When Lady Zhou heard the news, her eyes rolled back in her head, and she fainted on the spot.
The others were startled. A middle-aged man among them immediately understood what had happened. "I heard earlier that Qingzhou was forcibly conscripting all able-bodied men over the age of fifteen," he said with a pitying expression. "You must have family among them. What a pitiful sight.
They were going to do the same in our Tongzhou, but the Daliang army arrived too quickly. Everyone was scrambling to save themselves, and the Tongzhou guards had no time to deal with us. That's how we managed to escape in the chaos.
Our Da Qi has never done something as vile as forced conscription before. Who would have thought the new Emperor would pull a stunt like this right after taking the throne?
