After the military parade, the stunned and stunned representatives of all ethnic groups were taken to the banquet and slowly regained their consciousness amid the delicious food and drinks.
After the banquet, there was a duel between insects and beasts, and a small colosseum was built outside [Pioneer City], enough to accommodate dozens of representatives. The exciting duel between insects and beasts and the battle between ants and beasts made the representatives excited.
It's a pity that they don't have private property, otherwise they can participate in bets on insect-beast fights, and if you use public property to place bets, you need authorization from the clan. Now many ants will regularly place bets at the [New Yang City] Colosseum, hoping to earn extra crow wine. They feel that this is more suitable than normal trade, even if the odds are clearly that the Ant United Kingdom will always win. No loss. The representatives could only enjoy the spectacle this time and could not participate in the gladiatorial betting that had made them famous in a short period of time.
There was another banquet in the evening, and this time there was enough honeydew and crow wine, so the delegates didn't even bother to eat. They were all drunk until they were groggy, and then they were dragged away to another meeting.
Zhu Jue did it on purpose. In confusion and chaos, representatives of all ethnic groups were coaxed, coerced, and lured by Zhu Jue, and finally signed an agreement with the nature of military assistance.
The content of the agreement is very simple, that is, when the civilized ant tribe in this area encounters an attack by the demonic ant tribe or the barbaric ant tribe, other tribes have the right to send troops to help or provide supplies.
The key point of this agreement is that it is to assist the war and does not require help from the assisted country.
With this agreement, the Angel King Legion can appear openly and openly in the lands of the ant tribes of various civilizations. Even if the Destroyer did not come, which of these civilized ant tribes would not have conflicts or conflicts with the surrounding barbaric ant tribes and indigenous ants? Therefore, the Ant Alliance basically has a reason to send troops at any time.
In turn, will other races follow suit and send troops to come and go at will on the land of the Ant Alliance? ?
The Ant Alliance will definitely not tolerate this. Zhu Jue made an assessment and concluded that there is no need to worry, because to know whether there is a military conflict in the other party's territory, in addition to the other party actively providing information, one has to rely on intelligence collection.
Except for the Ant United Nations, all other races do not have professional external intelligence collection capabilities, and often rely on flying caravans to obtain necessary information. In other words, as long as the Ant Alliance does not take the initiative to ask for help and block information, other races will not know the inside story of the Ant Alliance, and there is no talk of military intervention.
Moreover, traveling to other countries for military assistance requires strong air transportation capabilities. Currently, only two and a half of the civilized ant tribes have this capability. One family is the Ant Alliance, and the other is the Maolin Ant Clan who are more interested in making money than fighting.
The last half of the family is the Bullet Ant clan. The number of locust control beasts they maintain all year round is only enough to assist various clans in small-scale trade. However, it is said that they have the technology to multiply locusts in a short period of time, but this has never been confirmed.
Most ants do not even have the ability to conduct expeditions.
Zhu Jue's purpose in instigating this agreement was to strengthen the nature of the military alliance among the civilized ant tribe.
The civilized ant tribe is more like a cultural alliance and trade system, and is very lagging behind in military cooperation. Facing the coming destroyer, Zhu Jue mobilized the attention of his allies, trying to gradually let the Ant Alliance take the lead in the military alliance and tie as much power as possible onto the chariot.
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After the representatives of all ethnic groups woke up the next day, they returned to their countries with the finalized agreement and submitted it to the highest authority of their country for review and approval.
Most of the ant tribe quickly passed this agreement, which seemed fair and did not suffer a loss in the context of the imminent arrival of the demon ant tribe.
But there were also some episodes among the three ant families.
In the Black Fire Ant Kingdom, "Flying Eagle" speculated on Zhu Jue with the greatest malice, but it turned out that he was the most thorough about the hidden traps of this agreement. Since other countries basically agreed to the agreement, the Black Fire Ant Nation did not intend to exclude itself from the collective, so it still passed the agreement.
However, at the insistence of "Flying Eagle", the Black Fire Ant Nation modified the terms of the agreement, requiring that only after its own country seeks help can the armies of other countries assist in the battle.
Zhu Jue also immediately made targeted modifications. Only when other countries asked for help could the Black Fire Ant Country send troops to help. Other countries still abide by the original regulations.
The Leafcutter Ant clan stated that no other armies of other races are allowed to enter the [Holy Tree City] and its surrounding areas within their own country, and other areas can follow the agreement. Zhu Jue accepted and added this clause to the agreement.
Finally, there is the army ant clan. They are powerful and roam around all year round. They have no fixed territory. After weighing the balance, they are only willing to retain the right to assist in the battle and give up the right to be assisted in the battle. Zhu Jue also agreed.
This is all a story later. The first agreement of this paramilitary alliance was finally formed and all countries committed to it. It was already about to enter winter.
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It’s October in the blink of an eye, and as the ginkgo leaves turn golden, the most fertile season of the year has changed.
This is the last lively time for most insects. There are far fewer cicadas and crickets that are common in summer. Only those insects that can survive the winter are busy foraging for food to reserve energy.
In the territory of the Black Fire Ant Country, somewhere near the western border, this is the new territory of the Red Fire Ant Clan that has just become a vassal.
In line with the closeness between relatives, the black fire ant clan specially assigned this rich sub-nest to the red fire ant clan as their territory, which can be regarded as a favor.
The "wisdom elder" continued to lead as the dictator the ethnic group that was already much weaker but luckily survived, and rested here for more than half a year.
Today, there are only about 10,000 warriors left in the fire ant clan, who survive by exploiting more than 30,000 slave ants, and occasionally send troops to help the mother country fight in exchange for material rewards.
In this year's war against invading termites, fire ant warriors were dispatched many times, often taking the lead, and often attacking the strongest nests, causing heavy casualties.
For this reason, there are still many elders who are quite critical, and they are also dissatisfied with the "wisdom elder"'s behavior of defecting to the new suzerain country. Later, the "wise elders" used the most mysterious fable in their clan's inheritance - "West to West and Back to West" to calm down the internal disputes.
He himself did not understand the meaning of this long-circulated fable. At that time, surrendering to the black fire ant clan was just a helpless move when they ran out of ammunition and food and were unwilling to be destroyed. Fortunately, the Black Fire Ant Country was very interested in the technology and intelligence provided by the country, and the conspiracy of the "Wise Elder" was realized.
"After this winter!" Elder Wisdom thought: "Find an opportunity to leave the new suzerain country and migrate to the west!"
As the former overlords of one party, the "Wisdom Elder" and the red fire ant clan had no intention of living under the black fire ant country for a long time. Only a powerful existence like the Pavement Ant Empire, which makes the fire ants unable to resist, can truly overwhelm them.
