Fourth, improve transportation efficiency.

Ants now rely on the primitive way of walking with large jaws carrying goods to their nests for long-distance transportation between different nests.

This mode of transportation is very inefficient, and an ant can carry up to hundreds of times its weight of an object, and it is not a problem to travel long distances to carry a cargo that is dozens of times the weight of its body.

However, relying on the large jaw to transport, because the size of the large jaw limits the volume of the object to be moved, and the strength of the large jaw is also limited, the weight of the goods carried by the ants is often less than ten times the weight of the porter, which is simply a great waste of the transporter's physical strength and time.

If multiple ants carry a large object together, although it can improve the transportation efficiency, it will greatly reduce the movement speed of the transport team, just like the speed of several people carrying an object is definitely much slower than walking alone.

Moreover, the ant road taken by the transport is not straight, there are often many obstacles, and large objects often have to climb over some huge obstacles.

Moreover, once the ants of the convoy are in danger, the main weapon, the jaw, is occupied, and they must first drop the goods before fighting. This can easily cause unnecessary casualties and may lead to the destruction of goods or being blown away by strong winds.

The problem of transportation, the protagonist did not feel deeply before, after all, for a long time, the territory of the Divine Envoy King Legion was limited to a corner of [Dongyang City], and the requirements for transportation efficiency and time limit were not high.

It wasn't until the beginning of this year that the Divine Envoy King Legion unified both sides of the river at a very fast pace, greatly increasing the territory area, and the limitations of transportation began to come to the fore.

Even if the Flying Riders are able to take on some of the emergency transport tasks, their capacity is limited. Just as there is a very fast air transport, most of the land freight in modern human society still has to rely on railways with greater capacity and more economical capacity.

The protagonist is also looking for an efficient and heavy-duty means of transportation suitable for the ants.

The transportation revolution of ancient mankind depended on the invention of the wheel, which brought about the transformation of the means of transportation and greatly improved the efficiency of transportation.

And the principle of the wheel is not complicated, children know it.

It's just that the protagonist has long decided that wheels and vehicles are not suitable for the ant world.

The use of wheeled vehicles requires relatively flat road conditions, but the flat ground in the eyes of humans is also full of ups and downs for ants, and a hurdle that humans can cross in one step is a cliff for ants.

If you insist on building a smooth road, such as the straight road from [Linshui City] through [Qingqiu City] to [Dongyang City], for ants who lack tools, the amount of work and difficulty is no less than that of humans to build a Sichuan-Tibet road.

The wheels can't be used, so the protagonist hits the beetle with the idea. The weight that beetles can carry, both in absolute and relative weight, even exceeds that of ants.

Theoretically, as long as a sealed storage box is installed on the back of the beetle, it can be converted into a "heavy-duty truck".

It's a pity that the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, and the number of beetles in the Divine Envoy King's legion can't even form a second beetle legion, let alone allocate it to civilian use.

In addition to allowing the newly formed livestock group to increase the number of beetles as soon as possible, the protagonist now plans to eliminate all the small beetles of the rolling 1st Legion, and these eliminated beetles will be able to join the transport team to alleviate the dilemma of tight capacity.

However, more transportation work still needs to be undertaken by the ants themselves, and the protagonist wants the scientific research team to develop a backpack that can be easily put on and taken off by ants, which can accommodate goods as the main mode of transportation in the future.

Fifth, porcelain-making, charcoal-burning and iron-making technology.

As mentioned earlier, the reason that plagued the scientific research team from making iron was that the furnace temperature of the copper smelting blast furnace was insufficient, and the most feasible way to increase the furnace temperature under the existing conditions was to use bellows and charcoal.

The structure of the bellows is too complex, requires a high carpentry memory, and a large enough leather. In contrast, the protagonist prefers to get the charcoal out first.

Charcoal is a dark brown or black porous solid fuel left over from incomplete combustion of wood or wood-based raw materials or pyrolysis in the absence of air.

The process is not complicated, and there are archaeological discoveries of using charcoal to smelt bronzes in the Shang Dynasty. The simplest method of charcoal burning is kiln firing, that is, building a kiln with soil, filling it with wood, and burning it from the kiln door or fire gate, so that the wood is carbonized in the kiln, and the volatiles escape and the charcoal remains.

Building a charcoal kiln is similar to building a blast furnace, and the raw materials needed for the charcoal kiln are easy to find, and the ants are currently skilled enough to burn charcoal.

With charcoal, the temperature in the copper smelting blast furnace can be raised to more than 1,000 degrees Celsius, which basically meets the conditions for iron smelting.

It's just that the furnace temperature is not enough to cast iron, so the ancient people often use the forging method to process iron, the strength and body shape of the ants are not suitable for this processing method, how to process semi-finished iron in the future is still a problem, to be studied.

In addition, a furnace temperature of more than 1,000 degrees can also be used to fire porcelain, unlike the current fireshell flame, which can only be used to fire pottery with a heat of several hundred degrees.

Porcelain has an enamel layer, which has better waterproof and mechanical properties, and is also more beautiful and bacterial, making it more suitable as a living vessel than pottery.

In addition, the hardness of the porcelain tiles is very high, and there are ceramic knives in modern human society, and the hardness and sharpness of the small-volume porcelain tiles suitable for ants can even exceed the copper jaw knife and the iron jaw knife, which is one of the development directions of the future individual equipment of the Divine Envoy King Legion.

Sixth, improve shipbuilding technology.

Shipbuilding and water transportation are new technologies developed by the Divine Envoy King Legion only this year, because they are not mature enough, and they are not included in the previous list of scientific and technological achievements in continuous improvement.

At present, the water transportation of the Divine Envoy King Legion is mainly made by connecting multiple walnuts together, and there are many shortcomings.

For example, it lacks power, and the power depends on sails and bee traction, but the former can only be used when the wind direction is right, and the latter is not efficient and will also take up valuable bee resources.

The protagonist wants to improve the sails, and the sails of the Age of Discovery can already use the wind from all sides, and the speed has gradually increased to more than a dozen knots, indicating that the upgrade potential of the original sails is still great. But the protagonist doesn't know much about those intricate sails, so he can only slowly grope for them.

In addition, the bees that currently tow walnut boats provide a lot of power, especially when the wind is not downwind, and they are completely dependent on bee traction. The protagonist also has plans to replace the traction insect with another insect, such as a water spider.

Water spiders can move freely on the water, unlike bees that can only fly in the air, and the traction efficiency on the water surface is obviously higher than that in the air, and there is no need to worry about the drowning of the towing beast.