At this time, in [Holy Tree City], a hall was very lively.
The Leafcutter Ant Nation, which had been nearly bankrupted by the war, now generously provided a large amount of supplies and was entertaining distinguished guests from afar in this temporary banquet hall.
More than a dozen queen ants and female ant representatives from the leaf-cutting ant country attended the banquet as hosts. If the venue was not big enough, all the representatives of the queen ant conference would have wanted to come.
Among the distinguished guests at the banquet, there were commanders of the ant armies of various civilizations who had just achieved military exploits in two battles. At this time, they temporarily left the front line, as well as representatives of various tribes who had just arrived from the air, and some had just gotten off their mounts. .
The windows of the banquet hall were connected to the outside. It was cloudy outside and it seemed like it was going to rain. It was very cool, but the hall was very lively.
When the dishes are served, the main course of the banquet is still various kinds of fungi. The common ones are fresh fungi placed whole on a vegetable leaf mat, or dried fungi. The more sophisticated ones include a small amount of roasted fungi, salted fungi or honey-pickled fungi.
Other foods are mainly meat and vegetables. Leaf-cutting ants usually do not eat these foods very much. In order to cater to the taste of guest ants, they are provided from seized materials, or temporarily sent to collect by worker ants.
The guests were not too cold about these "leaf-cutting ant" style foods, especially since many of them had tasted the rich delicacies of the Ant Alliance before. The entire banquet, that is, the honeydew drink, was more to everyone's appetite.
But the banquet was still in full swing. Ants from different ant tribes moved back and forth while eating, whispering to each other with their tentacles.
They all discuss the same thing!
When the banquet was over and the guests moved to the conference room and lay down on the ant silk mats, most of the representatives or commanders of the ant clan had already thought about their requests through constant communication.
The purpose of this meeting was to discuss how to carve out a piece of land for the expeditionary forces of various civilizational ant allies to establish overseas territories or new sub-states for each country after defeating the Pavement Ant Imperial Army.
This was the promise made by the protagonist when he deceived the allies into sending troops. Anyway, the land occupied was the territory that originally belonged to the Leafcutter Ant Nation, so the Ant Alliance Nation did not suffer. The leaf-cutting ant country had just suffered a huge defeat at the time and was in poverty, so it agreed to this request.
To a large extent, some civilized ant tribes also valued the ability to defend the "sacred tree" of great significance, so they agreed to take the dangerous and unpredictable waterway to come for support.
But now that things have come to a head, although the Leafcutter Ant Nation agreed to convene this meeting, it obviously regrets it!
At the beginning of the meeting, the leafcutter ant nation stated that it was only willing to provide a small piece of land. The length and width of this square piece of land were the distance that a leafcutter ant worker ant could walk in a day, and the area was approximately equivalent to one or two ordinary ants. The size of the nest territory.
There are a total of 7 tribes of reinforcement ants. According to the order of arrival of support, they are sharp-tailed ants, thin-legged ants, dissimilar blind leaf-cutter ants, black fire ants, army ants, flat-headed ants and bullet ants.
It is obviously not enough for the seven families to share such a small amount of territory. Even if they are divided equally, the territories built by each family will be too small and not even enough to be self-sufficient.
As a result, representatives of each clan protested. Although the specific size of the territory had not been agreed upon before, it was obvious that according to general understanding, each clan should obtain at least a piece of land the size of an ordinary sub-nest. This was their idea.
Some of the ant tribes also expressed that they need to be divided according to the number of troops sent and war contributions, and cannot be divided equally.
The protagonist attended the meeting in person. He did not send a message at this time. He lay quietly, with various emotions and news constantly coming from his tentacles.
The queen ant representative of the leafcutter ant country was overwhelmed and exhausted, but she could not overturn the decision of the queen ant conference, so she had to emphasize over and over again that the leafcutter ant country could only provide so much land.
While the dispute continued, the representative of the Black Fire Ant suddenly proposed that the Ant Alliance had also received support and should also give out part of its land. Representatives of various ethnic groups were stunned for a moment, some expressed support, and some remained silent.
The protagonist took his time and replied: It was previously agreed that the Leafcutter Ant Nation would provide the land, while the Ant Alliance Nation would provide the food needed for the reinforcements, and also give a large amount of honeydew to each country. The Ant Alliance has no obligation to hand over the land, and the demands of the Black Fire Ant representatives are a violation of the agreement reached in the "Holy Tree" summer.
The representatives of the Black Fire Ants also want to get a piece of meat from the Ant Alliance. Their Black Fire Ant clan is influenced by the remnants of the Northern Expeditionary Army (especially the "Flying Eagle") and has no good impression of the Ant Alliance.
The protagonist immediately vented his anger, saying that if the Ant United Kingdom provides land, all countries should return the honeydew and food provided by the Ant United Kingdom before!
At this time, the representatives of other ethnic groups could not sit still. Their country still had no problem with food. There were not many ants in the expedition, and the large amount of pavement ant imperial army food captured in the war was enough to repay them.
However, the amount of honeydew provided by the Ant Alliance during this period was huge. Every time the air transport team returned from [Xinyang City], it was full of goods, and these luxury goods had already entered the stomachs of noble ants from various countries, and they could not vomit them up. from.
Representatives of the more prestigious Bullet Ant clan came forward and stated that their clan would implement the agreement and would not ask for land from the Ant Alliance. Representatives of various clans also responded. The representatives of the black fire ant clan saw that the situation was not good and no longer insisted on their unreasonable demands.
The pressure has returned to the representative of the Leaf Cutter Ant Nation Queen Ant. She was silent just now. In fact, deep down in her heart, she hopes that the Ant Alliance can hand over a piece of land. After all, it would be a huge loss for the Leaf Cutter Ant Nation to give up all the land.
At this time, they had completely forgotten how eager they were for reinforcements when they were defeated by the Western Expeditionary Army of the Pavement Ant Empire. At that time, they were almost willing to pay any price in exchange for the safety of their native "Holy Tree Forest"!
There was endless bickering at the meeting, and it was not easy to reach an agreement:
The leafcutter ant nation agreed to quadruple the territory it provided, providing a square piece of land with the length and width of the leafcutter ants walking for two days. But the land was chosen around [Liu San City].
This land is still controlled by the red fire ant country, so the leafcutter ant country feels that it has not suffered any loss. After all, this land has not been recovered yet. So the queen ant conference quickly agreed to this plan, and the biggest obstacle was overcome!
The ant representatives also agreed in principle. Although the land was smaller than their previous expectations, it was much more generous than the initial conditions. After fierce bargaining, the representatives' expectations had dropped a lot.
Now that the land has been determined, all that's left is to concentrate on capturing [Liu San City], which is still resisting.
In particular, the black fire ant clan is the most active. As the force outside the region that sent the most troops this time, according to the agreement reached, the [Liu San City] nest and a small piece of land nearby belong to them!
