Just when the fierce battle on the north bank of the river is in full swing, the protagonist is also in full swing to make various preparations, ready to intervene in the battle situation in Hebei at any time.

The main nest of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom had learned of the battle situation from the messenger sent back by the Northern Expeditionary Army, who described the current situation as serious, and repeatedly urged reinforcements and new supplies.

However, in order to gather a hundred legions of the Northern Expeditionary Army and its materials, the main nest has squeezed all parts of the country to the limit, and each side nest is now in a state of emptiness, and now it is extremely difficult for the main nest to put together a new army in the short term, and it is not possible to make up many available materials.

So, at the suggestion of the king with the ulterior motives of the department, the king of the main nest ordered the protagonist to lead the army north to support, and at the same time provide a large amount of food.

However, the protagonist has expected this, and he immediately sends a messenger to the main lair, claiming that his legion has suffered heavy losses in the south, and that it is not in the conditions to go north for the time being, and there is no food to provide.

He pointed out that due to the extreme lack of salt in his legion (in fact, due to the destruction of production, the entire kingdom of the big-headed ant was more or less short of salt), even the queen ant did not lay many eggs and could not replenish the war damage. The labor efficiency of the light-eating worker ants has also been greatly reduced, and now the food is very tight.

Only by completely solving the salt problem can the protagonist have a way to support Hebei.

Taking this opportunity, the protagonist complains and asks to send someone to "Yancheng" to mine salt.

The protagonist's hand is to completely control the salt resources of "Yancheng". Previously, the protagonist had this idea, but due to the first encirclement and suppression battle of the "bridgehead" launched by the Paving Ant Barbarian Army, the protagonist was in a hurry to go north and put this plan on hold for the time being.

Now, the main nest has a request for himself, and the protagonist naturally takes this intention out as a bargaining chip.

The main nest did not realize the depth of the protagonist's intentions, and was eager to rescue the psychology of the troubled enemy's Northern Expeditionary Army, so that the king meeting was sick and rushed to the hospital, and quickly agreed to the protagonist's request.

After receiving the authorization of the main nest, the protagonist immediately began to form a team and prepare to go to "Salt City".

- I'm the dividing line -

In addition to his intention to occupy the salt mines, the protagonist is also worried about another problem to be solved these days - the problem of the eldest king and the "real main nest".

Before the conquest of the southern hills, Dongyang City once welcomed the messenger of the most old king.

After the eldest king mysteriously disappeared from the main nest, a series of suspicions and battles occurred among the kings around this incident, and finally the elder brother temporarily took the position of the oldest king.

The eldest king himself, with a few queens and followers, secretly went to the south of the kingdom and established the "real main nest".

On that occasion, the Courier brings the most old king's greetings to the protagonist, and shows that they are the rightful rulers of the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, and have obtained the allegiance of some nearby Vice-Hives to establish a state within a state within the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom.

This kingdom within a kingdom does not seem to be known to the Council of Kings of the Lord's Nest at the moment, probably because there is cover from the oldest kings in all parts of the kingdom, including the Lord's Nest.

And the oldest Wang also said that now they are short of food, and I hope the protagonist can help. He also left an address, which is a secondary nest on the border of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, hoping that the protagonist will provide a batch of food here.

The protagonist speculates that this secondary nest may be the "real main nest" in the mouth of the oldest king, or it may be a secondary nest that takes refuge in the oldest king.

As for why the oldest king asked for help from him, the protagonist can only say that either his name as a god envoy king makes the other party think that he is also from their wave, or "Dongyang City" is too rich and is remembered. Or both.

This incident makes the protagonist feel that he is involved in a big conspiracy, which is very unpleasant.

In the end, the eldest king even asks the protagonist to obey the instructions of the "real main nest" and fight against the current main nest and the king's meeting of the current big-headed ant kingdom.

It is from this requirement that the protagonist suddenly realizes - he thinks of the secret inheritance of the queen ant within the paving ant barbarians.

The protagonist guesses that what the oldest king believes in is also the inheritance system in which this kind of queen ant is respected.

This inheritance believes that the entire ant world was ruled by the queen ant, who was the orthodox ruler, and the society at that time was orderly.

The current male rulers are nothing more than a bunch of thieves who have usurped power, and their rule is not recognized by the queen's secret inheritance. Moreover, the queen secret inheritance believes that the evil male ants do not allow the young females to receive education in order to limit the queen and the female.

But the queen ants still secretly pass on the knowledge and experience from generation to generation, dreaming of reviving the tradition of the queen of the ant. They can even get some male and worker allegiance.

In retaliation, the Queen Secret Inheritance encourages young females to find an opportunity to escape and develop their own colony after attending the Wedding Flight Ceremony, following the ancient tradition, to establish a colony ruled by the queen. And it is said that there is already a precedent for success.

It seems that in the country of the big-headed ant king, the power of the queen's secret inheritance is still very strong, and even the oldest king with a high status in the king's meeting is also a group of them.

Moreover, unlike the queen inheritors of the paving ant kingdom who tried to influence the young female ants and escaped from the restraints through the negative means of escaping after the marriage flight, the queen inheritors of the big-headed ant kingdom had more intense methods and fled en masse.

The inheritors of this group of big-headed ant kingdoms should be a small group centered on some queens, with some worker ants, soldier ants and even male ants being loyal.

This small group is quite cohesive, and it has not revealed its existence for so many years, and the king meeting of the big-headed ant kingdom may not know anything about this force under their noses.

The small group of queen inheritors has been carefully and slowly gathering strength with the long history of the big-headed ant kingdom, and perhaps they have also adopted the same method as paving the ant kingdom before, hoping that the young female ants will leave the group after marriage and flight to establish the ideal kingdom.

However, there are always failed new queens who are forced to return to their main nest, and they are the inheritors from generation to generation.

Now, thanks to the fact that the eldest king of this generation has become a supporter of the queen's secret lineage, the queen has finally been able to escape from the prison of the main nest.

Then, what happened next: the establishment of the "real Lord's Nest", forced to seek help due to food pressure, and exposed its existence.

Based on interest considerations, the protagonist did not want to contact the Elder Wang faction at that time, so as not to deteriorate the relationship with the main nest after the East Window incident.

He ordered the messenger to be killed, and sent the Flying Knight to dump the messenger's body near the territory of the Elder's faction.

In this way, the eldest king will think that the messenger did not arrive at "Dongyang City" due to an accident, and the protagonist will be able to get some buffer time.