When the emperor heard this, his face darkened instantly. Only gold from the Tufan Gold Mine would contain impurities. He shouted sternly, "Come here, take this man away!"
The envoy had already lost his patience: "Your Majesty, you have heard it too. Is this gold Tufan's gold? It's not that I haven't given Your Majesty a chance, but, alas..."
The envoy said this, shaking his head, and was about to leave. The emperor's expression changed, and he said sternly, "Your Excellency, this matter is of great importance and requires a detailed re-investigation. Please ask the envoy to stay for a few more days."
The envoy heard the implication of forcing someone to stay, "Your Majesty, are you trying to force me to stay?"
"Emissary, please don't be so harsh. I am also a hospitable person and don't want any misunderstandings to arise between Xian Chang and Tu Fan!"
The envoy raised his head and laughed heartily. "Your Majesty wishes to stay, and I am naturally willing to stay longer. However, if you do not return to Tufan within the stipulated time, the King will launch an attack. Your Majesty must be mentally prepared!"
These words sounded like a threat. The emperor's face darkened. Finally, he pursed his lips and stood up. "I am tired, and I believe the envoy is tired too. Come, send the envoy back to rest!"
With that, the emperor turned away, the deposed empress coughed softly, and Miao Qinghua followed slowly behind the emperor, not daring to speak.
Inside Kunning Palace, Ni Yueshan was still ill. Miao Qinghua hurried over and said to Ni Yueshan worriedly, "Yueshan, this is bad! A golden Buddha was found in Kunning Palace, and Tufan's people are insisting it's theirs! Quickly, help the emperor convince me that I didn't dig this tunnel!"
Ni Yueshan turned her head and sat up weakly on the bed: "Aunt, I don't understand what you mean?"
Miao Qinghua looked depressed and explained the situation in various ways.
Ni Yueshan had a worried look on his face. "That's really strange. If it wasn't the Emperor, then it must have been someone else. But who in the entire palace truly had the right to dig tunnels at will?"
"Former Queen!" Miao Qinghua reached out and grabbed Ni Yueshan: "Give me some advice. Put the blame on the former Queen. This way, not only can I clear myself of suspicion, but I can also make the former Queen pay the price!"
She looked at Ni Yueshan anxiously. Ni Yueshan's eyes flickered, and he coughed a few times and said, "Actually, if you want the former queen to take the blame, it's quite simple..."
Miao Qinghua asked excitedly, "How do we do it?"
"Let the former queen's servants testify against her!"
Miao Qinghua understood instantly. She stood up with a look of relief, as if a difficult problem had been solved. "Okay, I'll do it right away!"
Later, in the Southern Study, Miao Qinghua brought the palace servants before the Emperor and made them confess and testify in person that it was the former Empress who had ordered them to dig the tunnel in order to embezzle the golden Buddhas and later find a way to transport them out of the palace so that she could recruit soldiers for her family...
This kind of words sounded too unbelievable, but they were also reasonable. What the emperor wanted now was for the envoy to believe that the golden Buddha had nothing to do with him.
The emperor personally brought the man before the envoy and said, "After my investigation, I have found that it was my former queen who did it. She accepted bribes and secretly hid the golden Buddha in the palace for her own use!"
The emperor looked extremely angry, and it didn't seem like he was wrongly accusing anyone, but rather making a factual statement.
The envoys regarded it as a joke and watched coldly. The emperor ordered the palace servants beside him, "Come here, prepare writing materials. I want to draft an imperial decree to execute all those involved in the case!"
The envoy, however, tucked his hands into his sleeves and said with a gloomy look, "Your Majesty, why don't you let me investigate this case?"
The envoy's eyes swept over the kneeling palace maids one by one, "Will you admit that it was the former queen who ordered you to do this?"
Several palace maids exchanged glances and immediately denied the charges: "It's unfair! We were forced to come here and confess our guilt! The former queen is innocent!"
When they were in front of the emperor, several people confessed everything, but when they came to the envoy, they flatly denied it. The emperor's face changed instantly, and he opened his mouth and shouted angrily: "How dare you make fun of me!"
A palace maid said fearfully, "Your Majesty, I, this servant, really dare not frame the former queen! The former queen has been so kind to me, even if I die! I still cannot betray her!"
As the palace maid spoke, she began to kowtow vigorously, looking extremely frightened.
The envoy looked at the emperor with a gradually mocking look in his eyes: "Please forgive me, I must set off now to return to Tufan!"
Watching the envoy heading out, the eunuch stepped forward worriedly and asked, "Your Majesty, what should we do now?"
"Killing people on the way!"
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Witnessing the smooth execution of everything, Ni Yueshan raised her lips and turned back to the hall to continue lying down. Miao Qinghua came over anxiously again: "Yueshan, those palace servants were disobedient and turned against us at the last minute. The envoys have already left the palace!"
"Ahem, Aunt, you should discuss this matter with the Emperor. Yue Shan can't do anything until the palace maids are chosen!"
Miao Qinghua was anxious and finally turned around and left.
Ni Yueshan also sat up, still coughing weakly, with only coldness in his eyes.
The envoy rushed back to Tufan with Tufan's troops, but encountered an assassin on the way. However, a masked man rushed out and rescued the envoy. After the envoy left, the masked man stopped all the pursuers and then quickly evacuated with his own troops.
Obviously, the masked man had been waiting there long ago, and the envoy had made an appointment with the masked man when he passed by here.
When the emperor was told that the envoy had successfully escaped, he was furious. Just as he was getting angry, Jing Yuchen appeared and asked for an audience.
In the huge hall, only Jing Yuchen and the emperor were left. It was very quiet and the atmosphere was depressing.
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