Otherwise, if they wanted to cover those dozens of li, it really would not have been easy.
This was not Wenren Sheng's first time seeing real famine victims.
Truly, famine victims were no longer human.
They were walking beasts, completely stripped of the moral and ethical restraints of human beings.
Never use human moral standards to judge famine victims.
Those who, when great disasters came, threw themselves into rivers, hanged themselves, or smashed themselves to death early to avoid suffering could be said to be the group of commoners with the highest moral standards.
Without the supplement of these meat soups, it would have been good if one-tenth of them had managed to reach the Wang Family.
The rest would naturally all have collapsed on the road.
It was precisely because of this food that they had been able to make it here.
When they arrived at the Wang Family, sure enough, they discovered that the Wang Family had not left.
Some wealthy households always clung to a fluke mentality.
They felt that the experience passed down from their ancestors had always carried them through like this.
So toward this great disaster, they still felt they could rely on their ancestors' experience to get through it.
However, their ancestors' experience amounted to only two hundred years.
That little bit of experience could not deduce any truth.
It could only deduce the wrong conclusion.
The Wang Family had already gathered more than two hundred young and able-bodied men, who were guarding their estate.
Because this was an enclosed land, the imperial court's control was very strong.
Fortresses were out of the question.
Building that sort of thing could only happen when the imperial court was divided.
And now, the Wang Family's own long-term laborers and tenant farmers, the shop employees, the