My Rice Cooker Came to Life, and I’m Raising Thirty Million Ancient Disaster Victims on a Shoestring

[Traveling between past and present + Stockpiling goods and building infrastructure + Catastrophic famine + Let them live frugally, no spoiling + Pig feed, dog food, and cornmeal mush] Chu Hao discovered that the secondhand rice cooker he'd bought had come to life and could connect to the ancient world two thousand years in the past. He unexpectedly learned that two suns had appeared in the sky, scorching countless rivers and crops dry. Then, when night fell, two moons appeared at once, bringing such bitter cold that long-haired livestock like pigs, sheep, oxen, and horses froze to death.

A thousand miles of scorched earth, no roots left on the plants, corpses strewn everywhere, and people trading their children for food!

At the time, the future empress, who called herself his devout follower, knelt before him trembling and begged him to feed her, offering to serve him as a slave in every lifetime. She didn't just sneak bites of his instant noodles, steamed buns, and mantou, she even ate pig feed and dog food, then cried that they were the most delicious things she'd ever tasted. Good heavens, did immortals eat food this delicious every day?

By the time Chu Hao's conscience finally stirred and he tried to give her something tasty, she'd already used pig feed and cornmeal mush to recruit an army and raise a fearsome force of elite soldiers, sweeping across the apocalypse!