Chapter 39: The Aftermath (3)
The world of ants will always suffer from all kinds of disasters.
A rainstorm that seems to be a little larger is a rain disaster, a nest of wasps can stir up a lot of peace, and a wildfire is the end of the world for those who are there.
Therefore, how to deal with various difficulties after the disaster, at least the big-headed ant kingdom has some experience.
At the suggestion of some high-ranking kings, the main nest decided to allocate the newly harvested grain to the main nest and the disaster area from the unaffected secondary nest, and everyone tightened their belts to tide over the difficulties.
Fortunately, it is already summer, everything is verdant, and there is no place for disasters, and the ants can get a lot of food.
It is only in places where the density of ant populations is too high, such as the main nest, that it is impossible to achieve self-sufficiency in bad years.
Because of this, no nest in a country can expand indefinitely.
When discussing the allocation quota, the protagonist naturally does not jump out and say that his family has abundant food reserves, even if it is the food in the disaster-stricken "Linshui City", there is no shortage of food at present, and there is also a batch of military rations seized from the first anti-encirclement and suppression.
However, as an unaffected area, Dongyang Castle is also a well-known and wealthy area, and the protagonist can only cut the meat, and generally provides a large number of mealworm jerky to his neighbors according to the requirements of the King Conference.
The protagonist thinks to himself, after he goes back, he must ask Rambo Fei to hand over the jerky that has been in stock for the longest time. Full of profiteers.
In this way, the work of allocating materials after the disaster will be arranged, and after that, the disaster area will have to find a way to rebuild on its own.
There was little to rebuild, the natural environment had to wait for it to slowly recover on its own, and the underground ant nest was not destroyed in the wildfires.
The topic of the King's meeting jumped to the second item, the topic of the next military action.
Originally, after the victorious end of the reconquest war, after a short rest and replenishment of a batch of supplies, the expeditionary force was supposed to go north, cross the river with the help of the protagonist, and attack the native of the old enemy Paved Ant.
However, after the wildfires, due to the shortage of supplies and the need to convene a meeting of the kings, the expeditionary force returned to the main nest under the leadership of the commanders.
Now, at the meeting, many of the kings questioned the need to continue the next step of military action.
Their reason was very simple, the soldiers and horses had not moved the grain and grass first, and now the whole kingdom was struggling to live in a tight life due to the disaster, and it was really difficult to draw enough supplies.
But there are also many kings who insist on continuing the expedition, and the temptation to set foot on the territory of the old enemy for the first time, and maybe even destroy the glory of the old enemy is extremely great.
The protagonist watched coldly, and he could naturally tell that in the messages transmitted in the white cobblestone floor of the conference room, those who opposed the continuation of the expedition were basically the kings who did not get the opportunity to go on the expedition in this military operation. And the king who participated in it continued the original plan regardless of the request.
Again, there was a stake in it, and the opposing faction could not gain credit for participating in the limited number of kings' expeditions, while the supporters could not wait to receive it.
Honor, for kings of equal status in theory, means prestige, but also means stronger oppression over other kings. The five hundred kings who are theoretically equal are actually divided into three, six, nine and so on due to factors such as seniority and prestige.
For example, the oldest king who can communicate with the gods, and the public security king who has made outstanding achievements, etc., have a much higher voice than some new kings who have just been promoted.
Now, the arguments between the two sides are fierce. As a product of the ant's traditional theory of class equality, the Council of Kings is very similar to the early clan commune assembly of mankind, and must be unanimously decided at the meeting before it can take effect.
And as it is now, with almost half of the support and opposition being divided, then the issue can easily be put on hold. And the stranding of the issue means the de facto cessation of military operations.
The protagonist can't bear it.
When the military operation was first formulated, the protagonist was one of the leaders, and it was the basic "national policy" set by the protagonist to let the big-headed ant kingdom and the paving ant kingdom consume each other.
Only by forming a situation in which the two powers contain each other, can the situation that the protagonist is now facing with the military threat of paving ants on the outside and the main nest king meeting on the inside can be changed, and his own power can develop.
Moreover, the protagonist has made a lot of preparations for this, and even fought with the Paving Ant Army in the "bridgehead".
Now, if the reinforcements that were originally said to be good are not coming, isn't that a trap for themselves? He will become the first line in the face of the army of paving ants, and he will continue to consume the first line with the original limited number of elite troops, which is not a situation that the protagonist wants to see.
As a result, the protagonist had to speak out......
- I'm the dividing line -
In the end, the Council of the Great Kings reluctantly decided to continue the military operation.
Because the protagonist's speech at the meeting was supported by the pro-troop faction, it impressed the neutral faction, and resolved the doubts of the opposing faction, so that the opposition had no other reason to raise it for a while.
Since the consciousness-based communication of ants is very different from that of human speech, in order to respect the original intention of these ant communicators and avoid too many errors in the conversion into the words used by human language, here is a brief summary of the protagonist's speech:
First, he noted the need for the continuation of military operations.
Every winter, the paving ant barbarians invade the territory of the great Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, but although the invincible Big-Headed Ant Kingdom army can always defeat the opponent, it has never invaded the opponent's territory once. As a brave warrior, can this be tolerated?
These words successfully stimulated the aggressive fanatic attribute inherent in the genes of the already aggressive ants.
Second, the protagonist is willing to provide an additional 40,000 troops with enough food for a week to be used as food for the expeditionary force to go out.
This batch of grain happened to be the amount seized during the first anti-encirclement and suppression, and the protagonist also "let out" this batch of grain with blood dripping in his heart.
After all, I can't bear the wolf with my child, so instead of letting my own elite guard the inexhaustible military rations and fight with the enemy, it is better to distribute it to the big-headed ant kingdom army and let them go to the top, so that they can spend money to hire a group of mercenaries.
Of course, the protagonist says that these military rations were saved by the gods to save the king's legions.
Now that the management of foreign ants has been increased in the protagonist's territory, the protagonist is not worried that the spies sent by other kings will be able to find out his actual material stock.
In the end, the main character's suggestion is tempting - we are short of food, but the paving ant barbarians are not short of food.
This time, the territory of the paving ant barbarians has basically not been affected, we can go and rob their food, occupy their nests, because the food is the enemy!