[System-powered explosive growth + infrastructure and farming + massive troop recruitment + the chaotic Five Dynasties era + decisive and ruthless + overwhelming technological advantage]
In the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, human lives are as worthless as weeds. Lu Fan has only just transmigrated into the county magistrate of a poor, remote county when he gets handed a hellish start: three thousand bandits outside the city are threatening to slaughter everyone, the rats in the granary have starved to death, and the military governor has sent someone to demand a hundred thousand shi of provisions! Fail to deliver the grain, and he dies. Fail to defend the city, and he dies too.
With his life hanging in the balance, Lu Fan binds himself to the God-Tier Explosive Growth and Troop Recruitment System. As long as he has enough Conquest Points, he can exchange them for unlimited silver, grain, and heavy armor forged from modern high-grade steel!
“Has the county magistrate gone mad? He’s paying refugees in silver to join the army?”
“Three meals of white rice a day, and meat with every meal? My life belongs to the magistrate!”
When the military governor arrives with an army to execute Lu Fan and take over the county, he sees a sight that makes his scalp go numb:
Outside the tiny county town, an army of a hundred thousand stands ready, clad in heavy modern steel armor and wielding long-handled swords. Blades gleam like a forest, and murderous intent surges into the sky!
Lu Fan draws his sword and looks down coldly at the terrified military governor. “Are kings and nobles born to rule? I’ll bring this chaotic age to an end!”
Three thousand heavy cavalry, and modern steel ones at that, could easily sweep away more than ten thousand bandits. Why bother with all that other nonsense?
The author is not a woodcutter; the protagonist has three thousand iron cavalry and two thousand Mo Dao soldiers (all fully armed) and fears ten thousand bandits. Okay, I'll give it 4 stars as encouragement.
Even elementary school students can play with this system.
Zhao Laosan was a failure.
The protagonist always gets verbally abused by the other side before slowly putting on airs.