"Come on, my Royal Highness, you are so hypocritical!" Lyudmila is like an unruly wild horse, but not so easy to train, she rolled her eyes and ruthlessly sarcastically mocked her boyfriend.

Roland smiled slightly: "There is no hypocrisy, there is no awe, there is no law, and there will be no stable social order, in this season of the autumn sun, a person who is not hypocritical should not wrap himself in a skirt and heat himself into a dog, right?" ”

Cabinet officials, both men and women, were dressed in solemn attire, Lyudmila was tightly wrapped in a conservative uniform and long skirt, walking in the scorching sun so hot that her tongue sticked out, she was fanning the wind with a folder, and she was so embarrassed to hear Roland's last words that she picked up the folder and was about to slap it on his head. Halfway through, I remembered Roland's warning just now, lest she be seen and laughed at for not understanding the rules, so she took the "murder weapon" back, hugged it to her chest and pretended to be a lady with a stupid face.

Roland glanced at his girlfriend and was very satisfied with the effect of the initial training.

The General Office of the Ministry of Justice is located diagonally opposite the Prime Minister's residence, just a five-minute walk away. When Roland and Lyudmila arrived, His Excellency the Minister was working at his desk, and the secretaries outside were busy copying and writing.

Lyudmila was invited to inspect the door and whispered to Roland when he was unprepared: "The secretaries of the Ministry of Justice are all women, and they are all average-looking and elderly aunts, and Mr. Maynard is very attentive to the influence...... You have to learn a little bit too! ”

"If you really want to learn from him, you have to be the first to expel you!" Roland replied angrily.

Lyudmila cleverly understood that he was complimenting himself on being young and beautiful in disguise, bowing his head and stealing fun.

Maynard warmly invited Roland and Lyudmila to sit down, and brought out their treasured wine for them to taste. Everyone was very busy, so after a few small talks, we cut to the chase.

"Your Highness, what do you think of the Imperial Succession Law?" Maynard asked Roland with his glass.

"I don't know much about the details, but I remember that this historic bill established the legitimacy of the 'right of primogeniture', and to this day, the countries of Vares...... This inheritance law is still being used in our Far East. Roland vaguely guessed what Maynard was trying to do.

Sure enough, Maynard continued his words and said: "After the establishment of the Kingdom of Kolas, His Majesty asked the Ministry of Justice to review the various laws and regulations left over from the imperial provincial era, and if they are valuable, they should be repealed or amended, and it seems to me that the Imperial Succession Law is one of the seriously anachronistic and bad habits, and it should be abolished and a new law of succession more in line with the spirit of the times and the general interest." ”

"What's new in the new inheritance law?" Roland asked straight to the point.

"Abolish the primogeniture system, and all legitimate children of legal couples have equal rights to inherit property." Maynard replied as he watched Roland's face, but he didn't see any change in mood on His Royal Highness's face—Roland just listened intently and was silent.

There was silence in the office, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little tense.

Maynard stared at Roland with blazing eyes, as if he was brewing something. Lyudmi tugged at Roland's sleeve, unable to hide his inner dissatisfaction. If it weren't for Roland's repeated emphasis on paying attention to the rules just now, she probably couldn't help but jump up and ask Maynard what he was trying to do when he proposed such a bill with evil intentions.

As if sensing the anger in Lyudmila's eyes, Maynard smiled slightly: "Of course, this bill is only aimed at the common class, the situation of the royal family and the nobility is relatively special, and it is not suitable for the implementation of the new inheritance law, I suggest that the primogeniture system should still be used, if you don't mind, I would like to add that the eldest daughters of the royal family and nobles also have the same inheritance rights, and my thinking on this issue may be a little radical." ”

Lyudmila secretly breathed a sigh of relief when she heard him say this supplementary principle, and the anger in her eyes faded. Since the new inheritance law does not apply to the royal family, Roland's position as crown prince will not be shaken. Maynard believed that the eldest daughter should also have the right to inherit, and won her favor, and it took a lot of courage to dare to openly advocate for equality between men and women in this era of male superiority and inferiority.

Roland was still pondering. He didn't know what Maynard was proposing the new succession law, and he didn't particularly care about the exception to the royal succession, but what was really worth pondering was the consequences for society of abolishing primogeniture. Maynard may not have considered the pros and cons of these consequences, but Roland could not be cautious, because in the history of the earth, the debate over the inheritance of primogenitures has been protracted and cannot be judged by simple good or bad.

The "primogeniture" system is one of the most basic principles of the feudal patriarchal system, which simply means that noble titles and family property must be inherited by the eldest son, and other children - including illegitimate children - have no inheritance rights.

The advantage of such a system is that it ensures the stability of the succession process of the throne and the titles of nobility, and tries to avoid fratricide between brothers and sisters for the throne – although it is impossible to avoid it completely in reality, but at least to reduce the frequency of its occurrence. For ordinary families, the advantage of primogeniture is to ensure that family assets are passed on and accumulated from generation to generation.

However, the drawbacks of such a system are equally obvious. The absolute primogeniture of the royal family means that even if the eldest son is a madman, an idiot, or has a serious congenital disease that may die at any time, he will still ascend to the throne according to the law, and such a monarch will obviously not be able to govern the country properly, and even bring disaster to the country.

On the other hand, the primogeniture system is conducive to the concentration of land and wealth in the hands of a small number of people, which aggravates the differentiation of social classes, and is a major root cause of social ills such as land annexation, class solidification, and the wide gap between the rich and the poor in the feudal era. Those children who do not have the right to inherit have to leave the land and the family to find another way to make a living, this phenomenon is most obvious in Europe in the 17th ~ 18th centuries on the earth. At that time, most European countries implemented the primogeniture system, and the eldest son inherited most of the family's land and property, and most of the young people who did not have the right to inherit chose to join the army or enter the monastery to become clergy, which is the so-called "red and black" two ways out.

"I insist that primogeniture is against human nature and that we are forcibly placed into different ranks from birth, and that the eldest son is at a different starting point from their younger brothers and sisters who do not have the right to inherit, and that the latter, even if they are talented, will be suppressed and will have little chance of getting ahead." Maynard's remarks exude a naïve civil rights ideology, which is befitting his status as an "awake" jurist.