More than half a year has passed in the days of peace, and in a blink of an eye, it has reached the summer of the eleventh year of Chongzhen.

During this period, Yang Sichang's policy of "four positive and six corners, ten sides of the net" seems to be very effective, after Zhang Xianzhong and other rebels surrendered one after another, among the rebel forces, only Li Zicheng is left with such a leading bird, under the full encirclement and suppression of the imperial army, it is estimated that it will not last long.

The situation in various places has temporarily calmed down, and the turmoil in the past ten years seems to have subsided, and Zhu Youzhen is also very happy to see that the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty has gradually subsided.

But in addition to being happy, he was also a little upset.

Although the civil strife has been controlled for the time being, the external enemy has not yet resolved it. The reason why the foreign enemy has not been resolved is because the previous peace talks with the Qing army ended in failure, and Huang Taiji is now eyeing the northeast and will soon lead the army into the fortress again.

For today's empire, the Qing army can't actually overturn its power, but just come to "fight the grass valley" every year. This is the consistent attitude of the Qing army, just grab something and go back to live.

What the? Siege the city, directly take the Beijing division?

Mo said that it was too difficult to break through the capital, the casualties were still large, and the most important thing was that he couldn't beat it, so what did he do with all his energy?

Their lives are better, but the people of the Ming Dynasty are not happy. But the problem is that the Ming army can't beat people, and almost every time they watch them loot, and then retreat safely.

The Qing army has not yet come, but a major event has happened in the capital.

On the second day of the first month of June, Li Xiuwen could clearly feel at home that the ground shook very strongly. At first, he thought it was an earthquake, but later he got the news - Anmin Factory, exploded!

The predecessor of Anmin Factory was named Wang Gong Factory, also known as Gunpowder Bureau. It is subordinate to the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, and the place dedicated to making gunpowder is stored in a large amount of gunpowder, which is exclusively used by the Beijing army.

If you want to say that this explosion should be purely accidental, because of the backward gunpowder storage technology during this period, the explosion incident is more likely to occur. Previously, in the Wanli and Apocalypse years, there had been such a thing as the explosion of the powder magazine, and the people in the capital were killed and injured countless times. For this reason, the "Carpenter Emperor" also issued an edict against himself, and visited the temple to worship his ancestors, so as to calm the anger of the people.

Zhu Youzhen can't do such a thing, he has already issued several guilty edicts before, and if he does this again, the face of the Son of Heaven will be lost!

What to do?

Find scapegoats, arrest relevant personnel and go to prison for questioning!

However, he was a little disappointed that the two people in charge of supervision, as well as the military craftsmen, all died in the explosion, and the nearby residents were killed and injured by more than 10,000!

If someone sacrifices their lives for the country, not only can you not be held accountable, but you also have to pay a pension, which is unlucky.

Now that the treasury is empty and can't send so much money, Zhu Youzhen thought about it, and sent the eunuch to summon Li Xiuwen into the palace, preparing to hand over this errand to him.

When Li Xiuwen saw the eunuch who delivered the decree, he could probably guess what Zhu Youzhen's idea was.

The reason why I chose myself is that I have been too idle recently, and the other reason is that I plan to take some money out of my pocket to support the people.

Sure enough, after Zhu You saw him, he first encouraged him, saying how beautiful you are, you are my right-hand man. Finally, he was told that the household department would allocate 5,000 taels of silver to compensate the people affected by the disaster.

Five thousand taels?

Li Xiuwen roughly calculated in his heart, and the average amount of money received by each family was only half a tael, that is, five hundred yuan.

Hey, human life is quite "valuable" these days!

Thinking of this, Li Xiuwen was a little glad again, he still had money and was easy to do. This kind of thankless errand, if it is handed over to someone else, has to be desperately shirked.

Even if the person who reluctantly took over this errand in the end, I am afraid that he will not care so much, and he will do as much as he wants. If you are a little dark-hearted, you will have to embezzle and deduct some if you don't do it.

In that case, it is the common people who suffer.

Li Xiuwen silently took over the errand, and found Sun Mingwen and asked him to transfer 15,000 taels for compensation.

He wouldn't say such a thing to Zhu Youzhen, and he didn't need to deliberately hide it.

It's up to you to get your name Zhu Youzhen, and I won't deliberately publicize it, saying how much money I have made here, how kind I am, you and I just know it.

After scraping together 20,000 taels of silver, Li Xiuwen took a few brocade guards and came to the Xizhimen area for compensity.

The people who had dead and injured people at home complained a lot, but after hearing that Li Xiuwen was here to distribute money and pensions, their emotions were temporarily calmed down.

Li Xiuwen has to admit that most of the people in this period were still very kind and simple. There are a few dead and injured people in the family, as long as the court gives a pension, even if it is not much, they are happy to accept it.

Only a few of the more savvy people are somewhat dismissive of this.

When such a thing happens, the imperial court has never given much money, and for them, the lives of their families are obviously more precious than the pension of less than one tael.

But when they followed behind and saw Li Xiuwen talking good things from house to house, as well as the amount of money sent, they found that they were wrong, this time the court's pension was quite generous.

The family members of the deceased received two taels of silver from each household, which is a lot in the eyes of the ordinary people. As for the injured, depending on the severity of the injury and whether they can work in the future, they will be given a pension of several hundred to one tael.

Many people cried, and the people felt that the imperial court attached great importance to them, and they also knew that Li Xiuwen did not deduct a penny this time, and gave them pensions in full. I don't know who got up first, and the people at the scene knelt on the ground one after another, shouting that Li Xiuwen was "the master of the blue sky", the benefactor of the people, and a rare good official.

This is the will of the people!

Many people don't want much, they just hope that under the rule of the imperial court, their lives will be better and better, and they will be able to eat and clothe themselves, which is enough!

Li Xiuwen doesn't plan to rebel yet, but he doesn't dare to accept their feelings, if this is known to the imperial historians, I'm afraid that he will be charged with "rebellion" again!

Such a situation was somewhat unexpected to him, but Li Xiuwen was Li Xiuwen, he immediately made a decision, immediately turned around, knelt down in the direction of the Forbidden City, and shouted: "The emperor is wise, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

The people didn't know much about this, and when they saw that the "Qingtian Lord" in their hearts shouted like this, they also followed behind and shouted in unison: "The emperor is wise, long live my emperor, long live!" ”

The people passing by saw it, and after simply inquiring about what happened, they all followed the crowd and bowed down, shouting long live. Inside the yamen of the imperial city, the officials heard it, and they hurriedly went out of the door, knelt down in the direction of the forbidden palace, and shouted long live. Finally, the people of the entire inner city and the imperial city heard it, and likewise fell to their knees and shouted long live.

The emperor is wise, long live my emperor, long live!