The extreme opposition kings were increasingly surprised and angry at King "Hei Tan"'s naked attempt to win over the kings, which broke through tradition and bottom line. However, apart from using the same old rhetoric of safeguarding tradition and maintaining the equality of kings, they did not do anything at all. There is no contingency plan, and there are even many defectors in his own camp.
As a result, King "Black Tan" became more and more confident day by day. The Fire God Sacrifice Conference was finally held as scheduled.
The sacrifice was performed in the large sacrificial hall on the bottom floor of the lair. The sacred fire burning special fuel also emitted dim light in the dark underground, as if it was a dark flame twisting. Today's sacrifice was obviously different from usual, even the climax of the sacrifice where precious sacrifices were offered to the holy fire, including several live and tied-up Destroyers being thrown into the fire, their flesh being burned by the flames with crackling sounds. , none of them caused the audience to dance in silent joy like before.
All the ants are either restless or impatiently waiting for the end of the sacrifice, as if the sacred sacrifice to the gods has become a barely manageable task. When the sacrifice was over, the kings in front and the king in the back eagerly rushed into the aristocratic conference room next to them.
The largest conference room in the Black Fire Ant Kingdom is as big as a large dinner plate in the human world. It is circular and located at the bottom of [Black Fire City]. The floor of the conference room is inlaid with white pebbles that are very characteristic of the civilized ant tribe, forming a regular mosaic centripetal pattern. The height of the conference room is very short. If the ants on the edge lift up, their tentacles can touch the ceiling. The ceiling in the middle is slightly higher and supported by simple wooden trusses.
There was no lighting in the room, and the nobles took their places completely relying on memory and tentacles. The kings consciously arranged themselves in a circle in the conference room in order of seniority from inside to outside. The kings surrounded the periphery. Thousands of nobles almost filled the conference room, with only some empty seats at the edge.
The meeting does not require any extra lengthy routines and will start automatically once all the nobles have arrived.
As the king with the highest qualifications and status, King "Black Tan" stood in the middle position. On behalf of all the nobles of his country and clan, he announced the major events that occurred in the country and clan this month. This is a routine part of the meeting. This meeting The matters announced in Yue are mainly related to the Western Expedition of the Civilized Ant Tribe Alliance, and there is no need to mention some daily trivial matters.
After King "Black Tan" finished his speech, he entered the free speech period. As expected, one of the kings proposed that because the country and the nation had suffered huge losses due to the failure to recover all the lost territory of the country, he proposed to deprive King "Black Tan" of his Dictator status. The opposition immediately made a collective noise and expressed their support with loud brain language, and the high-frequency support automatically announced that the proposal had been responded to and should enter the voting stage.
According to tradition, King "Black Tan" must announce a vote on this proposal. He also said according to tradition that this matter concerns the king, and only the kings can vote, and the kings can only watch. The opposition had no objection to this. Neither party had wooed the "irrelevant" kings beforehand. Most of the kings did not know that such a major event was brewing until now and spoke out at this moment.
As a result, a large number of complex emotions immediately came from the antennae of the ants touching the floor. The kings were all expressing various emotions of surprise, anger or resistance. It was not over until the kings collectively spoke up to suppress the noise of the kings. The kings on the periphery had no choice but to calm down and watch with trepidation what was about to happen.
According to the rules, the supporters of the proposal speak first, and all the kings who support the proposal use the maximum "volume" to input the noisy brain language into the floor. All the kings and kings can feel the high volume of the supporters, but "Black King Tan was relieved, as the volume was much lower than he expected.
The opponents of the proposal, that is, the faction of King "Black Tan" and the kings who were drawn over then voted, and their voices were obviously stronger and more powerful. There is no option to abstain. All kings must choose to support or oppose. The outcome is determined purely by the volume, that is, the number of ants, so the result is obvious.
King "Black Tan" proudly announced that the proposal had not been passed and that he was still the dictator. He also took the opportunity to declare that as a dictator, he had the power to represent the Black Fire Ant clan without authorization from the Noble Assembly.
As the opposition was in despair at this time, and the supporters were intoxicated with the huge benefits they were about to receive and couldn't help but rejoice, no nobles were interested in King "Black Carbon"'s latest move.
There was a strong reaction to the self-declaration, because the dictator himself had such power, and the nobles whose IQs were collectively below the line ignored the conspiracy hidden in the declaration of King "Black Carbon". After a short period of silence, the declaration was equivalent to being passed on its own, authorized by all the nobles present to represent the kingdom.
A huge joy filled the heart of King "Black Tan". He was very grateful to look for the figure of "Anzi", but he was nowhere to be found among the many kings.
It was "Anzi" who suggested King "Black Tan" to do this. Although King "Black Carbon" had the status of a dictator before, his power actually came from the authorization of the Assembly of Nobles triggered by the wartime crisis. This authorization was time-sensitive. Once the threat of the Destroyer was no longer there, the dictator lost the meaning of his existence. .
But the new authorization passed now, taking advantage of the chaos, goes one step further than that of a dictator. It does not mention timeliness. This is equivalent to granting King "Black Carbon" a lifelong dictatorship. Of course, the premise is that no opposition initiates impeachment again and pass. If there has been a precedent in history for the Black Fire Ant Nation to appoint a dictator when it encountered a crisis of almost annihilation, this is the first time that a lifelong dictator has been appointed, and its long-term impact will far exceed the expectations of all nobles.
King "Black Carbon" then continued to propose two proposals: one was to appoint the king as the "little dictator" of the newly recovered lair due to war needs; the other was to increase the supply of all nobles for no reason. The two bills were passed with an overwhelming majority. After the failure of the "cabinet reversal", even the most extreme opposition did not bother to fearlessly block these two bills that were also related to their own interests.
The meeting of nobles is over, and King "Black Tan" is busy with the aftermath of the meeting. Whether it is the specific appointment of the "little dictator" or contacting the Ant Alliance to obtain more goods for the nobles, there are still trivial and complex tasks to be done. . Naturally, he was happy to be lazy and appointed a group of younger kings including "An Zi" to handle this trivial matter.
When the excited King "Heitan" commissioned the envoy Wang Fei, who arrived on time, to report to Zhu Jue, his backer behind the scenes, he did not know that Zhu Jue had moved to another location at this time.
