In short, in the eyes of the kings, a series of actions taken by the God Envoy King were deviant and inconsistent with tradition, let alone the overall interests of the male ant class.
Therefore, regardless of whether the Divine Messenger King is still alive or not, the Council of Kings believes that these mistakes should be corrected. As for whether the protagonist will obey, the King's Council really didn't take it into consideration.
The reason why the King's Council did this was a combination of disapproval and interest disputes, and perhaps there were even more reasons for interest.
As the male ant class, whether they are kings or great kings, they all have overall class interests, which is to ensure the dominance of this class in the entire ant kingdom and even the ant world.
But in fact, primitive ants were not a male-dominated patriarchal clan society.
Ant society was previously a matriarchal society, which is reflected in the fact that the queen ant is the theoretical ruler of the entire ant colony. She is also the common mother of all members of the colony.
Further back, in more primitive ant colonies all major decisions were made collectively by the worker ants (females).
Yes, in primitive ant colonies, including ants in the human world, it is the worker ants who control and determine the fate of the entire colony.
Worker ants are sterile female ants. They are responsible for the daily work of the entire nest, and they also decide the choices of any matter they encounter.
For example, there is food at the junction with a nearby ant colony. If you go there, conflicts may break out. Should you go there?
Under the control of genes, different worker ant individuals will make the same decision most of the time when faced with the same thing, which ensures the consistency of the entire colony.
At that time, the male ants were nothing more than parasites on the nest. They are not engaged in production and have nothing to do all day long, but they have to consume precious food.
Even when the wedding flight ceremony begins every year, many male ants are reluctant to go out to mate, because participating in the wedding flight ceremony means that they will leave the ant nest and will not be allowed to return.
The wedding flight ceremony itself is a narrow escape, and after the ceremony, the male ants will not be allowed to return to the nest. Lacking the ability to make a living, they can only starve to death, freeze to death, or be killed by predators outside.
At this time, the worker ants will even use violence to drive away the male ants, forcing them to go out to participate in the wedding flight. It can also be seen from this that in the primitive ant society, the status of male ants is very low. They are just transferring sperm to the bank one by one.
But with the development of ant civilization in this world, although the ants' hierarchies have solidified, the division of power has been slowly adjusted.
Due to the low intelligence of worker ants (including soldier ants), they are often unable to ensure that joint decisions can maximize collective interests.
As for the queen ants, because they are closely protected and adequately nourished, and have a long lifespan, their intelligence level begins to grow rapidly under some unknown external stimulation, and far exceeds the original simple brain nerves of insects. The restrictions have reached a very high level.
The queen ant itself has a lofty status in the ant nest. When they demonstrate extremely high intelligence, they naturally gain the support of her children and become the de facto ruler of the ant nest.
Some ant colonies have a single queen system, and they have a supreme ruler; some ant colonies have a polyqueen system, and multiple queens make decisions together, just like what the worker ants did in the past.
In this way, due to the preference for highly intelligent individuals, the ant society has transitioned from the previous simple decision-making system of all workers (worker ants) to the queen decision-making system. Supreme power is transferred from the worker ants to the queen.
This change is similar to the evolution of primitive human society.
According to the classification of some scholars, primitive human society has experienced two stages: primitive groups and clan communes. Clan communes have gone through two stages: matrilineal clan communes and patrilineal clan communes.
Primitive groups are groups where primitive humans first produced and lived together. It begins with the transition from ape to man. Use the joint strength and collective actions of the group to make up for the lack of individual self-defense capabilities.
The formation of primitive groups is forced by the external environment. In order to survive, primitive humans gathered together in groups, worked collectively, lived collectively, and fought against nature collectively. This collective interdependent combination constituted the earliest primitive group and began to have a certain primitive organizational significance. This primitive group is the earliest prototype of human society. However, strictly speaking, this prototype of community organization is not yet stable in organization and has no real organizational principles and regulations.
In group life, individuals have basically equal rights and status, but the relationship between mother and child is closer, so maternal power can play a certain role.
The primitive group is the prototype of human society and the initial stage of primitive society, which is equivalent to the human social organization in the early and middle Paleolithic Age. In the later period of the primitive group, blood families appeared and gradually transitioned to a matrilineal society.
Matrilineal society is also called matrilineal clan society. The early and middle stages of clan society are matrilineal clans, which are social organizations based on matrilineal blood relations. They are the first stage of clan society.
The basic characteristics of matrilineal clan marriages and clans are: they are always tied by matrilineal blood relations. The form of marriage in the early days was group marriage. Due to the exogamy system, couples live separately in their respective matrilineal clans. Marriage life takes the form of the husband visiting his wife. Children live from their mothers and belong to the maternal clan. Lineage and property inheritance are calculated from the matriline. During the matrilineal clan's prosperous period, due to the emergence and gradual consolidation of pair marriage, the husband moved to his wife's clan and lived with his wife.
The transformation of primitive groups into matrilineal clans is due to the blood family of primitive people. After several generations of reproduction, due to the continuous increase in population, the lack of food sources and the impact on life, new blood families will inevitably split into new blood families. At this time, the new blood family still practices internal blood marriage. Endogamy will lead to a decline in the physical fitness and intelligence of offspring, the division of blood families, and the continuous generation of new blood families. Eventually, a blood kinship group—a clan—is formed that cannot mate within itself.
This evolution of ant society is very similar to the evolution of human society.
In the early days of society, human society was a group where everyone was equal, and the relationship between mother and child was closer, so the mother's power was slightly more important. In ant society, most of the worker ants are equal, and the queen ant also has a certain special status because she is the common mother.
In order to better adapt to the living environment and competition, both ants and humans need smarter offspring. In this regard, the solution for human society is to change from endogamy to exogamy. To adapt to this, matrilineal clans were born. In ant society, due to the huge intellectual gap between different classes, the decision-making power is transferred to the more intelligent individual-the queen.
