Rebirth of the Strongest Empress

1320 Justice Before Family 1

This old minister used to be the Eternal Emperors trusted subordinate. He was upright, honest, and absolutely loyal. The Eternal Emperor trusted him implicitly.

“The Crown Prince is speaking the truth. Because of the losses caused by the natural disaster, the situation at the border was desperate. The Crown Prince sought my help as I was situated near the border, and he asked me to raise funds for him. He later pawned his jewels to repay me.”

The old ministers words took everyone by surprise.

This old minister was staunchly upright and would never curry favor from those in power. In the past, he had even dared to point out the Eternal Emperors mistakes. Hence, the Eternal Emperor trusted him greatly. The Eldest Prince and Second Princess had tried to get him over to their side but were always shown the door.

One might say that all the important ministers in the court trusted the old ministers word.

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As he spoke, the old minister produced the loan receipts that he and Ling Yan had signed that year and presented them to the Eternal Emperor. The documents had been imbued with a spell that showed when they were signed. There was no way to tamper with them.

The Eternal Emperor looked through them one by one and noticed that the time stated in the spell coincided with the disaster a few years ago.

The evidence was irrefutable.

No one had expected Ling Yan to be prepared with this.

That year, there had been nothing unusual about Ling Yans disaster relief work. The people that the Eldest Prince had found and the evidence of embezzlement were all falsified. They had not realized that the embezzlement had really taken place!

Except that the embezzler was not Ling Yan but Meng Yi and the others. In fact, Ling Yan had pawned his own belongings in order to make up the sum…

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Many of the ministers in the court had been unhappy over Ling Yan appropriating the disaster relief funds. When they heard this, they now turned their approving looks on Ling Yan.