So the Medieval Age Has a Split Inheritance System…

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Chapter 82 – Five-Year Plan

After successfully unifying the continent, I postponed the continent invasion and focused on domestic affairs. Now that one continent had been unified, I declared the first stage of a five-year plan. The content of the plan included everything conceivable, such as increasing food production through the improvement of crops, infrastructure development, development of light industry, and large-scale surveys of underground resources. I didn’t give a damn whether it was realistic or not. It wasn’t my job to think of the details.

It cost me nothing to say it. Even after I committed genocide, since the total population of the continent was 100 million, I still had the manpower of 90 million people. 10 million could be considered an acceptable margin of error. The 10 million deaths proved not to be an inconvenience to the remaining 90 million people.

…I became the emperor. I got myself good brides. I ate extravagantly every day, and since my endurance was abnormal at this point, I was no longer afraid of being assassinated in my sleep, so I slept soundly. Even if I declared, “I don’t feel like working today so I’m having a holiday,” nobody would object, and I could even spend my day lazily, playing board games and TRPG.

Here and now, I had the thought that I wanted my children and grandchildren to have a good life. I just told people to execute the five-year plan twice, and I could spend the rest of my days lazily, so I expected I would be bored of this lifestyle after ten years. If we started invading other continents from there, the hero summoning interval would be cleared, which would make the hero be summoned to kill me, right?

I had a banquet and a hunt together with dukes and counts who were former slaves, I watched over Pierre’s growth, harassed the slaves who laid on the railroad, said, “Make it quick,” and sexually harassed my wives and maids for about five years. Magic trains were developed and railroads that centered on the Deal duchy and spread to four directions were laid out. Technological innovation was amazing.

I’ve started using mini magic bombs to power the newly built navy ships. But the magic technology was too versatile, so electricity was not particularly well-developed. I made a power plant powered by a mini magic bomb, but there was currently no use for the electricity.

Although the railroad network was completed, it wasn’t able to keep up with the overwhelming increase in transport volume, so the next plan, in addition to adding railroad tracks around the outer periphery of the continent, the four railroads that extended from Deal duchy would be increased to eight directions. Just like Japan’s high economic growth period, the economy was in such a perfect state that I could casually build infrastructure.

By the way, Pierre’s endurance had grown considerably in the last five years. He still cried when he was at the end of Linde-san’s fist, so it seemed he still felt the pain properly. Pierre also had his younger siblings, but I already decided that Pierre should be the successor. I enacted a new succession law in the last five years.

Since it was definitely a bad idea to continue the split inheritance system of the Carling Empire as it once was, I thought of changing it to an absolute primogeniture¹, but Linde-san’s family house, the Schult family, put me on hold and proposed the “successor nomination system” instead. Just as the name suggested, the head of the family ranked their successors and decided who would be the next head of the family.

Each time a new successor was born, the succession order could be changed. When the head of the family died, the order would be confirmed for the first time, with the first on the list becoming the next head of the family. Since this was also convenient for me, I approved that proposal and then enforced it as the succession law.

By the way, this succession law stated that the person with the highest rank would inherit 90%, the second person would inherit 9%, the third person would inherit 0.9% of assets, and so on. But it wasn’t that much different from absolute primogeniture, where the first child inherited 100% and then proceeded to share their property afterward.

Immediately after this law was enacted, Duke Schult appointed his second son, Savage-san, first in the succession order. I met Linde-san’s older brother before, or rather, I fought him once. If the eldest child was incompetent, this law was convenient to appoint another child as successor instead. It would likely become a reason for civil war later on, but the first-child inheritance system also didn’t guarantee there would be no succession dispute.

Since the first stage of the five-year plan was successful, the second stage was announced. The goal was to build a railroad network and increase food production through fertilizers and selective breeding. There was also the introduction of conveyor belts to the light industry, and the development and mass production of magic cars, among other things.

It felt like the extension of the first stage of the five-year plan. I doubted that would be a big difference in policy anyway, and since the primary goal was to kill boredom, there was no point in doing so. For the time being, if I showed the public I was working, the citizens would be deceived and do the work. I did produce some results after all. In particular, the magic train greatly facilitated the transportation of people and goods, so it would continue to be useful.

Over the past five years, there had been no famines, earthquakes, or extreme weather. Thanks to that, my approval rating had been maintained at over 99% due to terror, and it even reached 100% last year. It was clearly an abnormal number, so I guess the feeling of fear from citizens still remained. I was convinced this fear would definitely remain until Pierre grew up, so I intended to enjoy the rest of my life to the fullest.

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