How harmful was the Great Plague in the late Ming Dynasty? What happened in that disaster?

In my opinion, the plague at the end of the Ming Dynasty directly led to a sharp decline in the population of the Ming Dynasty, and indirectly led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty and the entry of the Qing army.

Cann't eat game

I don't understand. Don't pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks and fish that have been raised for months or even years all smell good? Why do we eat game? How many bloody facts from ancient times to the present tell us that we can't eat game. Not to mention the distant plague in the late Ming Dynasty, which directly led to the sharp decline of the Han population and indirectly led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty. No matter from which angle, the Great Ming Dynasty is an unavoidable part of studying history.

Throughout the history of the Ming Dynasty, although there were many wonderful emperors, it is undeniable that Emperor Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty was a good emperor. During his reign, he was not only diligent and thrifty, but also suffered from natural disasters and man-made disasters. This plague was caused by the drought in North China, which led to the failure of grain harvest. Hungry people had no choice but to eat mice.

The demise of the Ming dynasty

During the Chongzhen period, natural and man-made disasters, internal troubles and foreign invasion, Lin Dong in the imperial court took over the power, the rebels in the customs were rampant, and the jurchen outside the customs were eyeing up. In particular, the movement of insurgents in various places has made the spread of plague, which was originally local, reach the fastest speed in history. The death toll of this plague is increasing at the rate of tens of thousands of people in Beijing every day. According to Huailai county records, the consequences of this plague were ten rooms and nine empty rooms, and some even died without anyone collecting the bodies.

That is, because of the plague, the Ming army suffered numerous casualties, the territory of the Ming Dynasty was hungry and cold everywhere, and the population of the Han nationality dropped sharply, which laid the foundation for the Qing army to seize power quickly later.

To sum up, a plague in the late Ming Dynasty caused numerous deaths and injuries, starved people everywhere, hanged an emperor who was the most normal and wanted to be the truth in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and let the Ming Dynasty perish.