"Old Heart" reluctantly moved to the reception room.
In this small reception room, the ground is paved with fine white pebbles, almost covering the entire floor like floor tiles. The four walls also have fluorescent bacteria for lighting, as well as hanging hematite-red patterned ant felt.
Several ant silk cushions were arranged in the reception room. "Old Heart" found a usual place to lie down and lazily waited for the guests.
Soon, a worker ant brought the visitor in. These three young male ants were "Lao Xin"'s highly relied-upon subordinates in the Ministry of Transportation. Otherwise, "Old Xin" really didn't want to see them, let alone Get mixed up in trouble.
The young male ants were uninhibited and seemed to have come here often and had become accustomed to it. They each found a ball of ant silk mat to lie down on, and used their tentacles to send greetings to the "old heart" on the cobblestone ground.
However, when they greeted each other, the emotions they exuded seemed a bit careless, not as respectful as they normally would when facing senior male ants.
"Old Heart" didn't know whether he didn't notice or didn't care, so he responded in a friendly way and then remained silent.
There was a silence for a while, and no meaningful information was sent out from each other's tentacles.
The young male ants were the first to be unable to bear it any longer. They looked at each other, and the leading young male ant began to send out messages.
The content he posted was to ask "old minds" what their opinions were on the motions they had previously proposed as representatives of their own race.
"Old Heart" was slow and timid, and it took him a while to respond. He said: As an official of the Ministry of Transportation, he should not worry about matters that should belong to the local meeting.
He also said: The great God Messenger King knows everything. He must know your worries and there will be a solution. You must believe in the God Messenger King, and so on...
The young male ants seemed to be very dissatisfied and threw out their bargaining chip: somewhere, somewhere, and somewhere, our fellow ants all support this motion.
"Old Heart" is a little impatient. He doesn't like his subordinates tossing around like this, and he is also worried that if he really submits the bill, he will offend the almighty God Envoy King.
So the "old heart" firmly opposed it, and the young male ants also had feelings of resistance, and the two sides broke up unhappy.
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In early June, at the joint conference venue of all ethnic groups, the protagonist held the second joint conference of all ethnic groups this year.
This year, after the Allied Forces of the Civilized Ant Tribe regained places such as , , and other places, once again destroyed the Red Fire Ant Kingdom, and expelled the forces of the Pavement Ant Empire, all civilized ant tribes ushered in a period of peace.
The Ant Alliance has also begun to shift its focus to economic construction. The land damaged by the war on the north bank of the Qinghe River needs to be reconstructed, while large-scale development on the south bank of the Qinghe River is in full swing. In the meantime, many problems have been exposed.
The protagonist convened this meeting to plan further reforms to adapt to the current situation of the Ant Alliance after the territory, especially the territory on the south bank of Qinghe River, expanded rapidly.
Previously, the Ant Alliance had also carried out reforms and established a system of conferences of all ethnic groups, joint conferences of all ethnic groups, and a ten-department system at the central level. The royal clans of ants, burrowing ants, and Japanese black brown ants are placed under the supervision of the main nest. The internal affairs of the clan are handled by the clan assembly, the national level affairs are discussed by the joint conference of the clans, and the ten tribes are the executive agencies.
This system of central government affairs has clear powers and is currently functioning well.
But at the local level, although the sub-nest meeting has been established as a daily administrative body, it still has not broken away from the habit of despising the sub-nest in the early years of the old Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
In the old big-headed ant kingdom, the main nest and nearby nests that are easy to control are the foundation of the kingdom. The autonomy of the remote secondary nest is relatively stronger. In addition to the newly born male ants and queen ants, they have to participate in the nuptial flight of the main nest and occasionally provide a small amount of supplies. , respond to the call and send troops, these deputy nests do not have many obligations.
Nowadays, the Deputy Nest Conference of the Ant Alliance, in theory, has the functions of local power agencies, administrative agencies, and even military agencies at the same time, and it has too much power. Moreover, the members of the deputy nest meeting nominally accept the leadership of the ten departments of the Central Committee, but there is no fixed reporting relationship, and mistakes often occur in the execution of some work.
These problems were not obvious before. The territory of the Ant Alliance is not large, and it does not take much time to travel from the main nest to the original sub-nests. When encountering major events, the Divine Envoy King will send special envoys to convey instructions, and even temporarily take over Deputy nest local work.
But with the expansion of the territory, the original ruling method of special envoy + deputy nest meeting is no longer suitable.
In this year's war, the protagonist has discovered that among the large number of sub-nests built before winter on the south bank of the Qinghe River last year, the administrative efficiency of many sub-nests is very low, and there are often planned ant colonies or materials that cannot be mobilized in time.
According to preliminary assessment, this is mainly due to the general lack of experience or unwillingness of local deputy nest meeting members to implement.
What caused these two points was precisely the large-scale construction of new sub-nests last year. As a result, there were very few qualified sub-nest leaders who were experienced and obedient. Most of the deputy nest meeting members were promoted temporarily and had no administrative experience at all. .
In addition, due to the need for large-scale development on the south bank of Qinghe River, some newly built sub-nests have few or even no permanent residents of big-headed ants.
In the past, the protagonist always consciously gave the ants of the big-headed ants a dominant position in each sub-nest.
After all, the Ant Alliance is known as the "United Nations of Ants," but the Big-headed Ant clan is actually in a dominant position. Once the Big-headed Ant clan becomes unstable, it is likely that the other subordinates will find it difficult to suppress them.
The protagonist has a clear understanding of this, even though many of the Ant Alliance's undertakings cannot be separated from the various races that occupy a vassal status. For example, he needs the winter outdoor mobility of pavement ants, the hunter ants as scouts, and the fungus cultivation of leaf-cutter ants. As a major source of food, they not only suppress the various ethnic groups, but also win over the senior officials of the vassal ethnic groups through the joint assembly of all ethnic groups or the representative seats in the ethnic assembly and the official positions of the ten tribes.
This time, because of the huge pressure from the aggressive ants of the Pavement Ant Empire, when developing the south bank of Qinghe River, the protagonist no longer insisted that each nest must be dominated by the big-headed ant clan, and allowed multiple client ant clans to be established independently or mixed. There are few or even no big-headed ants in these sub-nests, so that the ants can do their best.
For example, in a sub-nest in a certain forest, only three tribes of leafcutter ants, ants and red forest ants live. Among them, leafcutter ants cultivate fungi, ants engage in aphid grazing, and fire ants engage in forest hunting.
If a large number of big-headed ants move in, as ground-dwelling ants, the work efficiency of the big-headed ants in the forest area will be compromised.
This original intention is good, but at present the protagonist feels that stability is more important than anything else. The external military pressure of the Ant Alliance has temporarily disappeared, and it is time to start solving the sequelae caused by the previous large-scale development!
