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: "Your Majesty is right, I leave all the fundraising and disaster relief matters to my sister.
My sister left it to her servants, who must have filled their own pockets and embezzled money.
In the end, the matter was exposed, and it was put on our shoulders again, and I asked the emperor to investigate clearly."
Mrs. Wei also said: "Your Majesty, these things were done by Gao Yang alone and have nothing to do with me or the Queen.
Please, Your Majesty, please don’t listen to other people’s frame-ups, and don’t let the Queen feel cold.”
When she was kidnapped just now, she was very worried when she found out what had happened.
After thinking about it later, she could blame Gao Yang, and the emperor would protect the queen anyway.
The queen is her sister and 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: "Madam, how can you put all the blame on the young man?
The younger one admitted that he had embezzled some money and bought some poor rice.
But as a young person, this is the same as the past, and I learned it from you.
If you weren't so bold as to embezzle all the disaster relief funds, no one would dare to imitate you."
These two old women, once the incident was revealed, wanted to frame him alone and make him take the blame.
Anyway, he was alone and had no friendship with them. Since they were unkind in the first place, don't blame him for being unjust.
When Emperor Hongyuan heard this, he looked puzzled, "What is going on and what is going on?"
Seeing this, Zhang Fuyin quickly said: "Report to the Emperor, this is exactly what I want to report to the Emperor.
The Queen and Mrs. Wei had previously raised a lot of money in the name of disaster relief.
The common people thought they were sincerely providing relief, but last night some common people came to tell me that the porridge Mrs. Wei gave out on the street was actually mixed with sand."
"Weichen hurried to the street this morning to take a look and found that what she was giving the people to drink was really rotten porridge mixed with sand.
Wei Chen immediately suspected that she was not really trying to provide disaster relief, so he immediately went to investigate.
I heard some people say that they saw with their own eyes Gao Yang, a servant of Mrs. Wei Guo, transporting all the money they had raised to Mrs. Wei Guo's villa, so I quickly sent people to search the villa."
Having said this, he paused and then said, "When Wei Chen and his officials went to Mrs. Wei's villa to search, they found that she had nearly three million taels of silver hidden in her cellar.
At that time, Gao Yang was stealing money, and the accountant was making true and false ledgers.
Only then did Wei Chen realize that Mrs. Wei was trying to make money in the name of raising money.
Wei Chen felt that the matter was serious, so he quickly arrested them all and confiscated these two account books."
With that said, he handed back the two account books that Chu Xuanchen handed him and handed them to Eunuch Xu, "Your Majesty, these are the account books that Wei Chen searched.
These two account books are one true and one false. The true one records that the Queen raised a total of 3,050,000 taels of silver; the false one only records two million taels.
They can see it for themselves, but they can use it 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 with my own ears.
It was said that the reason why they gave rotten rice porridge to the people was because she and the queen sent all the money they raised to Jiangnan for disaster relief, so they had no money to buy good porridge.
But Mr. Zhang found the money in her villa.
After Mr. Zhang caught these thugs, he recruited them all.
Therefore, this matter was caused by the Queen joining forces with Wei Guo's wife to raise money on a large scale in the name of disaster relief, thus making money for themselves.
They didn't really help the people at all, they just wanted to embezzle the money!"