The System: My Great Song Dynasty Guide to Getting Rich

The Song dynasty is such a fascinating era, so I wanted to write a story that would travel across a thousand years and let us meet some remarkable people.

Blurb:

"I'll trade ten jin of fat for a slim waist and long legs!"

When Chen Qingqing posted that comment, she never thought it would come true. She got a System that would grant her a wish for every ten jin of fat she lost.

Wasn't that wonderful? Even transmigrating to the Great Song was no problem.

She would make good use of the System, help her parents get rich, and give them all a better life.

But here's the question: How much fat does a person have in their body?

Generally speaking, fat makes up 10% to 20% of a man's body weight, and 20% to 25% of a woman's.

Chen Qingqing calculated based on her height and weight in her previous life: 170 centimeters tall, 180 jin, with a body fat percentage of 35% according to the gym's measurements. By that calculation, rounding up, she could make six wishes.

That was enough. First, keep the whole family safe. Second, get rich. Third...

System: You can't calculate it like that. I'm a proper System. The prerequisite is that you can't harm your health. So your body fat percentage must stay above 10% for men and 15% for women.

Chen Qingqing: All right, then that's four wishes. Still not bad.

System: No!

Why not?

System: That was your weight in your previous life. It doesn't count!

Chen Qingqing: ...

Fine. She could only count the fat she had in this life. Chen Qingqing looked at herself: a six-year-old shrimp of a girl, not even one meter tall. Then she looked at the people around her, each one slimmer than the last.

Only then did Chen Qingqing remember: This was the Great Song, an ancient dynasty from a thousand years ago, not the modern age when everyone was overnourished.

Here, having a bit of fat was a blessing only the rich could afford.

Chen Qingqing gazed at the sky and sighed. Fine, then she'd set a grand goal: make everyone in the Great Song fat!

She would start by providing the people of the Great Song with a high-quality source of energy: pork fat.

Chen Qingqing never expected her business to grow so big. From the emperor and his chancellor to the distant kingdoms of Liao and Western Xia, everyone was proud to eat pork from Lady Chen. Of course, the great foodie Su Dongpo, first of his kind through the ages, played no small part in this.

Lü Huiqing glowered. "What about me? What about me? I'm the biggest contributor to my wife's business!"

P.S. I'm not a history major. I'll do my best to tell a fascinating story grounded in history, but some details will differ from the historical record to serve the plot.

Theme: Your health is the foundation of everything.