Following the young man's point, he came to a dilapidated hut, the roof of which had been half torn off, and the room was dark, except for an old woman sitting on a wooden board supported by two benches, barely floating on the water, holding a ten-year-old girl in her arms.

The girl's face was pale, and she was already dying, both of them were skinny, skinny, yellow, and thin, and when she saw Bailiyan holding the young man in her arms, the old woman shouted weakly:

"Xiaoqi, who asked you to let the living into the village, this army is in chaos, what if you recruit rebellious soldiers." The old woman gasped for breath, like an asthma patient who needed to be rescued at any moment, and she had to catch her breath when she spoke.

At this time, the boy said:

"Grandma, there's food, there's food."

The young man waved the bread in his hand, broke free and jumped into Bailiyan's arms, rushed into the house, and shook the bag of bread in front of the old woman, and the old woman was very excited:

"It was given by a benefactor from outside?"

"Yes, grandma, it's fragrant. Tell my sister to get up and eat the cakes, Xiaoqi has a lot of cakes. ”

The young man pushed the girl in the old woman's arms hard, but he couldn't wake up his sister:

"Ning Ning, Ning Ning, see that my brother brought you something delicious, wake up soon......"

The girl didn't make a sound, as if she was asleep, the old woman looked depressed and lost, touched Xiaoqi's head, and looked at Bailiyan and the others outside the house:

"Thank you for the life food of the military master, the old woman kowtowed to you."

The old woman put down the girl and wanted to go into the water to bow, and Bai Liyan stepped forward to help her up:

"Old man, please get up, is this girl doll sick?"

At this time, the old woman sighed for a while, sat back on the wet plank, picked up the girl who had no vital signs, and said:

"Dead...... It's dead......"

Baili Yan's heart was sour, and her chest rose and fell violently. Even though I am accustomed to seeing suffering, when I see this situation again, my heart is still painful.

In the agricultural era, men were even more strong laborers, and their physical strength and productivity were several times that of women, and men had priority social customs throughout the ages.

In difficult times, in order to provide for the survival of men, girls are often the first to be sacrificed, and the female baby in the arms of the old woman is obviously starved to death.

Although her face was pale, the corpse was still soft, and Bai Liyan subconsciously reached out to put her hand on the girl's little hand, which was still hot, but her body temperature was low. Exploring the girl's snort again, the breath is so small that it is difficult to detect.

He hurriedly instructed Jiang Jie:

"Jiang Jie, go and boil hot water and put a piece of sugar!"

"Oh......"

Without the slightest hesitation, Jiang Jie went to fetch the alcohol stove to boil sugar water. Bai Liyan said again at this time:

"Old man, the girl is still saved."

"Really, my family Ning Ning is still alive!" The old woman was excited.

"My life is still hanging, and if it's a day or two late, I'm afraid I'll die."

Malnutrition, hypoglycemia and long-term salt-free eating caused by starvation are the main causes of the loss of function and death from exhaustion.

Persistent hunger eventually falls into persistent weakness and coma due to hypoglycemia, tends to be near-death, and forms a state of suspended animation, which can often last for several days if it does not cause potential complications, and can last for more than ten days in those with tenacious vitality.

In the period when medicine was not developed, nine out of ten people were misdiagnosed by faking their near-death and death. It is conceivable that if it weren't for Bailiyan's encounter, the girl would have been hastily buried and ended her life.

The young man was ignorant and ignorant, and the girl who didn't know the edge of life and death stepped on the ghost door in half a step and struggled.

When he was young, Jiang Jie boiled a bowl of sugar water, mixed it with cold water and brought it into the house, Bailiyan tested the temperature of the water, but she didn't feel that it was very hot, so she carefully opened the girl's closed teeth with her hands and slowly poured it into her.

"Go, make some paste with some bread and put some salt."

"No!"

Jiang Jie was busy doing it, Bai Liyan held the girl in her arms, and said to the old woman while observing:

"Don't worry, the old man, the child will be fine."

"The military master is really a good man......"

The old woman cried with joy and thanked her, Bai Liyan took out a piece of dough from the young man's grain bag and handed it forward, the old woman grabbed it in her hand and looked at it for a long time, and then held the young man in her arms, stuffed it back into the grain bag and was reluctant to eat.

Baili Yan took another bag of bread and handed it to the old woman, and said to her:

"Old man, the food for disaster relief will be distributed to all parts of the country soon, so you can eat it with confidence, and you won't have to eat it again in the future."

"Alas......" the old woman sighed, took the bag of bread and ate two bites, and said in a panic, "You are all good people, but the old woman has no valuable objects in her house to give to the military master." ”

"Old man, we don't want anything, we're here to drive away the rebels for you and let the poor live a good life."

"Alas...... The old woman also heard these words a lot, but her life did not get better, but became more and more miserable, and it became less and less like before. This military master, where are you from? ”

"Xianguo, we are from Xianguo."

"Oh, that's far away, Xianguo must have hundreds of miles of land here."

"Old man, it's two or three thousand miles from Xianguo, and the local rebels have been driven out, and the days will get better and better in the future."

"Whether it is the rebels or the foreign army, it is all us poor people who suffer. The child's father and grandfather are dead, and the family still has to pay food, and life is hard......"

At its peak, the population of the Black Turban Army was more than 50 million, and the early strategic reserves and economic plundering of the occupied areas could barely sustain 1.2 million combatants.

