Three Kingdoms: I Rose to Power in the Late Han by Keeping Everyone Fed with Buns

Waking up, Wang Chuan finds himself a lowly county magistrate in Jiangdu County at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty.

The Yellow Turbans are besieging the city, and five hundred starving soldiers are trapped inside. The city is on the verge of falling, and everyone is about to die.

At this critical moment, he awakens a Reputation System that lets him exchange for unlimited steamed buns made from white flour!

"Ding! Soldiers eat steamed buns: morale +1, Host reputation +1! White rice will soon be unlocked!"

"Ding! Soldiers eat spicy strips: morale +1, Host reputation +2! Beef noodles will soon be unlocked!"

When the poison strategist Cheng Yu arrives with a plan to "confiscate households and seize their grain," he instead sees the city's defenders lined up, heartily devouring steaming white-flour buns and glistening spicy strips.

Cheng Yu looks at the bun in his bowl and the unfamiliar spicy strips, and his mind shatters.

How can this city's food stores be more abundant than in times of peace?

With food comes soldiers!

With soldiers comes reputation!

And with reputation, the shop can level up!

While the warlords of the troubled age are still fretting over dwindling supplies, Wang Chuan has already used the System to recruit an army that terrifies the warlords beyond the passes, sweeping across the Three Kingdoms.