Will the libala you buy take away your daughter-in-law?
Chang Qianli frowned, looked at Hou Xiyu, shook his head and said: "Probably not, although step marriage is popular among the Mongolian tribes, but after all, Yanji bought Libala's daughter-in-law. If this is true, wouldn't it be a mess? Set up?"
Hou Xiyu took a breath of cold air and said with firm eyes: "Brother Chang, it may be a God-given opportunity for us to come here at this time. You said, if with our help, the Mongolian tribes fall apart and the chaos intensifies, the court will Will you not loosen the shackles around our necks and improve the status of businessmen?"
"what do you want?"
Chang Qianli's heart sank, as if he was being oppressed by a huge weight.
Hou Xiyu smiled coldly, clenched his fist and said: "Chaos Yuan!"
Chang Qianli's pupils suddenly dilated, and he looked at Hou Xiyu in surprise. This guy was obviously a businessman, but he wanted to speculate in politics at this time. If he bet on the wrong money, everyone in the caravan would be ruined here.
"You know the consequences, right?"
Chang Qianli asked coldly.
Hou Xiyu nodded solemnly and said solemnly: "If you don't succeed, you will all die. If you succeed, Shanxi merchants will have a future."
"How sure are you?"
Chang Qianli was silent for a while and finally asked.
Hou Xiyu stretched out two fingers and looked at the hills in the distance.
Chang Qianli didn't speak anymore, but moved forward against the cold wind.
For the Mongolian tribes, they do not follow monogamy. Their marriage system is step marriage. Stepmarriage, also known as "house transfer", is an intra-family marriage for women who have lost their husbands. "When the father dies, his stepmother takes his wife; when a brother dies, he takes his wife."
There are two main ways to adopt a stepmother. One is to adopt a stepmother from a different generation. For example, a son takes in concubines, uncles, and aunts, and most of the time he marries younger female elders. Second, the same generation adopts the successor, that is, the younger brother adopts his brother's wife.
According to the ethics of ethics, a son marrying his stepmother, or his brother marrying his sister-in-law, is "incest" that cannot be recognized and recognized by the Han people, and it is an act of animals.
But before blaming these, we can't just focus on problems that are too big. We also need to maintain some sense.
Many people may be wide-eyed and absolutely do not believe the existence of step marriage, or it may be the first time they have heard of it, but this is not the case. No matter how much you have seen, you definitely know a few people who adopt step marriage.
In fact, stepmarriage has a long history. It mainly exists among ethnic minorities, especially nomadic peoples. It even exists among the Han people.
Don't be too busy touching bricks and sending razors first, just talk about a few familiar people.
Everyone knows Wang Zhaojun, one of the four most beautiful women in China, right?
During the Western Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu Huhanxie Chanyu came to the Han Dynasty to pay homage and proposed marriage. Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty agreed and betrothed Wang Zhaojun to Hu Hanxie.
Later, Hu Hanxie died, and Wang Zhaojun wrote to the Han court asking for his return. Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty ordered Wang Zhaojun to "follow Hu customs", that is, to remarry Hu Hanxie's younger brother according to the step marriage. After the death of Fuzhu Leruotian, Wang Zhaojun remarried to Souxie Ruotian.
You can't say that Wang Zhaojun was immoral. In the general environment at that time, this kind of step-marriage custom was flourishing.
Let me talk about another one, Da Qiao during the Three Kingdoms period.
Da Qiao is Sun Ce's wife. After Sun Ce's death, Da Qiao's whereabouts attracted much attention.
In the Jiajing version of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is stated bluntly that when Sun Ce died, he summoned his wife Da Qiao to take care of his affairs. In the following article, he borrowed Cao Cao's words and said, "In the past, Duke Qiao made an agreement with me and gave me two daughters to serve me. I regard him as his wife." They all have national beauty. Unexpectedly, they were married by Sun Quan and Zhou Yu."
In other words, after Sun Ce died, Da Qiao passed on to Sun Ce.
right.
It is difficult to say whether this is true, but during the Yuan and Ming dynasties, this was what the people thought.
For example, in the drama "Zhou Yu Visits Lu Su" written by Gao Wenxiu in the early Yuan Dynasty, he continued to write "Sun Quan marries Da Qiao". During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the anonymous drama "Zhou Gong Jin Dezhi Marries Xiao Qiao" also performed Sun Quan's "Marrying Da Qiao with a gift of wealth" in the first episode. Mrs. Joe.”
The emergence and existence of stepmarriage have many factors.
For ethnic minorities, especially nomads, although men are engaged in high-risk hunting and war activities, their mortality rate can only be said to be three to four tenths. However, for pregnant women of suitable age, the mortality rate is as high as four to five tenths. , the ratio of men to women is seriously imbalanced.
In order to continue the ethnic group, they do not allow women to become "virtuous widows", but require women to remarry in order to "give birth" to more children.
Furthermore, women from ethnic minorities do not have much status. To put it bluntly, women are as much "property" as cattle and horses. Since this woman is married, she is the property of the entire family.
Although her husband's death is worthy of sympathy, it is not the turn of outsiders to speak when the family property is divided again.
Marry outside?
Isn’t that a loss of property?
Who is willing to give away their property?
In other words, if the nomads followed the "ethical principles" of the Central Plains, then these nomads would most likely have become extinct long ago, and they would not be able to easily become a large ethnic group and threaten the Central Plains.
