Can one or two small victories prevent the Ming Dynasty from falling to the country, and if the official army wins, won't they, the poor people, be starved to death? After decades of war, people went from hating the imperial court to utter despair.

They hated the fact that the excesses and miscellaneous taxes made the people's livelihood miserable, and forced countless people to rise up.

After witnessing the tragic situation in the world after the rebellion of the rogues, they hope that they can end all this as soon as possible, so that the world can return to peace, even if they are hungry, it is better than fighting every day and dying every day.

It is better to be a peaceful dog than to be a troubled person.

However, the Dashun army collapsed, and the Great Western Army also collapsed, and it was not the imperial court that defeated them, but the Eight Banners Army that carried a saber and entered the pass.

The land of Kyushu sank, and the entire land of Shenzhou has lost one city after another, and the rumors have changed the color of everyone, which is even more of a catastrophe.

It turns out that the rebel army is mainly robbing, supplemented by murder, but what about the Qing army?

The three massacres in Jiading, the ten days in Yangzhou, and the massacre in Jiangyin, those cities that fiercely resisted the Qing army were wiped off the earth, and those cities and villages with weak or no resistance also depended on the mood of the enemy if they wanted to be safe and sound.

After losing Huguang, the Ming Dynasty only left Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, even if there is no way to avoid it, but after hearing that the Qing army is killed, the people still have to flee, and it is better to live desperately than to be slaughtered by others after the enemy comes.

What can the people fantasize about, the officials can continue to be officials if they surrender, and if the people want to surrender, who will care about you? As soon as the enemy appears in front of you, it means that you have been conquered.

The enemy's obedience, to the people, is to accept all his domination, not only to rob you of your food and goods, but also to take a fancy to your wife and daughter, so everyone will flee.

The curtain of the luxurious carriage was opened by a white hand, and the people in the shadows could not see the appearance of the people in the car, and a peach that had been bitten was thrown out of the window, and the reason why it was thrown away was that Hou Zongbing's mouth really couldn't hold it, and the two women felt disgusted when they put it on the plate.

A teenage girl leaning against a tree by the side of the road, the magnificent carriage was too far away from her own world, but the peaches thrown out of the window made her eyes light up.

The little girl was stunned for a moment, then she threw herself on the strange shining peach that had fallen to the ground, picked it up with a pair of dirty little hands, and wanted to swallow it in one bite, but swallowed half and froze, and only took a bite carefully.

It's not that the little girl is reluctant, but it's too dark, she doesn't see whether the peaches are ripe or not, the peaches are raw, which affects Hou Zongbing's digestion, but for the little girl on the side of the road, there is nothing more delicious than this, the stiff peaches can't be eaten in one bite, and it's also very good to chew carefully.

How many days can you eat that little dry food you bring on the road? The little girl finally made a big discovery, and was savoring the crispiness of the peaches, when her body suddenly shrugged and was pulled back from behind by her mother.

Her mother dragged her away, and busily said something to the officers on the march, as if she was apologizing to the officials on behalf of the little girl, which was a great disaster in her eyes, and no one in this army paid any attention to what she said.

The little girl is not afraid of these officers and soldiers, these officers and soldiers are not fierce at all, they are just a bunch of soft eggs.

Even she heard that the Qing army was about to hit Guangxi, and the news had spread, which was the best example of the softness of the official army.

It was because of such an official army in the Ming Dynasty that many neighbors around the little girl's family, like her family, abandoned their homes in order to avoid the Qing army, or fled to Liuzhou or Nanning.

Not to mention the little girl, even those neighbors and her father didn't know where to flee to the end, she was not afraid of the officials and soldiers, it was the fault of the officials and the army that caused all this, it was the incompetence of the officials and the incomparable fear of the enemy in the hearts of the family and neighbors that forced people to flee their homes.

There were many refugees like the little girl's family, and three or five families who knew each other would go together, and when they rested, they would form a settlement, and at night they would be on the side of the road, and there would be not much to be robbed of them.

When the little girl's family left home, she saw her father take the hoe and the firewood knife, and carried the only small half-sack of grain left in the family, which could not be eaten until the whole family starved to death.

In this situation, it is not easy for the family to keep a piece of land, and it seems to be the obsession of every farmer to plant grain into the land, even if they die in the next moment, they still want to farm.

It's just that now it's no longer possible to farm, and this year's early rice is not ripe, so the government will come to collect taxes, and most of the rice will be paid for a season, and the rest of the grain for a family of three like them is only enough to eat for a month or two.

But the court also has a kicking rule for collecting grain, that is, if you put the grain you hand in, the officials will sprinkle the girl and kick the grain up, kick the grain out and then weigh it, and the sprinkled is the officials themselves.

If there is no such foot, the little girl's family will still have one or two months of rations left, but this foot will be left, there will be nothing left, and the little girl's parents are also ruthless, so it is better to leave all the rice in the field to the government, and let the group of grandchildren harvest it themselves.

This year's fields can't be planted, maybe the next year will be better, and I think about that day, but it's hard to say whether I can live until that day.

So the family wanted to escape, before fleeing, the little girl saw her mother make the last few steamed buns with rice bran and mixed noodles and steamed together with a dozen wild taro picked in the mountains, so fragrant, the little girl wanted to eat, but her mother took these dry food and the only iron pot in the family and a kitchen knife on the road.

The whole family can only eat one meal a day, and as for the iron pot and kitchen knife, it is all the belongings of the girl's family.

She slept with her parents on the side of the post road, not because she was in a hurry and missed the accommodation, she couldn't afford to eat, and how could she have the money to live in the hotel?

She begged her father to go into the city to escape the night breeze under other people's walls, and when the village was ransacked by mountain bandits last year, the rations were robbed, and the little girl went into the city with her grandmother to beg for food, and the days of begging for food were better than starving at home, but the grandmother finally starved to death.