But King "Black Carbon" does not have such courage after all. If he really had such courage and skill, he would not wait until the opposition was about to attack and still be unaware, and then be at a loss after knowing it.
I saw him shaking his head in panic, and even the way he looked at the young male ant changed. The image of the young male ant was so terrifying under the blue fluorescence, but what was more terrifying than this was the idea of the other person, that he could be so He casually said that he wanted to kill the nobles of his own clan, which shattered King "Black Tan"'s outlook on life.
It is true that becoming a dictator is against tradition, but King "Black Carbon" just happened to be in the right place. There were other male ants in front of him who were paving the way and building bridges for the dictatorial status. But he was lucky. Not only the pioneers all died. Ahead, he accumulated enough prestige at the most opportune time and received strong external support, eventually becoming the first dictator in the history of his family!
But he still did not dare to challenge the traditions that had been passed down for thousands of years, and he did not dare to have any over-the-top ideas about other nobles in terms of class privileges, let alone "illegally" deprive the lives of a large number of nobles.
King "Black Tan" rejected the suggestion, and young "Anzi" stopped making suggestions. He followed the plan and waited for King "Black Tan" to make his own decision.
In the end, King "Black Tan" took measures instead of just waiting for death. He sent his own soldiers to contact his cronies to plan secretly. After some discussions, he finally decided to win over the neutral nobles to thwart the opposition's plan.
The opposition attracted many nobles, apparently in order to prepare for an attack at the noble assembly and vote to step down from the position of dictator. The next meeting of nobles will be a monthly meeting to worship the God of Fire in a week's time. All the kings and kings of [Black Fire City] will attend the meeting, as well as representatives from the main nest from other places. There will be many nobles participating. With up to a thousand members, it is the highest-level noble meeting except the annual meeting and emergency meeting. In theory, it has the power to strip any title.
This conference will be the battlefield for the "peaceful" struggle between King "Black Carbon" and his forces, and the opposition forces. The two sides will decide the victory based on the number of supporters based on ancient traditions, which is quite similar to that in human civilization. "Parliamentary" style of struggle.
After the secret meeting, King "Black Tan"'s cronies acted individually to win over the neutrals verbally. The time left for them was very limited, because the opposition had already begun to take action, and at the same time they occupied the great cause of "restoring tradition." So two days later, the feedback King "Black Carbon" received was not very satisfactory. Many neutral and well-established kings did not approve of King "Black Carbon"'s wooing, and many ants even said that they would support the opposition plan.
King "Black Tan" was extremely anxious and summoned his cronies for a meeting again. The noble "Anzi" was also trusted and summoned to attend the meeting. Most of the participating nobles did not come up with any constructive suggestions. They themselves are a group that is not favored by the majority among the black fire ant nobles, because King "Black Carbon" violates the traditional dictatorship and needs to consolidate his rule. Due to the needs of the government, King "Black Tan" could only promote a group of young nobles to form his own team, and the promoted people themselves became objectionable to the traditionalists among the opposition and neutral factions. At the same time, their lack of experience also caused Leave it with nothing to build.
"Anzi" proposed at the right time that the neutral faction should be won over with benefits, and many young nobles immediately brightened up and agreed. King "Black Tan" was silent for a long time. It's not that he hadn't thought about this before, but this further destroyed the tradition of free expression of opinions at the noble meeting. But thinking about what would happen if he was stripped of his title of dictator, he finally agreed to give it a try.
In the next few days, King "Black Tan"'s cronies joined forces more frequently, and even the opposition in Dalian was aware of the movement. However, the two sides maintained a tacit understanding, and they were only more active in wooing the neutrals, and there was no overt conflict. .
The terms offered by King "Black Charcoal" are very favorable, and he promises to provide the nobles with more generous enjoyment, including doubling the supply of fermented drinks, increasing the frequency of supply of crow honey, providing delicacies from far away from time to time, etc. These additional consumption items, except for the fermented drink Black Fire Ant, which can be produced by the country itself, all have to be imported from allied countries, especially the Ant Alliance. They are also in demand in the ant trade. The nobles also know that only "black charcoal" is available. "Only the king can obtain such a large amount of imports.
But trade requires trading goods. King "Black Carbon" made a generous promise and gained many new supporters, and the price paid for this was also very high.
After some troublesome calculations, the nobles who managed the treasury for him reported that the settlement could only be made in grain. After all, the trade volume of other black fire ant countries' special products was too small, and the annual grain expenditure would be greatly increased. It will even make the national treasury unable to make ends meet.
King "Black Charcoal" thought for a while and decided to cut the worker ants' ration by one-fifth. Anyway, the worker ants who only ate 80% of the ration would not starve to death.
However, the number of nobles attracted by the luxury goods alone was not enough for King "Hei Tan" to secure victory. After another secret discussion, "An Zi" finally convinced King "Hei Tan" to actively seek Zhu Jue's help.
Zhu Jue already knew the inside story and flew back to the Great Wall in person to meet with King "Black Tan" to show his concern. After some bargaining, Zhu Jue agreed to hand over part of the empty land between the original marching ant country and the black fire ant country (originally belonging to the barbarian ants) that would be recovered in the future to the black fire ant country as compensation. King "Black Tan" asked God Fu swore that he would never oppose the Ant Alliance at the Civilized Ant Tribe Conference in his lifetime, and provide more troops to participate in the Western Expedition!
Received territorial compensation can, to a large extent, offset the negative impact of the opposition making a fuss over the fact that the old territory was not returned to the tribe after it was recovered by the coalition forces.
Then, King "Black Tan" even went so far as to agree to the opinion proposed by his nobles that the "king" of all nests in the new territory should only be their supporters.
This is undoubtedly a complete subversion of tradition. In the past, after the nobles of each deputy nest were promoted to "kings" on their own, half of them were assigned to serve in the main nest. All the "kings" were concentrated in the main nest. Now sending the king to the deputy nest is not an exile. With the status of the king, he can fully control all the power of the deputy nest, which is equivalent to becoming a small dictator. The king who can obtain the subordinate faction will undoubtedly gain huge benefits, but they who violate tradition can only be completely tied to the "Black Tan" king who also violates tradition!
As soon as this move was launched, the effect was extremely significant. After hearing the news, countless kings came to pay allegiance to King "Black Carbon", including many opposition kings who originally had a clear-cut banner...
