Upon hearing these accusations, Emperor Hongyuan and his ministers were shocked.
Emperor Hongyuan looked at the porridge and became very angry. He slapped the table angrily and asked, "Is this for human consumption?
Madam Wei, what on earth is going on?"
Mrs. Wei was startled and said quickly: "Your Majesty, please calm down. This rice noodles were bought by Gao Yang, who was ordered by me. It was Gao Yang who bought this rotten rice without telling me to fool the people. It has nothing to do with me!"
Gao Yang hung there, not daring to speak.
Emperor Hongyuan stared at Mrs. Wei with a cold and sinister face, squeezed the dragon chair with both hands, and said through gritted teeth: "Where is the Queen?
She told me a few days ago that she was working hard to raise money and wanted to help the victims.
How did things become like this?
Someone is coming, hurry up and send the Queen!"
Eunuch Xu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I have sent someone to pass the news a long time ago."
As soon as he finished speaking, the queen, dressed in red, had already led a crowd of people and rushed over.
When she saw Mrs. Wei being tied up, her face turned pale and her heart trembled.
Could it be that Mrs. Wei and her embezzlement of money were exposed?
She hurriedly stepped forward to greet Emperor Hongyuan, "Concubine, please greet the emperor. Your Majesty, I don't know why Prince Li kidnapped Mrs. Wei to go to the palace?"
Did Mrs. Wei commit something?"
Just now, when Eunuch Xu saw King Li tying up Mrs. Wei and entering the palace, he sent someone to tell her.
When she heard this, she immediately became angry and angry, and quickly led people to the imperial study room.
"You came just in time, I ask you.
The victims said that you and Mrs. Wei raised three million taels of silver, but you let them drink this kind of porridge. What's going on?"
Emperor Hongyuan said angrily.
The queen quickly took a look at the porridge and was shocked, "Your Majesty, I haven't left the palace. I don't know what's going on."
Having said this, she quickly looked at Mrs. Wei Guo and winked at her, "Sister, tell me, why did the rice porridge I asked you to serve turn out to be like this? Have you also been deceived?"
Mrs. Wei Guo nodded quickly and glared at Gao Yang angrily, "Sister, I left the porridge task to Gao Yang, and I gave Gao Yang 120,000 taels of silver.
I asked him to buy good rice and noodles for charity, but he ended up buying this rotten rice. He must have deducted a lot of money from it."
Having said this, she quickly begged the emperor for mercy, "Your Majesty, this was all done by Gao Yang alone. He deducted relief funds and bought this rotten rice for the people to eat.
This matter has nothing to do with me, but it is also my fault.
This happened because I was not strict with my servants.
Don't worry, Your Majesty, I can leave the palace immediately, buy rice and noodles again and give them to the people, so as to restore my reputation this time."
Zhang Fuyin immediately said: "Mrs. Wei, please don't bother, when these rotten porridge arouses people's anger.
The lower official saw that His Royal Highness King Li had provided money himself to give good porridge to the people, thus saving the royal family's face."
When the ministers heard this, they immediately looked at Chu Xuanchen with admiration and gave him a thumbs up in their hearts.
Emperor Hongyuan was stunned. He didn't expect that Chu Xuanchen would also serve porridge.
He gave him a serious look and said, "King Li, you did a good job.
But regarding the rotten porridge, could it be that Mrs. Wei was deceived by Gao Yang?
Mrs. Wei and the Queen have been working hard these days to plan disaster relief. They are so busy that they don't even have time to sleep.
They were sincere, but in the end something like this happened. It must be that their subordinates were so jealous of the money that they bought rotten rice and gave it to the people behind their backs!"