An overworked office worker dies suddenly from working overtime and transmigrates into Zhu Gaochi. At two hundred jin, with his life on the line, his own father, Zhu Di, wants to kill him, his younger brother, Zhu Gaoxu, wants to harm him, and his cousin in Nanjing is stripping his family of its fief.
He decides to start by eating a chicken leg.
“What are you panicking for? Have a bite first to calm your nerves.”
From then on, the Ming Dynasty gains a chubby heir who solves everything with food. A test of archery and horsemanship? He has his father take the first shot. His brother rebels? He sends over a plate of roasted lamb ribs. The court moves to abolish his fief? He serves up a hot pot of lamb.
Everyone waits to see how this fat man will die.
But as he grows fatter, he holds on to Beiping, secures his place in the Eastern Palace, and fattens the Ming realm into an age of prosperity.
Lighthearted historical farming. No grinding or spending, just a laid-back approach to ruling.
