Chapter 418
"Can anyone give me an explanation?"
Faced with Weiwei's questioning, a group of officials trembled, and no one dared to say a word.
"You're not even talking, are you? Then I'm going to take the roll."
"Earl Wells, you are the Minister of Finance. You have always been in charge of the money and food of the Mengchuan Kingdom. You speak first."
Hearing this, a fat middle-aged man said quickly:
"Your Majesty, I, I can explain!"
"Yeah, I'm listening."
"This, this, Your Majesty, I am doing things according to your orders. These must be the good deeds of those greedy insects below. Give me a chance. I will return to Mengchuan City now. I promise that tomorrow I will bring all the people involved in this matter to you." Earl Wells kowtowed.
"Is this your explanation?" Weiwei sneered:
"Of course you can't give an explanation."
"I heard that you bought six luxury houses in the imperial capital, tens of thousands of acres of farmland and more than a dozen castles outside the imperial capital. Recently, you also added seven or eight new concubines, four of whom are already pregnant?"
"A mansion in the imperial capital near the palace costs tens of millions of gold coins. Even I can only have a courtyard thanks to the reward from the late emperor. The earl is really quite wealthy."
"I thought you were sitting in this position. Even if you were greedy and got some benefits from it, you should do something. In addition, there was really no one under you who could use it, so I didn't touch you. Do you really think I am Don’t you know anything?”
"But obviously, I still underestimated your greed."
"Queen..." Earl Wells wanted to quibble, but Weiwei waved her hand impatiently.
Immediately, two knights stepped forward, pressed him down, and covered his mouth so that he could not speak a word.
After dealing with one person, Weiwei had no intention of stopping and turned to look at the other person:
"Viscount Los, as the Minister of Supervision, your duty is to supervise all officials in the kingdom. Is there anything you want to say?"
The short and thin middle-aged man who was named quickly said:
"Her Majesty the Queen clearly understands that it is not that I am derelict in my duties, but that the Earl of Wells' family is too powerful and is usually domineering. With his protection, we are completely unable to investigate the entire financial aspect."
"Officials related to finance cannot check. In such a large kingdom, you don't know whether hundreds of millions of people have eaten the food I distributed? I have not seen relevant information in any report." Weiwei seemed Xiaofei smiled and said:
"Is it because you can't investigate, or you don't dare to investigate, or... you are simply colluding with each other, deceiving the superiors and hiding the truth from the inferiors?"
"No! Absolutely not, Her Majesty the Queen!" Viscount Lose repeatedly cried out that he was wronged and kept defending.
The content is mostly about how Earl Wells used his power to bully others and how he coerced and lured him. He had no choice but to turn a blind eye to these things.
Weiwei was upset when she heard this, waved her hand and said:
"take away."
Immediately, two more burly knights came forward and escorted this man away.
However, this matter was not over yet. Weiwei went directly to this pastoral wilderness and took down all the officials from all departments related to this matter by name.
No matter who was involved directly or indirectly, or who was supposed to be supervising but failed to convey any relevant information to her, no one was spared.
As for why only the heads of these departments were arrested instead of arresting everyone?
Of course, it's because only these high-ranking officials are accompanying them this time, and the people below are not qualified to accompany them and are not here now, rather than Weiwei intending to turn a blind eye and only punish the culprit.
After a series of naming and accountability, less than half of the accompanying senior officials of the Mengchuan Kingdom were arrested.
The rest are almost officials who theoretically have nothing to do with this matter.
Weiwei glanced at the remaining people and sneered:
"This time we will follow the procedure. I am only looking for people related to this matter."
"Whether the rest of you don't know about it at all, or do you know it but pretend you don't know because you received benefits or other reasons, I don't bother to ask."
"I know very well why they, or you, do these things. They just think that the Mengchuan Kingdom will end sooner or later, and they want to make as much money from their positions before the kingdom is destroyed. I know better, especially after I issued the edict to declare war. During this time in the world, your behavior of seeking benefits is the most rampant. "
"Now I don't know if you regret the things you have done, but there is no regret medicine in this world. It is best for you to pray that I will never know what you have done, or to pray that you have never done it at all. These things.”
All the officials who had not been carried out were sweating profusely and lowered their heads tightly, not daring to raise their heads.
After Weiwei said these words, she no longer cared about them. She looked at the dilapidated village and the skinny villagers looking at it timidly, and she didn't know what they were thinking.
"Your Majesty, if we don't start our journey tonight, I'm afraid we won't be able to reach the next city in our itinerary."
Guard Chuck reminded.
"No need." Weiwei glanced at the setting sun and said calmly:
"We will settle here tonight, and the camp will be set up in the field."
"Ah? Are you here?" Chuck was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly said:
"Isn't this place too simple? Many things may be very inconvenient, and you may not be used to it."
"Isn't it just staying in a tent for one night? I've stayed there before, so just go and do it."
"Well, okay then." Chuck was about to do it.
But halfway through, he seemed to remember something and turned back and said:
"By the way, Your Majesty, I looked at the extra meals you mentioned just now. There should be thousands of households in this village, with a total population of about 6,000 to 7,000 people."
"It's probably difficult to provide extra meals for so many people at the same time with the meat we brought with us. If you insist on doing this, I can only send someone back to the city right now to bring back the necessary things."
"No need to go, I have my own way to solve these small problems."
Weiwei waved her hand casually, and before Chuck could say anything else, he saw Weiwei's eyes fall on the group of captured senior officials of Mengchuan City.
"Who said that the supplies we brought are not enough to feed the whole village?"
"Isn't this all meat?"
"Come on, take all these people away and cook them!"
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