Late Ming: From the Start, Ten Acres of Land Feed Ten Million Refugees

【Late Ming dynasty + farming + raising an army + decisive and ruthless + no saintly do-gooder + vying for supremacy + feeding refugees】 In the winter of the fifteenth year of the Chongzhen reign, heavy snow seals off the mountains. Corpses litter the land, and people eat one another. Chen Ping transmigrates as a low-ranking border soldier, facing a dead end: five months without rations, and a superior demanding a picul of wheat within ten days. If he fails to hand it over, he’ll be tied to a flagpole and left to freeze to death! At his darkest hour, Chen Ping awakens the Fertile Fields System! It ignores drought, floods, and frost, and guarantees a harvest every ten days! With one shriveled wheat seed, he grows a thousand jin of plump, premium wheat in ten days! Chen Ping boils up a pot of thick wheat gruel, kills his greedy superior, and seizes power on the spot! Refugees surround the city to seize the food? Chen Ping serves up a pot of hot gruel. “Fight for me, and you’ll eat your fill!” The Manchu raiders arrive at the gates, ready to slaughter the town? Chen Ping sets up a giant pot beneath the city gate, piled high with white steamed buns. “The gates are open. Anyone who isn’t afraid to die can come and take some!” Give me just ten days, and I’ll use ten thousand jin of grain in this frozen wasteland to raise an ironclad army!