Liu Bei's Daily Life

Liu Bei's Daily Life is a long historical web novel by the online author Xunxiang Rufeng, serialized on Qidian from November 2017 and completed in October 2021, totaling about 5.715 million characters in more than 2,700 chapters. Set in the late Eastern Han dynasty, the story follows a modern teenager whose soul, by chance, transmigrates into the young Liu Bei; he settles in Lousang Village, living with his widowed mother, then only nineteen, and helped from time to time by the Liu brothers of the same village. He begins with small matters such as repairing the family's old house and putting the fields in order, gradually introducing pottery-making, weaving mats and selling sandals, beekeeping, and horse-rearing, and using the tactic of "buying horse bones for a thousand gold" to win over craftsmen and talent, turning a small village into a base with industry, connections, and armed forces. He then restores the title of Marquis of Lucheng Ting, studies under the great scholar Lu Zhi, befriends border heroes such as Gongsun Zan, farms and nurtures talent, builds cities on a grand scale, and, through the turmoil of Luoyang and the pacification of the Western Regions, rises step by step to King of Yan and General-in-Chief Supporting the Han, weaving agriculture, commerce, and the military into a coherent power system. The book takes "daily life" as its backbone, lavishing detail on Eastern Han customs such as food, clothing, housing, and transport, village self-governance, recommendation for filial piety and integrity, and cockfighting and gambling, together with achievement-style prompts such as "Guardian of the Northern Frontier" and "Tengri of the Steppe"; the style is light and humorous, with an evident taste for the absurd and for "Dihua"-style overinterpretation, making it a massive and quite representative work of Three Kingdoms farming fiction.