Mo Lin took the plan Xu Siwei had produced with one hand and began reading it carefully.
Summed up, the Star Crown Clan's plan to overthrow the current Star Luo royal family could roughly be divided into three steps.
The first step was to reach an alliance agreement with the imperial Dai family, cooperate with the royal family in doing things that were relatively dangerous for them but would not damage their reputation, and thus accumulate sufficient prestige among the officials.
Yet when face-to-face with the royal family, they would outwardly lower themselves by a rank and present themselves as subjects.
The second step was to spread scandals about the Star Luo imperial family among the populace, especially matters related to livelihoods, infrastructure, and agriculture, stirring up public resentment while bribing the officials responsible for administration in various regions.
Because of the Star Luo royal family's centralized policies, lower- and middle-ranking officials generally did not hold much power. Although their salaries were already fairly generous, compared to the local tyrants and officials in the Heaven Dou Empire who frantically amassed wealth through the authority in their hands, they paled in comparison.
Therefore, as long as they were promised that a certain amount of power would be devolved after the Star Crown Clan took control, a great number of lower- and middle-ranking officials would surely defect and join the Star Crown Clan in plotting the grand undertaking, allowing them to obtain actual control over most of the Star Luo Empire's territory before they truly took power.
If some were still unwilling to pledge loyalty, insisting on serving the Dai family and being loyal subjects, then they would be killed. This would weaken the Star Luo imperial family's control over the various regions, making it easier for "public resentment" to escalate into