Three Kingdoms: I Farm in Zhuo Commandery, and Cai Wenji Falls for Me

I transmigrated to the Three Kingdoms era. Others fought for supremacy; I farmed.

People who transmigrated to the Three Kingdoms were either members of the imperial family or descendants of famous generals, with troops and provisions from the start. I became a descendant of the Prince of Zhongshan, but my family had fallen on hard times. All I had was a hundred mu of poor farmland, a house, and an old servant who nagged me about eating all day.

The year the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, the magistrate of Zhuo County was killed in battle. I was the only one left in the whole city who could step up. With my old servant and a few dozen local volunteers, I held the city walls, rescued hundreds of refugees, and saved the first great general, Zhou Hu.

The System came online: [Great Han Renown System]. Do good deeds to earn renown: take in refugees, distribute farmland, build irrigation, and establish schools. My renown skyrocketed. Then I used it to exchange for curved-beam plows, waterwheels, steelmaking techniques, improved crossbows, and more. I turned a ruined county into a granary in the midst of chaos.

One tax payment in thirty, with taxes waived in years of famine. No massacring cities, no killing those who surrendered, and no discrimination against the Yellow Turbans. Refugees came, then Zhang Ning, the Yellow Turban saintess, arrived with thirty thousand people, followed by talented men from humble families across the land.

The beauties of the Three Kingdoms had nowhere else to turn, so one by one they made their way to my Zhuo Commandery. Cai Wenji came and played the zither for me and helped establish an academy. Diao Chan came, and for the first time, I asked her, "Do you want to stay?" Zhen Mi came and brought perfect order to my household.

Cai Wenji played the zither and asked me, "Do you really only want to farm for the rest of your life?"

I looked up at the million-strong armies of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao bearing down on us.

"It's not that I want to fight. It's that this chaotic age won't let me farm in peace."

From a single mu of land in Zhuo Commandery, to Youzhou and Hebei, and then to the whole realm: others fought for supremacy with swords, while I used plows and people's hearts.

"Since I can't avoid it, I'll turn this realm into a peaceful and prosperous age, one field at a time."