Chapter 167: Class Barrier
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I'm the dividing line
[Dongyang City] is a scientific research center and industrial center within the territory of the Divine Envoy King's Legion.
With the protagonist taking possession of the south bank of the Great River, he moved the political center to the main nest of the original Big-headed Ant Kingdom [Qingqiu City], so that legally, the Divine Envoy King Legion is equivalent to inheriting all the inheritance of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, and it is also easy for the male ants to return to their hearts.
And [Dongyang City], the protagonist's earliest territory, then no longer assumed the function of a political center.
With the promotion of mealworm breeding, agricultural planting and other technologies throughout the territory, the original economic advantages of [Dongyang City] are no longer obvious, although its total volume is still huge.
As for the output of the small salt mine in [Dongyangcheng], it is not worth mentioning compared to a professional mining nest like [New Yancheng], so the mining here is not developed.
The reason why [Dongyang City] can still maintain a very important position in the territory of the Divine Envoy King Legion is that in addition to being the birthplace of the protagonist, in addition to its ant population and economy being among the best, the most important thing is that it is the scientific research center and industrial town of the territory.
Scientific research and industry require a large number of fixed assets, scale advantages, and division of labor. Dongyang Castle has an inherent advantage in this regard, with a complete range of laboratories built over the years, a huge copper smelting blast furnace, and a well-defined division of pottery, textile and stone workshops.
At present, more than half of the more than 100,000 ant populations in Dongyang City are members of scientific research or industry, and the proportion of ant populations employed in the primary industry has been reduced to less than 50%, which is equivalent to the occupational distribution of some human countries in the 20th century.
Because of this, the huge farms, farmlands, and aphid herds in [Dongyang City] produce a huge amount of food, but there are not many that can support other than the local community.
It can be said that a large number of pottery, stone tools, ropes, textiles, copper weapons, and wooden tools needed on the south bank of the entire river basically depended on the supply of [Dongyang Castle]. There is little industry in various places, except for a small number of simple pottery and ropes that can be produced without much fixed assets.
Even important towns such as [Qingqiu City], [Linshui City], and [Southern City] do not have large-scale industries, and are more likely to produce improvised weapons such as slings.
The reason why the industry is so arranged, the protagonist is also a last resort, scientific research and industry need scale advantages, the current scientific and technological level and industrial production capacity of the Divine Envoy Wang Legion, in fact, is still insignificant, the level of science and technology is even inferior to the ancient Chinese in the Shang Dynasty, and the industrial efficiency is not as good as a small rural workshop in the protagonist's previous life.
If such a weak research laboratory and workshop were to be scattered across the territory to fight on their own, development would inevitably be very slow. And in one place, resource allocation, division of labor and cooperation are very convenient.
Therefore, the protagonist can only first count on the huge scale of [Dongyang City] to replicate itself sufficiently, and then he can consider the layout of the second and third industrial centers, and the same is true for scientific research.
I split the line
The protagonist rides the reluctant Xiaoqing II and flies in the air for an hour to arrive at [Dongyang City].
Although there is a mystery ball as a warm baby, so that it will not be frozen, flying outdoors is not a good experience.
It's like a person with an electric blanket wrapped around his body, but his limbs, head and face are exposed, and he runs into the snow, freezing to death but also uncomfortable.
Therefore, Xiaoqing II has a very good opinion about this flight, after all, it is an act against instinct, and it will suffer again, it flies in the air with weak energy, and as soon as it arrives at [Dongyang City], it hides in the warm stable and does not come out. It seems that the protagonist will have to work hard next time to make it take off.
Arriving at [Dongyang City], the protagonist asks the worker ants who greet him to quickly send the mystery ball to the warm nest** to stop it from working. The protagonist also needs the Mystery Orb to maintain enough energy to fly back to the north next time.
In the familiar underground dormitory of [Dongyang City], the protagonist rests for the night.
This is the most comfortable place for the protagonist in the entire ant world, and it is also the closest to the human world.
There is a wooden bed made of soft silk wool, a table, a seat that allows the protagonist to lower his abdomen and lower his back limbs, and a large clay pot filled with honeydew and water. There's even a kitchen and set of kitchen utensils for cooking stews.
The protagonist enjoys a lot of food cooked in a clay pot for a long time. In the past, in various places, the conditions were poor, and the protagonist could basically only eat raw or baked food. It seems that the human taste of the protagonist cannot be easily changed, and it is obviously impractical for him to adapt to the taste of ants that can chew cockroach meat raw.
After eating and drinking enough and sleeping enough, the protagonist summoned the little secretary II the next day.
The Little Secretary II is now the leader of the scientific research group that the protagonist is most interested in.
Although the chief executive of [Dongyang Castle] is Zhuzi, and the adjutants are Ah Fei and Ah Xiang (who were originally flying knights who followed the protagonist to fight the parasitic ants in the southern hills, and later became civil officials due to injuries), Xiao Mi II's status is very transcendent, and these three male ants cannot command her.
Of course, this is the role of the divine decree given by the protagonist in the name of the Divine Messenger King.
In the past, there were no less conflicts between the male ants and the big worker ant class led by the little secretary II, and the Fly Eagle was a hardliner in the male ant class, and even his eventual rebellion had a lot to do with the fundamental conflict of ideas with the protagonist.
However, as the authority of the protagonist as a god envoy becomes more and more authoritative, extremists such as the Fly Eagle have either rebelled or been marginalized, and the resources of the territory have increased significantly, and there is no longer a need to fight for them, and the conflict between the male ant class and the large worker ant class has eased a lot.
But the contradictions have not completely disappeared.
Fortunately, the large worker ant class is concentrated in [Dongyang City], and after the protagonist moves the political center to [Qingqiu City], a large number of male ants leave here, and there are only a few hundred male ants left in [Dongyang City]. Among them, the leaders Zhuzi, Ah Fei and Ah Xiang are all moderates, so that the contradictions between the two sides can be alleviated, but they are not cured.
For example, Xiao Mi II can use any resources in [Dongyang City] at will, including copper ore from [Malachite City], salt from [New Salt City], all kinds of grain, fiber, and wood. But she can only command the worker ants under the scientific research group, and she can't expect anything from the soldier ants of the defending army to cooperate.
Although the gap between the two sides is not as high as that of the Japanese army and navy in World War II, it is basically strange.