Chapter 1599
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Hongyuan Emperor said this to protect the empress and Madam Wei's reputation.
After all, they represented him. If they were corrupt, it would also affect his image.
When the empress heard this, she hurriedly said, "Your Majesty is right. This concubine left the fundraising and disaster relief to my younger sister.
His younger sister had left it to her servants to do. It must have been these servants who had embezzled the money and embezzled it.
In the end, the matter was exposed and we were blamed. Your Majesty, please investigate clearly. "
Madam Wei also said, "Your Majesty, these things were done by Gao Yang alone. It has nothing to do with this concubine and the empress.
Your Majesty, please don't listen to other people's framing and disappoint the empress. "
When she was kidnapped and knew that the matter had been exposed, she was very worried.
After thinking about it, she thought that she could frame Gao Yang. In any case, the emperor would cover up for the empress.
The empress was her older sister and would cover for her. As long as there was a scapegoat, she would definitely be fine.
Only then did she relax.
When Gao Yang heard this, he hurriedly said, "Madam, how can you push all the blame on this humble one?
This humble one admits that this humble one embezzled some money and bought some inferior rice.
However, this humble one is following the example of my superiors and learned from you.
If you weren't bold enough to embezzle all the disaster relief funds, this humble one wouldn't have dared to follow your example. "
These two old women wanted to frame him as soon as the matter was exposed and make him take the blame.
In any case, he was alone and didn't have any feelings for them. Since they were heartless first, they couldn't blame him for being unrighteous.
Hongyuan Emperor was puzzled when he heard this. "What do you mean by following the example of your superiors? What exactly is going on?"
When Magistrate Zhang saw this, he hurriedly said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, this is what this humble one wanted to report to Your Majesty.
The empress and Madam Wei raised a lot of money in the name of disaster relief.
The commoners all thought that they were sincere in providing disaster relief. However, last night, a commoner came to tell this humble one that the porridge that Madam Wei gave out on the streets was actually mixed with sand. "
"This humble one hurriedly went to the streets to take a look this morning and found that the porridge she gave the commoners was really mixed with sand.
This humble one immediately suspected that she wasn't sincere in providing disaster relief and immediately went to investigate.
I heard some commoners say that they saw Madam of the Wei's servant, Gao Yang, moving all the money they had collected to Madam of the Wei's holiday home. This humble subject hurriedly sent people to search that holiday home. "
At this point, he paused for a moment before continuing, "When this humble subject led the officers to search Madam of Wei's manor, we discovered that there were nearly three million taels of silver hidden in her cellar.
At that time, Gao Yang was stealing money, and the bookkeeper was making real and fake account books.
Only then did I realize that Madam of the Wei Kingdom was using fundraising as an excuse to amass wealth.
This humble subject felt that this matter was serious and quickly arrested all of them. I also confiscated these two account books. "
As he spoke, he took out the two account books that Chu Xuanchen had returned to him and handed them to Eunuch Xu. "Your Majesty, these are the account books that this humble subject found.
One of the account books was real and the other was fake. The real one recorded that the Empress had raised a total of 3,050,000 taels of silver. The fake one only recorded 2,000,000 taels of silver.
The real ones are for them to see and the fake ones are to fool everyone. "
At this time, Chu Xuanchen also said, "Your Majesty, this humble subject can also testify to this matter.
When this humble subject was on the streets today, this humble subject heard Madam of the Wei Kingdom say with my own ears.
She said that the reason they gave the commoners rotten porridge was because she and the Empress had sent all the money they had raised to Jiangnan for disaster relief, so they didn't have the money to buy good porridge.
However, Lord Zhang found the money in her holiday home.
After Lord Zhang caught these thugs, they all confessed.
Therefore, this matter was the Empress and Madam of the Wei Kingdom raising money wantonly in the name of disaster relief, thus amassing wealth for themselves.
They didn't really help the commoners at all. They only wanted to embezzle the money! "
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