Chapter 274: Compromise and Concession

This is how the male ant class has attained the highest authority in the whole society, but this power is not stable.

Compared with the time of ant civilization, the time for male ants to obtain the highest power is too short, and it is not enough to form an absolute patriarchal society after thousands of years of continuous reinforcement like the human world, and even women consciously maintain this concept of male supremacy.

In many cases, the queen ants still covet the loss of supreme power, at least the males think so. In this case, the worker ants, who are also females and descendants of the queen, are the queen's natural allies.

Even within the male ant class, there are different voices, such as the minority led by the eldest king, who believe that the queen should be given more power and should not be placed under the rule of the male ant.

However, this kind of voice is not mainstream, and the vast majority of males are determined to defend the existing interests of their own class. The queen's power is limited by the males, and if it weren't for the queen's responsibility to reproduce, the males would have ruthlessly wiped them out or expelled them.

The queen ant still enjoys a high status in the ant colony, but its status is lower than that of the male, which is a rule on the surface.

The queen still has access to the same supply as the male, but given the huge disparity in numbers between the male and the queen, the stingy male will not care about this resource.

The queen ant has been removed from the decision-making circle, and even in order to limit the queen, the male ants have deprived the queen of the right to be educated. As a result, the originally intelligent queen ant has been free-ranged since birth, and has no knowledge other than reproduction, and has become an ignorant person. The only opportunity they have to go out in their lives is a moment of freedom at the wedding ceremony. Perhaps this is the reason why many queens, after their first taste of freedom, would rather take risks and struggle to survive outside than return to their nests.

However, do the queens really have their own educational heritage?

In short, the male ants and the queen of the nest are so wary that it is naturally difficult for the protagonist to give more benefits to the large worker ant class and accept the practice of the preach ants.

The whole meeting was interspersed with criticism of the protagonist's approach, and although reformist kings such as the police occasionally defended the protagonist, it was apparently a small talk.

The protagonist's mood is getting worse and worse, but fortunately he doesn't say a word, and hides in the corner, so that the king doesn't notice that the object of their criticism has come to the scene.

At the meeting of the kings, the topic turns to normal, the official deployment of war preparations begins, and towards the end of the meeting, the protagonist identifies himself and tells everyone that he has just arrived at the scene.

The specific circumstances of this meeting are unknown, and it is not known whether the protagonist was harassed by the kings after he appeared.

Anyway, when the protagonist returns to "Waterfront City", he is in a bad mood.

Upon returning, the protagonist issues the first command.

He divided the nests and fortresses he managed into normal and safe zones, with the common zone allowing any ant from his country to pass and the safe zone allowing only certain ants to pass.

The safety zone includes: male ant dormitory, queen ant dormitory, nursery room, granary, material warehouse, combustion room, workshop, breeding farm, etc., only the male ants, queen ants, and large worker ants under the command of the protagonist can pass through these areas at will, and ants such as the soldiers of the Divine Messenger King's legion, the agricultural team, and the miscellaneous team that takes care of the young ants can pass through the safe areas for which they are responsible.

In order to verify their identity, the protagonist even sets up a signal for the ants to pass, for example, the guard will ask: What is in the sky, and the visitor will reply: a black butterfly. Only if the fixed signal is answered correctly will the passage be allowed. The traffic signal is also changed every once in a while.

The protagonist wants to use this method to block the King's Council's intelligence test against his command. It can also be seen from this that the experience of this king's meeting made the protagonist feel very unpleasant.

In fact, the protagonist seriously considered the final plan of breaking with the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom at the King's Conference.

However, considering the limited strength under his command, with only a few legions and two secondary nests, even with advanced tactics and weapons, he is far from being the opponent of the large head ant kingdom with many people. What's more, "Dongyang City" and "Waterfront City" are far apart and can be easily separated, and "Waterfront City" and "Bridgehead" also need to face the threat of paving ant barbarians.

The protagonist finally endures it, he compromises, and uses the price of handing over mealworm farms and farmland technology to keep the big worker ant class, but not the paving ants under his command.

According to the decision of the King's Council, the protagonist needs to kill his paving ants, but the protagonist has his own way, he can transfer these loyal paving ants to the "bridgehead", which is separated by a large river, and the King's Council will not be able to hear from them. The protagonist only needs to reply that he has complied, and the ants never lie anyway, and they can't tell the difference between lies.

The protagonist is holding his breath in his heart, he has traveled through a year, although he does not have much sense of belonging to the big-headed ant kingdom, but he has also participated in the war for this kingdom and contributed a lot. And now, he felt aggrieved and humiliated at the king's meeting, especially in terms of interests and ideas, he was incompatible with most other kings.

The protagonist has also taken the name of his divine envoy king, and justified his measures in the name of "divine decree".

However, this time the king's meeting was not so bought in the face of the "divine decree". After all, the ant's obedience to God is a religion of primitive realism, a fear of all kinds of inexplicable and powerful forces of nature. But this fear and reverence for God is limited and not enough to make them abandon their interests and traditions deep in their genes.

In addition, the king of the gods, as the spokesman of the gods, is inferior to the oldest king in communicating with the gods, and now the whereabouts of the oldest king are unknown, and there is no reminder from the oldest king in the main nest, which further weakens the fear and respect of the kings for the gods.

The protagonist borrowed the "divine will" this time, but barely managed to maintain the status and legitimacy of the big worker ant class. To do this, the protagonist needs to hand over the farm and farmland technology, as well as hand over a valuable batch of aphids and scale insects that can provide honeydew to the main nest.

The protagonist doesn't feel sorry for these materials, as long as he is alive, the knowledge from the human world in his mind will soon be able to make his territory develop rapidly.

All you need is time. When the time comes, whether it is the big-headed ant kingdom, or the paving ant barbarian, or the parasitic ant or the hunting sickle ant, there will be no power to stop them.

This is the end of the King's Council's disposition of the protagonist, and the protagonist has also received his own new mission, which is also the task he has won - to hold the "bridgehead" without the support of the main nest until the reinforcements arrive after the end of the Reconquest War.