"His Majesty Rudolph declared at the founding ceremony that 'the kingdom of Kolas is a country belonging to all the Far Easterners,' that 'our government will always be on the side of the majority of the people,' and that 'we strive for the happiness of the majority,' is it the eldest son who makes up the majority of the population in our country, including any country in the world? Since the majority of society is not the eldest son, is it really fair for the general public who do not have the right to inherit to follow the old inheritance law and protect the very few parasites who can sit back and enjoy their success just because they are lucky when they are reincarnated? ”

Maynard is a lawyer, and his words were impassioned. Lyudmila could not help but applaud and fully approved of the abolition of primogeniture.

Roland still glanced at Maynard quietly, and secretly put a "leftist" label on the head of the justice secretary. Of course, Maynard's "left" is relative to the other ministers in the cabinet.

Roland admits that Maynard's critique of primogeniture is persuasive, especially on the moral level, implying that all people are born free and equal in the spirit of civil rights.

However, legislation should not only have a lofty spirit or good intentions, but also a policy with a good starting point may not achieve good results in the course of implementation, and this must be determined according to the actual environment.

France abolished the primogeniture law in the Napoleonic era and promulgated a new inheritance law that embodies the spirit of freedom and equality, and during the same period, Britain insisted on implementing the primogeniture law, and it was not until 1925 that the British Parliament abolished the primogeniture of the commoners, and it was nearly a century later that the succession to the throne law was amended in 2013, abolishing the primogeniture of the royal family and nobles.

Can it be assumed that the British are more ignorant, backward, and more conservative and reactionary than the French? Looking at history, I am afraid that the above conclusions cannot be simply drawn.

Suppose a family has 50 acres of land and 5 children and can maintain a well-off life, according to the new inheritance law, after the death of the parents, the farmland will be equally distributed to all the children, then each child can only inherit 10 acres of land, and the children who have divided the land to form a small family can only maintain food and clothing on these 10 acres of land, and the children of the children continue to divide the land equally, and the land is divided into smaller and smaller areas, and the result is that the cultivated land is fragmented and all the peasants suffer together - this is the dilemma that France has encountered after the implementation of the new inheritance law.

Continuing to think deeply, Roland argues that this assumption does not hold true in the Far East. Because the situation in France is that there are many people and little land, and the current situation in the Far East is that the land is vast and sparsely populated, a large amount of fertile land has not been cultivated, and the land itself is not a scarce resource, but the population is a scarce resource.

On the other hand, Roland was planning to promote communes and enterprise farms in the countryside, to concentrate the limited manpower to reclaim wasteland and increase the area of farmland. The landlords, who possessed large tracts of farmland through primogeniture and generational accumulation, had a vested interest in the existing land system, lived a comfortable life, and instead of being motivated to join the collective farms, they resented the competition brought about by the collective farms; However, those yeoman farmers who only own a small plot of land are more motivated to join the farm, anyway, they can't grow any tricks on their own one-third of an acre, and they are just barely making ends meet, and at least the quality of life when they join the farm is not worse than it is now, and it may even get better. As for the tenant farmers and serfs, who had long since lost their land, it was clear that they were more motivated to break free from the slavery of the big landlords and join the collective farms, exchanging their labor for more reasonable remuneration.

Based on the above reality, Roland believed that the new inheritance law drafted by Maynard would deal a heavy blow to the landlord class, so that its land could not be concentrated in the hands of the eldest son, but would be distributed among many children, so that the large landowners would become small landlords, and the small landlords would become yeoman farmers, and eventually most of the descendants of the landlords would also choose to join the state-owned farms and become ordinary members of the village communes, and at that time, the landlords would cease to exist as a social class.

From this point of view, Maynard's abolition of the primogeniture system and the change to an equal inheritance system is actually a kind of "Tui En Decree" in a broad sense, which is a killer weapon to completely break the feudal patriarchal system and land annexation, and it can be said to be in perfect harmony with the rural governance and land reform policies advocated by Roland.

"Mr. Maynard, I fully support your proposal." After much thought, Roland finally took a stand.

The Minister of Justice was visibly relieved, and a smile appeared on his face.

Roland repeatedly stressed to Lyudmila that the cabinet is a place where the rules of officialdom are respected, but he cannot deny that "nepotism" is also an inseparable part of the rules of officialdom. He put his posture very low in front of the ministers, but the ministers could not ignore that he was the future monarch of the country in addition to the position of "assistant to the prime minister", so Maynard had to seek his opinion before submitting the "new succession law" bill, and get his support, and the bill was passed.

"Thank you for your support and toast to Your Majesty's health."

"Cheers to Your Majesty's health." Roland clashed glasses with Maynard. Aged red wine has a mellow taste, and the Minister of Justice is really a person who knows how to enjoy life.

"In addition to the new inheritance law, we are also working on an equally important bill." Maynard said, holding his glass.

"About what kind of bill?" Roland asked casually.

"Encourage childbearing." Maynard's succinct answer.

Hearing him say this, Roland remembered. At a recent cabinet meeting, Rudolph pointed out that the Far East has enough land, but not enough population, and the population problem is the biggest bottleneck restricting the rise of the country.

In response to the fact that the country is vast and sparsely populated, under the direct instruction of Rudolph, Maynard is drafting a bill to encourage childbirth, which basically includes the establishment of hospitals, providing free health services such as midwifery for women, and improving the survival rate of newborns; There are also welfare homes, orphans raised at the expense of the government, and vocational and technical training after completing four years of compulsory education, so that they can find a more decent job when they enter society.

Roland listened intently as Maynard talked about policies to encourage childbearing, sometimes nodding his head in approval. On the question of population, he and his father's views are completely identical: the Far East has a land area of more than 4.3 million square miles, with a population of only more than 5 million, and the population density is extremely low and unevenly distributed, and the southern plains along the rivers are still quite densely populated, and once they cross the Cadsor Plateau, there are endless wilderness, rolling mountains, and no people are inhabited for hundreds of miles.

Some people may think that it is a good thing that the land is vast and sparsely populated, and why not reclaim those ownerless wastelands because they have little arable land?

Roland had harbored the same naïve thoughts when he first crossed over to Vares, but he knew the answer since he had gone out.

It is true that the Far East is vast and sparsely populated, but the scarcity of "people" does not mean that other species are scarce. You look at the good wasteland across the river, and you want to reclaim it as fertile land, but have you asked the goblin tribe in the wasteland? Ever asked the gnolls in the nearby mountains? Ever asked the ogres in the woods?