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Chapter 18 How many days will it take to ascend the throne

"So I got up in the middle of the night just to be your porter?"

Seeing the news coming from the urban plane, Li Qingyuan couldn't help but make an awkward smile.

I thought it was going to be a severe one, but it turned out to be a big one.

Those who were wandering around at night were not pursuers, but a group of refugees!
To be honest, when Li Qingyuan first saw this group of people, he almost thought he was encountering skeleton soldiers.

There is no comparison between the refugees in real life and those in movies and TV shows. Not to mention that these people are all skinny from hunger, they don't even have a piece of cloth to cover their bodies.

You know, even in the 1970s, people starving to death were not news, let alone two thousand years ago!

The continuous wars over the years have turned the once prosperous capital area into a disaster zone, and the reason why these refugees wandered in the dark was just to save energy.

The reason they came here was because they smelled the aroma of food!

In the evening, a total of four Shaxian meal sets were sent over from the urban plane. Except for Li Qingyuan who finished the one in his hand, the other three only ate half of it at most.

It was obvious that the trio had no habit of saving food. The uneaten food was thrown directly on the ground, and those who were now lying on the ground grabbing food were the victims who were attracted by the aroma of the food.

Li Qingyuan has always felt that he has no conscience. After all, people with conscience basically don't have a good ending these days.

But after seeing the miserable condition of this group of people, he still felt as if something inside his chest vibrated a few times.

So after making sure that this group of people posed no threat and did not have the courage to attack him, he came out from his hiding place.

After all, the victims of disasters seem to be fragile, but who can guarantee that they will not suddenly attack and hurt people?
Throughout the five thousand years of history, stories of cannibalism are everywhere in the history books. The six words "there was a great famine and people ate each other" may seem like an understatement, but behind it is a darkness that normal people simply cannot accept.

"Are you all villagers near Luoyang?"

Looking at the disaster victims kneeling on the ground and drinking porridge from a plastic bag with both hands, Li Qingyuan began to ask.

He certainly wouldn't be so stupid as to pursue equality for all in the Three Kingdoms era. Every time he saw the protagonists of those historical time-travel novels asking others not to kneel, he almost felt embarrassed.

It is really speechless that a group of guys who have benefited from the dividends of the times and lived a good life for a few years have directly started to forget their ancestors.

"To answer your question, sir, we were originally farmers in Wan'an Town!"

Holding the plastic bag in his hand, a refugee who looked a little older quickly answered.

After chatting with this refugee who looked at least sixty years old but was actually only thirty, Li Qingyuan finally understood the whole story.

Although there is a drought this year, Luoyang was the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty after all, and the villagers nearby were relatively wealthy. Almost every household had some grain in stock, and with some wild vegetables and weeds, everyone could get through it if they could hold on.

But!
Dong Zhuo has entered the capital! Dong Zhuo and his generals were shocked by the prosperity of Luoyang. They used to stay in the bitter cold land of Xiliang, and suddenly came to the most prosperous Luoyang in the world. Everyone was stunned.

Dongyuan is just a villa located outside Luoyang city. The luxury and prosperity inside can even surprise a time traveler like Li Qingyuan, not to mention the imperial palace in Luoyang city!
Following the example of the superior, Dong Zhuo plundered the city while the Xiliang soldiers under his command plundered outside the city!
As for why the soldiers didn't go into the city to plunder?
Those who could live in Luoyang city were either from aristocratic families or closely related to them. Even Dong Zhuo himself did not dare to offend those aristocratic families directly, let alone the soldiers?

As a result, all the villagers who originally lived near Luoyang suffered misfortune. The property that their ancestors had accumulated with great difficulty all went into the pockets of the Xiliang Army soldiers, and any women with a little beauty in their families also became the soldiers' public property.

At first, these villagers were thinking of going to the city to file a complaint with the authorities, but because the issue of deposing and enthroning the emperor was causing a huge uproar, who would have the time to care about such a small matter?
And what if you dare to resist?

The Xiliang Army has been reporting a lot of military achievements in suppressing bandits during this period, and heads of people have been brought into the city in carts!
This group of refugees really had no other choice but to leave the land where their ancestors had lived for generations, hoping to hide somewhere else and see if they could fight their way out.

But it is obvious that this road is also a dead end!

If they hadn't met Li Qingyuan, even if they could have held on, they would have starved to death on the road in a few days.

"Are you planning to save these people? It doesn't seem like something I can do!"

The people in the urban plane had already fully understood what was happening here through the photos, and asked after a few minutes of silence.

It is true that these people’s experiences were quite pitiful, but this is the Three Kingdoms period!

According to historical records, the total population of the world was close to 65 million before the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out. But a hundred years later, when Sima Yan unified the country and established the Western Jin Dynasty, the national population was only 16 million.

In a hundred years, the population plummeted by 75%. How many tragic stories happened in the meantime? It is really up to the readers to experience it for themselves.

If this is not intuitive enough, then let’s take a look at some more data to make it clear!
The national population in 1937 was 4.4 million, while in 1945 it was 5.4 million!
So don’t be fooled by the fact that the Three Kingdoms seems to be a heroic history book, because in fact it was a complete chaos that almost led to the extinction of the Han people.

'If I hadn't encountered it, I wouldn't care, but now that I've encountered it, I feel like something is missing if I don't care!'

Li Qingyuan let out a sigh. He never thought of himself as a good person. When he first traveled to the Three Kingdoms era, all he wanted to do was flirt with beautiful women and conquer the world with the help of plug-ins.

But now looking at the miserable scene in front of him, he suddenly felt as if he could do something?
"No, you are not that kind-hearted. Did you save these people just to raise some assassins for yourself?"

"Is there any difference between saving people and raising dead soldiers? Aren't they both saving people?"

His plug-in was just a chat group that could transmit things. Although he would surely gain invincible power as the number of group members increased in the future, he was currently only slightly stronger than an ordinary person at best, and could not be compared with those warriors who had left their names in history.

Besides, you can't do everything yourself, right?

In this era where aristocratic families control everything, if one wants to build one's own power, one naturally starts with saving these refugees.

Aren't there posts like this on Tieba and Douyin all the time? If you provide your soldiers with three meals of porridge and pickles every day, how many days will it take for you to ascend the throne and become emperor!

(End of this chapter)