When the economic plunder on the periphery is completely lost, the economic pressure of the rebels shifts from the outside to the inside, and the burden is heavier on the local people, and it is obviously impossible to maintain an army of 1.5 million and a few million people with a population of more than 50 million.

Unless there are unicorn animal resources of the Jinxuedi people for logistics and transshipment, it is indeed no problem to free up millions of people and use them for military cantonment, and supply one or two million troops.

After a while, Jiang Jie boiled a pot of batter, and the aroma quickly attracted the old and weak onlookers in the same village, and the villagers did not dare to act rashly because of the military deterrence of the Xian army.

At this time, the batter was fed to the girl, under the effect of sugar, the girl's breath gradually changed slightly, and after the batter and salt were put into the stomach, the complexion turned a lot, and the eyes still couldn't open. Outside the house, more and more villagers gathered, and there were more than 200 people, all of whom looked old, weak, sick and disabled.

"Jiang Jie, let the guards distribute the dough cakes, try to have two pieces per person."

"Yes."

After instructing Jiang Jie, Bai Liyan and the old woman continued:

"Old man, how long have you lived here?"

"The old woman is from this village, she is alive here, and she is here when she is dead."

"Then why was the village built here, let the rain come in, and not on a high place?"

"The village used to be on the high ground in the north, but it occupied good land and could not grow food, so it moved here seven or eight years ago, and it was like this every time it was windy and rainy, so I got used to it......

To the north of the village is a small river, and to the north of the small river is a large area of farmland, so that the low-lying rice fields will not be flooded, the Black Turban Army moved the natural village from the flat land with a high foundation to the low-lying area, so as to expand the area of grain cultivation. If the creek bursts or overflows, it will directly inundate the low-lying natural village.

Hearing this, Bai Liyan continued to ask the old woman:

"Old man, there is a round field a mile to the east, and a waterwheel and earth dam, do you know who built it?"

"Oh, the military master is asking the royal family, and they are all dead."

"Dead!" Bai Liyan was shocked: "Why did you die?" ”

"More than ten years ago, the black dog said that the royal family was the evil obstacle of the Liunian faction, and he killed the royal family with people, they are all good people, good people......"

"Is there still a descendant of the royal family?"

"Maybe there is, but after all these years, there is a shortage of soldiers, where to find it."

The royal family is a big family in the Jiangquan area, but it is not an official eunuch, and it is a branch of the "Liunian faction".

Among the hundreds of schools of thought, the Liunian School is a small sect, which is good at water conservancy, civil engineering and construction engineering, and advocates the idea of "people are supreme".

In short, it advocates self-cultivation, harmony between man and nature, not fighting and killing for fame and fortune, and pursuing no quarrel with the world, which is quite similar to the Taoist idea of self-cultivation.

It should be said that this kind of thinking is still very advanced, but the problem is equally fatal, in this current situation of the law of the jungle, this kind of content with the status quo and the world is undoubtedly dangerous self-paralysis.

In addition to the internal and external factors, the flood of the ideology of the Liunian faction in the Sun State has corrupted the hearts of the people of the Sun State to a great extent, and in the modern sense, the propaganda of the Liunian faction is "not thinking of progress" and contentment and happiness, and the people's hearts are not to talk about the enterprising heart, and the blow to the morale of Sun Guo's military spirit is no less than the double defeat of military and political affairs.

After the rise of the Foolish School, they were deeply aware of the harm of the Liunian School's ideology, and the target of internal persecution turned to the Liunian School, and accelerated the elimination of the Liunian School in various places, and the royal clan of Jiangquan was not spared, and the whole clan was slaughtered.

But it is ironic that their legacy is still really sustaining local water conservancy projects and benefiting one party.

In the end, when she got such news, Bai Liyan was extremely frustrated.

At any time, talent is always a scarce resource, and ignorant war destroys prosperity at the same time, but also destroys the foundation of human resources, as well as the accumulation of hundreds of years of technical experience.

I can't help but think of An Lushan's burning of Chang'an, a fire burned down the prosperity, and at the same time burned up how many materials and advanced technology, China's national fortunes turned from prosperity to decline, and An Lushan's burning of Chang'an is undoubtedly a huge turning point.

"Jiang Jie, how many people are there in the village?"

"Hui Hou Ye, 374 people, 14 to 50 years old men all drawn, according to this calculation, the whole village should have at least 2,000 people fifteen years ago, it is a very large village, more than ten years, arrested, abandoned, starved to death eighty percent."

"After they have eaten and drunk enough, they will all move to Jiangquan, and from today onwards, the population of the old and weak villages and counties in various places will be resettled in a centralized manner, and they will not be scattered."

"But in this way, all the people's resources will be concentrated in various counties and counties for resettlement, which will not be conducive to this year's summer harvest and summer ploughing."

"Human lives matter right now, and the rest will be discussed in July."

"No!"

Time and reality are always contradictory and opposite, and if one is chosen, it is impossible to take care of the other. The people's feelings are urgent, human life is more important than the competition for space, and without people, any output will be meaningless.

Holding the girl, taking the young man and the old woman out of the thatched hut, after everyone was full, they all moved to Jiangjiangquan, and under the guidance of the villagers, they found the mass grave of Wang Quan's family.

It is said that there were more than 700 people who were killed, including the royal clan, the protégés of the royal family, and the peasants who were attached to the royal family.

Under war, indiscriminate killings abound, whether it is ignorance or ignorance, winning and losing are all based on the suffering of the lower strata of society, and the transformation of interests is completed, and under war, there will never be a real winner.