Compared to the control of the main nest over the national secondary nest under the reign of the King's Council in the past, the protagonist is now not confident that he can still command the various secondary nests.

Judging from the reactions of the males at the King's Conference, even if there is a threat of death, it is difficult for them to agree with the protagonist's rule and philosophy, and it is conceivable how the other male ants of the secondary nest will choose.

Without the support of the sub-nest, the supply of food from outside will be lost, and the food stock in "Qingqiu City" will soon fall below the warning line.

There is no good way for the protagonist to ambush the sub-nests in various places, whether it is military or political means, or a two-pronged approach, ambushing the other sub-nests will be a long battle.

The protagonist can only plan to mobilize food from his most stable base, that is, "Dongyang City" and "Southern City". Although these two places are run by the protagonists, they are very rich and have high grain production. But after adding 100,000 mouths to the main nest, it is clear that the pressure is also great, and food production will be squeezed to the limit.

The protagonist also plans to introduce agricultural planting and animal husbandry in "Qingqiu City", which is the fundamental way to solve the food problem, with the fertile land around "Qingqiu City", as long as agriculture is up, it will not be a problem to support an ant city of three or four hundred thousand people.

As for honeydew, when the time comes, let's obediently play the role of a luxury and hobby, as a staple food it is really not a qualified product.

It will take some time for the implementation of the food self-sufficiency plan to bear fruit, and the technical team sent by "Dongyang City" will soon set off to arrive in "Qingqiu City", but in a short time, the protagonist will still need to tighten his belts with everyone.

- I'm the dividing line -

The main nest "Qingqiu City" is facing not only a shortage of food, but a series of complementary problems, and food shortage is only one of them.

In this respect, the ant "city" is very similar to the human city.

The big city disease of human cities refers to the "symptoms" of population expansion, traffic congestion, housing difficulties, environmental degradation, resource strain, and high prices in large cities.

And the ant "city", if it is too big, in addition to the food supply will be unbearable, there are many other problems.

For example, in the case of garbage, a large number of ants produce excrement, carcasses, food scraps and other garbage that needs to be disposed of. In the past, "Qingqiu City" discarded these in an open-air garbage dump not far from the nest, which was also a common practice for ants. However, this practice may contaminate the environment around the main nest and bring plague.

In particular, the protagonist remembers that parasites can also lurk in this garbage dump, waiting for an opportunity to give the ants a fatal blow. This kind of parasitic bacteria like a zombie virus, the protagonist doesn't want to face it a second time.

For these organic wastes, which are mainly excrement and corpses, rotten food, food scraps, etc., it is a good fertilizer for future farmland development, and the protagonist can be regarded as finding a place for them.

Another example is the problem of crowding. Although the Ant City could theoretically expand indefinitely underground, the original Council of the Great Kings preferred to put ant power into food production rather than sending ants to dig new nests to reduce density. After all, no matter how crowded the worker ants and soldier ants are, it is none of the king's business, and the worker ants and soldier ants will not complain about it.

But the protagonist knows that the high density of the ant population is a paradise for the breeding and spread of plagues. There is no shortage of various sick people in the ant world, and in order to keep most ants alive and healthy, ants treat these sick people with extreme cruelty, that is, kill and discard to avoid infection.

This problem is not obvious in places such as "Dongyang Castle", where there are slightly fewer ant mouths, but it is very acute in the main nest.

The protagonist knows that most ants don't have infectious diseases, and they can recover after recuperation. Therefore, the protagonist wants to establish a simple medical and health system to protect and save ant population resources.

And he didn't want to let the ants lose their obedience and support for him because he had a disease in the future, and drive them away or kill them.

The solution to the problem of high ant population density is also very simple, and one of the easiest ways is to expand the size of the underground nest. But it's not just a matter of construction.

Construction requires a lot of ant power, not only to build new nests and passages, but also to consider issues such as ventilation and drainage, loose soil layers need to be avoided, and considering these technical issues, the ant power resources needed to expand the nest will be very considerable.

These ants only consume food, but cannot produce food, and it is really impossible to implement it without a certain amount of food storage.

For the sake of safety, the entrance and exit of the ant nest will be relatively small and concentrated, and the expanded nest will be far away from the entrance and exit whether it belongs to the horizontal expansion of the horizontal plane or the vertical expansion of the vertical plane, and the ants living in it will waste a lot of time in running back and forth, and the time that can be used to work will be reduced accordingly.

This is just like in places like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, although white-collar workers only need to work eight hours a day in theory, they often contribute about half a day to outside the home, considering the outrageous time consumption such as commuting.

Solving these problems is not a simple matter, nor is it an overnight thing. Before conquering the main nest, the protagonist does not even take into account these social and livelihood issues, and he only thinks about political and military matters.

- I'm the dividing line -

3/18/3 is the third day of the protagonist's conquest of "Qingqiu City".

On this day, after he had sketched out the dates on his calendar, he received a hasty report from the messenger:

Something went wrong!!

The males of the old King's Council camp who were imprisoned in several remote nests were not at ease, and one of the males in the detention site actually escaped for some reason, and they gathered a group of worker ants who belonged to the main nest and began to attack the main entrance and exit, trying to escape.

There were about a dozen male ants in this group, and there were hundreds of worker ants in the group. Due to the suddenness of the incident, the Divine Envoy King's legion is actively engaged in the expansion of the nest, the construction of breeding farms and the construction of farmland ordered by the protagonist, and the troops are extremely scattered, which is difficult to suppress for a while.

However, fortunately, this group of male ants also seemed to know that the little strength around them was not enough to recover the main nest, so they chose to break out, killing many scattered ants with the smell of the Divine Angel King's Legion along the way.

The protagonist is furious, he kindly spared the lives of these male ants, but he didn't expect them to dare to fan the rebellion.

The protagonist quickly calmed himself down, but fortunately, the Praetorian Guard team was helping the protagonist dig the dormitory and all the members were here, so the protagonist immediately gathered them and marched outward, constantly collecting scattered Divine Envoy King warriors and commanders along the way, and soon gathered several squads, and hurried to the main passage and entrance.