Private ownership, these three words seem to have magic power, which makes the protagonist want to stop. He seemed to have found the answer that he had been trying to figure out what he had been trying to do.

Private ownership is an economic system, and the most basic aspect of this system lies in the selfishness of human beings. Under private ownership, property is the exclusive possession of individual or collective property, so private ownership is one of the most basic signs of an exploitative society.

Private ownership is also considered to be one of the basic hallmarks of a relatively efficient economic society. And the development of the productive forces is the reason for the emergence of private ownership.

At the end of primitive society, with the continuous increase of productive forces, new production tools or methods were invented, which directly promoted the emergence of relative surplus products, and the distribution of surplus products was the earliest prototype of private ownership.

And the stage that the big-headed ant kingdom is in now is, in the eyes of the protagonist, close to the primitive public ownership stage of human primitive society.

Public ownership is an economic system as opposed to private ownership. Under this system, the ownership of the means of production disappears and the means of production are not subject to exclusive possession.

For example, in the kingdom of big-headed ants, valuable resources (such as nests, food, etc.) are shared by each ant, that is, they are publicly owned. Of course, some high-quality food will only be eaten by male ants and queens, while soldier ants and worker ants are not entitled to use it, but this also reflects public ownership, and this kind of high-quality food belongs to the male ant or queen class.

This seemingly fair social structure of public ownership has played an important role in ensuring the continuation of the ant race and ensuring competitive advantage, and has also made close relatives such as ants and bees one of the few races with a social structure among insects.

However, in the protagonist's view, as the ants have learned to use fire and have the characteristics of primitive civilization, this public ownership system will eventually restrict the further development of civilization.

Let's take a look at the historical experience of human society.

It is a historical necessity for mankind to move from a primitive society to a slave society and from public ownership to private ownership. This is the result of the development of the productive forces, and it is also the need for the development of the productive forces.

Primitive societies were originally a "gathering-hunting" economy, and the relationship between humans and nature was simply a matter of taking. In this way, when the population naturally increases to a certain extent, the amount of food produced in the surrounding area cannot support such a large number of people, and human beings have to migrate to other places and live a life of exile.

The problem with this "gathering-hunting" approach to obtaining food is that the food source is unstable, and the prey is often not hunted for many days, and even if the prey can be found, it often requires the cooperation of many people. Sometimes, even if you are lucky enough to catch a large prey, it is not a few hunters who can eat the meat before it spoils. In this case, it is more advantageous for humans to share food with each other than to eat it alone - the excess meat is wasted anyway, and it is better to share it with other hunters who have not caught their prey for a while. When one day you are hungry, other hunters can also share their prey with you to avoid starvation from time to time.

This is the case with the cave people, who "use communal tools, work together, and distribute food together, without distinction between rich and poor", referring to this kind of life. This mode of life and economy is not because they are particularly conscious, but because they are forced by life to survive without public ownership.

When humans began farming and animal husbandry, the situation was different – they went from being mere food takers to producers.

This means that the new population is not only eating food, but also putting it into labor, allowing the land to produce more food and a more stable source of food.

When productivity rises to a certain level, specifically, a person produces more food than he needs, and population growth not only does not bring about a food crisis, but rather a surplus. In this way, there is no need for human beings to move around, and the rate of population growth is much faster.

The stable source of food means that there is no need to continue public ownership. Farming and animal husbandry can be run by small-scale families, and there is no need to mobilize the entire tribe. Due to human nature, small families will also take the initiative to abandon the public ownership system in production and harvesting.

Therefore, at this stage, the implementation of private ownership in human society is a matter of pushing the boat downstream.

And with the advent of private ownership, as well as commerce, mathematics, astronomy, and the calendar, human civilization finally saw the dawn.

After the protagonist crosses into this world, although he has become an ant, he also hopes to transform this ant society, to obtain better living conditions, and to be able to dominate the world of ants.

His series of practices and measures to renovate "Dongyang City" have achieved a lot of results.

For example, he stole fire from the main nest, allowing Dongyang City to obtain fire, an important resource.

With the help of fire, the protagonist realizes simple pottery firing, which makes "Dongyang Castle" have more suitable containers for storing water and food. Using the physical characteristics of pottery, the use of pottery knives and pottery spears also allowed the big-headed ants to use artificial tools for the first time.

The protagonist leads the group to domesticate mealworms and flies, which can not only provide a stable source of meat for Dongyang City, but also no longer rely on hunting alone. Moreover, flies can also be used as mounts, which have important military applications.

The protagonist also led everyone to sow grass seeds and open up a small piece of farmland. The farmland is now growing well, and if nothing else, new grass seeds will be harvested in a few months.

It can be said that the protagonist relied on his own experience and experience to bring "Dongyang City" from a primitive tribe that originally relied on "gathering and hunting" to a primary civilization stage that could carry out "farming and animal husbandry".

Today, there are more than 10,000 ants in Dongyang City, which is larger than any secondary nest and second only to the main nest, which combines various resources and advantages.

At present, "Dongyang City" is basically not worried about food shortages. As long as Dongyang City continues to expand its agricultural scale, it is not difficult to provide more ant populations.

But it seems to be developing rapidly, but the protagonist always feels that there is a problem with the development of "Dongyang City".

In the past, the rapid development of "Dongyang City" was due to technological advances, such as fire, pottery, planting and animal husbandry.

Although Dongyang City is still developing, it relies on the marginal effect of expanding production, rather than the benefits of technological progress.

It is not impossible for the protagonist to continue to lead the progress of technology, and his accumulated knowledge, experience and vision as a human are thousands of years ahead of these ants.

But when he wanted to do this, he found that both he and "Dongyang City" had entered a bottleneck.