Whether it is to provide military rations in the early stage, or to put forward a strategy to feed the enemy, it is all aimed at solving the potential food crisis problem of the expeditionary force of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.

Although the protagonist didn't tell the king of the meeting at all, even if he did, there were actually many potential risks.

For example, most of the territory of the Paving Ant Kingdom did not suffer from this natural fire disaster, but they did not escape the cold spring at the beginning of the year. Moreover, the Paving Ant Country uses troops everywhere, and the military rations consumed are no longer a few. Therefore, it is still unknown how much food can be stored in the secondary nest in the hinterland of the Paving Ant Kingdom, and the expeditionary force of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is likely to encounter a shortage of food.

However, as long as the protagonist deceives this army across the river, he will achieve his goal.

At that time, if the expeditionary force goes well and captures enough food and grass to continue the battle, it will be like the original plan, and they will develop in their territory with peace of mind.

If the expeditionary force is really short of food, of course he will not sit idly by, the big-headed ant kingdom is the weaker side compared to the paving ants, if he is beaten down, then the "gap" that the protagonist needs to survive does not exist.

At that time, the protagonist can still provide some military food aid, but then the king meeting will have to exchange things. Such as salt mines, such as giving the protagonist greater autonomy, and so on.

As long as the expeditionary force is allowed to cross the river, the protagonist of this business will have the confidence to make a steady profit.

Thinking of this, the protagonist suddenly remembered that another important purpose of this visit was to obtain salt resources.

So, after a period of military issues, the protagonist brings up the topic of the recent salt crisis in the territory.

Some of the kings who paid more attention to the administrative and logistical work echoed the protagonist's statement, and one of them even gave a full explanation of the reasons for the salt shortage to the meeting, which was consistent with what the protagonist had learned at the beginning.

It seems that there are many capable people in the king's meeting, although the IQ of a single male ant is at the level of a primary school student in the eyes of the protagonist. However, there are 500 kings in the entire king's meeting, and at least one king will pay attention and be responsible for any subtle management aspect, make their own decisions on small matters, and then hand over important issues to the collective discussion.

This kind of collective intelligence can effectively compensate for the lack of intelligence of the ants individually, and there will be no problem that dictators ignore many subtle aspects for various reasons.

Most of the kings did not have a deep understanding of the shortage of salt, and as nobles, their salt was guaranteed.

Even the king, who knew the salt situation in the kingdom very well, did not understand the dangers of salt shortage, and after learning the news by chance, he kept an eye on it and sent some scouts to find out the information, he only knew that each lair would need a small number of these things every day.

As a result, when the protagonist proposes to hand over the salt mine to himself and guarantee that he can stabilize the supply of salt, he is unceremoniously rejected by several kings.

Then, the entire king meeting decided not to accept the proposal of the protagonist.

In their opinion, for the sake of such a small amount of salt, which requires little salt, it is worth the loss to hand over an entire secondary nest to the protagonist.

And many of the protagonist's practices were already at odds with the king class, so everyone took this opportunity to boycott a wave. Even if it is an elementary school student, there is a political struggle in the classroom, and the protagonist is unfortunately the one who is excluded.

The result was discouraging, of course, but not too surprising.

The Council of the Great Kings did not see the strategic significance of the salt mines, but simply felt that arbitrarily giving more power to an already powerful Great King for the sake of a stable supply of a little unimportant resources would disrupt the balance of power of the Great King's class.

The protagonist did not get the desired result, which is also expected, and there will be opportunities to use the exchange of interests to achieve the goal in the future. Today's proposal is just a test for the protagonist.

- I'm the dividing line -

After the decision was made at the meeting of the kings, the entire kingdom of big-headed ants was like a clockwork machine, and began to run at full speed around the Northern Expedition.

The messenger from the main nest gallops to the secondary nests, carrying the latest commands.

Each sub-nest began to temporarily set up a grain transportation team to transport the grain that was not rich in the first place to the main nest and the disaster area where food was more needed.

For a while, the entire territory of the big-headed ant kingdom was full of moving ant teams.

Some of the hungry insects in the disaster area did not care about the terrible prestige of the ant colony at this time, and began to try to hunt some smaller teams.

This, of course, has had some negative effects on the overall shipping effort. In the end, the ants who had no food to find in the various sub-nests in the disaster area were organized to escort the convoy to stop the momentum.

The protagonist does not need to work hard to organize transportation, and the food captured in the first anti-encirclement campaign is enough to cope with the consumption of the expeditionary force. And this batch of grain is now in the "bridgehead".

During this period of armament warfare, the protagonist mainly arranges some preparations in the "bridgehead" and "waterfront city".

These two places, one is the only stronghold on the north bank of the Great River, and the other is the economic center and logistics center of the protagonist in the northern region, and there are many secrets that cannot be revealed.

However, these two locations are on both sides of the rope bridge across the big river, and they are also the places where the army of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom must pass.

Therefore, some confidentiality work is essential. In particular, the paving ants under the command of the protagonist in the "bridgehead" can't appear, otherwise they will be lucky to be killed as enemies, and if they are identified by the smell that these paving ants belong to the army of the Divine Messenger King, the protagonist will not know how to deal with the questioning of the King's meeting.

To do a good job of secrecy, the protagonist intends to start from two aspects.

On the one hand, the protagonist wants to shorten the stay of the Big-headed Ant Expeditionary Force in his territory as much as possible.

The protagonist decides to let the expeditionary force enter the territory of "Waterfront City" as soon as it is dawn, and then start crossing the river, which will be completed in half a day.

Afterwards, the expeditionary force does not enter the "bridgehead", but directly marches forward to another base prepared for them by the protagonist.

This base is the secondary nest of the paving ant country that was conquered by the protagonist in the first counter-encirclement and suppression.,Due to the relationship between war and wildfire.,The news of the loss of this place may not be known to the enemy.,Or know but don't plan to regain it for the time being.。

This nest is structurally complete, the size is relatively suitable, and it is a certain distance from the "bridgehead", making it a very suitable camp.

To this end, the protagonist also mobilized some troops to repair the antway between the "bridgehead" and this sub-nest that was a mess of wildfires, and then stationed a small number of troops in this sub-nest and stockpiled some food.

The rest is to wait for the arrival of the expeditionary force of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.