Your Majesty said that my life is worthless, so why are you crying when I increase my troops?

After the fundraising, the dinner came to an end.

When Xia Mingyuan and Xia Xue returned to the princess's mansion, it was already past midnight.

"Thank you, Auntie, for testifying for me today. This allowed me and Sun Wenju to make this bet!"

After jumping off the carriage, Xia Mingyuan waited for Xia Xue to slowly lean out and grinned at her.

"Humph, I'm just telling the truth. You don't need to thank me!"

"But you, with only a few hundred bandits under your command, actually want to go to Poison Dragon Mountain to suppress the bandits. If you get yourself into trouble, don't blame me for not warning you!"

Xia Xue frowned, glared at him fiercely, and turned away.

Xia Mingyuan touched his nose and looked at Xia Xue's back as she left, with a helpless look on his face. He wanted to find an opportunity to repair his relationship with the princess aunt, but Xia Xue probably wished he would die outside.

As for suppressing the bandits... Xia Mingyuan raised the corners of his mouth slightly, raised his head and glanced at the sky. It had been three days and seven or eight hours since he last opened the system panel.

According to the system's troop expansion speed, he now has at least four or five thousand more troops.

With a thought, Xia Mingyuan summoned the system panel.

[Ordinary soldiers: 7491.]

[Level 1 Edge Archer: 46.]

[Level 1 Vine Shield Soldier: 50.]

[Level 1 Yellow Turban Warrior: 200.]

As expected, there are now nearly 7,500 ordinary soldiers.

However, Xia Mingyuan cannot summon these soldiers at this moment. The reason is very simple. He cannot support so many people now!

The gold, silver and treasures seized earlier had to be used for gambling and could not be used in the short term.

Each of the three hundred soldiers under his command consumes at least two kilograms of food every day, which is a total of six hundred kilograms a day!

In recent days, more than half of the several thousand kilograms of grain he bought with silver, plus the storage of those bandits, about seven or eight thousand kilograms, have been gone.

If he wants to continue to increase his troops, he must make money as soon as possible!

"What should I do?"

“Preferably those that make money quickly!”

Xia Mingyuan rubbed his chin and thought silently in his mind.

The Great Xia Dynasty was different from later generations. Most of the ways to make money quickly in later generations were written into the criminal law, but it was very different here.

At least there are still many opportunities here.

"Making glass like other time travelers?"

Xia Mingyuan recalled the time-travel novels he had read.

But that thing is easy to say but extremely difficult to do.

Moreover, without a complete set of equipment, mass production cannot be achieved even if it is produced.

As for other things like sugar, gunpowder, etc., there is still some hope.

However, Sun Wenju and his son must be secretly watching him, and it is suspicious that they are doing these things in such a high-profile manner now.

After much thought, Xia Mingyuan couldn't help but feel worried because he rejected the three essential magic weapons for time travelers one by one.

"Forget it, let's use the system to generate a few higher-level soldiers and see the effect!"

"Anyway, it's just a few more people, I can still afford it!"

Xia Mingyuan muttered to himself, first using ordinary soldiers to combine into the first-level Yellow Turban Warriors, then using the Yellow Turban Warriors to combine into the second-level Wei Wuzu, and then the third-level Tiger Guards, and the fourth-level Qilin Guards...

After a lot of trouble, Xia Mingyuan consumed eighty ordinary soldiers in the system and summoned ten fourth-level Qilin guards.

Xia Mingyuan wanted to try to continue synthesizing a higher level of Longxiong Ruishi, but two lines of small words popped up on the system interface.

[To summon a Level 5 Dragon Warrior, you must have at least fifty Qilin Guards!]

[The current number of Qilin Guards is insufficient]

Xia Mingyuan immediately gave up on continuing the synthesis.

Fifty Qilin Guards require at least four hundred ordinary soldiers, not to mention that there is nowhere to place them after they are summoned. Even if they continue to be synthesized, it is unknown what conditions will be needed later.

Xia Mingyuan temporarily suppressed his curiosity and had an idea.

Ten Qilin Guards appeared in front of him in an instant.

Ten people stepped forward, immediately knelt on one knee, and shouted in unison: "Commander!"

Xia Mingyuan looked up and down at the ten people in front of him. Compared with the first-level golden warriors, these Qilin Guards had undergone earth-shaking changes.

The first and most intuitive thing is the body shape!

Each of the ten people in front of me is over 1.8 meters tall and has a very strong build.

Unlike the muscular men in the gym, these people have a thick layer of fat-wrapped muscles on their arms and forearms, and you can tell at a glance that they can fight and carry.

Not to mention the original owner's weak body now, even if Xia Mingyuan had exercised regularly in his previous life, he might only need three moves to deal with such a strong man!

After three moves, these Qilin Guards would kneel on the ground and beg him not to die.

In addition, their equipment can be said to be armed to the teeth.

A set of jet-black Kirin armor, with a standard long sword hanging at the waist, glowed white in the night!

Looking at the ten Qilin Guards in front of him, Xia Mingyuan had an indescribable sense of security!

Judging from the way these people are dressed, they are indeed born to be guards.

With them protecting him, even if an assassin of Zhao Hongying's level wanted to assassinate him, he would be taken down in minutes in a head-on confrontation!

and many more!

A natural guard.

Xia Mingyuan was just feeling emotional when suddenly there was a buzzing sound in his head and he slapped his thigh excitedly.

"I got it, I got it. Since I have soldiers and generals at my disposal, why not just start the security business here!"

"Hanyang City is plagued by bandits. Which of these wealthy families doesn't need a security guard?"

Xia Mingyuan's eyes sparkled and he was grinning from ear to ear with joy.

Unexpectedly, by combining the efforts of the Qilin Guard, I inadvertently opened up a new track.

Although there are escort agencies in various places in Daxia, they are just branches of security, and my greatest advantage is the soldiers in my hands!

Just the 300 level one Yellow Turban strongmen in his hands are probably enough to surpass 90% of the escort agencies in the world.

"Ahem, what are your names?"

Coming back to his senses, Xia Mingyuan coughed lightly and looked at the Qilin Guards who were still kneeling on one knee with their movements in unison.

"Commander, these are Zhang Weiyi and Zhang Weier..."

The ten Qilin Guards took turns introducing themselves.

When Xia Mingyuan heard these names, the corners of his mouth twitched.

Although I was prepared that the names of these people would be extremely random, I didn't expect that this system would have such a bad taste.

In his mind, he couldn't help but imagine the spectacular scene of himself leading the army to battle one day, waving his hand and ordering Zhang Wei's troops to go into battle.

After a moment of contemplation, Xia Mingyuan solemnly ordered, "Zhang Weijiu, Zhang Weishi, the two of you will take off your armor tomorrow and secretly protect the princess. Remember to conceal your figures and don't let anyone see you. If the princess's life is not in danger, you two don't have to take action!"

"The remaining eight of you, take off your armor as well. Four of you will be in the open, and four in the dark. Protect this commander's safety!"

"Here!"