In addition to the gold that was originally "tributed" by the Belly Ant clan (which is almost spent), the Divine Envoy King's army currently has very few things that can be used for trade.
Grain is a hard currency, and if it is used for trade, the ants will definitely harvest it. However, the Army of the Divine Angel King, which has just experienced a great epidemic, has limited grain reserves, and the farms and farmland with the largest grain production have just been rebuilt and newly built. No harvest yet. Therefore, the Divine Envoy King's Legion may not be able to trade with the scarce food.
Other industrial products of the Divine Emissary King's Army, such as stone tools, pottery, ropes or felts, etc., either have limited output and cannot be supplied, or have not yet been put into production, or lack trade value.
In the end, the only trade product currently offered by the Divine Envoy King's Legion was concentrated honeydew. For this reason, the protagonist even had to reduce the internal honeydew quota. The quotas of male ants and queen ants were halved, and the worker ants and soldier ants were temporarily not allowed to obtain honeydew.
There are obviously a lot of aphids and scale insects on the peninsula, but there are hardly any in [Xinyang City]. It is true that "people who are covered with silkworms are not silkworm farmers"!
Concentrating honeydew requires a container. Although the pottery has not yet been made, I just found a lot of snails on the river beach. The snail shells can be used as containers. Put the honeydew concentrated by sunlight in it, seal it with ant glue, and you can travel long distances. No deterioration during transportation and long-term storage.
The ants are very satisfied with the honeydew. Although the psyllids they raise can also produce honeydew, it is less sweet and cannot be stored. It can only be produced and drank now, which is nothing compared to concentrated aphid honeydew. Advantage.
The protagonist gave a snail shell honeydew as a gift, and also asked "Old Heart" and the others to see if there was anything worth trading among the red imported fire ants or other vassal ants of the red fire ant.
The protagonist pointed out that he needed several things: blue-green stones (copper ores), obsidian or high-quality gravel, other ant-specific methods of domesticating certain insects or other technologies, etc., which are all raw materials urgently needed by the God Envoy King's army. Or technology without it.
"Old Heart" brought the honeydew back, and after discussing with two other highly respected male ants, he agreed on behalf of the ant clan.
Since then, the honeydew trade between the Divine Envoy King's legion and the Belly Ants has been in full swing. The Belly Ants have also relied on resale transactions to concentrate the honeydew, and have gained a lot of benefits.
Of course, this incident later had far-reaching consequences. For example, relying on their strength and status as the sovereign nation, the red fire ants added the concentrated honeydew from the four snail shells to the annual tribute list of the red fire ants.
For another example, the concentrated honeydew dumped in large quantities by the God's Envoy King's Army completely destroyed the psyllid breeding industry of the ant clan. The ants killed all their unsatisfactory psyllids for meat and gave up on raising them. The industry of growing "ant cows".
There are other kinds of things…
Although the legions of the Divine Envoy Kings who arrived in this new world were still lurking behind the ants, the things they accidentally threw had already flapped their wings like butterflies, pushing down the first domino.
In the new world, due to the arrival of the Legion of God's Envoy King, the stability that has been maintained for hundreds of years is being broken.
All of this, all the ant races involved do not know yet...
——I am the dividing line——
The sky is blue and picturesque.
On the platform near the top of the [Xinyangcheng] ant mound, Tianxian was looking up with a dozen worker ants and soldier ants.
Except for Tianxian, a soldier ant with very good eyesight, the other ants could only vaguely see the green of the tree canopy above their heads and the blue of the sky, as blurry as seeing things with a thousand degrees of myopia.
Only Tianxian captured the trajectory in the sky.
The protagonist controlled the reins with his middle limbs, and the mount under him turned back and descended, drew an arc, and landed steadily on the platform.
Without the help of the worker ants, the protagonist bent down and unlocked the safety lock that tied the pair of hind limbs, jumped off the fly mount, tied the reins to the wooden stake, caressed the ugly big head of the mount, and ordered the worker ants next to him to feed him some honey. Dew as a reward.
The protagonist is getting used to his new fly mount.
After the epidemic ended, the protagonist finally got his new fly mount and named it "Xiao Hei".
"Xiao Hei" is a hemp fly. Its load-carrying capacity is not as good as that of "Xiao Qing", but its flying ability is not inferior.
Among the fly eggs brought by the walnut ship fleet, there were no eggs of green flies, only eggs of fruit flies and linens. The protagonist chose the most robust looking linens fly as his new mount.
The domestication process went very smoothly. The protagonist, who had two fly mounts, quickly conquered "Xiao Hei". After customizing a saddle that fit "Xiao Hei"'s body shape, the protagonist and "Xiao Hei" recently started their relationship. Break-in training.
In addition to training himself, the protagonist is also preparing to hatch ten flies, let the queen ant produce ten worker ant eggs and cultivate them into big worker ants, forming a small team of big worker ant flying knights.
However, currently in [New Yangcheng], the first batch of worker ants and soldier ant eggs with the protagonist's ant body genes have not yet emerged from pupae and become adults, and the new flying knight team is only a plan.
Speaking of which, the development speed of the protagonist's eggs is a bit slow, and the nursery worker ants have reported this situation many times. However, apart from the slow development and the increase in the total amount of food consumed by the young ants, there are no other problems.
The protagonist was a little worried that the problem was caused by the unsuitable underground environment here, but after repeated inspections by the nursery ants, they believed that there was no problem with the health of the young ants, so the protagonist was relieved.
It is now mid-July, and as the development of [New Yang City] gradually gets on track, the protagonist also plans to go to the swamp area to contact the large troops.
The protagonist does not plan to bring followers. Since he has decided to keep [New Yang City], the protagonist can just ride "Xiao Hei" lightly back to the swamp and return to the middle of the large army.
[Xinyang City] Here we only need to establish a suitable air contact line and obtain news regularly. The development focus of the Divine Envoy King's Legion is still the vast swamp area in the hinterland.
When the God Envoy King's army obtains more advanced technology from the [New Yang City] window and becomes stronger again after dormancy, the protagonist will launch a counterattack on his homeland and take back everything he has lost.
If you ride alone, the preparations are much simpler. Apart from carrying a small amount of dry food and necessary weapons, you don't need anything else.
If the entire army abandons [Xinyang City] and returns overland according to the previous plan, they will have to build rafts to cross the river and carry a large amount of food and supplies. It will be a long-distance expedition.
The protagonist plans to set off for the swamp at the end of July. By that time, he has already completed the run-in with "Xiao Hei", and the materials he needs are also ready, especially a new piece of equipment. He is still in the process of manufacturing it and it is expected to be completed by the end of July. Got it!
