On this day, suddenly there was a royal historian who participated in Lu Ning, saying that he had invented some strange things to please some princes and disciples who were greedy for fun, and deprived the rich of their property.

All in all, this is an act that shakes the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and I hope that Your Majesty will strictly investigate and destroy those evil things.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the signature on the fold, but it was Yu Shi Cui Song.

This guy was originally Li Shanchang's protégé, and at that time, Li Shanchang used the Imperial Forest Army to repair his family's mansion, and it was this person who instigated him.

Although it's a royal history, it's a sycophant.

Moreover, according to Jinyiwei's knowledge, this person's is not clean, and Zhu Yuanzhang threw some of the materials he prepared under the feet of that guy at that time.

"Cui Song, I heard that your son Cui Liang is nostalgic for Fengyue and has a sore on his body. You don't govern your own family strictly, but you dump the blame on others, what do you want? ”

Hearing that the emperor knew some of his son's private affairs, he fell to his knees.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are not strict with their godsons, their faces are dull, and they really deserve death, but Lu Ning has a monopoly on the sale of artifacts, and he is really a profiteer, if he is not investigated, where is the majesty of the imperial court?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said in his heart, now Lu Ning is solving the problem for us, and he is also accumulating military expenses for us to attack the Northern Yuan.

More than half of the money from the sale of these things has gone to our treasury, and you actually say that he is a profiteer. Then aren't we bigger profiteers?

This person has sinister intentions, and he really deserves to be killed!

But after thinking about it for a while, killing a royal history like this will make others unconvinced, and he said with a roll of his eyes.

"Lu Ning, what Cui Yushi said, do you have any ideas for yourself?"

Lu Ning thought to himself, who is this biggest profiteer? You know in your heart that if you want to cut off my head, cut off your own head first.

So, he said obediently.

"The minister is guilty, and he is willing to receive His Majesty's punishment."

Seeing that the eldest nephew was so cooperative, Zhu Yuanzhang pronounced the verdict on the spot.

"Lu Ning was fined for three months, and he was not allowed to take leave to rest during these three months, and he was delegated to the Construction Department of the Ministry of Industry, and if there were new achievements, he would be exempted from punishment. If not, we'll have to punish him heavily! ”

When the civil and military ministers heard this, they said in their hearts that Lu Ning, the duke, was treated similarly to the prince, and usually His Majesty rewarded him with enough things, but what was the difference between these two melons and dates?

And he likes to invent things by nature, and you assign it to the construction department in charge of R&D and manufacturing, isn't this providing a laboratory?

Is this a heavy punishment or a heavy reward, God will kill me with a thunderbolt!

This Lu Ning is also very well-behaved, so he naturally understands it and says it immediately.

"The minister admits the punishment, if Your Majesty exempts me from all the errands I am currently serving, punish me for staying at home honestly, and I will be more grateful to the emperor for the minister."

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't wait to take off the soles of his shoes and call him again, and said in his heart that he wanted to pick a son for us again, didn't he? You think beautifully!

"Let's tell you Lu, during these three months, you have to eat and live in the construction department, you are not allowed to go back to stay at home, you want to rest, let's find a big house for you, if you dare to go home without permission, we must beat you hard!"

Li Shanchang and the others saw Lu Ning's reluctant expression, and said in their hearts, you can steal the fun.

Some people want to call His Majesty care, but they can't do it, so what's the complaint?

Then Zhu Yuanzhang made another decree and said.

"Cui Song exposed Lu Ning's meritorious service, and promoted him from the original eight-rank imperial history to the imperial history of Qiongzhou Dao, with the rank of seventh-grade official, and he must not delay leaving Beijing immediately!"

Hearing this, this Cui Song had a bitter gourd face.

The heart said that my godfather Li Shanchang was in the capital, no matter what I did, someone would cover me, and once I was sent across the ocean to Qiongzhou, who knew who I was.

It's over, I'm afraid I'll have to eat betel nut for the rest of my life.

So, he quietly looked at his godfather Li Shanchang with a pleading eye, who knew that Li Shanchang replied to him with a look of self-begging.

At this time, Lu Ning spoke: "Your Majesty, shouldn't the minister also go home to say goodbye to his wife and go to the construction department to work?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's originally normal face was immediately pulled into a shoehorn.

"Zi'an, is this what I call you so hated in this place? Why are you in such a hurry to leave? ”

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's question, Lu Ning was dumbfounded, and hurriedly explained.

"Your Majesty, it's not that the minister doesn't want to stay in the Jinluan Palace, but because he wants to give His Majesty a big gift immediately, he must rush it out immediately and ask the court to promulgate and implement it. This will help me to become more enlightened and further enrich the country and strengthen the army. ”

"What did you say?"

"Uniform weights and measures."

Zhu Yuanzhang was puzzled, so he began to ask Han Gong Li Shanchang.

"Li Shanchang, isn't our Ming Dynasty's weights and measures unified?"

Li Shanchang was a capable minister in this regard, and he immediately told the emperor about it.

"Now we have sixteen taels for one catty, one hundred catties for one load, one day and night for twelve hours, ten inches for one foot, ten feet for one zhang, one hundred and eighty zhang for one mile, sixty square abbots for one acre, how to say that our weights and measures are not unified?"

Lu Ning stood up, and he said directly to Li Shanchang.

"Now these things, in fact, the standards of different places are different when collecting taxes. Take the bucket as an example, although the official's bucket is ten liters, but those landlords use seven liters of buckets when they put grain, and when they collect accounts, they use eleven liters of buckets, how can I make the Ming Dynasty have a long and stable life? ”

At this moment, all the civil officials were dumbfounded, and Zhu Yuanzhang asked Lu Ning thoughtfully.

"Fu Guogong, in your opinion, how should we change it?"

Lu Ning said immediately.

"Your Majesty, there are some normative things for weights and measures, and in the future, the imperial court will unify according to these, and the things we produce will have unified standards. Your Majesty, please be clear. ”