Cannon Fodder Yellow Turban: I Slacked My Way to Emperor

When other people transmigrate into the Three Kingdoms, they either pledge themselves to Cao Cao, Liu Bei, or Sun Quan, or raise armies to vie for supremacy. They all fight themselves to exhaustion. Zhang San transmigrates into a Yellow Turban cannon-fodder soldier and just wants to do the opposite: slack off, stay alive, and lie low until the end of time. You fight for your empire; I'll slack off. You seize territory; I'll make money.

But there's no room for slackers in a chaotic age. Powerful families oppress him? He cuts them down! Warlords provoke him? He marches his army to their gates! Remnants of the Yellow Turbans attack? He absorbs them into his own ranks!

Without meaning to, he recruits elite troops, seizes commanderies and provinces, and monopolizes trade. His ranks fill with capable ministers and fierce generals, and his army swells to hundreds of thousands. Even Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan grow wary of him. While the warlords of the realm fight each other to the death, Zhang San sits in his palace, chewing on braised snacks and looking utterly innocent. “I really am just slacking off. Don't force me to become emperor!”