Chapter 264 Infant Succession

Style: Science Author: Sir DruidWords: 1999Update Time: 24/01/11 19:44:46
As a male ant, Lambov is already considered "successful".

According to the traditional values ​​of male ants in the big-headed ant kingdom, there are only two most important things in their short life of just a few years: marriage and promotion.

The nuptial flight is the beginning of a male ant being officially recognized as an adult. Only male ants that successfully mate in the nuptial flight can leave their own offspring and genes, completing continuation in the biological sense.

And male ants who successfully marry will not only get the opportunity to stay in the main nest, but it will also be much easier to be promoted to king in the future. Those who fail in the marriage flight can only return to the secondary nest, or be recruited to the main nest when the main nest has special needs, and do the most difficult work among male ants, and it is difficult to get promoted.

It can be seen that marriage flight and subsequent promotion are closely connected.

For male ants, the most important tasks fall into two categories:

One category is military jobs, including serving as commanders at all levels. This type of work often requires hands-on work, which can easily lead to dangerous situations and a high mortality rate.

The other category is administrative work. In addition to the fact that many of the male ant rulers of each sub-nest are responsible for military administration, the male ant administrators of the main nest are full-time administrators with very detailed divisions of functions.

There are those who specialize in managing the construction and maintenance of nests, those who manage the laying of eggs by the queen ants, those who organize worker ants to work for food, and those who look after the fires. The most important thing is to manage the granary.

These positions are generally held by the king, and there will be some king assistants below. This kind of job is safe and does not require going to the battlefield. You can be promoted from king to king by accumulating seniority, so only those who are the winners in the marriage flight can hold it. For example, the old-fashioned king is one of the best.

According to past practice, the recently deceased Rambo Buddha, including Gun, Rambo Fei and others, all missed the wedding flight due to travel delays. It is logical that it would be difficult to achieve success in the traditional sense.

However, due to the intervention of the protagonist, Lambov and others participated in the wedding ceremony within the Angel King's legion and married the young female ants in "Dongyang City". Now among the newly born ants in the God Envoy King's army, they are all the descendants of Lambofo.

And they all command the legion, or are responsible for important management work. They also hold the title of king in the king's meeting newly formed by the protagonist, and they already have "careers" at a young age.

From this perspective, they are successful. This kind of success is inseparable from the protagonist, which is why the male ants within the Angel King's Legion generally support the protagonist very firmly.

The worker ants who took care of Rambo Buddha recorded the last message Rambo Buddha left before his death. He mainly expressed his gratitude to the protagonist, which made the protagonist feel very relieved - even if a person is about to die, his words are good, and the same goes for ants. in this way. At least some of the ants understand and agree with what I have done since my time travel and rebirth.

After simply burying Rambofer and burying some of the furniture and pottery he used during his lifetime, the protagonist named the last male ant egg produced by the queen ant that had mated with Rambofer "Rambofer II" ", which can be regarded as inheriting Rambo Buddha's mantle.

The protagonist suddenly thought, did he create the "young son inheritance system" for the future of the God Envoy King's Legion?

In the human world, succession from father to son is the norm, but "inheritance by eldest son" and "inheritance by legitimate son" are more common, and "inheritance by younger son" is rare.

The difference between the three inheritance systems is which son inherits the father's inheritance (including finance, real estate, power, title, etc.), the eldest son, the legitimate son, or the youngest son. It also involves concepts such as eldest son and concubine.

In ancient China, the "primogeniture inheritance system" has always been implemented. The eldest son is the eldest son born to the legitimate wife (the first wife). Japan, North Korea and other places, which are deeply influenced by China, also adopt this system.

Under this "primogeniture inheritance system", the bastard son can only get fewer resources, but he will also have very few opportunities to ascend to the throne (for example, if there are no legitimate sons or all legitimate sons lose their qualifications to inherit).

The system of eldest son inheritance has an extremely far-reaching impact on the specific operation of China's autocratic monarchy. Whether it is the heirloom system itself or its various perverted forms, under the premise of "autocratic politics under the isomorphic nature of the family and the country", it is often an unintelligent way of choice, which will inevitably lead to the monarch's power and practical differences. There are serious disconnects and contradictions regarding capabilities. 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 "family and world" and objectively become a "public power" representing the overall interests of the ruling class.

Europe mainly adopts the "primogeniture system" and emphasizes the absolute inheritance rights of the eldest son. This is still very different from China's eldest son inheritance system. For example, the British primogeniture system means that the eldest son has absolute inheritance rights. Younger sons and daughters have no inheritance rights. They can only choose to join the army or go to a monastery. Therefore, there was such a strange phenomenon in Britain in the 17th century; those who joined the army The number of people increased greatly; the monastery business developed greatly; many nobles who were not the eldest sons married late or even remained unmarried for life.

The "young son inheritance system" is very rare. The typical young son inheritance system is generally popular among nomadic peoples in Asia.

Generally, researchers believe that the inheritance rights of the younger son arise mostly because the sons separate and start separate families when they grow older. Parents are usually supported by the younger son, so the younger son enjoys natural closeness and more property inheritance rights. In some areas, due to the influence of the remnants of group marriage, men and women had relatively free sex before marriage. In order to ensure the inheritance relationship of direct blood relatives on the father's line, the inheritance rights were established mainly for the youngest son.

For example, the traditional practice of the Mongolian people is that when the father is alive, the eldest son gets married and lives separately and gets a part of the property and livestock. When a daughter gets married, she also gets a considerable amount of dowry. After the father dies, the youngest son born by the main wife (called "Ochijin" in Mongolian, which means the person who keeps the stove) manages the housework and inherits property. This system is called "young son guarding the stove".

Compared with "primogeniture", "young son inheritance" often appears in races with relatively backward civilization, but the opposite is true in races with advanced civilization. Because the primogeniture system has extremely complex etiquette, morals and clan norms in a nation that has undergone a highly developed civilization, and it was formed over a long period of time. When civilization develops to a certain extent, infantile inheritance often eventually turns into eldest son inheritance.

The reason why the protagonist adopts such a "child inheritance system" without careful consideration is because ants reproduce too fast and often have too many offspring in their lifespan. The protagonist can only give the last "youngest son" the right of inheritance and obtain the name of "a certain number of lives", so that there will be no situation where Rambofo and Rambofo II are alive at the same time.