[No System + Thrilling Power Plays + Decisive Ruthlessness + Hardcore Strategic Simulations + Absolutely No Goody-Two-Shoes]
No golden finger, just an utterly cold materialist view of history and geopolitical analysis to conquer the realm!
He tames a vicious horse at the bottom of a dry well, hefts the 84-jin heavy spear known as “Evil’s Bane,” and from the start smashes Hua Xiong with a single blow outside Sishui Pass, leaving Cao Cao aghast!
You’re raising troops and buying horses? I secretly control a province’s salt and iron, and use “slow-acting poison” to cripple the legs of every warhorse belonging to the realm’s warlords!
You’re courting famous scholars? I introduce “land surveys and equal distribution,” tearing the roots from beneath the great clans and having 80,000 refugees forge iron armor for me!
You’re charging with cavalry? Then I’ll lay out a “flesh-and-blood mill” on the plains: 30,000 suits of cold-forged chain mail and 12-foot-long horse-cutting swords!
So what if you have an army of 500,000? So what if you’re the Xiongnu Chanyu? Cross me, and I’ll make monuments out of all of you, left to cool beyond the frontier!
When Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan, and the other ambitious warlords join forces to form the “Alliance to Kill Liu,” Liu Yu sits deep in the Taihang Mountains, coolly watching iron pour from the furnaces that blaze across the hills.
“If the Han dynasty’s rules have rotted, then I, Liu Zhonghua, will use these endless thickets of iron to make new rules for you!”
The blurb can’t do it justice, so please head to the story itself. See how an extreme warlord carves a blood-soaked empire out of the ruins of the late Han, an empire where the poor can finally eat their fill!
Take it for granted. Hehe