The Flying Knight detected the war between the Northern Expeditionary Force and the neighboring tribes, but with the expansion of the area controlled by the Ant Alliance, the reconnaissance airspace of the Flying Knight also expanded, but the establishment did not increase, so the workload increased a lot.

The Northern Expeditionary Army was not the focus of the investigation, and the flying knights did not have much energy to observe this side for a long time, so they did not find the special features of the Red Fire Ant Tactics here.

After the protagonist received the information that the Northern Expeditionary Army was fighting with his neighbors, he quickly abandoned it, there are too many things he needs to pay attention to, and now the south bank of the Qinghe River is full of fires, and there are thousands of ants and thousands of ants everywhere, and in the eyes of the huge ant alliance, these tribal conflicts are like playing at home.

Even if he has the fate of the old ant, in the face of more and more urgent things, the protagonist can't pay more attention to the Northern Expeditionary Army.

The south bank of the Qing River is full of beacons at this time, which is similar to after the beginning of spring. There are even some neighboring tribes who have not opened their eyes to attack the idea of [Pioneer City], but they are only attacking and attacking worker ants for food, and they are unable to approach the city walls at all, and they cannot see the tall ant mounds clearly.

If you can see the scale of [Pioneer City], I'm afraid that these tribes won't have the courage to provoke the Ant Alliance! Those tall ant mounds are the best proof of the strength of the ant alliance.

Back then, the Red Fire Ant Country built beehive-like ant mounds everywhere, which was also a kind of strength deterrent, so that the surrounding Xiaoxiao wanted to weigh it first when they wanted to covet it.

The Divine Legion quickly fought back against these provocations, uprooting the tribes that dared to offend the Ant Alliance.

Now that the military strength of the Ant Alliance is enough to sweep all the nearby tribes, the reason why they are not in a hurry to expand their territory is to run the [Pioneer City] stronghold first and lay a good foundation for the future.

Today, there are 100,000 ant mouths in [Pioneer City], and it is also the fourth largest city in the entire Ant Union Country after [Xinyang City], [Red Iron City] and [February Lancheng].

By the beginning of next year, the economic base of [Pioneer City] will be enough to ensure the logistical supply needed for at least four legions for long-term battles, and it can independently support the colonial development on the south bank of the Qing River without relying on transportation on the north bank of the Qing River.

In the construction of [Pioneer City], a group of young male ants and Shengong ants have also emerged, they are a generation that has grown up with a new education, and the male ants no longer regard the military as the only way out, and they are no longer so discriminatory to work with Shengong ants and so on.

This is the situation that the protagonist is most happy to see!

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The development of the ant alliance is booming, and a large number of new territories have been incorporated, resulting in a sharp increase in grain production and a great increase in ant populations.

The Ant Union is now equivalent to less than half of the area of the homeland period, but it has regained a million ant mouths, which is about to be on par with the heyday of the homeland period, and has basically recovered to the national strength of the heyday, and the scientific and technological strength is even better.

The reason why we can feed so many ants in a small territory is due to international trade.

Nowadays, the trade between the Ant Alliance and other civilization is very considerable, because it is profitable, the Bullet Ant Clan has expanded the locust caravan from 2 to 7, and the Maolin Ant Country has expanded the dragonfly caravan to 24.

Just collecting transportation fees, the Bullet Ant Country and the Maolin Ant Country have turned a lot of money!

Countless caravans centered on [Xinyangcheng], and the endless exchange of goods from various places was endless, and caravans arrived almost every day, and there was even a "prosperous" scene of several caravans arriving at the same time, and trade representatives competing for goods.

In the past, there was trade between civilizations, but the scale of trade was very limited, two or three times a year was enough, in exchange for necessities or luxuries for the elite.

When the Ant Coalition joined the trade system, it suddenly offered a plethora of novelties, from honeydew and crow honey, which were loved by the elite, to fermented drinks and mealworm jerky that ordinary ants could enjoy, to fiber cloth and felt to keep the cold warm, to stoneware, pottery and rope that could increase productivity, and even hematite powder and red agate that were needed for religious activities.

Although there are still many treasures at the bottom of the box that have not been taken out at all, they have already dizzy other countries.

Especially honeydew and crow honey, which are the hard demand of all countries, the elites of each country add up to a huge number, and the production of honeydew and crow honey in the ant alliance country is in short supply.

So much so that the honeypot ant family inherited by the god of flowers, its specialty nectar has not been sold much, and it has also caused a lot of complaints.

But now, even the honeypot ant country has responded to the "law of true fragrance" and began to import honeydew and crow honey. Because the honeypot ant family has a special storage ant, the reserves are very large, and their import volume once jumped to the top of other countries.

In addition to the special products such as salt, coal, and beasts, the main materials used by the countries for trade are grain, so the ant union has a relatively large amount of grain imports, and can maintain a much larger scale of ant populations than the actual output of the territory.

The ant mouth is productivity, and the ant mouth grazes aphids and purple gray butterfly larvae, and the amount of food produced by honeydew and crow honey in exchange for the same ant mouth can be much more than the amount of food produced by the same ant population.

Among the countries, the country that supplies the most food to the ant country is the leaf-cutting ant country, they conquered the northern border of the red fire ant country this year, and occupied a large number of ant populations for war and tree planting, which affected food production, but even so, they still used a lot of grain to exchange honeydew and crow honey, and it was not until the second half of the year that it converged some.

Due to the proximity of the leafcutter ant country to the ant union, the two sides can trade by land, so the transaction volume is huge.

In second place is the Black Fire Ant Country, they are on the south bank of the Qing River and fly a day's distance from [Xinyang City], which is not too far, and the flying caravan can arrive in the morning and evening.

Although the Black Fire Ant Nation mainly exports coal, they also sell a lot of grain, and they buy a lot of stone tools in addition to honeydew and crow honey.

Today, 5 of the 7 flying caravans of the bullet ant clan are exclusively for the black fire ant clan, and the trade volume between the two countries is considerable.

But the so-called sweet annoyance is that as the volume of foreign trade continues to rise, the protagonist finds that the output of honeydew and crow honey cannot keep up.

Male ants, female ants, large worker ants, divine worker ants, and divine ant ants all have a quota of 3 drops of honeydew per day, while ordinary ants have one drop per week. In this way, the internal consumption of the ant alliance is not small.

Although most of the land in the former red fire ant country has been turned into pasture after the territory has been expanded, it takes time for aphids to reproduce, and if an area is grazed for too long, it is necessary to take turns to prevent the death of the plants that the aphids like. The purple gray butterflies that produce crow honey only secrete crow honey in a short larval stage.

Now that production is gradually unable to keep up with the volume of trade, the protagonist learns that the Bullet Ant Clan and the Maolin Ant Clan will need to increase the caravan to expand the scale of the trade.

The protagonist is reluctant to give up foreign trade income, he must think of a way to deal with it!