Chapter 262: The Tin Knight and The Banquet of Madness (2)
The plan of the radical faction within Lennart was as follows:
Plan A.
Gather signatures within the family to pressure the Duke, and extract “appropriate concessions” from the Imperial Family.
How? By threatening to declare independence if they didn’t make concessions.
Politely put, it was blackmail; crudely put, it was a tantrum, but it was a somewhat effective strategy. If and only if the Duke cooperated.
But the Duke refused their proposal to the end, and the radical faction found themselves in a position where they had no choice but to move on to the next operation.
The so-called Plan B.
Use the Duke’s name to mobilize pro-Lennart forces scattered throughout the Empire as allies, attack the Imperial Palace to secure the imperial family members, create a list of “traitors” to their liking in the name of the Imperial Family, and sweep them away in one go.
To be honest, it was a plan that could hardly be called thorough, even as lip service.
From the start, it was a plan hastily squeezed out because the bloodline members were thoroughly crushed by the Tin Knight’s party, and it seemed they would fall into a situation where they couldn’t exert any influence on that Imperial direct corps or whatever if things continued like this.
As the Duke said, the possibility of the Lennart Ducal Family collapsing at once just because a direct corps was created was low, but at least the radical faction would surely be finished.
Werner von Lennart, recruited as a trump card, showed a lukewarm attitude, and there were not a few within the Ducal Family who sympathized with the Duke’s conciliatory theory or took a neutral position.