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——I am the dividing line——
Relying on his own prestige and skill, the protagonist has strong control over territories such as "Dongyang City" and has almost formed a small independent kingdom within the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
But this does not mean that the kings of the main nest know nothing about what is happening there.
After the messengers who normally went to "Dongyang City" obtained some information and passed it back to the main nest, some kings who were curious about it sent personal messengers to "Dongyang City" and other places to gather information.
These personal messengers belong to the same country as the God Envoy King's army, so they entered the protagonist's territory without being blocked. The personal messengers with the mission did not contact the top leaders of the Divine Envoy King's legion. Instead, they walked around the territory and reported what they saw and heard to their respective masters.
It can also be seen from this that the relationship between the kings of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is not entirely harmonious, so it is necessary to cultivate their own spies or private forces.
The protagonist also did not expect that the kings would be so curious about the unique measures of "Dongyang City", so he did not consider confidentiality measures at all.
"Dongyang City" is like a big sieve in terms of intelligence work, full of holes that have been spied on for a long time. Although the same is true for other secondary nests and even the main nest.
A large part of this information about "Dongyang City" has been shared with all the kings through various channels.
The King of Public Security has known some of the information before, but he is a staunch supporter of the protagonist and will naturally not question what the protagonist does. There is no need to inform the protagonist of this situation - if the protagonist is willing, he can also send his own personal messenger. It is one of the rights of kings to learn information about other kings.
Therefore, it was only at this moment that the protagonist discovered that "Dongyang City", which he thought was private territory, had almost no secrets about the main nest.
Fortunately, since this spring, the kings have been busy preparing for the wedding ceremony and the upcoming war, and have not continued to inquire for information. Otherwise, the information that "Dongyang City" and other territories have a large amount of food will be leaked. The protagonist previously informed the official messenger of the main nest that there was a serious shortage of food, and even received a batch of food support from the main nest.
The protagonist suppressed the shock in his heart and continued to watch the debate among the kings.
The focus of the debate among the kings now is the protagonist's series of reform measures in "Dongyang City" that are unheard of for the kings.
There are reformers and conservatives in any group, but unfortunately, among the kings, it is obvious that the conservative forces are far stronger than the reformers. Therefore, the opinions of the conservatives basically represent the opinions of the King's Council.
Reformists like the King of Public Security, who have seen the strength of the protagonist and the Envoy King's army, have high personal prestige, but they cannot compete with the conservatives who have the power of numbers. Especially now that the Western King, one of the backbones of the reformists, has died.
Some of the series of actions taken by the protagonist are acceptable to conservatives.
For example, "Dongyangcheng" has large-scale mealworm and fly maggot breeding farms, as well as farmland. The kings do not understand the mystery, but these new things can provide a large amount of food. Such things to increase productivity do not touch the vital interests of the kings and kings, and of course they will not be opposed by conservatives.
However, the conservative kings believe that these farms and farmland should not remain in a remote secondary nest, but should be transferred to the main nest and directly controlled by the king's conference. In terms of balancing the power of the central and local governments, the King's Conference is the most typical idea of strengthening the cadres and weakening the branches.
Even if the God Envoy King, the protagonist, is not dead, the King's Council believes that he must transfer most of the breeding farms and farmland to the main nest, and "Dongyang City" can only retain part of it as a reward for the God Envoy King's meritorious service.
Hearing this, the protagonist's face turned even darker.
And some kings have released some information about the protagonist's reform measures that they know, which almost caused overwhelming opposition from the king's meeting.
For example, the protagonist actually has dozens of pavement ants under his command.
These pavement ants were hatched from ant eggs captured in last year's Reconquest War. Since they were born in the Big-headed Ant colony, they were born with the aura of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, so the worker ants and soldier ants at the bottom did not regard them as outsider. On the contrary, the male ants have always criticized this.
The King's Conference cannot tolerate this situation. For the kings, their lifelong mission is to attack and eliminate as many paving ant barbarians as possible. How can they sit back and watch the descendants of enemies in their country, even if these enemy descendants are just hard laborers? That’s all.
Some kings have requested that these pavement ants be killed immediately, but due to too much information about the protagonist's shocking actions, this suggestion has not yet been included in the discussion.
What makes the King's Council most angry is that the protagonist has touched the class interests of all male ants.
Mainly because the protagonist has given the big worker ant class some benefits that were originally exclusive to the male ants.
In the class system of his own faction established by the protagonist, the big worker ants belong to the third class, and their status seems to be lower than that of male ants and female ants. Moreover, the big worker class is not allowed to participate in political and military decision-making, has no voting rights on major matters, and is only responsible for civilian work. In terms of high-end food supply, the protagonist reduces the high-end food supply of adult worker ants, but strives to ensure the high-end food supply of large worker ant larvae.
This series of compromise measures is to ease the wariness of the male ant class towards the big worker ant class.
Even under the protagonist, there are many male ants who object to this. Some male ants are extremely angry at the appointment of the big worker ants and the pale gold worker ants to replace the king and the king. They are even worried that the big worker ants will threaten the political and military privileges of the male ants in the future. Some male ants are also dissatisfied with the need for high-end food for the large worker ant class.
It was only with the protagonist's superb political skills and mutual compromise that this system was established within the God Envoy King faction.
However, the kings who learned the information were too far away from "Dongyang City" and did not understand the protagonist's good intentions. They only saw that the resources and interests that originally belonged to the male ants were actually transferred to the worker ants.
The King's Council has no idea about the intellectual superiority of the big worker ants. In their view, these are just some worker ants, the lowest class.
Now, the protagonist not only wastes precious high-grade food on these lowly worker ants, but also allows them to hold some important positions-even these positions the male ants disdain for.
This is a humiliation to the male ant class, that is, all kings and kings. Some radical kings even think so.
