Zhu Cilang is right, the next step is the real hell. The end of a dynasty brings to thousands of people is a huge disaster.

These innocent people can only become victims of dynasties. Major events in the world will be divided after a long time of unity, and long time of division will be unified.

However, between the breakup and reunion, all the bones of innocent people were piled up. Zhu Cilang was not a sage, so he was unable to change this situation. What he could do was to try his best to continue the country's destiny of the Ming Dynasty so that the people would no longer suffer such wars and troubles.

Emperor Chongzhen was shocked by such a tragic scene for the first time. He could not imagine. He could not imagine how desperate they had experienced. Especially when this child was starved to death, how miserable it was.

It was like a knife that was inserted into Emperor Chongzhen's heart. He could not bear such a tragedy. This was the people of the Ming Dynasty, all of them were my people.

Chongzhen was not a bad person or a bad emperor. He was just a flaw in his personality, he was mean and suspicious. He was mean and suspicious because of his repeated disappointment with his ministers, and suspiciousness came from his repeated betrayals.

Not all the mistakes are Emperor Chongzhen alone. When the avalanche is gone, no snowflake is innocent.

Zhu Cilang was very pleased, at least his father was moved. This is a good thing. Only by being able to truly understand the sufferings of the people can one be a good emperor.

Zhu Cixuan was the same before. When he saw these homeless victims, he felt the same heartache. So what about heartache? What can you change?

Zhu Cilang couldn't change it, so he could only watch it helplessly and just watch it helplessly.

Is it cruel? Extremely cruel? When it was late at night, Zhu Cilang could not sleep, and his conscience was deeply tormented. Even Zhu Cilang felt that someone like him would go to hell after his death.

Why did he have such an idea? During the war, Zhu Cixuan saw these victims who helped the elderly and children to take care of their families and had tried to provide disaster relief.

However, the reality is that no matter how much food is, it cannot solve the problem of these victims. After eating all the military rations, what will the soldiers use to fight?

If soldiers cannot fight, how can they suppress the enemy? The enemy continues to cause trouble and continues to harm the whole world, and the people continue to suffer endless disasters.

By then, the entire land of China would be almost extinct. Zhu Cilang had no choice but to bite the bullet and turn a blind eye to it.

If you see too much, you will only make yourself insensitive. There are too many refugees. If it is just a natural disaster, it would be better to say something. The problem is that this is not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster.

It is just a natural disaster. No matter how difficult the court is, there is still a way to provide disaster relief. However, if there is man-made disaster, there is nothing we can do about it.

The bandits were raging, and when Li Zicheng's Bing Peak was at its peak, the troops reached one million. One million people, one spit, could drown the officers and soldiers.

At that time, Zhu Cilang was not afraid of it as fake. He was not sure whether his 12th Regiment Battalion could beat Li Zicheng. It is very likely that he would be defeated in one battle. If this is the case, the Ming Dynasty would be really over.

There are more than tens of millions of refugees, so how could Zhu Cixuan have so much food to provide relief? Countless victims starved to death and died of illness, and dead bodies were everywhere on the roadside. Zhu Cixuan was already numb.

Chongzhen only saw it in the memorials of his ministers. When all the tragic scenes were truly revealed to him, he realized how cruel the truth was.

These bones have accumulated for several years. When bandits were raging and natural disasters occurred frequently, dead bodies on the roadside could be seen everywhere.

Emperor Chongzhen insisted on burying the pair of corpses, so the Jinyiwei naturally did not dare to neglect them. They had to temporarily dig a shallow pit, and Luo Yangxing took people to pick up the remains and bury them in a hurry.

Zhu Cixuan did not object, he did this before. Only when he knew that there was endless and everywhere, he realized how helpless he was.

After Emperor Chongzhen followed his old path and buried the pair of corpses, everyone continued to rush.

However, the next official road was as shocking as Zhu Cilang said. Although most of the corpses have been around for a long time, there are everywhere on both sides of the official road.

In fact, some places are more like mass traps. Most of these bones are buried without anyone.

Emperor Chongzhen did not order the Jinyiwei to bury these corpses because there were too many. It was boundless, and these were all fresh lives.

The world was finally peaceful, and the population of the Ming people dropped sharply. Although there are no figures investigated by the court for the time being, at least from the current point of view, the sharp drop of 90% is almost true.

There has never been an accurate number about how much the population dropped sharply in the late Ming Dynasty. Some people say it has decreased by half, while others say it has decreased by 80%.

Some people also explained that the melee was from the Li Zicheng Uprising to the demise of Wu Sangui, and the melee was 54 years. The population at the end of the Ming Dynasty was 100 million, and by the Qing Dynasty, the national population was only 14 million, a sharp drop of more than 80%, and the population was lost more than 80 million.

The "Little Ice Age" was just the fuse that led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Its technology was backward in economy, agriculture, and medicine, and its development was slow. The drought problem caused by the "Little Ice Age" lasted for several years, during which the crops were completely destroyed by locusts, mice, etc., and a serious outbreak of epidemics broke out. However, the Ming Dynasty was helpless and did not find any useful methods, which led to heavy casualties among the people. This tragic situation was not until the arrival of crops such as potatoes and corn, which were more cold-resistant than rice and wheat, were improved.

In military terms, if the Ming Dynasty officials were not hesitant and selfish, and gave the Later Jin Dynasty an opportunity to take advantage of it, the ending might not be like this. In this way, the defeat of the Ming Dynasty was not only partly due to the "Little Ice Age", but it was actually more caused by the Ming Dynasty's own problems.

As for how much the population of the Ming Dynasty decreased, it was simply an uncountable number. Because the previously registered population was inaccurate, many people protected their relatives and royal relatives in order to evade taxes. Such people were not included in the official household registration statistics.

So even Zhu Cilang did not have a clear number of how much population the Ming Dynasty had lost.

However, from what I see and hear, the tenth household in the people are close to the truth. In some places, almost all have become no-man's land.

Because of Emperor Chongzhen's delays along the way, everyone delayed the time. It was not until the sun set that they found a wilderness village that could barely accommodate them.

In fact, this is just a small village with only a few dozen families left. Judging from the previous scale, there are at least hundreds of households in this village.
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