Zhu Chong soon discovered that the upgrade system he was in, and the upgrade rewards he received every day were just a scam!

The next day, Zhu Chong was walking on the street, and suddenly, just like yesterday, another hundred ordinary people ran up to him, saying that they came to join him because of his reputation. The system also rewarded him with another hundred points.

Just like yesterday, these one hundred ordinary people were as ordinary as could be. They could hardly read or write, and apart from their strength and loyalty to him, they were nothing else.

On the third day, Zhu Chong did not dare to leave the house, but the one hundred ordinary people rewarded by the system went directly to the City Defense Office.

In just one week, Zhu Chong did nothing, but he had 700 more people under his command.

These seven hundred common people included men, women, young and old, but fortunately there were no babies. The youngest was thirteen or fourteen years old, and the oldest was no more than sixty.

These people all obeyed Zhu Chong's orders. When the governor of Qujing City saw this situation, he was extremely surprised, but he didn't think much about it.

In his opinion, Zhu Chong was Zhu Yuanzhang's legitimate son after all. Even if he was exiled to Yunnan and Yunnan, who would actually dare to believe that this gentleman was exiled to Yunnan and Yunnan?

In the eyes of the city defenders, Zhu Chong is now a vassal in Yunnan and Dian, and most of the territory of Yunnan and Dian is still in the hands of the former Yuan Dynasty King Liang.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang sent his legitimate son to Yunnan to establish a vassal state, which clearly showed that he had ideas about Yunnan and Yunnan.

It is only normal that so many people suddenly come to join Zhu Chong.

Zhu Chong was going to be enfeoffed in Yunnan and Dian, so how could he be alone? He had come here with only the princess before, so there must have been other deeper meanings. Only now was he placing his own people in Qujing little by little.

So the city defender didn't think much about it at all. Besides, he could see that those who defected to Zhu Chong were all ordinary people.

The city defender even arranged for someone to investigate and confirm that he was not mistaken. If one had to find something strange, one could only say that these people who defected to Zhu Chong were too ordinary, and there were quite a few women among them, and most of these women were young women.

But the question is, can this situation be used as a topic of conversation? He is a prince, the legitimate son of Zhu Yuanzhang. What's the big deal about having a few more women around him?

The city defender didn't take it seriously, but Zhu Chong became more and more nervous.

Although he could get 100 points out of thin air every day, the problem was that 100 people would come to him every day.

Looking at the people around him, whose numbers were increasing day by day, Zhu Chong felt as if a heavy burden was pressing down on him.

Although these ordinary people are 100% loyal to him, he does not need to pay them.

But these people are real people, and Zhu Chong has to find a way to pay for their living expenses.

That’s one hundred people a day, only one thousand in ten days, and only three thousand people a month.

But if the system keeps upgrading and the upgrade rewards continue, Zhu Chong won’t be able to bear it.

For this purpose, Zhu Chong even did some calculations. For a hundred people, based on the current living standards of the Ming Dynasty, the monthly expenses for food, clothing, housing and transportation would cost at least one hundred taels of silver.

One hundred people, one hundred taels per month. After one month, Zhu Chong will have to bear three thousand taels. After one year, he will have to bear thirty-six thousand taels. And this is under ideal conditions.

If Wang Xi really did as Guanyinnu said and persuaded the former Yuan Liang King to surrender, Yunnan and Yunnan would become the battlefields on all sides and bear the brunt. The prices of various daily necessities would soar, and Zhu Chong's burden would become even heavier!

Thinking of this, Zhu Chong became a little panicked. What should he do if something like that really happened?

Zhu Chong was very upset. If he had known this would happen, he would rather receive a smaller reward and would not have angered Zhu Yuanzhang when he was in Yingtian Prefecture. Otherwise, he would never have ended up in such a passive position.

Now, the system sends him people and points on time every day. He sees that the number of people under him is increasing, but the expenses are also increasing. He can't last long relying on the little savings he has on hand.

To be honest, Zhu Chong really couldn't understand why the system sent so many people to him.

He knew that the price of an ordinary citizen in the system mall was one hundred points. He would rather the system give him ten thousand points than have these one hundred people.

You can't just accept what you have now. You have to find a way to solve the current dilemma, otherwise you will really be trapped to death in this damn place!

Without having time to think too much, Zhu Chong arranged all the people who were rewarded by the system outside the city of Qujing, letting them fend for themselves for the time being. Zhu Chong temporarily provided them with a certain amount of silver and food.

But as time went by, Zhu Chong's economic crisis had become extremely urgent.

He was exiled to Yunnan. The salary of the King of Qin had been taken away by Zhu Yuanzhang. The little savings he had were not enough to support the expenses of so many people.

So Zhu Chong came up with a not-so-good idea, which was to select all the young and strong men among these people and hand them directly to the city guards, asking them to register these people as military households.

In fact, the city defender had been thinking about these young and strong men in Zhu Chong's hands for a long time. When he saw Zhu Chong himself proposed to hand over the young and strong men to him as military households and let these young and strong men serve as soldiers, he was immediately overjoyed.

Qujing is a vast area with a sparse population, and the number of defenders has never been sufficient, which has always been a headache for the city defenders.

Zhu Chong's action solved a big problem for him, so the city defender readily accepted the hundreds of young and strong men sent by Zhu Chong.

Now that the men had found a place to go, Zhu Chong began to worry about where to go for the remaining elderly, children and women.

The welfare of the elderly in the Ming Dynasty was not a big deal. Zhu Yuanzhang did a good job in providing welfare for the elderly. The Ming Dynasty was also the only dynasty in history to have nursing homes.

In this way, Zhu Chong only had troubles with children and women, and among them, the trouble with women was the most serious.

In this era, women were constrained by some outrageous Confucian ideas and faced very harsh restrictions in many aspects.

For example, unmarried women are required not to go out unless it is necessary, and the idea that a woman’s virtue lies in her lack of talent has begun to be promoted in society.

It has even become a situation where if a man sees a special part of a woman's body, no matter how special the circumstances are, the woman must either commit suicide or marry the man who saw her body.

Among the women given to Zhu Chong by the system, a considerable proportion were unmarried virgins.

It was really a headache for Zhu Chong to settle such a large group of women. He couldn't put all of them in the City Guard's Mansion.

Guanyinnu had made it clear to him beforehand that any woman who wanted to enter the Prince of Qin's Palace had to get her approval without her consent.

In his two lives, although Zhu Chong had the ambition to hold power in his hands when awake and sleep in the lap of a beautiful woman when drunk, he was not a mediocre person who would eat anything he could get, be obsessed with sex, and send any woman he could get home.

He pondered over it for a long time, and suddenly his eyes lit up and a plan came to his mind...