There were 8.5 million Irish on the island of Ireland in 1845, but five years after the famine, fewer than 6.5 million remained, and the population continued to decline to nearly 5 million at its lowest point.

Countless hungry people on Emerald Island searched for everything they could eat, and even grass roots and tree bark disappeared in their path.

At the same time, almost every week, grain ships laden with cattle, sheep and wheat departed from the island of Ireland to England, and countless ships from the United States to the island of Great Britain.

But every now and then, the British government would send two-thirds of its forces on the island of Ireland to escort the life-saving food from any starving people.

The Irish were only allowed to enter the docks when the grain ships left.

A large number of hungry people even fought against their compatriots in order to board the slave ships, and even then they could be thrown overboard by the slave traders, who had so many choices that there was no need to be pitied.

The men and women who boarded the ship, they didn't care where they were going, as long as they could leave Ireland, their country, the land where they were born and raised

December 25, 1844, Christmas Day.

The Jennings family had a rare and enjoyable Christmas, because just now Fr. Hans and Fr. Clovin knocked on their door and sent their blessings, as well as a grilled fish and a bottle of wine, as well as some beans and dried vegetables.

However, the two priests did not make too many stops, but went to the next one with gifts.

But that didn't stop the family from being in a good mood, because even without the grilled fish and wine, they had potatoes and private whiskey.

At this time, the Irish were not qualified to make wine privately, and the wine had to be taxed, otherwise it would be illegal, so they did not give the priests a gift in return, because they did not want people to cause unnecessary trouble.

Now with so many extra ingredients, a few little ones are not sleepy and clamoring for something delicious. Parents don't want to spoil their children's interest, so they allow them to eat openly.

The Janis family is one of the wealthier Irish on Emerald Island, but they don't have enough to eat every day.

Extravagant days like this are even rarer, so the man took his wife's hand and danced the same dance they had done when they were young, and the brisk dance steps made them seem to go back to the days of their youth.

The man picked up his wife and walked towards their room.

Skaha Jennings took advantage of her parents' lack of attention and poured red wine for her younger siblings to drink. A group of children smashed the bar and smashed the bar and quickly wiped out a bottle of red wine, and they did not feel the effect of the alcohol.

So, at the instigation of his younger siblings, Skaha poured the bottle of whiskey for everyone to drink.

Patrick had just finished attending the regular meeting of Young Ireland, and it was the time when the blood was rising, and even the wind and snow could not suppress the blood in his heart.

However, as soon as he opened the door, he saw a mess of cups and plates, Skaha and her younger siblings smirking under the bed, their old dog screaming as he almost crushed to death by several children.

"What's going on with you? Evil!? Angry and confused, Patrick tried to pull a few people out from under the bed.

As a result, for every time he pulled one, another grinned and burrowed under the bed, when his parents heard the noise and rushed back.

"Patrick, what are you doing!" The father angrily reprimanded, because this eldest son is the most uneasy guy, and he knows what kind of "drinking party" he goes to with a group of idle guys all day long, and he really thinks that he is the same as the French?

People's banquets have wine and meat, carriages when they go out, and guns on their bodies. And what is there about that so-called youth Ireland? said it was a drinking party, but he couldn't even afford a bottle of wine, and he still wanted to oppose Britain and save the country?

The mother on the side was more distressed about her son, and half-knelt beside Patrick to help him pull a few "little troublemakers".

"Wine? How can you get them to drink? At this time, the mother finally realized that something was wrong, and there was a lot of alcohol coming from the ghosts, which could explain their abnormal behavior.

"I didn't!" Patrick argued.

However, because of the stereotype, his parents thought that he had done a good job, and a meal of belt-fried meat was inevitable, and Skaha, who was holding the empty wine bottle, burped and fell asleep.

In fact, the entire Queens, and even the south of Ireland, are enjoying what Franz calls "sending warmth".

The food, though nothing to Franz and the Church, was as warm as the winter sun to the excessively poor Irish.

At this time, most Irish people earned less than three pounds a year, and the weavers of Silesia were considered wealthy compared to them.

Almost no one owns land of their own, and the vast majority of people do not have more than £30 in property, compared with £35 for a cart horse in the same period.

But it could be their last good Christmas before the famine ended.

Almost at the same time, a rare blizzard hit Western Europe, with Spain and France being the hardest hit, and farmers suffered heavy losses.

It's just that these have not gone unnoticed by the government and financiers, who are still celebrating one great victory after another.

The combined Moroccan-Algerian forces were completely vulnerable to the French army, and the new Minnes bombs and dense fortress complexes were the nemesis of the nomads.

Moroccan Sultan Abdul Rahman repeatedly sent people to sue for peace with France, and the Algerian rebels were divided within the rebels, and the day of a full-scale French occupation of Northwest Africa seemed to be approaching.

The French discovered vast resources in their newly acquired North American colonies, which were fertile and flat and easy to exploit, and could pay for themselves in just ten years.

Louis Philippe named the newly acquired lands (Arizona and New Mexico) New Louisiana, seemingly differentiating it from the old French colony of Louisiana.

But the French top brass knew that a new France would emerge on the North American continent in the future.

The titular Queen Isabel II of Spain was not yet a heavy tank of later generations, but a young girl who longed for love, and she completely inherited the beauty of her mother, Queen Regent Christiana, and the character of her father, the irascible King Fernando VII.

Isabel II, though not yet on the throne, often claimed that she would put all rebels to death, and that she wanted to restore "tradition".

This was actually the influence of Sister Petherini Father Clarit, a group of conservatives who spent their days instilling the so-called "orthodox" thinking in the queen and convincing her that the "divine right of kings" was indeed destiny.

In fact, Isabel II, like Carlos, was a puppet of the Spanish conservative forces, and both of them believed in religion and were miserable by religious groups.

Guided by ultra-conservative thinking, Isabel II not only did not pity the affected people, but felt that it was divine punishment that they had to accept, and even opposed any form of assistance.

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