[Three Kingdoms] Can You Become Emperor Just by Scavenging?

[My take on the struggle for supremacy, made up as I go]

Other people's Systems: Physical enhancements, improved martial arts, iron-smelting techniques, high-yield crops...

My System:

[Congratulations, you got: half a leftover carrot.]

[Congratulations, you got: one expired can of surstromming.]

[Congratulations, you got: one 2,000-page brick of a book.]

[Congratulations, you got: raw eggs, boiled eggs, and rotten eggs.]

Sun Mo: ...

What's there to be happy about?

Later, the white-feathered chickens raised countless soldiers, the cans of surstromming "exploded" the enemy formation, and Sun Mo rode Red Hare toward the enemy general--

"Bang!"

Sun Mo weighed the training manual (2,000 pages) in her hand and smiled. "Knowledge is 'power.'"

Serious blurb:

Strategists scheme and stir the winds and clouds of the world;

Warriors summon their courage and ride into the midst of ten thousand troops;

Heroes of the martial world win noble titles and become generals.

One successful general is built on the bones of ten thousand men.

--And she leads those ten thousand bones to flip the table.

Years later, Liu Bei gazed at Sun Mo during her enthronement ceremony and sighed, "Heaven's mandate lies with her, not the Han."

Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan and sighed softly. "No. It lies with the people."

Check out my upcoming story: You Call This Talisman Cultivation?!

Blurb:

In the Canglan Continent, sword cultivators reign supreme, spell cultivators come next, and talisman cultivators rank last.

Sword cultivators' daily routine: Split the heavens with a single strike.

Spell cultivators' daily routine: Move mountains and fill seas.

Talisman cultivators' daily routine: Draw, draw, and draw some more.

--The enemy's right in front of you. Why are you still drawing?

--You finished drawing, but why did your promised phoenix turn into a chick?

--I want fire, not sparks!

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Ding Lan, who transmigrated here: ...

Just before she died of thirst, she tried writing the character for "water" on a talisman--

Heaven and earth shook, ghosts and gods were startled. Across the vast Canglan Continent, waves swallowed the sky and washed over the sun.

The moment the character appeared, an old ancestor declared in a trembling voice, "This one character alone is enough to place the Way of Talismans among the top three!"

Ding Lan, drenched to the bone: "..."

Sorry, I happen to know all 3,500 commonly used characters.

Theme: Win the people, win the realm