After Zhu Jue returned from [Holy Tree City], feeling the rapid approach of the Destroyer, he immediately ordered the military parade originally planned for the end of autumn to be advanced.
The military parade is one of the three important events of the Ant Alliance that Zhu Jue recently ordered to prepare.
After recovering part of his human memory, Zhu Jue quickly realized the inherent shortcomings in the current system and diplomacy of the Ant Alliance. In the past, he thought it was running well, so he turned a blind eye.
Regarding the system of the Ant Alliance, although it has undergone some rectification, the management system of the deputy nest has gradually become more formal, and the central level also has a smoothly functioning ten-ministry system and a joint assembly of all ethnic groups responsible for it.
However, the status of the only supreme head of state in the Ant United Kingdom, the Divine Envoy Wang Zhujue, lacks institutional guarantees and is ensured entirely by his own prestige, qualifications, achievements and the inertia of the Ant society.
Zhu Jue planned to further strengthen his authority, clarify his supremacy in administration, military affairs and religion in the form of an institution, and use his sacred status to make himself truly inviolable from now on.
In the past, Zhu Jue was too homely, which resulted in insufficient understanding of the vast areas outside the main nest, that is, he did not work at the grassroots level. This was also one of the reasons that indirectly caused various disadvantages in the previous sub-nests in various places.
So Zhu Jue plans to launch a month-long nationwide tour in October. Just like Qin Shihuang's parade after unifying the six countries. However, as soon as this idea came up, Zhu Jue quickly realized that something was wrong. Qin Shihuang was on his way to death, and it also led to Xiang Yu, Liu Bang...
However, patrols are still necessary. The ants in the sub-nest seldom pay homage to the majestic king of the gods at close range. Such patrols are conducive to the control of the sub-nest.
In addition, in order to demonstrate military power to the civilized ant tribes, deter restless elements like the Black Fire Ant Nation, and at the same time compete for the right to speak within the civilized ant tribes. Zhu Jue also planned to hold a grand military parade in the open space of [Pioneer City], inviting representatives of all ethnic groups to come and watch the ceremony.
National parades and large-scale military parades can in turn increase Zhu Jue's prestige, paving the way for measures to be taken in winter to further strengthen the power of the Divine Envoy King and deify the Divine Envoy King's status.
In Zhu Jue's original plan, the order of these three major events was to first parade across the country, then to have a grand military parade, and finally to clarify his supreme status through systems and divine decrees.
However, the rapid approach of the Destroyer made Zhu Jue aware of the urgency of military construction and the greater need to grasp the right to speak within the civilized ant tribe as soon as possible and control more resources to deal with future threats. It would be best to use force to coerce and form a long-term military alliance headed by the Ant Alliance.
Therefore, Zhu Jue decided to advance the military parade and it will be held in half a month.
Under Zhu Jue's instruction, the Military Ministry issued orders one after another from [Xinyang City], and legions and troops one after another began to gather in [Tuohuang City].
The engineering team redeployed half of the construction team that was developing a new canal on the south bank of the Qinghe River, destroyed a farmland of more than thirty square meters that was about to be harvested outside [Pioneer City], and converted it into a military parade venue.
Special envoys from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade flew to various ethnic groups to deliver invitations to the military parade.
[Pioneer City]'s Deputy Nest Council and the Ten Ant Group are busy mobilizing and supplying the food that the army will consume for many days, as well as the sumptuous ingredients needed for the banquet after the military parade.
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September 29, [Tianhuang City].
The viewing envoy from the sharp-tailed ant clan was the first to arrive at the viewing location, and Zhu Jue, who had already moved here for a long time, went to greet him personally.
The Sharp-tailed Ant Clan has recently been in close contact with the Ant Alliance. Under the sweet offensive of a large amount of crow wine, the Sharp-tailed Ant Nation, which originally favored the Black Fire Ant clan, has shifted its internal mentality towards the Ant Alliance.
So they sent three high-status queens to watch, riding in a flying sedan chair dragged by 18 large flying termites. This kind of flying sedan is very slow. The representatives of the sharp-tailed ants took hundreds of flying termite knights and flew for three full days before arriving. They had set off almost a week in advance to avoid delaying the date.
The day after tomorrow is the day of the military parade. It is a coincidence that this day is also a day of routine military parade in Zhu Jue's motherland in his previous life.
He did not intentionally choose this day for the military parade. The date he originally planned for the military parade was at the end of October, when the daytime temperature was not cold yet and the autumn air was crisp.
For this military parade, the United Nations mobilized a total of 12 legions and other troops, a total of 50,000 soldiers, and twice as many support workers to assist, and mobilized countless supplies to prepare for this military parade.
Such a huge expenditure has puzzled and even opposed senior officials such as Finance Minister "Xiao Sheng" and many representatives of the United National Congress. Zhu Jue almost used the prestige accumulated by the God Envoy King to push forward forcefully by himself.
The various ethnic groups who received the invitation from the Ant Alliance to watch the review had different reactions. Most of them didn't know why. They didn't know what the army was worth reviewing. When there was a war, couldn't they just pull up a temporary team?
With the exception of the Black Fire Ant Nation and the Marching Ant Nation, civilized ant nations generally do not have standing armies like the Ant Alliance Nation, so it is not surprising that there is such confusion.
The relationship between the Black Fire Ant Nation and the United Ant Nation is delicate, and "Flying Eagle" even feels that this is the fallen God Envoy King showing off his minions. In particular, Zhu Jue's invitation to the Black Fire Ant Kingdom specifically invited "Flying Eagle" to watch, which made him feel that there was a conspiracy.
Zhu Jue doesn't care about these internal and external doubts. He believes that on the day of the military parade, all doubts will eventually turn into respect, and all hostility will turn into fear. He, the Divine Envoy King's Army and the Ant Alliance will all be in this military parade. Then let the inside and outside be satisfied.
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October 1st, [Pioneer City], military parade ground.
Representatives of various tribes have already arrived one after another. Some ant tribes who originally did not want to come also sent envoys after learning that crow wine would be given away after the viewing.
The tactic of giving away crow wine has been tried and tested by the Ant Alliance. Now crow wine has become the most important commodity exported by the Ant Alliance.
At the parade ground outside the city, the land was cleared and leveled, and all vegetation was cut off by the roots, leaving a large piece of flat land exposed to loess.
On the south side of the parade ground is the viewing platform made of ant concrete. It is a rectangular high platform, about the size of a red brick in the human world.
The representatives went up the slope to the top of the platform and stood in the positions designated by the guide workers.
The seat reserved for the host was in the middle of the viewing platform. On both sides were the female ant representatives of the leaf-cutter ant clan, the king representative of the black fire ant country (and the "Stubborn King" who came to watch as the special envoy of the "Flying Eagle"), Bullet The female ant representative of the ant clan, and the male ant representative of the army ant clan. Representatives of other ethnic groups also took their places.
At this moment, a large group of shadows suddenly covered the viewing platform in the sky. Representatives of all ethnic groups hurriedly looked up...
