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——I am the dividing line——
The male ants have no objection to the protagonist asking for the eggs of the queen ant and the eggs of the male ants. For their group, sending out six ant eggs is obviously much less of a burden than five hundred ant eggs.
As for what the Divine Envoy King's army wants to do by breeding ants, the ants are not worried. There are more than just one ant race in the world. What does it matter if there is an additional group of ants?
But the protagonist still wants gold, and the trees are not strong yet, which makes it very difficult for the ants.
Even though you can't eat or drink this gold, it's not easy to collect.
The golden sand is mixed in the gravel on the river beach and must be carefully picked up one by one. This is physical and meticulous work. The eyesight of ants is generally not very good. The ant's eyesight is also not very good. You have to get very close to see the shining gold. Therefore, collecting alluvial gold is a very labor-intensive and time-consuming task.
The amount of gold required by red imported fire ants every year is already very difficult to get enough. Now the protagonist asks for half the amount of gold required by red imported fire ants. The male ant in front of him refuses immediately, which is unusually straightforward - Concubine It really can’t be done!
Although multiple ant fighters might be able to collect a sufficient amount of gold, after this battle, the ants lost nearly 2,000 ant colonies at once, and their strength was greatly reduced. If the ant colonies are dispersed to collect gold, then there will be insufficient ant hands to find food and feed psyllids, and the entire colony will starve, which may even endanger the survival of the colony.
What's more, only after the annual flood season, there is more gold on the Golden Beach, and there is very little gold the rest of the time. The efficiency of collecting gold becomes lower the further you go, and it becomes impossible to collect gold in winter. Calculating, there are only about 60 days in a year that are best for collecting sand gold.
If you promise to give so much gold to the Divine Envoy King's army every year, you will be digging a bottomless pit, and sooner or later the Belly Ant Clan will be dragged into the abyss.
As one of the most respected male ants in the group, he simply refused this - even if he and his subordinates were all killed here, the nest could still regenerate a new batch of ant eggs to make up for it. But if they agree to the conditions, it will be difficult for the tribe to turn over in their lifetime - he has already thought about it very clearly.
The protagonist wants gold just on a whim. Gold is indeed of little use to him at present. There is no need to push too hard. It would not be good if the ants were forced to call the powerful fire ants behind them to help them fight.
It's better to give the other party a step down. This male ant seems to have a say in the group, and it would be good to form a good relationship.
Since he wanted to get acquainted, the protagonist named him "Lao Xin" from the bottom of his heart. "Old" refers to his seniority and status in the ant group, and "Xin" refers to the typical characteristics of the ants - —Heart-shaped belly.
The protagonist uses human deception to express that our clan respects the bravery and wisdom of "Old Heart" very much, and therefore agrees to reduce the amount of the golden annual tribute.
The saying goes, "You can wear everything you wear, but you can't flatter you." This sentence also works well for ants. Although the ants have come into contact with more civilized races, they have never felt the praise and goodwill of the other party during negotiations - here The diplomatic etiquette is for the strong to be arrogant and the weak to compromise.
This time, I was obviously the weak one, but I was not bullied too harshly. Why was I still touched?
The confused "Old Heart" finally reached an agreement with the protagonist, representing the Belly Ant Clan and the Divine Envoy King Legion respectively.
Translated according to human language, the content of this agreement is as follows: 52 Literature
Article 1: From now on, the Divine Envoy King’s Legion and the Belly Ant Clan will coexist peacefully and will no longer attack each other or get too close to each other’s nests.
Article 2: The previous dispute between the two parties was purely a misunderstanding. Now that the misunderstanding has been clarified, both parties promise to never mention this matter again.
Article 3: The relationship between the two parties is a bilateral relationship. Information about the God's Envoy King's Legion must not be disclosed to a third party, nor may third party forces be introduced to intervene in the bilateral relationship.
Article 4: The Divine Envoy King’s Army immediately releases the beleaguered Belly Ant Clan and allows the Belly Lift Ant Clan to collect the corpses.
Article 5: In order to make up for the losses caused by the previous misunderstanding to the Angel King’s Legion, the Belly Ant clan compensated the Angel King’s Legion with 3 Queen Ant eggs and 3 male ant eggs.
Article 6: In order to maintain friendly relations between the two parties, the Belly Ant Clan provides six days' worth of gold to the Angel King's Legion every year.
After the agreement is reached, "Old Heart" has become relatively close to the protagonist. With a wave of his hand, the protagonist lets the ants leave with the bodies of their companions.
——I am the dividing line——
After the agreement was reached, the protagonist was worried for two days, fearing that one day a large army of fire ants would come to the city.
Fortunately, three days have passed and nothing has happened. It seems that the ants still keep their promise.
After reaching a consensus with the Belly Ant Clan, the external environment of [Xinyang City] has improved a lot. Except for the Belly Ant Clan, other ant forces are far away. As long as the God Envoy King Army does not go to the north or northwest If it is too far away, the risk of exposure will be small.
After obtaining a relatively safe external environment, [Xinyangcheng] was able to focus on development.
Originally, the protagonist only used [Xinyang City] as a temporary base, and once the flood season passed, he planned to move his family back to the swamp area.
But now that he learned from the tentacles of the ants that the civilization of this land was more developed, the protagonist became somewhat interested.
Although the ants don't have much information about red fire ants, apart from direct contact, their source of information is the slave ants they sent out.
Although slave ants consider themselves members of the RIFA nation, they are also discriminated against within the RIFA nation. Based on their appearance and close blood relationship, although these slave ants may not have a very good attitude toward their fellow tribesmen, they can still reveal some inside information.
According to "Old Heart", the main nest of the red fire ant country has hundreds of high mounds, and it takes half a day to walk across the continuous land occupied by it. There are millions of ant colonies inside, and there are also ant slaves from various races. Countless insects are domesticated.
Moreover, there are many things in red imported fire ants that the ants find magical. They cannot describe them clearly, but just from the concepts of high mounds, ant slaves, and domestication, the protagonist knows that red imported fire ants are much more developed than the ant race in their homeland.
It is entirely possible to use [New Yang City] as a window to the developed ant civilization, hide behind the abdominal ants, and slowly absorb the nutrients of advanced civilization.
Although the protagonist is smart and has experience in human civilization, many technological points cannot be perfectly copied to the ant civilization. Or is the civilization developed by the local ant civilization more suitable for transplantation?
