The protagonist is not satisfied with the recent work of the scientific research team.
The domestication and breeding of flying beasts is an important research topic related to the air transportation capacity of the Ant Alliance. Especially under the premise that the only mode of transportation for the territory on both sides of the Qinghe River is air transport, being able to have a complete animal breeding industry chain is very important to the Ant Alliance and the national policy of colonizing the south bank of the Qinghe River.
Now the Ant Alliance has accumulated experience in using flying beasts for more than half a year, but it is still unable to breed and domesticate these beasts on its own, that is, it cannot expand and replenish its transport fleet on its own.
The only insects that the Ant Alliance can currently fully domesticate are mealworms, flies and beetles such as stag beetles.
Among them, mealworm molitor is easy to domesticate due to its physiological habits. Its adult life is short and has no other purpose except laying eggs. You only need to keep it in a closed nest to easily obtain mealworm eggs. This is similar to the silkworm, which was the first insect domesticated by humans because of its physiological habits.
Flies are a domestication method discovered by the protagonist. After the flies emerge from their pupae, they must be forcibly tamed and forced to learn to obey by coercion and inducement.
The domestication of beetles benefited from the technology taught by the survivors of big-headed ants in their homeland. Unlike the domestication of flies, beetles must be domesticated in the pupa stage.
Each type of insect has a unique domestication method, which can only be learned from each other and cannot be applied.
The breeding and domestication of giant dragonflies, migratory locusts, and star beetles can partly draw on the experience of breeding and domesticating flies and beetles. The scientific research team has made considerable progress on these two points, and has conducted some experiments on sporadic eggs obtained through trade and field searches.
But now the hairy forest ants, bullet ants and leafcutter ants have all stopped selling eggs to the Ant Alliance because they have found that it is more cost-effective to sell domesticated adults in exchange for more honeydew and crow honey. .
The sporadic eggs obtained in the wild are not enough to support the number required for research, let alone provide the beast control needs of the transportation team.
This year, the scientific research team did not obtain the technology to allow giant dragonflies and migratory locusts to reproduce and lay eggs.
Moreover, what makes the protagonist dumbfounded is that several bullet ant handlers who were traded with the locusts have relatively simple minds, and they revealed their secrets when the scientific research team communicated with them:
The migratory locusts sold to the Ant Alliance by the bullet ants are all male, not a single female. Even the external genitals of these males have been castrated during the nymph stage. No wonder there is no sign of these beasts mating in the insect pen all year long.
None of the tribes under the Ant Alliance would judge the gender of these strange beast masters, which is why they have been kept secret for so long. Now it seems that the giant dragonflies sold by the hairy forest ants and the star beetles sold by the leafcutter ants are most likely castrated males.
The Ant Alliance transport team is full of eunuch insects. No wonder they can't reproduce a single beast-controlling egg for a whole year...
The protagonist can't laugh or cry at the tricks of these civilized ant trade partners, and he can't blame the other party's thieves. After all, no one has one or two bottom-line technologies. Just like the ant alliance itself, it is impossible to teach iron smelting, mysterious liquid explosives and other technologies to others. .
However, after working hard for a whole year, he found that most of the time he was doing useless work, which really made the protagonist very upset.
The protagonist asked the scientific research team to focus on experiments on how to breed healthy insect eggs found in the wild. As for the eunuchs controlling the beasts, they should concentrate on being coolies.
In fact, the protagonist and the Ant Alliance have half misunderstandings about the civilized ant tribe that sells beast-controlling animals: they are indeed selling castrated male insects, but castrated male insects live longer and are stronger after castration, so this is how to castrate them main reason. As for not selling female insects, there is indeed a fear of technology leakage.
After deliberation on the topics of the scientific research group, the representatives of the Magic Worker Ant and the Magic Soldier Ant also had related topics, which were discussed in advance with the instructions of the protagonist. The protagonist is the leader, and the Magic Worker Ant and the Magic Soldier Ant are his guns.
ShenGongYi proposes to establish more administrative and technical positions to cope with the increasing number and complexity of administrative tasks. The protagonist instigated the joint meeting of all ethnic groups to pass the agenda, and prepared to use the opportunity of increasing administrative and technical positions to promote more skilled workers to middle management.
The plan proposed by the Divine Soldier Ant to expand the army to 40 legions next year was also approved. As the territory of the Ant Alliance expanded and the number of ant colonies increased, the representatives had already felt that the standing army was insufficient.
According to the plan, after the expansion, 30 legions will be placed on the north bank and 10 legions will be deployed on the south bank.
However, the proposal proposed by the protagonist and proposed by the Divine Soldier Ants to increase the proportion of the Divine Soldier Ant squad leaders to 40% in each legion was opposed by the male ant class.
Although the army is now full of new generation male ants who obey the protagonist's orders, in order to appease the older generations of male ants, they have all become representatives of this meeting. They are still relatively opposed to the magic soldier ants occupying an increasingly important position in the army. Instinctively I think this is poaching the male ant class.
Fortunately, the protagonist was already willing to bargain, and a compromise was reached at the final meeting: each legion has 52 squads, of which, except for the 2 hunting sickle ant squads, the remaining 50 big-headed ant soldier ant squads are commanded by the male ant squad leader. There are 40 teams, and the leader of the magic soldier ant team commands 10 teams. Each legion should have 2 teams composed of pure magic soldier ants as elite reserve teams.
After that, there were proposals from representatives of other ant tribes, most of which were about miscellaneous matters related to their own ant tribe and department.
The representative of the Pavement Ants and the Minister of Engineering "Fuye II" proposed that winter is coming soon and the second phase of the Grand Canal project cannot be suspended. Other ants on the construction site can return to their sub-nests to overwinter as planned, and the ants distributed in The pavement ants in each sub-nest should be transferred to the construction site for rotation.
The motion was passed.
"Lao Xin", the representative of the ants and the Minister of Transportation, proposed that there will be a period of warm days after the cold wave, and couriers can be dispatched to each sub-nest to arrange winter tasks as usual. Necessary material transfers should also be completed before the severe winter comes. Since the water in the canal is already very cold, transportation now has to rely on air and ground transportation. The transportation capacity is limited and must be properly planned.
The protagonist consulted the representatives about their needs before winter, compiled the summary and sent it to "Old Heart", who was responsible for allocating supplies among the nests to ensure that all nests and ant colonies could survive the winter safely.
Some important nests have also received different winter tasks. For example, [Pioneer City] needs to be prepared to expand six legions after the beginning of spring; [February Lan City] needs to complete certain iron production tasks in winter, etc.
After all other delegates' agendas were reviewed, the meeting came to an end.
Finally, the protagonist announced that the last meeting will be held after winter. Since there are no major issues to be discussed, the next meeting will be postponed until spring. If there are any temporary matters that require a meeting, the representatives will be notified. This will be followed as a rule of the joint conference of all ethnic groups.
