Enlisting in the Army for My Brother, Then Ascending the Throne

[Goofy Comedy] You command a hundred thousand troops, and the emperor wants to strip you of your military power. What do you do?

Zhou Qing fell silent.

Her scheming adviser brought over an imperial robe. "Hmph, you remnant of the previous dynasty, how dare you bully my lord!"

Then he bowed to Zhou Qing. "My lord, let me lead the troops and capture that traitor."

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Zhou Qing transmigrated and became a native of ancient times, joining the army in place of her frail older brother.

Small in stature, she was assigned to the army's cooking corps and bound to a Gourmet System. She thought she'd get an instant advantage and rise to the top.

Instead, even dogs wouldn't eat the food she made. Her cooking was practically a culinary nightmare, but it unexpectedly activated a Gourmet Shop where she could save up points to exchange for all kinds of kitchen utensils and supplies...

Matchboxes, lighters, stainless steel pot lids, gas canisters...

The battle ended in a disastrous defeat. Their marshal was dead, their military adviser badly wounded, and their army devastated. Their soldiers were about to become corpses beneath enemy blades...

Zhou Qing pulled out her gas canister. One explosion wiped out a huge swath of the enemy, leaving hundreds dead or wounded with an earth-shaking, ghost-sending force.

The enemy commander: !!!

Their cooking corps: !!!

With her gas canisters, Zhou Qing managed to kill the enemy commander and render outstanding service, leading the Zhou clan of Runan to glory...

Later, Zhou Qing used gas canisters and gunpowder-filled steel pipes made from kitchen utensils to beat up all the neighboring countries, then went to the imperial capital and beat up the incompetent dog emperor...

Her scheming adviser suggested persuading the new emperor, who had fled the capital, to surrender, so she could take the throne legitimately.

Zhou Qing couldn't swallow her anger and insisted on beheading the new emperor. "Once we enter the capital, plenty of great scholars will make arguments in my defense."

Unify the seven kingdoms, standardize the written language, roads, weights, and measures. Interested?

When the new emperor fled the capital, he gained the support of a host of great scholars and planned to raise an army to take back everything he'd lost.

The next day, however, the leading scholar presented him with a cup of poisoned wine. "Your Majesty, for the sake of unifying the seven kingdoms, you should be on your way!"

The new emperor: "?"

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Theme: The road may be long and hard, but if you keep going, you will get there