The protagonist makes great efforts to build the main nest "Qingqiu City" in order to better control the entire Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
As the only main nest of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, "Qingqiu City" is not only huge in scale, but also has a supreme status. It has a prestige that other secondary nests cannot match.
Just like in ancient China, whoever can control the emperor and the capital is qualified to command the world. Since the protagonist controls the main nest, he must make full use of this mature position to achieve his goal of controlling the south bank of the river.
Moreover, "Qingqiu City" is also a very rich and strategically important lair in terms of its own conditions.
The surrounding land is fertile and rich in products. There are large plains covered with sparse trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. It is uniquely endowed for hunting, gathering and planting.
Although it is not close to rivers and streams, "Qingqiu City" has abundant underground water resources, so it is not prone to water shortages and is not prone to river logging. After improving the drainage facilities of the nest, the higher-lying "Qingqiu City" will be less likely to be threatened by floods.
In addition, the main nest "Qingqiu City" is at the same distance from the four borders of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom. The territory of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is roughly in the shape of an oval located on the south bank of the river. Then, the main nest "Qingqiu City" is almost at the center of the circle.
This central location ensures that the main nest has strong control over all secondary nests. Messengers or armies departing from the main nest can reach any point in the kingdom within a certain period of time.
From a transportation perspective, especially for the material support transportation of the originally very important secondary nest to the main nest, the main nest is located in the center of the circle, which can also save transportation time and consumption to the maximum extent.
Since he has such a huge advantage, the protagonist naturally has to manage this new territory well, so he spent a lot of money and prepared to turn "Qingqiu City" into his new base camp.
——I am the dividing line——
After living in the main nest "Qingqiu City" for half a month and basically establishing a firm foothold, the protagonist can't wait to hope that the sub-nests everywhere will surrender.
He had already sent messengers to each sub-nest before, and the messengers sent to the nearby sub-nests had returned. The one with the farthest journey should have returned a day or two ago.
However, the answers the protagonist waited for were not very satisfactory to him.
The most euphemistic answer given by these male ants who rule the sub-hives in various places is that they believe that the members of the Great King's Council established by the Divine Messenger King are too few and their qualifications are too junior, which is not in line with tradition. These male ants often believe that they are qualified to join the king's meeting and ask for additional seats for themselves.
The protagonist is willing to win over these male ants who have self-interested ideas, bring them to the main nest to join the nominal new king meeting, and then send his loyal subordinates to take over the secondary nest.
These male ants don't know that the king's meeting newly formed by the protagonist no longer has the original supreme power. But when they come, they can't help themselves.
But there are only a few male ants who have expressed this attitude, and their territories are also very scattered.
Most of the secondary nests either refuse to recognize the control of the main nest by the Divine Messenger King, and believe that the Divine Messenger King's actions of attacking the main nest and executing the male ants are unforgivable. Be polite and ask the God Envoy King to confess his crime immediately and accept the punishment discussed by the male ants. In extreme cases, he even asked the king to throw himself into the fire.
But these male ants are just talking. Even if they refuse to surrender, it is basically impossible to threaten the current protagonist.
Although the combined strength of all sub-nests is objective, these sub-nests lack a unified leadership. The leaders of all the deputy nests are kings, with similar qualifications and prestige. They also lack military experience due to long-term administrative work. It is difficult for them to work together and form a team with leadership and combat effectiveness.
The protagonist had already expected the bad attitude of the male ants, and did not want to make the world obey just by giving an order.
On the contrary, none of the messengers who went to the sub-nest in the remote eastern part of the kingdom returned. This unusual signal made the protagonist a little wary.
After all, it is normal for one or two messengers to have accidents. To be on the safe side, the protagonist sends two messengers to each sub-nest one after another.
It is very unusual that all thirty-four messengers from the seventeen sub-nests in the northeastern region have not returned.
The protagonist immediately sent another messenger, asking Rambo Fei, who was performing a prisoner exchange mission in "Linshui City", to immediately find out the situation in the northeastern region of the kingdom. The protagonist has sent all his flying knights to Rambo. At present, it is relatively safe for only the flying knights to go to unknown places for reconnaissance.
In addition to the various sub-nests, the protagonist has also received messengers sent by the Lao Wang these days.
Although he is an ally with the Lao Wang, the two sides have great conflicts in their ideas and are basically irreconcilable.
After sending the ant queens of the ant inheritance faction out of the country as gifts, the protagonist deliberately ignored them because he did not know how to deal with the faction. On the other hand, he was wary of hearing more and more reports of the faction expanding its territory in the southern region. information.
After the main nest was captured by the protagonist, messengers from the queen's inheritance faction also went to the sub-nests in the south to promote the restoration of the tradition of the queen's rule. But they also agreed to retain the privileges of male ants. After all, right-hand assistants like the Lao Wang are also male ants, and the queen ants need some officials to serve their rule.
Compared to the cruel and murderous reputation of the Divine Envoy King, some of the ruling male ants of the sub-nest, who were frightened by the huge changes within the kingdom, have fallen into the arms of the queen's inheritance faction.
Based on the information sent back by Zhu Zi in "New Yan City", the protagonist learns that the ant queen's inheritance faction has controlled more than thirty sub-nests in the south and southwest of the kingdom.
Only the expansion to the southeast is blocked because "New Yancheng", "Dongyang City" and "Southern City" are basically connected in a line.
Now, the Queen Ant Heritage Faction has begun to extend its tentacles to the central and western parts of the kingdom, and their rapid expansion makes the protagonist vigilant. Although this kind of rapid expansion without military action makes the protagonist excited, it is difficult to imitate.
In fact, the protagonist does not know that the rapid expansion of the ant queen's inheritance faction does not rely on large-scale military operations, but small-scale operations are very frequent.
Naturally, there are die-hard conservatives in the sub-nests they newly control. Just like the new king meeting that rejected the God-Emissary King, they also rejected the leadership of the Queen Ant.
But the Lao Lao Wang was also decisive in killing. He sent some soldier ants, led by the loyal male ants of the new generation, using the cover of the smell of the same species to sneak into these sub-nests and control the male ants that refused to obey orders, and then Controlled the nest.
Although these male ants were not killed, these male ants were also taken to the base camp of the queen ant inheritance faction for custody.
