The protagonist and the little secretary II have been discussing for a long time in their own bedroom, which is a rare long-term exchange between the two sides, and there is still no need to think crookedly here...

In the past year, the protagonist has returned to [Dongyang City] only a handful of times, and there are naturally very few points of guidance for the scientific research team.

And the protagonist's guidance to the scientific research group is very important, although the intelligence of the main worker ants in the scientific research group to carry out scientific research tasks is not low, but it is also impossible to expect a Newton and Leonardo da Vinci among them.

These big worker ants are more in accordance with the instructions of the protagonist, studying how to make the rope thinner on the premise of ensuring strength, and how to make the pottery bigger.

If the research group is compared to a machine, then each large worker ant plays the role of a screw, and the protagonist is the computer that controls the machine.

Once the protagonist has not given a new task for a long time, many large worker ant researchers are at a loss and don't know what to do.

This year, the protagonist has been fighting abroad for a long time, either on the way to unify the south bank of the Great River, or in the swamp, or on the north bank of the Great River, staying in [Dongyang City] for too little time and doing too little guidance.

And when he was away, he did have a lot of ideas, knowing that he and his subordinates had a lot of practical needs that needed to be solved by the scientific research team.

Today, the protagonist has set several goals for next year for the second secretary and the scientific research team:

One is the miniaturization of ballistas.

This is for the formation of "tank" troops, only after the ballista is miniaturized, can it be easily fixed on the back of the double-pronged rhino beetle, and become a mobile battery.

The ballista spring of the Divine Angel King Legion is the torsion spring of the locust tendons, and the spring group itself is not large, so what the scientific research team needs to do is to study the miniaturization of the gun carriage and crossbow arm, which mainly needs to provide the precision machining capabilities of the worker ant craftsmen.

Ants have always had poor precision machining skills, after all, a pair of large jaws is no match for a human's double head and ten fingers, no matter how dexterous they are. It can only be done to the best of its ability.

Fortunately, there are now more and more tools made of copper, and it is not too difficult for worker ant craftsmen to reduce the size of their ballistas to a specified size if they can take into account efficiency.

The time target set by the protagonist for this scientific task must be fulfilled by the beginning of spring next year, and the craftsmen under the research team must provide at least four ballistas to the Divine Envoy King within a month after the beginning of spring next year.

The second is to improve the reproductive efficiency of beetles.

Although the Big-headed Ant Remnants taught the Divine Envoy King Legion the domestication techniques of the beetles, they don't know whether they kept a hand or simply forgot, they did not teach the Divine Envoy King Legion how to provide a better breeding environment for the beetles.

In addition to providing an underground nest for shelter from the wind and rain, the Beetles can only be stocked in many cases, which is determined by the food source of the Beetles.

In spring, summer and autumn, these beetles spend a lot of time sucking sap or nibbling on leaves from nearby trees, and sucking sap from underground roots in winter or when they are under siege.

If there is no time for them to forage for food during the march, the ants have to provide valuable honeydew or fermented sweet drinks, fruit juices and other substitutes, but they cannot be replaced for a long time, and they still have to be let out to forage for food every once in a while.

In addition to the inconvenient food supply, the beetles were also dissatisfied with the beetle nesting room environment provided by the ants.

After a series of comprehensive factors, for more than a year, the reproduction efficiency of the beetles in the Divine Envoy King's army has always been worrying, resulting in the slow increase in the number of beetles, and even having to rely on the excavation of beetle eggs in the wild to make up for it.

The slow growth of the beetle population also frustrates the protagonist's plan to form a new beetle army. Rambo II's 13th Legion was originally planned to form the Beetle Legion, but it has been able to fight as an infantry legion until now.

The protagonist hopes that the scientific research team can use the formation of a new animal husbandry team to study the suitable breeding conditions of beetles, so as to quickly improve the reproductive efficiency of beetles and provide basic conditions for the formation of a new beetle army.

The third is to improve the level of agriculture and aquaculture.

Although the situation of the agriculture of the Divine King's army cannot be changed, after all, human agriculture in the 21st century is very dependent on the time of the sky. The aquaculture industry has been able to meet the demand for meat, and there is no urgent need for improvement for the time being.

However, with the plan ahead, ants can at least develop the technology of seed selection.

Seed selection is the selection of excellent varieties of animals or plants and their propagation. This is essentially to select the best and eliminate the inferior, and its biggest effect is to change the gene frequency of the population in a targeted manner, thereby changing the genetic structure and biological type of the population.

In the human world, the rice, wheat, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other crops planted by modern planting, and the cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, chickens, ducks and other livestock and poultry raised by modern animal husbandry are very different from their wild ancestors, which is the role of seed selection.

Ancient humans have been interested in selecting seeds very early, and this work does not require much technology, and the ants can do it with their existing capabilities.

The protagonist plans to set up an agricultural group under the scientific research group, and cooperate with the animal husbandry group to select plants and insects respectively, giving priority to those varieties with more reproduction and excellent individuals, and the focus is to ensure that those traits that are beneficial to ants can be preserved.

For example, the seeds of sagebrush are the wild ancestors of wheat, and their seeds can be thought of as miniature versions of wheat grains.

Dogtail seeds are roasted at high temperatures and have a complex aroma of bread and popcorn, and after fermentation, they can be made into a drink with a kvass flavor, which is loved by ants.

However, the seeds are small and the yield is not high, so in order to meet the needs of the ants, it is necessary to select those individuals with large particles and a large number of seeds for reproduction.

As for the trait that mature seeds do not fall off, which human agriculture is very interested in when selecting seeds, ants do not need it, and even have to avoid it.

After all, humans hope that when harvesting crops, the wheat grains can be obediently left on the ears of wheat, so that humans can harvest the wheat and grass stalks together, and then threshing afterwards. Instead of having to pick up the wheat grains from the ground one by one after the crop is ripe.

Therefore, human beings consciously select those varieties with genetic mutations that will not fall off naturally after maturity. These varieties are simply difficult to reproduce in the wild, but they have become the most widely distributed plant varieties on the planet under the conscious cultivation of humans.

But ants are different, if they climb the tall ears of wheat to cut off the wheat grains one by one, it is more troublesome, it is better to let the seeds of dogtail fall naturally to the ground, and then organize a large number of ants to collect.

Different races have different requirements for the shape of crops and livestock. After realizing this, the protagonist is able to discover the novelty of the world of ant civilization at all times.