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I am the dividing line
[Dongyang City] is a scientific research center and industrial town within the territory of the Divine Envoy King’s Legion.
With the protagonist occupying the south bank of the river, he moved the political center to the original main nest of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom [Qingqiu City]. In this way, legally speaking, the Divine Envoy King Army has inherited the entire legacy of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, and it can easily be The male ants return home.
And [Dongyang City], the earliest territory of the protagonist, no longer functions as a political center.
With the promotion of mealworm breeding, agricultural planting and other technologies throughout the territory, [Dongyang City]’s original economic advantages are no longer obvious, although its overall size is still huge.
As for the output of the small salt mine in [Dongyang City], it is not worth mentioning compared with professional mining nests like [New Yancheng], so the mining industry here is not considered developed.
The reason why [Dongyang City] can still maintain a very important position in the territory of the Divine Envoy King Legion is that besides being the birthplace of the protagonist, and being among the best in terms of ant population and economy, the most important thing is that This is the scientific research center and industrial center of the territory.
Both scientific research and industry require a large amount of fixed assets, scale advantages, and division of labor. [Dongyang City] has an inherent advantage in this regard. It has a comprehensive range of laboratories built over several years, a huge copper-smelting blast furnace, and pottery, textile and stoneware workshops with clear divisions of labor.
At present, more than half of the more than 100,000 ant colonies in [Dongyang City] are members of scientific research or industry. The proportion of ant colonies engaged in the primary industry has dropped to less than 50%. The proportion of ant colonies is equivalent to some humans in the 20th century. Occupational distribution of the country.
Because of this, the large-scale breeding farms, farmland and aphid herds in [Dongyang City] produce a huge amount of food, but apart from supplying it locally, there is not much that can support other places.
It can be said that the large amount of pottery, stone tools, ropes, textiles, copper weapons, woodware, etc. required by the entire south bank of the river basically rely on [Dongyang City] for supply. Apart from a small amount of simple pottery and rope that can be produced without much fixed assets, there is almost no industry in various places.
Even important towns such as [Qingqiu City], [Linshui City], and [Southern City] do not have large-scale industries, and they mostly produce simple weapons such as slings.
The reason why the industry is arranged in this way is that the protagonist has no choice. Both scientific research and industry need advantages of scale. The current technological level and industrial production capacity of the Divine Envoy King's Army are actually insignificant. The technological level is not even as good as that of the ancient Chinese during the Shang Dynasty, and the industrial efficiency is also It's not as good as a small rural workshop in the protagonist's previous life.
If such weak scientific research laboratories and workshops are scattered across the territory to fight independently, then development will inevitably be very slow. And being concentrated in one place makes resource allocation, division of labor, and collaboration very convenient.
Therefore, the protagonist can only hope that the industry in [Dongyang City] will be large enough to replicate itself before considering the layout of the second and third industrial centers. The same is true for scientific research.
My time dividing line
The protagonist rode the reluctant Xiaoqing II and flew in the air for more than an hour before arriving at [Dongyang City].
Although there is a mysterious ball to warm the baby and prevent it from freezing, flying outdoors is not a good experience.
It feels like running into the snow with an electric blanket wrapped around your body, but with your limbs, head and face exposed. You won't freeze to death, but you will feel extremely uncomfortable.
Therefore, Xiaoqing II was very dissatisfied with this flight. After all, it was an act that went against instinct and would suffer. It flew feebly in the air, and once it arrived at [Dongyang City], it hid in the warm fly stable and could not come out. . It seems that the protagonist will have to put in a lot of effort to get it to take off next time.
Arriving at [Dongyang City], the protagonist asked the worker ants who greeted him to quickly send the mysterious ball to the warm nest to stop it from working. The protagonist also needs the mysterious ball to maintain enough energy to fly back to the north next time.
In the familiar underground palace of [Dongyang City], the protagonist rested for a night.
This is the place where the protagonist feels most comfortable in the entire ant world, and it is also the place closest to the human world.
There is a wooden bed covered with soft silk wadding, a table, a seat that allows the protagonist to lower his abdomen and hang his back limbs, and a large clay pot filled with honeydew and water. There is even a kitchen and a set of kitchen utensils for cooking and stewing.
The protagonist thoroughly enjoyed the night and ate a lot of food stewed in clay pots. In the past, the conditions in various places were simple and the protagonist could only eat raw or baked food. It seems that the protagonist's human taste cannot be easily changed, and it is obviously unrealistic for him to adapt to the taste of ants who can chew raw cockroach meat.
After eating, drinking and sleeping enough, the protagonist summoned Xiao Mi II the next day.
Xiao Mi II is now the leader of the scientific research team that the protagonist is most interested in.
Although the chief executive of [Dongyang City] is Zhuzi, and the adjutants are A Fei and A Xiang (they were originally flying knights who followed the protagonist to fight against parasitic ants in the southern hills, and later became civil servants due to injuries), the Second Secretary's Her status is so aloof that even the three male ants cannot order her around.
Of course, this is the function of the divine decree issued by the protagonist in the name of the Divine Envoy King.
There have been frequent conflicts between the male ants and the big worker ant class headed by Xiao Mi II. Flying Eagle is a hardline member of the male ant class. Even his eventual rebellion was largely due to his fundamental ideological conflict with the protagonist. relation.
However, as the protagonist becomes more and more powerful as the God Envoy King, extremists such as Flying Eagle have either rebelled or been marginalized, and the resources of the territory have also increased significantly and there is no need to fight for it. The current conflict between the male ant class and the big worker ant class has eased. Quite a few.
But the contradiction has not completely disappeared.
Fortunately, the large worker ant class is concentrated in [Dongyang City]. After the protagonist moved the political center to [Qingqiu City], a large number of male ants left here, and there were only a few hundred male ants staying in [Dongyang City]. name. Among them, the leaders Zhuzi, A Fei and A Xiang were all moderates, which allowed the conflict between the two parties to be alleviated, but it was not cured.
For example, Xiaomi II can use any resources in [Dongyang City] at will, including copper ore shipped from [Malachite City], salt shipped from [New Yancheng], and various grains, fibers, and wood. But she could only command the worker ants under the scientific research team, and could not expect any cooperation from the defenders.
Although the estrangement between the two sides is not as great as that between the Japanese army and navy during World War II, they are basically strangers.
