Time Travel: Refugees in the Late Ming Dynasty

What, I have traveled through time, just travel through time, and I am still the most ordinary farmer, a farmer will be a farmer. These are still troubled times. Can anyone tell me how an ordinary farmer can survive in troubled times? In order to survive, our protagonist has to flee again and again. On the run, our protagonist will grow stronger or die tragically. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.