You Sent Me to the Border to Sell Flatbreads, and I Fed an Army of 100,000

Chu Ning transmigrates into a dilapidated house on the frontier, only to find creditors blocking the door from the start. Her younger brother has joined the army, her little sister is still young, and her family is so poor they can barely scrape by. Just when she’s at her wits’ end, a chime rings 【Restaurant Management System successfully bound!】 【Today’s ingredients: 5 jin of refined white flour, 1 jin of fresh bok choy.】 Chu Ning: ...That’s it? You want me to open a restaurant, and all you give me is cabbage? The System replies coldly: Every great undertaking begins with small steps. Fine, flatbreads it is! She braises a pot of pig offal and griddles fifty sesame flatbreads. Their aroma fills three whole streets. On the first day, the personal guard of the undefeated general tosses her a tael of silver. “Keep the change.” On the third day, the general himself sits down at her shabby stall and silently eats an entire flatbread. On the seventh day, the System unlocks a hidden quest 【War crisis detected! Emergency unlock: high-energy nutritional ration recipe!】 【Daily output: 300 shi. Effects: stamina +200%, cold resistance +150%, wound healing speed ×3.】 Chu Ning only wanted to sell flatbreads in peace, but then When refugees arrive, she recruits them with ration bricks. When rebels show up, she wins them over with ration bricks. When the northern tribes invade, the soldiers she feeds fight like they’re made of iron! The court is furious: We told you to sell flatbreads on the frontier! Who said you could raise an army of a hundred thousand?! Chu Ning looks aggrieved. “I really just wanted everyone to have enough to eat...” A secret message arrives from the general in the south: “My lady, send another three thousand shi of ration bricks. We’re running out of food over here too.” Everyone: ???