Chapter 201: Political Maneuvers
"Politics is the art of compromise."
This sentence gives the protagonist a great inspiration, since each class has its own interests, and since it may be counterproductive to force it forward, then everyone should take a step back and compromise with each other.
Some people may ask, in addition to wisdom, today's ants still retain a lot of primitive animal nature, can they understand the meaning of compromise?
In fact, there is no shortage of cases of profit-based compromise in the animal world.
For example, wolves compromise with each other and share their prey with other companions in exchange for a better chance of survival. In a wolf pack, the lower status wolves often compromise with the higher status in exchange for the opportunity to stay in the pack. And if the wolf king does not compromise after old age and does not take the initiative to give up his position to a young and strong wolf, once he is challenged and fails, what awaits him is the tragic path of becoming a lone wolf after leaving the group.
From tigers to squirrels, tigers of the same sex generally do not cross the territory to offend neighbors, which is also a compromise to reduce conflicts between neighbors due to prey, courtship and other reasons, and reduce the risk of injury and even death.
And the more socialized the animal, the more compromising it will be, due to the needs of the group. And ants are precisely the most typical social creatures.
Therefore, the protagonist is busy these days with each king to communicate privately, understand their position, and explore ways that they can accept.
For example, some kings consider them to be the most noble, and even female ants cannot be compared to them. Then the protagonist lowers the status design of the large worker ant class.
Although on the surface, the big worker ant class is only condescended to the third class, and it seems that the status is not high. However, the protagonist originally planned to let them take the full-time technical route, and there was not much intersection with the power of the male ants, and the difference in status was not too obvious.
Some of the males are extremely indignant that there are no males in the parasitic nest, but instead appoint the great worker ant and the light gold worker ant to take the place of the king and the king, and they fear that the protagonist will do the same, thus threatening the political and military privileges of the males.
The protagonist stipulates that the large worker ant class is not allowed to participate in politics and the military, and like the female ants, they do not have the right to vote on major matters. In fact, the protagonist is also wary of the large worker ant class, which is too young to fully manifest its positive and negative effects.
Some males are dissatisfied with the need for high-grade food for the large worker ant class, and after compromising with each other, the protagonist reduces the high-grade food supply of the adult large worker ants, but tries to ensure the high-grade food supply of the larvae of the large worker ants - without sufficient high-grade food, it is impossible to breed intelligent large worker ants and light gold large worker ants.
The protagonist's strategy also plays a big role, he communicates with each king in private, and even if the other party has objections, the protagonist is in a position to persuade them, or to reach a mutually acceptable terms through concessions and compromises.
This avoids the situation where most of the kings express opposition at the same time in a group meeting, leaving the protagonist unable to convince.
Even if the other party still disagrees, the protagonist can use his position and prestige to ask the other party to keep it secret and avoid the collusion of opposing forces.
In the environment of private communication, Wang faces the protagonist, and generally cares more about the status and prestige of the protagonist, and there is rarely a scene of fierce opposition.
But there are exceptions, Lambovan, the Supreme Commander of the Third Legion appointed by the protagonist, who is stationed in the "Stump Fortress" and cannot leave. As such, the protagonist gives a packet to a Flying Knight Courier to ask for his opinion. The protagonist does this to save time, after all, there are still hundreds of kings in "Dongyang City" who need to be convinced, and the protagonist naturally does not have time to run the "Stump Fortress" in person.
However, when the Flying Knight Courier brings back Rambovan's fierce objections, the protagonist realizes that something is wrong.
Rambovan is a fierce general, but he is quite stubborn, even better than rolling. Although he was promoted by the protagonist, he sternly rejected the protagonist's idea in the message packet he replied to, and incidentally, even the Flying Knight Courier, who had a neutral position, turned against it.
The protagonist has to leave what he is doing and ride Xiaoqing II to the "Stump Fortress" to communicate with Rambovan. The effect of this conversation is very bad, because Rambovan already knew the protagonist's plan in advance, and when he first came into contact with the plan, he did not have the protagonist by his side to affect his cognition, he made an independent judgment based on his own experience and ideas, and now his opinion has been formed, even if the protagonist himself comes to convince him, he can't change it.
However, the opposition of some people does not stop the protagonist's plan. After much effort through his conversations with each king, he roughly determined that there were slightly more people who supported him than those who firmly opposed him, but most of the kings were still hesitant.
As a result, the politically minded protagonist moved the voting system of human society to the past.
The protagonist of this voting system did not connect it with the matter of the Great Worker Ant at first, but only told all the kings that in order to ensure the efficiency and justice of the king's meeting, he introduced a voting system designed by "God", which will be applied to the meeting in the future.
The kings don't suspect him, and they can understand that the voting system in the protagonist's narrative is not so different from the principles of near-unanimous adoption in the king's council. So this proposal was unanimously approved by the kings. This time, the protagonist had to move out of the "Divine Will" again, but this time there was no objection, so it did not arouse everyone's suspicion of the "Divine Will".
The protagonist plays a trick on the voting system, focusing on the "abstention", a power that has never been seen in the royal assembly, and trumpeting the meaning of abstention. In short, he demanded that all kings with neutral and hesitant ideas should abstain from voting.
Therefore, at the final Wang meeting, on the issue of the big worker ants, as expected by the protagonist, the votes for it were only slightly higher than the votes against, and then there were a large number of abstentions. This issue is tantamount to reluctantly passing under the political maneuver of the protagonist.
But now that it's passed, it's a written system, and the protagonist doesn't allow others to question and obstruct it.
In the negative vote, the protagonist sees the names of his confidants, Roll, Rambovan, and Rambery. Although everyone is out of public interest, and the protagonist will not marginalize these kings in the future, there is always some mustard.
The matter of the big worker ants has come to an end for the time being, and the protagonist should be busy with the education and work assignment of the big worker ants.