[Three Kingdoms] Can Strategists Not Ascend the Throne?

[Three Kingdoms power struggle. The heroine isn't a strategist, she's a ruler.]

[Complete. Anti-piracy measures cover 50% of the text. The full story is being polished and proofread. I take no responsibility for pirated versions.]

The seventh year of Guanghe. The Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Qiao Yan is bound to Strategist System No. 068 and awakens in the body of a dying little girl amid the starving dead.

The System tells her that her goal is to become the greatest strategist under heaven.

Sitting atop a mound of corpses, with the slogan “The blue sky is dead; the yellow sky shall rise” echoing in the distance, she promptly spends all her starter points on constitution.

System: ????

Qiao Yan: Zhou Yu lived to thirty-five, Guo Jia to thirty-seven, and Lu Su to forty-five. A strategist who wants to have the last laugh needs to outlive everyone, like Sima Yi.

System: You make a good point, but put the spear down.

[Host has achieved an accomplishment: Persuade Lü Bu not to join Dong Zhuo 1/1. Progress reward sent to inventory.]

Qiao Yan: :)

Strategist System 068 thinks it has encountered a rather unusual Host.

She requests lessons in agricultural reclamation and garrisoning troops.

Qiao Yan: Zao Zhi pioneered the tuntian farming system and was posthumously granted a noble title. Zhuge Liang's northern campaigns used tuntian farming on the front lines. A strategist who can't manage tuntian isn't a good strategist.

[Host has achieved an accomplishment: Persuade the Qingzhou Army to join 1/1. Progress reward sent to inventory.]

She recruits Jia Xu and Li Ru.

Qiao Yan: I can't get in with the three major factions of scholars from Yingchuan, Nanyang, and Runan, so why can't I form my own clique?

[Host has achieved an accomplishment: Persuade Zhang Xiu to join 1/1. Progress reward sent to inventory.]

She...

She...

She...

Strategist System 057: I'm so jealous. You got such an ambitious Host. She must have become the greatest strategist under heaven by now, right?

Strategist System 068: Thanks for asking. The Host has claimed every System achievement, and now she's emperor.

P.S. Since the heroine becomes emperor, please treat this as a parallel timeline.

Three quick clarifications:

1. There is no male lead. The heroine has a biological heir, whose father is unknown. The latest version has been changed to no romance.

2. If the heroine's actions seem rather hollow early on, please keep reading. Her attitude toward helping the people changes gradually. Otherwise, she could never have won the people's support and ascended the throne.

3. The author has never fought in a war, so this is written as a feel-good story, with efforts to reduce casualties. The people already suffer enough. Suggestions are welcome, and I'll try to do better next time.

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“[Tang Dynasty] I Became Wu Zetian's Eldest Daughter”

Wu Qingyue never imagined that one moment she'd be arguing online that the story of Consort Zhao murdering her daughter was complete nonsense, and the next she'd transmigrate into the third daughter of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Li Zhi.

In other words... Wu Zetian's daughter who died before her first birthday.

[Good news: She comes with a System.]

[Bad news: Its only function is to convert occupied territory into extra lifespan.]

She struggles to spread her arms and legs, but can only manage... half a month of life.

Wu Qingyue decides to save herself.

Later histories record that Wu Zhou's eldest princess, Wu Dechangsheng, crushed rebellions in every direction as Crown Princess.

She struck west against Tubo and the Dangxiang, subdued the Turks in the north, captured Kunming in the south, and crossed the sea to conquer Silla in the east.

From then on, Wu Zhou's glory shone bright, and nations came to pay tribute.

Wu Qingyue: Believe it or not, at first I just wanted to live to adulthood...

(It's probably a story where the System remains forgettable, the Empress Wu handles civil governance, and the Crown Princess heroine handles military affairs.)

Theme: Are kings, nobles, generals, and ministers born to their station?