Chapter 206: The Clouds of Civil War
The messenger went to the Lord's nest and returned the next day.
At the behest of the protagonist, the messenger quietly contacted the few kings who had a relationship with the protagonist who remained in the main nest, and found out some information, but the news she brought back was not optimistic.
It is then that the protagonist realizes why the main nest behaves the way it does, as the males are hostile to his killing of a male ant in late autumn last year.
Only then did he realize that although his act of executing the king of "Yancheng" seemed very relieved at the time, how taboo it was against the male ants. Even the kings and kings who had a friendship with the protagonist and who had fought side by side in the Reconquista were adamantly opposed.
Because of this, the male ants contacted by the courier this time did not give the protagonist too good a face, but simply told him the reason, and said that the main nest was studying how to counter the bad behavior of the Divine Envoy King.
This is really bad news for the protagonist, and he is still thinking about how to occupy the "Malachite City" through the main nest, but now the hostility towards himself in the main nest "Qingqiu City" is so serious, this idea is obviously impossible to realize.
The protagonist knows that the King's Council will soon learn that he has sent a messenger to find out the situation, after all, an ant with the smell of "Dongyang City" appears in the main nest "Qingqiu City", which is as eye-catching as a firefly in the night.
The kings and kings that the protagonist's messenger comes into contact with are obviously also limited, and although they will reveal some information, they will definitely not cover for themselves.
Sure enough, within two days, the protagonist waited for the messenger from the main nest, and the messenger of the main nest passed on the question from the king's meeting to the protagonist.
The Council of Kings sent messengers as delegates to ask: Did the king receive the decree of God when he put a king to death without permission?
Obviously, the protagonist has abused the name of the Divine Decree several times before, which has caused the kings to distrust it, but the "Divine Decree" has a supreme position, and they must clarify this matter before they can decide on a measure.
The protagonist thinks about it and says that there is no "divine decree" to authorize this matter.
At that time, the incident happened suddenly, and I was far away from the "Divine Channel" where I could receive the "Divine Will", and it was really difficult for me to say that I had obtained the Divine Will.
Moreover, the protagonist also wants to see how much the king meeting can endure for himself, not for the "god" behind the god envoy king.
The protagonist even thought that the worst outcome would be a complete face-to-face with "Qingqiu City". Now the Divine Envoy King Legion is no longer the weak it was back then, it occupies four nests, there are more than 100,000 ants and tens of thousands of elites under its command, and there are also foreign aid such as the Queen Ant Inheritance faction and the big-headed ant remnant clan in the outside world, even if you want to fight a civil war, you will not be left behind.
There are two other reasons why the protagonist has such a mind.
The first is that the paving ant barbarian country has fallen into an eerie calm, they seem to be in some trouble, and they should not pose a threat to the big-headed ant kingdom and themselves in a short period of time. The most elite Northern Expeditionary Army of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom was trapped on the north bank of the Great River due to the broken rope bridge, unable to support the mainland, which was the weakest period in the hinterland of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
The second is that a series of practices of the previous King Conference have made the protagonist feel how troublesome it is for a "superior" who can nominally govern himself, but who is in conflict with his own ideas, and this state needs to be changed.
After receiving the protagonist's reply, the messenger hurriedly left "Dongyang City" and returned to the main nest to resume his life.
Next, the King's Council is expected to have to quarrel for a while to figure out how to deal with the "domineering" Divine Envoy King in their eyes.
The protagonist is not idle, in the worst expectation, the protagonist begins to transfer back the elite troops of the locust extermination near the "transit station", these troops have adapted to the new formation and weapons after the baptism of the locust eradication battle, and the beetle army has also shown strong combat effectiveness. This military force is the protagonist's greatest reliance.
The flying knights began to shuttle around "Dongyang City", "Qingqiu City", "Southern City", "Bridgehead" and other places, giving orders to prepare for battle.
Since the object of preparation is not specified, a strange phenomenon has been formed: the big banyan of the "bridgehead" thinks that he is going to fight the paving ant barbarian country again, and the floating leaf king of the "southern city" thinks that the protagonist wants to attack the depths of the hilly area.
The protagonist has not been with his subordinates for the time being.,After all, this is a matter that can turn into a civil war if you're not careful.,Although he has outstanding prestige.,But he's always neglected the ideological construction.,Now he doesn't have confidence in whether the officers under his command are more loyal to himself or more loyal to this big-headed ant kingdom.,He needs time to rein in his loyalty.。
In this regard, the main nest naturally has an advantage, the ants have a very strong sense of ethnic identity, and the male ants' sense of class identity is particularly strong, before they fail to come up with a set of alternative ideas, even the oldest king and their queen inheritance faction are more cohesive than their own subordinates, at least the male ant class has the interests and ideas to maintain their own supremacy, and the queen ant inheritance faction also has a firm determination to restore the traditional queen rule.
The protagonist only began to think about the ideological problems under his command at this time, obviously a little late, but the threat was imminent.
The protagonist chooses a two-pronged approach, on the one hand, he brings all the commanders of the six field legions in the Divine Messenger King's legion, including the king as the legion commander and the king as the squad commander, to the conference room for two consecutive days.
At the meeting, the protagonist once again stated to his subordinates in the name of "God's will" that in order to spread the wisdom and gospel of "God" to this world of constant strife, the "God Messenger King" will be the only spokesman of "God" and launch a "holy war" in this world, and all ants will eventually obey the command of the God Messenger King, that is, respond to the call of "God".
This is a temporary move by the protagonist to strengthen the unity of thought with the help of the belief in the "gods" that the ants have always had. However, in the past, the ants' attitude towards "God" was also high, and society could operate as usual with or without "divine will", and although the protagonist has confidence in the power of religion, he still has doubts about whether he can use religion to unite his mind in a short period of time.
As the final hole card, the protagonist secretly sends his henchman Mulan as a messenger to "Southern City", asking the Floating Leaf King to expand the "Southern City" garrison corps with paving ants as the main force into two, one of which will escort half of the paving ant queens to "Waterfront City".
If you can't control the big-headed ant army under your command, you can rely on the moat of "Linshui City" and use the paving ant army as the team.
Of course, this is the worst-case scenario.