I Feed a 200,000-Man Border Army Through Farming

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The blurb is at the end.

This book was originally titled "Wine Among the Flowers".

Qu Huajian transmigrates by accident to an unfamiliar dynasty.

He becomes the young master of a merchant family and inherits a fortune from the start.

Before he can enjoy the life of a rich man, drought, snowstorms, and famine strike. The granaries are so empty that even a mouse passing through would have to leave behind a couple of flatbreads.

The court is corrupt, and corpses of the starving litter the land. Seeing the household servants and tenant farmers at home crying out for food, Qu Huajian can only shoulder the arduous task of keeping them fed.

After finally managing to buy food and start a small business, he also happens to pick up a handsome man. The man is a great general guarding the frontier, and behind him are two hundred thousand border troops, all so hungry their backs are practically touching their chests.

To keep foreign enemies from setting foot in the home he has made for himself, and so he can live a peaceful life in the future, Qu Huajian has no choice but to lead the tenant farmers in cultivating the land, then head south to do business and earn money to feed the soldiers.

Who could have guessed that the court would grow more and more corrupt, leaving the common people unable to survive in their hometowns? More and more people come to seek refuge with him.

Qu Huajian sees stars, but still rolls up his sleeves and gets to work: buying land, reclaiming wasteland, building factories, trading goods...

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With a foolish emperor on the throne and corrupt officials everywhere, the people are living in misery. Warlords rise up in rebellion, each hoping to be the first to seize the imperial capital and declare himself king.

One day, a rebel king passes through a place in the north and discovers that the people there live in peace and prosperity. After asking around, he learns that the owner of the place is a young man not yet thirty. The rebel king immediately starts hatching a plan.

A few days later, the rebel king has his soldiers and money confiscated and runs home in tears. Nobody told him that the young man was protected by Mu Shoujiang, the fierce-faced general guarding the northern frontier.

Besides, everyone there is a soldier. The moment his troops entered, they were surrounded by the local militia, captured, and sent off to farm.

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Rumor has it in the martial world that Qu Chang'an, who controls several prefectures in the north, and Mu Shoujiang, commander of the border army, are carrying on a forbidden romance. Nobody should dare provoke them, or Mu Shoujiang will never let them off.

The rumor even reaches the border town.

"Bullshit! Boss Qu is the one who keeps us fed and clothed. Those bastards dare spread lies about him? I'll tear their mouths apart!"

A few soldiers are chatting about it in their spare time, cursing as they thrust their brand-new spears into the ground. Then they turn around and see their commander circling Boss Qu, positively lovestruck.

"Maybe the rumor isn't entirely false..." One soldier scratches his head, then pulls his spear back out.

PS

1. The author is a hopeless novice, so please feel free to point out typos.

2. Kind words make good connections, while cruel words hurt. My writing isn't great, so you don't need to tell me if you're dropping the story. The author is fragile and will cry, sob sob~

3. Anything implausible in this story is the author's own invention. Please don't scrutinize it too closely. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

4. All place names in this story were painstakingly invented by the author. Some may happen to share names with real places, but they are definitely not the same places. Please don't associate them with reality!

Preview:

Nan Yuan quits his job and returns to his hometown. Before he can enjoy the happy life of no longer being worked like a beast of burden, he accidentally misses a step and transmigrates to another world.

This world is in the midst of a terrible disaster: earthquakes, floods, rising sea levels...

Nan Yuan's soul inhabits the body of a kitten that drowned in the flood, and he discovers that this world is actually the beastfolk world from a novel.

He travels from place to place with the tribe, searching for shelter, and is surprised to find that the little animals in the tribe are all very obedient. If he tells them to go east, they absolutely won't go west.

Later, Nan Yuan learns that his original body is the tribe's next shaman, the kind who can communicate with the gods.

Materialist Nan Yuan: ???

There's nothing for it. Faced with the dependent eyes of the adorable, fluffy little cubs, Nan Yuan can only shoulder the responsibility of feeding the tribe.

Rebuilding the tribe, taking in beastfolk who have been separated from other tribes, forming hunting and gathering teams, reclaiming land, farming...

Watching the scrawny, fluffy folk grow plump and healthy, Nan Yuan happily flops into a pile of fur. A giant silver wolf catches him securely, then carries him home in its jaws and hides him away!

Theme: The harder you work, the luckier you get!