Zhao Fu had now controlled the four most important people in Locke Kingdom. Next came the matter of the lords. Because it was a feudal system, no one knew how many lords there were; the number of titled lords alone numbered in the tens of thousands.
Among these lords, the minor ones required no attention. What concerned Zhao Fu were the great lords who commanded heavy troops.
Some of them supported the three princes, while others remained neutral, waiting to see how things developed.
Zhao Fu wondered if he could gather them together and control them all.
That way, Zhao Fu could easily control Locke Kingdom without even deploying a single Great Qin soldier, reducing unnecessary casualties. He could also lie low for now and continue learning about this Card World.
Having made up his mind, Zhao Fu controlled the old king and issued an order summoning all the great lords.
However, the result greatly surprised Zhao Fu. Many great lords used various affairs as excuses and said they could not come to the kingdom. Zhao Fu wondered if something had been exposed.
Zhao Fu recalled that the old king had said Locke Kingdom was currently in an unfavorable situation. It was likely because of this: the royal family's power had weakened, and it could no longer suppress those local lords, which was why they dared not come.
In an ordinary kingdom, once the king issued an order, the lords had to come. Otherwise, they would be stripped of their lordships directly. No lord would dare refuse; that was the king's authority.
The old king had originally wanted to marry his daughter to Thunder Kingdom and use Thunder Kingdom's power to suppress and weaken the local lords. Zhao Fu had ruined that plan, which was why he had been so