"I can help your son, I can help the Northern Barbarians, and I can even declare myself emperor," Huo Minggao continued. "May I ask, Lady Lin, why should I help your son?"
"Hey, if I remember correctly, you were supposed to marry me back then, but Lin Wenzhong stole you away."
Jiang Wan'er was speechless for a moment, so Sun Mian said, "Your Highness, as a subject, one should be loyal to the emperor and love the country."
“Old man Sun, I didn’t ask you anything,” Huo Minggao said. “But since you’ve brought up loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, I really don’t want to have anything to do with that kid.”
Hey, you know, that kid killed His Majesty, killed his king.
"Speaking of which, I should have raised the banner of avenging His Majesty and wiped out that brat!"
After saying that, he pointed to his eldest son, "Tell her, tell her that I did indeed have such a plan!"
Jiang Wan'er was extremely disappointed; she never expected her cousin to turn out like this.
She really wanted to spit at this grumbling fellow and roast him over a fire. However, for her son's sake, she could only suppress her anger and calmly say, "Cousin, what exactly do you want? We can talk about it privately."
"Aren't we talking right now?" the King of Xiliang complained.
His bald head suddenly turned. "What are you looking at?" he roared at his relatives around him. "Get out of here! Your aunt, the wife of the Great Xia Military God, wants to have a private talk with me. She might want me to have an affair."
"Hey. All of you, get out of here and find something useful to do. Yes, you too, you filthy woman, get out, get out, get out!"
His son, grandson, daughter, granddaughter, princess, and Sun Mian filed out of the hall, while he leaned toward Jiang Wan'er and said, "Now that there's no one else here, how exactly do you want to talk?"
"Cousin, I need you to guard Liangzhou and prevent the Northern Barbarians from entering Daxia!"
"Oh? Is that so? You make it sound so easy, but why can't I form an alliance with the Northern Barbarians?"
Suddenly, her anger flared up. "Cousin, if you're not blind, you should know that my son once defeated a coalition of hundreds of thousands of Dos. If it weren't for blood ties, I would gladly watch my son lead his troops to attack Liangzhou!"
"He can't spare any troops!" the King of Xiliang said incisively. "Cousin, don't give me that. You know better than I how many troops your son has."
Don't mention the Dossian coalition; I've heard of that battle.
If the Dossians hadn't been so eager to attack that they fell into your son's trap, how could your son's tens of thousands of troops have withstood a combined army of half a million?
Now, the Quz, the Abbasid Caliphate, the Northern Barbarians, and the Eastern Pangols have all declared war on your son. What do you have to intimidate me with?
“But you are a vassal king of the Great Xia Dynasty, and you should be loyal to the new emperor.”
He swayed his head from side to side and smiled slightly: "Heh, isn't that right? I swore an oath, but I also swore allegiance to Empress Wei Maozhen. In my opinion, your son killed the Empress, so he is a traitor, isn't he?"
Even a three-year-old knows this; I should help the Wei clan wipe you all out.
"Then why don't you do it?" Jiang Wan'er lost her patience.
Huo Minggao snorted disdainfully. "Wei Maozhen is a big shot, she's the empress, the emperor, and a god! Ha, how amazing she is, she thinks she's the incarnation of a god. And what happened? She still lost her head."
And that entire Wei family—not a single one of them is easy to deal with. Even though Wei Maozhen is dead, they're still making a scene. Don't they even realize who they are?
Upon hearing this, Jiang Wan'er felt that things might be taking a turn for the better.
"Hmph, whether it's the Wei family or the Zhao family, they all consider themselves superior." Huo Minggao cursed. "Just before you arrived, people from the Wei family came. I don't need to say more about their purpose."
All guests are welcome, and I warmly welcome them. I've even proposed a marriage alliance between the Wei family. What's wrong with that? I have a lovely daughter who is a suitable candidate, only a few years older than Wei Maozhen's nephew.
Even if that young man from the Wei family doesn't like her, I have other daughters for him to choose from. I have young ones, I have old ones, I have daughters, I have widows, whatever you want.
But the man from the Wei family refused no matter what. He uttered a lot of sweet words, but they were all just excuses.
Don't think I don't know; they despise me from the bottom of their hearts.
Hearing this, Jiang Wan'er felt a mix of emotions.
She followed the key phrase: marrying off her daughter!
At the same time, there is another point: both the Zhao family and the Wei family sent people here, and their purpose was to turn Huo Minggao against them.
"May I ask, cousin, you mentioned the Zhao family and the Wei family earlier," Jiang Wan'er asked. "Which two gentlemen visited Liangzhou?"
"Who was it again? The Wei family seems to be Wei Maozhen's cousin, but I can't remember exactly which one." Huo Minggao pretended to be confused and said, "You know, Wei Maozhen comes from a very large family."
As for the Zhao family, many of them came. Apart from the one currently sitting on the dragon throne, almost all of their descendants had attended. They said a lot, but it all boiled down to wanting to become emperor themselves.
These people are all the same. They're all self-righteous cesspools, yet they still want something from me.
"Oh, by the way, you've come here to ask me for help too? To ask me to send troops to help your son?"
"Yes!"
"Oh, what benefits would I gain?" Huo Minggao asked. "I can send troops, or I can remain inactive. The Lin family, the Wei family, and the Zhao family are not very friendly to me."
"If it weren't for this turn of events, who among you would even remember me?"
He leaned back in his chair, crossed his arms, and smiled smugly, waiting for her reply.
All that's left is haggling.
The marriage alliance was the first condition, and one that Huo Minggao was determined to achieve.
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