Three Kingdoms: This Adou Could Really Let Marquis Wu Retire Early

Reincarnated as the useless Adou? Sorry, in this life, I will protect my prime minister at all costs.

In the first year of Jianxing, Liu Shan arrives from another world.

Facing a devastated Shu Han and a white-haired Zhuge Liang, he has only one thought: in this life, he will never let his prime minister work himself to death at Wuzhang Plains.

So at court, he plays dumb and lets the ministers take him for an incompetent ruler. In secret, however, he presents them with plans to improve salt and iron production and put Shu brocade under state control, trading sugar and glass for warhorses and copper from Eastern Wu.

Qiao Zhou thinks he's easy to fool. Li Yan treats him like a pushover. Even Empress Dowager Wu schemes to seize power. Then the secret reports from the Office of Political Surveillance pile up on the imperial desk, improved looms double the output of Shu brocade, and a telescope reaches Zhuge Liang's hands. At last, the great statesman of the ages realizes that this young ruler has hidden his true self better than anyone.

Rebellion in the south? Win hearts first, and turn the tribes against one another.

Powerful clans hiding their registered dependents? Let them grow for now. Once the blade is sharp, settle the score.

Li Yan making trouble? Let him jump. The higher he climbs, the harder he'll fall.

When Zhuge Liang no longer has to exhaust himself with endless toil, and Shu Han's cavalry storms through Longyou and waters its horses in the Luo and Yellow Rivers...

That once-useless Adou stands atop the walls of Chang'an and says with a quiet smile, “Prime Minister, look. This time, I held the burden for you.”

No System, no golden finger, just a heart that refuses to let history repeat itself.

[Tomato-style power fantasy · nation-building and conquest · deep bond between ruler and subject · no System]

[Over a thousand chapters, plenty to binge]