The protagonist is surprised that the scientific research department has basically succeeded in copying the secret medicine of the black fire ants in a short period of time.
You must know that this secret medicine has been a secret of the black fire ants for an unknown number of years, and it can earn a lot of profits from foreign trade every year.
Other ant clans have imported this secret medicine, and I don’t know if they have tried to imitate it. If they had the intention, they would definitely try it, but it obviously didn’t succeed. Currently, only the black fire ant clan’s secret medicine is on the market.
After listening to the details of the imitation process reported by the magic worker ant, the protagonist understood that this success was actually a true reflection of the accumulated national strength of the ant alliance.
If you want to imitate (pirate) this secret medicine, a force needs to have two key factors at the same time: one is the scientific researcher who can analyze the ingredients of the medicine, and the other is the industrial capability to produce the corresponding materials.
And these two points are exactly what the Ant United States possesses!
In terms of scientific research, since the scientific research group was upgraded to the scientific research department, the best and brightest magical workers or great workers in the country will be assigned to this department first, making the team of ant talents in the scientific research department stronger than ever before.
Other departments also have some criticisms. For example, the Ministry of Education and the Ant Mouth Department also recruit ants who like to be smart. The Magic Soldier Ants and the Great Soldier Ants cannot compete with the standing army of the Military Department and the Divine Envoy King's Legion. The Magic Worker Ants and the Great Worker Ants are Main goal.
The Scientific Research Department has produced very few results, but has been allocated the most talents. These departments do not quite understand why the wise God Envoy King always favors the Scientific Research Department.
Some rumors about the "Secretary II" of the Minister of Scientific Research are quietly circulating in the audience. In fact, the IQ of the top ants is based on this, and the spirit of gossip is based on it.
However, under the insistence of the protagonist, the Scientific Research Department still has the right to select young miracle workers and master workers who have graduated from the Ministry of Education every year. After several years of development, it has a luxurious research team.
In recent years, the Scientific Research Department has not been as busy as other departments, and has achieved many achievements. Although there is still a lack of major groundbreaking inventions, there are still many successful cases in basic research and optimization of industrial production.
For example, the ant mouth requires a large amount of tedious data recording and calculations. In the past, calculations relied on the brains of the scarce magical worker ants or large worker ants in the department. It would be very troublesome when there was too much data, and the precious ant talents could not be used just as memory.
The scientific research department learned from the protagonist's preference for recording with pen and paper, improved clay tablets and hard stick writing tools suitable for ants, and invented a system based on dots and horizontal and vertical counting. This system is similar to the ancient world of humans. Cuneiform tablets from the river basin.
Ants can use clay tablets to record data, identify them visually or by touching strokes with their antennae, and use different combinations of clay tablets to assist the brain in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. This allows ordinary worker ants to have the computing and memory capabilities of magical worker ants.
The protagonist greatly appreciated this after learning about it. Although this invention system has its own influence, it is more of the original creation of the scientific research department. It can be seen that the scientific researchers have the ability to independently invent, and this invention is also Very practical.
For this reason, the protagonist personally named the magical worker ant who led the invention and changed his name to "Cangjie". His successor has the right to use the title of "X Generation".
This is a great honor in the Ant Alliance, and it means that she, like some senior officers, has a subsequent lineage!
The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Transport have benefited the most from the Ministry of Scientific Research. The production optimization of the workshops of the Ministry of Industry, the new beetles and flying beast-control vehicles of the Ministry of Transport, including the newly built pontoon bridge across the Qinghe River last year, are all inseparable from scientific research. Ministry’s contribution.
It was only thanks to a group of experienced and excellent ant researchers that they had the courage to try the medicine themselves, without avoiding acid poisoning, and quickly analyzed the rough ingredients of the anti-mite medicine for the black fire ant family.
The acids and spices in these ingredients are difficult to assemble in the average ant tribe, and even if they are assembled, it is difficult to prepare them on a large scale.
Like the black fire ants, the spices used to produce the secret medicine are collected from within the territory. Different from ginger seeds and wild garlic, they are the product of crushed inedible plant seeds, which contain powerful fungicides. This is also the reason why the secret medicine of the black fire ant family is more effective.
This plant is very rare, and only the black fire ant clan is deliberately collecting and utilizing it. Most ant clans cannot find this plant in their country, and it has not yet been found in the Ant Alliance. However, the liquid obtained by the researchers soaking ginger seeds and wild garlic in water, which have a similar taste, can also be roughly replaced.
The black fire ant family produces secret medicinal acid water, which comes from the natural physalis squeezed from unripe fruits, diluted and prepared. Ants don't like to eat this kind of sour fruit, so they won't collect it. Most ant tribes can't even produce the most basic physalis, so naturally they can't prepare the secret medicine.
Ant United Kingdom is different. There are as many similar acidic waters as there are. The by-products of fermented drinks and food produced in fermentation workshops are a large amount of acidic water.
This kind of acidic water is rich in lactic acid and acetic acid. The protagonist sometimes takes some of it, filters and purifies it, and uses it as vinegar when cooking. But most ants don't like to eat dishes with strong sour taste, that is, they should be used in small amounts when dealing with meat and the like.
Now, most of this acidic water that would have been discarded has been put to use, and it can be transformed into the main component of a high-value secret drug to repel mites.
The successful imitation of the secret mite repellent medicine marks that the scientific research strength of Ant Alliance has progressed to a new stage!
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After the secret mite repellent drug was successfully copied, the most busy one besides the pharmaceutical workshop being built was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Little Flower" has received the order and selected outstanding diplomats to start missions to various countries.
These diplomats all carry samples of imitation mite repellents. Some of these samples are also prepared with flower extracts. They have an elegant aroma and are at least more attractive in taste than the original products of the black fire ant family. force.
Of course, the biggest attraction of this medicine is that it is cheap! ! !
The price of the medicine of the black fire ant family, 1 snail shell volume of medicine needs to be traded for 3 snail shell volumes of honeydew, or 12 volumes of snail shell grain, which is really not cheap.
And even if the Ant Alliance has not yet started large-scale production of pharmaceuticals, the cost can support selling them at a low price. Even if the selling price is only one-sixth of the black fire ants, they can still make a profit. Once mass production begins, costs will fall further.
The protagonist plans to quickly occupy the market for this medicine through large-scale dumping.
You know, ant mites are always everywhere and difficult to kill. The market estimate of this medicine is quite large. The most important thing is that we can take the opportunity to suppress the core products of the Black Fire Ant Country, so why not! ?
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