I would rather kill the wrong person (2)

If he wanted the fan family to develop, he had to make use of all the members of the direct line and the branch family. He had to make those members of the branch family think that following the fan family was their only way out. However, the fan family's current situation was that the members of the branch family were being mistreated. As a result, those members of the branch family didn't take the fan family's development seriously at all. In their opinion, no matter how well the fan family developed, it would be the members of the direct line who would benefit instead of them. Under such circumstances, how could they do their best for the fan family?