Emperor Hongyuan said this because he wanted to protect the face of the queen and Mrs. Wei.
After all, they represent him, and if they are corrupt, it will also affect his image.
When the queen heard this, she hurriedly said: "The emperor is right. The concubine's fundraising and disaster relief are all handled by the younger sister. The younger sister is handed over to her servants. It must be that these servants have enriched their own pockets and embezzled money. .In the end, the matter was revealed, and it was pushed to us again, so please ask the emperor to investigate clearly."
Mrs. Wei Guo also said: "Your Majesty, these things are all done by Gao Yang alone, and have nothing to do with the concubine or the empress. Please don't listen to other people's framing, and don't let the empress feel cold."
When she was tied up just now, she was very worried when she knew that the matter had been revealed.
Thinking about it later, she could put the matter on Gao Yang, since the emperor would protect the queen anyway.
The queen is her elder sister, and she will protect her. As long as there is a scapegoat, she will be fine.
Only then did she feel relieved.
When Gao Yang heard this, he said anxiously: "Ma'am, how can you push all the matter on the little one? The little one admits that the little one embezzled some money and bought some poor rice. But the little one is I learned from you. If you were not brave enough to embezzle all the disaster relief funds, the younger ones would not dare to learn from you."
These two old women, as soon as the matter was revealed, wanted to plant the blame on him alone and let him take the blame.
Anyway, he was alone and had no friendship with them. Since they were unkind first, don't blame him for being unrighteous.
When Emperor Hongyuan heard this, he was puzzled, "What's going on, what's going on?"
Seeing this, Zhang Fu Yin hurriedly said: "Report to the emperor, this is exactly what I want to report to the emperor. The queen and Mrs. Wei raised a lot of money in the name of disaster relief. The common people thought they were sincerely helping the disaster. As a result, some people came to tell Weichen last night that the porridge Mrs. Wei served in the street was mixed with sand."
"Weichen hurried to the street this morning to look, and found that what she gave the people to drink was really rotten porridge mixed with sand. Weichen immediately suspected that she was not sincerely helping the disaster at all, so he went to investigate immediately. He heard some people say, Seeing Mrs. Wei's servant, Gao Yang, transporting all the money they raised to Mrs. Wei's villa, I hurriedly sent someone to search that villa."
Speaking of this, he paused, and then said, "When I took the officials to search Mrs. Wei's villa, I found that there were nearly three million taels of silver hidden in her cellar. At that time, Gao Yang was stealing The accountant is making real and fake books. Only then did Weichen know that Mrs. Wei Guo was collecting money in the name of fundraising. Weichen felt that the matter was serious, so he quickly arrested them all and confiscated the two books. ledger."
As he said that, he handed back the two ledgers that Chu Xuanchen had given him, and handed them to Eunuch Xu, "Your Majesty, this is the ledger that I found. One of these two ledgers is true and the other is false. It is true that the Queen raised a total of Three million and fifty thousand taels of silver; the fake ones only record two million taels. The real ones are for themselves to see, and the fake ones are used to fool everyone."
At this time, Chu Xuanchen also said: "Your Majesty, I can also testify on this matter. When I was on the street today, I heard Mrs. Wei Guo say that the reason why they gave the people rotten rice porridge was because she and The queen transported all the money raised to the south of the Yangtze River for disaster relief, so she had no money to buy good porridge. But Mr. Zhang found the money in her villa. After Mr. Zhang caught these thugs, they all recruited them. So, here The thing is that the empress and Mrs. Wei raised money for themselves in the name of disaster relief. They didn't really help the people at all, they just wanted to embezzle the money!" (Remember this website: www.hlnovel.com