Chapter 963: The Legitimate Son

Baoxi has stayed in Huaxia for a full ten days, and not just him, even those Soldiers are already reluctant to leave, but Baoxi also knows it is time for him to return; if he does not go back, he does not know what his tribe will become, and although he trusts Huangpin's ability, that does not mean he can completely hand over the entire tribe to him.

None of his own sons have sufficient ability, a fact he has seen clearly during this period; apart from his third son, Chengqie, he feels that no one else has the ability to hold the position of his successor.

However, Huaxia is now strictly implementing Primogeniture, and his eldest son clearly lacks the ability; even if he were to inherit his Nobility, in the face of such powerful competitors in Huaxia, it is clearly impossible for him to ascend to a high position and obtain power, and in the end, he could only be someone who possesses Nobility but no power.

However, in Huaxia's system of Primogeniture, the "Legitimate" status comes before the "Eldest" status; he has explicitly asked people from the Ministry of Rites what this actually means, and learned that the "main wife" is not the one who is the oldest, but the one with the most proper status.

Although there is no precedent yet, Huaxia has also said that the one married first is not necessarily the oldest; the one married first can also be a minor wife.

And this gives Baoxi an opportunity to maneuver, because he has too many wives—sixteen in total—but in his view, these sixteen are all the same; women have no great significance to him.

Moreover, besides these sixteen, he has even more women, only they lack what Huaxia calls "status," which also means his children are not just those few dozen, though he does not remember exactly how many children he has.

For some he has not paid attention to, who are too young or lack ability, their treatment is basically the same as ordinary tribespeople; only for the few who are older does he pay more attention.

And Chengqie is the one he pays the most attention to, and the one he is focusing on cultivating; he had long ago decided to pass his position to him.

And when Huaxia asked him how many wives and children he has, he could only say he is not sure; anyway, there are several dozen, and he will only know the specific number after he goes back and counts them slowly.

Fortunately, Huaxia is long accustomed to such a large family with so many people; if a Tribal Chief of a large tribe only had two wives and three children like Baifeng, that would be the rarity.

However, Baifeng wins by quality, and every child he sires is an elite; for others who have dozens of children, apart from the eldest son who must be focused on for cultivation, among the other children, if one can pick out one who is capable and smart, that is already enough; two is a gain, and three is very impressive; any more than that requires relying on luck.

If the Legitimate Son born is still a fool, then that is truly unlucky, and not even the gods of Heaven have blessed them; after all, in this era, due to previous inbreeding, the wives one marries might be normal, but the children born might just be fools.

Among Chi's children, only Wuzhong can be considered smart; the others only differ between stupid and generally stupid, and he has not seen one that is particularly good; fortunately, the Legitimate Son belongs to the "generally stupid" category, just a little below the passing line for ordinary people, which can be considered lucky enough.

Furthermore, with sufficiently high Nobility and meritorious service, plus the relationship between Chi, Baifeng, and Yulong, no matter what, they can guarantee the prosperity of their family for at least three generations.

Therefore, the first thing Baoxi decided to do after returning is to properly count his sons, women, wives, and so on, give them all names, and then let the people sent by Huaxia register them, so as to avoid not knowing himself when the time comes.

Another thing is to elevate his third son, making him the Legitimate Son; the eldest son is just the eldest son, but not legitimate; Chengqie's mother must also be taken better care of; he has already seen several noble ladies of Huaxia, and he has also seen Baifeng's two wives.

Although in his aesthetic, Baifeng's wives are not beautiful, they just possess what Huaxia calls "noble air"; looking back at his own wives, several are already old beyond measure and are crude and vulgar.

Fortunately, Baifeng gave him a few servants, so he will let them help tidy up and dress them up when the time comes, so that when they arrive in Huaxia, they will not lose too much face for him.

However, he intends to send all his sons to Huaxia's schools to study and read, leaving none behind, without picking or choosing; during this time in Huaxia, he has thoroughly understood the importance of literacy, and he himself very much wants to learn characters.

But it is difficult to spare teachers from Huaxia, and the Suiren clan currently truly has no ability to conduct teaching; everyone is busy making a living and cannot possibly have that leisure time.

But Baifeng does not think so; he has already discussed it with Sanxin, and this time, besides those few servants, they also need to send two Soldiers from the army to the Suiren clan to select good candidates and send them directly to Huaxia when the time comes.

Then there is sending a Small Team of Artisans over, but they will not undertake any teaching tasks; after they finish building the houses, they will need to return to Huaxia with the first batch of migrants selected by the Suiren clan.

One doctor must be sent, and two of Changle's students must be sent; when Changle went to the Xuanyuan Tribe, he already took people with him, but a few were left behind; for one, they continue to identify and collect new plants in Huaxia, as Huaxia's Xiao Town and the Western Development Group are now going to places they have never been before, and they will certainly send new plants continuously, so someone must do the identification and statistical work.

But the Suiren clan is the same, as it is also a piece of brand-new land; sending these people over can also allow them to exert their role; sending a doctor over is, for one, to treat the illnesses of the people of the Suiren clan, and for another, to do the work of identifying Grass and medicine, as many of Baifeng's prescriptions cannot achieve the best effect due to the lack of types of medicinal herbs.

Most can only be replaced by medicinal materials of the same type; Huaxia cannot even gather one hundred of the two hundred most commonly used medicines, but Huaxia currently has many types of medicinal materials, just that they are of the type with poorer efficacy or stronger toxicity.

Baifeng also has arrangements for the work of teaching characters and selecting people; Huaxia has too many newcomers who need to be tempered at the grassroots level; they need to go to the Suiren clan to select smart people, teach them characters and arithmetic, and also select some people with skills to be compiled into a register.