Reborn in the Three Kingdoms: My Adoptive Father Is Liu Huangshu

After staying up all night watching Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Jiang Hui couldn't get over the fall of Chancellor Zhuge. Then he knocked over a glass of water, was electrocuted, and died. When he opened his eyes again, he had become a young beggar named A Da on Changban Slope in the thirteenth year of Jian'an!

With more than twenty orphaned younger siblings crying out for food and Cao Cao's cavalry on the way, Jiang Hui was in a panic. Run? With a whole family in tow, that meant certain death! Stay? That was just waiting to die!

Then he discovered the “mobile phone database” fused into his mind, along with the natural strength of his new body...

When Liu Bei was driven to the end of his rope by the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Jiang Hui appeared like a heavenly warrior! He wanted no military power, only a base of his own. He became Liu Bei's sworn son, all to give his younger siblings a home.

From then on, everything changed! While others fought for supremacy with swords, he followed the principle of “build high walls, store ample grain, and claim the throne slowly.” He made paper, smelted steel, and manufactured gunpowder; he promoted literacy, established civil service exams, and organized supply and marketing cooperatives. When powerful clans monopolized salt and iron, he fought back with economic warfare and a tax police force! When the children of meritorious families grew corrupt, the Anti-Corruption Commission kept its sword poised above them!

When steam trains thundered across the Central Plains and telegraph lines connected the lands of the Han, Jiang Hui stood in the Royal Academy and watched the civil service he had built begin to rot. He understood that the real struggle had only just begun...

This is a legend about reshaping an era through technology and institutions, a war between an idealist and the accumulated ills of a thousand years, and a rousing story about family and country, legacy and protection.