Chapter 264: Inheritance of Young Sons
As a male, Rambofer is already considered a "success".
With the values of the males of the traditional big-headed ant kingdom, there are only two things that matter most to them in their short life of a few years: marriage and promotion.
Marriage flight is the beginning of a male ant being officially recognized as an adult. Only male ants who have successfully mated in marriage and flight can leave their offspring, leave their genes, and complete the continuation in the biological sense.
And the male ants who are successful in marriage and flight will not only get the opportunity to stay in the main nest, but also be promoted to the king much easier in the future. Those who fail to fly in marriage can only return to the secondary nest, or are recruited to the main nest when the main nest has special needs, and do the hardest work among the male ants, and it is difficult to get promoted.
It can be seen that the marriage flight and the subsequent promotion are closely linked.
There are two types of work that are most important for males:
The first category is military work, including serving as a commander at all levels. This kind of work often requires hands-on combat, which is easy to get into dangerous situations and has a high mortality rate.
The other category is administrative work. In addition to the fact that many of the male ant rulers of each secondary nest are military administration, the administrative managers of the male ants of the main nest are full-time, and the division of functions is very detailed.
There are those who specialize in managing the construction and maintenance of nests, those who manage the laying of eggs by queens, those who organize worker ants to work and forage, and those who take care of fires. The most important thing is to manage the granary.
These positions are generally held by the king, and there will be some kings below. This kind of work is safe and does not need to go to the battlefield, and the accumulation of seniority can be promoted from king to king, so only those who are the winners of the marriage flight can hold it. For example, the old-fashioned king is one of the best.
According to the past practice, the newly deceased Rambo Buddha, including Roll and Rambo Fei, all missed the wedding flight due to the delay of the journey, and it is reasonable to find it difficult to achieve success in the traditional sense.
But with the intervention of the protagonist, Rambo Buddha and others participated in the wedding ceremony within the Divine Envoy King Legion, and combined with the young female ants in "Dongyang City". Now all the ants born in the Divine King's legion are the descendants of the Rambo Buddhas.
And they are also in command of the legions, or in charge of important management, and they also bear the title of king in the protagonist's newly formed king's meeting, and they already have a "career" at a young age.
In that sense, they were successful. This success is inseparable from the protagonist, which is why the males within the Legion of the Divine Angel are generally very strong in supporting the protagonist.
The worker ant who takes care of Lamb Buddha records the last message left by Lamb Buddha before his death, and he mainly expresses his gratitude to the protagonist, which makes the protagonist feel very relieved - people are dying, and their words are good, and the same is true of ants. What he has done since he was reborn, at least there are some who understand and agree with the ants.
After burying Lamb Fei and burying some of the furniture and pottery he used during his lifetime, the protagonist names the last male egg produced by the queen ant who mated with Lamb Buddha "Rambo Buddha II", which is considered to inherit the mantle of Lamb Buddha.
The protagonist suddenly thinks that he has created the "young son inheritance system" in the future of the Divine Envoy King Army?
In the human world, it is the norm for fathers and sons to succeed each other, but the "primogeniture system" and "sister-in-law succession system" are more common, and the "younger son inheritance system" is rare.
The difference between the three inheritance systems is which son inherits the father's estate (including finances, real estate, power, titles, etc.), the eldest son, the sister-in-law or the younger son. It also involves the concepts of eldest son, concubine and so on.
Ancient China has always implemented the "primogeniture inheritance system", the eldest son is the eldest son born to the wife (wife), "the eldest son is not virtuous, and the son is noble but not long". Japan, North Korea and other places are deeply influenced by China and also adopt this system.
Under this "primogeniture system", concubines can only get fewer resources, but there will also be very few opportunities (such as no sons-in-law or in-laws have lost their inheritance qualifications) to ascend to the throne.
The primogeniture system has had an incomparably far-reaching impact on the specific operation of China's absolute monarchy. Whether it is the patriarchal system itself or its various perverted forms, under the premise of "autocratic politics under the isomorphic nature of the family and the state", it is often a non-intelligent way of choice, which will inevitably lead to a serious disconnect and contradiction between the monarch's power and actual ability. At the same time, it is precisely this contradictory movement that makes it possible for the autocratic monarchy to break through the "private" pattern of "the family and the world" and objectively become a kind of "public power" representing the overall interests of the ruling class.
In Europe, the "primogeniture system" is mainly adopted, emphasizing the absolute inheritance right of the eldest son, which is still very different from the primogeniture system in China. For example, the British primogeniture system means that the eldest son has absolute inheritance rights, and the youngest sons and daughters have no inheritance rights, they can only choose to join the army or go to the convent, so there is such a peculiar phenomenon in England in the 17th century; There was a huge increase in the number of people joining the army; The monastic business developed greatly; Many nobles who were not the eldest sons married later or even never married.
The "infant succession system" is very rare, and the typical infant succession system is generally more prevalent among the nomadic peoples of Asia.
General researchers believe that the inheritance right of young sons is mostly due to the fact that the sons have separated and set up separate families when they are older, and their parents are usually supported by the younger sons, so the younger sons enjoy natural closeness and more property inheritance rights. In some areas, due to the remnants of group marriages, men and women have a relatively free sexual life before marriage, and in order to ensure the inheritance relationship between the direct blood relatives of the paternal line, the inheritance rights of the youngest son have been established.
For example, the traditional practice of the Mongolian people is that when their father is alive, the eldest son marries and lives separately and gets a part of the property and livestock, etc., and the daughter also has a considerable amount of dowry when she marries, and after the death of his father, the youngest son born to the main wife (called "斡赤jin" in Mongolian, meaning stove keeper) manages the household and inherits the property. This system is known as "Young Son Shouzao".
In contrast to the "primogeniture", the "young-son succession" tends to appear in the more civilized races, while the more civilized races have the opposite. Because the primogeniture system has extremely complex etiquette and clan norms in a highly developed nation with a high degree of civilization, it has been developed over a long period of time. When civilization has developed to a certain extent, the system of young-son inheritance often eventually becomes the system of primogeniture.
The reason why the protagonist adopts such a "young son inheritance system" without much thought is because ants give birth too quickly and often have too many offspring during their lifetime. The protagonist can only give the last "young son" the right to inherit and get the name of "so-and-so", so that there will be no situation where Rambo Buddha and Rambo Buddha II are alive at the same time.