Chapter 416 Heart Disease
Mu Chuan laughed and didn't take Su Qingqing seriously at all.
"Does the Queen want to place her Su family army in the Northwest Army?"
Su Qingqing was like a hunter who finally saw her prey and was determined to get it with a nonchalant attitude, "Insert? General Mu, you really underestimate yourself. You personally led the Northwest Army. How can I send someone to take a share of the spoils?"
Mu Chuan looked at Su Qingqing and asked, "What does the Queen want?"
Su Qingqing said, "The court wants to deal with the Eight Great Families, wants to disintegrate this alliance and drain the grain. Although I am the queen, I am also a military commander. Throughout the dynasties, the royal relatives who held military power have never had a good ending, not to mention my status as someone who should be content with staying in the inner palace.
The emperor trusts me now only because the government was in turmoil and the country was in turmoil when he ascended the throne, and he needed someone to serve as his vanguard.
Otherwise, if he and I were really in love, why would he let me travel back and forth with a big belly?"
Mu Chuan was a little shaken.
Before, he always believed that the emperor and the queen had common interests, but now, Su Qingqing's big belly was right in front of him. Not to mention others, just for himself, there was no way he would let his pregnant wife run around doing things for him.
A man wouldn't do such a thing.
But Su Qingqing had just gone to Guangdong and Guangxi to provide disaster relief , and less than ten days after returning to the court, she came to the northwest.
Is this to help the country? This is to treat people like donkeys.
Mu Chuan twisted his fingers and said, "Your Majesty, please make it clear."
Su Qingqing said: "I want 30% of the land of the eight great families in the northwest. The Xue family, the Su family, and the Ji family, all of these three families belong to me."
Mu Chuan was stunned, then he laughed, "The Queen is very scheming. Is she using the power of my Northwest Army to plan a way out for herself?"
Su Qingqing played with the water cup and said, "This power depends on whether General Mu wants to lend it to you or not ."
Mu Chuan raised his eyebrows, "What if I don't lend it?"
Su Qingqing put down the teacup in her hand with a clang, "Don't lend it? No problem, but I can't guarantee that in the next few years, the court will summon the general to the capital again and again. If he is repeatedly rejected, he will inevitably be accused of treason. At that time, the Northwest Army will face encirclement and suppression again and again.
Of course, I will lead the troops in this encirclement and suppression campaign.
In addition, General Mu also knows that my half brother, Prince Su Heng of Zhao State, is very talented in military affairs.
He is also willing to join me in attacking from both sides. At that time, I will take all the military supplies of the Northwest Army as a gift to my mother's family."
He seems to be like, if I'm not happy, then neither should you.
Mu Chuan was so shocked by Su Qingqing's shameless remarks that he was stunned, "Your Majesty's method is too shameful."
Su Qingqing laughed, "What's the point of being presentable? If I were presentable, why would I give up my position as the legitimate princess of Zhao State and come here to be used as a pawn for others?"
Mu Chuan thought this was a veiled statement, but Su Qingqing immediately added, "General Mu is a straightforward person. In one word, will you cooperate or not?"
Obviously not giving him a chance to ask again.
Mu Chuan asked, "What benefits will I get if we cooperate?"
Su Qingqing said: "I can guarantee that as long as you live, your Northwest Army will always be your Northwest Army, and the imperial court will never lack for food and wages."
In fact, the Northwest Army did not rely on the court for food and money at all.
They have always been self-sufficient.
Su Qingqing paused for a moment, then threw out her trump card, "I can ask for General Mu to be crowned a king of a different surname."
Ji Xun, who was caught in the middle, suddenly felt his eyelids twitch.
This queen's gaze is too poisonous.
Although he and Mu Chuan had not had much contact, he had vaguely heard people mention that Mu Chuan's greatest wish was to be granted a title of nobility and become a prime minister, and to have his descendants be granted titles.
But only a small group of people knew about this matter, and it was absolutely impossible for the queen, who had only arrived in Yulin for a few days, to find out about it.
Mu Chuan's expression changed immediately. "Your Majesty, do you want to humiliate me? I have no interest in these things."
Su Qingqing said: "General Mu may not be interested, but is his mother, who has suffered for half her life, interested in being conferred an imperial decree and receiving honor?"
Mu Chuan's mother was a prostitute in Yulin's singing and dancing house in her early years. She was forcibly brought into the mansion because she was favored by Mu Chuan's father.
But after the novelty period wore off, the man forgot about Mu Chuan's mother. His mother's life in the mansion was very difficult, but his mother's family was a well-known wealthy family in the northwest.
His mother was a concubine's daughter and was expelled from the family tree after being plotted against.
Later, even though Mu Chuan became rich and powerful in the northwest, his maternal grandparents still flattered his mother on the surface but looked down on her in their hearts.
It is an indisputable fact that his mother had been to a brothel.
Mu Chuan clenched his fists and looked at Su Qingqing with red eyes.
Su Qingqing said calmly, "General, as long as you agree to cooperate with me, we can benefit each other, isn't that good? I came from the military, I think the general and I should have more in common."
Mu Chuan was silent for a moment, "I need to think about it."
Su Qingqing said, "I will stay in Yulin for three more days at most. If the general has not made up his mind after three days, I will regard it as the general giving up cooperation."
Mu Chuan sneered, "Three days? Your Majesty is so confident that the food problem can be solved in three days? Without my cooperation, your people won't even be able to transport the food out."
Su Qingqing smiled harmlessly, "Then General, give it a try. If you don't cooperate with me, let's see if I can transport you out."
After saying that, she stood up and leaned towards Mu Chuan. "Otherwise, why do you think I would invite you here to chat?"
Mu Chuan was stunned.
At that time, Su Qingqing invited him to meet her, and the reason she gave was that she hoped he could help Su Qingqing persuade the Ji family to provide food.
He didn't think much about it. He originally wanted to use Su Qingqing's hand to get rid of the control of the Eight Great Families over the Northwest Army, but he didn't expect...
"You help me!" Mu Chuan slammed the table and stood up suddenly.
Su Qingqing patted his shoulder and said, "General Mu, please calm down and think carefully about the cooperation I mentioned. I will not treat you unfairly, and I will not treat your mother unfairly. I can even ask for a bigger reward for your mother."
Mu Chuan raised his eyebrows.
Su Qingqing said: "Everyone knows that the general's mother had a hard time in her early years. What if the court issued a notice and commended your mother, saying that she was acting on orders and was an undercover agent for the court?"
Mu Chuan's expression suddenly became stern.
I have to say, he was indeed moved.
It was not easy for his mother to raise him under such circumstances. Over the years, he gave his mother all the wealth and glory he could, but he knew that there was always a thorn in his mother's heart.
That is her image, status, reputation and speaking power in her grandfather's side.
She was upset about it.
It was clearly those people who sold her to the brothel back then, and now they are trampling her into the mud.
No matter how outstanding Mu Chuan is, she is still Mu Chuan and that cannot change the shadow of her past.
But if what Su Qingqing said was true...
Mu Chuan clenched his fists, said nothing more, and walked out.
