Treacherous Deal

Li Jiande smiled. The more kindly he smiled, the more aggressive the brutality in his eyes became. "So, my beloved granddaughter, do you think that the alliance of the four Kurfürst families is so unreliable that you can turn them against each other with a few fancy words? If so, the four families would've started fighting each other hundreds of years ago. How on earth could we have worked together to maintain the balance of the Imperium to this day?"

"I am turning nobody against anybody but just speaking the truth that other people do not dare nor want to talk about."