When the Yuan Dynasty ruled the Central Plains, "step marriage" was promoted among the Han people. However, this concept had sharp contradictions and conflicts with Confucian ethics. It was not widely spread and existed only in a small area.
This is also understandable. The Han people are accustomed to etiquette restrictions and have basic ethics and morals. The rabbit is not eating grass from the nest. How can it be done by someone so familiar?
In addition, during the Yuan Dynasty, Confucianism was prevalent, especially Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which advocated ethics. Those who did not follow ethics were considered "foreigners". In order to prove that they were Han people, they could not adopt them.
During the process of Sinicization of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan court even issued a decree prohibiting step marriage. Well, it was limited to the Han people, and there were no restrictions on the Mongolian people.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was very upright. When he heard about such a thing, he directly ordered that step marriages were prohibited. Whoever dared to violate the law would be punished in a very simple way, just one word:
kill.
Therefore, in the entire Ming Dynasty, stepmarriage was rare.
Chang Qianli respects the customs of the Mongolian tribes, but he is also full of worries about Hou Xiyu's plan. After all, there are peers and younger generations who adopt, but he has never heard of elders adopting younger women, especially when the younger generation is still alive...
More than 150 miles to the north from the caravan, to the south of a hill, facing the lake, countless yurts dotted the barren grassland.
The Libala bought by Nikuchi Sukqi Khan was sitting in a luxurious yurt, with four beautiful women serving him obsequiously. On the table in front of him was a rare liquor.
"Great Khan, the Lieutenant wishes to see you."
The guard pavilion is folded into the account and notified.
Li Bala, who bought it, nodded slightly and shouted: "Yes."
Haohai Dayu walked into it, saluted with a smile on his face, and said: "Congratulations Khan, great joy is coming."
Li Bala, who bought it, leaned forward slightly, opened his sleepy eyes and said, "Hurry up and take a seat, where is the joy?"
For Haohai Tatsuyu, Mai Zaibala is not too arrogant and rude. This is not only because Hao Hai Tatsuyu is the lord of the Walatro Ross tribe, but also because this person is extremely supportive of Mai Zaibala. So to be able to become a great Khan, there is a great power behind it.
Credit to Haida Yu.
In addition, Haohai Dayu's service was extremely smooth and Ribala thought of buying it, and he won the trust and respect of Ribala who bought it.
Haohai Dayu sat down and said with a smile: "There is news from the south that there is a large caravan going north. It is huge and has a lot of goods. I have arranged for people to check it out. It is a large caravan, only two or three days away from here. Footsteps.”
"Oh, in that case, it's really a good thing."
Ribala's eyes lit up when he bought it.
Over the years, although the various tribes seemed to be peaceful, in fact there were many overt and covert conflicts. As the Great Khan, he needed to mediate the contradictions and conflicts in all aspects, but he only did it once or twice. He always acted like a peacemaker, and no one would give him a thumbs up. I was not happy with the purchase of Ribala, so I simply threw my hands at it:
"My Healing Game"
You can fight as much as you like, just don't disturb my happy life.
But happiness requires material foundation. Sitting in a tent all the time, dreaming, hugging each other, there is not much happiness at all. There are many materials for happiness in the Central Plains, but here is a vast grassland, and even a back garden cannot be built. Why? happy?
Now that a large caravan is coming, it will naturally be possible to purchase a lot of goods. It is said that there will be many good things to add to the fun.
Haohai Tatsuyu looked at the smiling face of the bought Ribala, a sly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said: "Khan, I think this is an opportunity."
"oh?"
Ribala, who bought it, expressed doubts.
Haohai Tatsuyu looked at the Ribala he bought and glanced left and right.
The buyer, Li Bala, understood clearly. He waved his hand and asked the women on the left and right to exit, and then asked: "Why do you need to be so cautious?"
Haohai Dayu approached the Libala he bought and said slowly: "Great Khan, the scale of the Ming caravan this time is unprecedented. If we can purchase all the goods and control the distribution of salt and iron, those tribes who are unwilling to obey the orders , wouldn’t he bow his head?”
The buyer, Ribala, raised his eyebrows, clapped his hands, and said excitedly: "This is a good idea. In that case, you will be solely responsible for this transaction. But you must remember that you cannot forcefully buy them all. All commercial salt, just take most of it.”
There was a flash of surprise in Haohai Dayu's eyes. He didn't expect that Mai Ribala, who had been addicted to wine and sex for many years, would have such a keen mind.
Once he eats all the salt and monopolizes the salt, his tribe is bound to grow stronger, but if other tribes cannot buy any salt, it will easily lead to big trouble.
The first trouble is that the caravan will be unlucky, and the second trouble is that the Khan will be unlucky.
Haohai Tatsuyu's idea is very simple. No matter who is unlucky, as long as he is not unlucky, it will be a good result. But now, although the Ribala he bought is addicted to drinking and sex, he is not stupid.
After thanking him profusely, Haohai Dayu left with a smile.
"Father, how are you?"
The handsome Mahamu saw his father coming out and quickly approached to ask.
Haohai Dayu nodded slightly and whispered: "Everything is as expected. This time, I can use the power of businessmen to become the prime minister and control more tribes."
Mahamu grinned and said: "Father, although merchants are heavy on salt and iron, it is a state matter after all and cannot enter the heart of the Great Khan. What really matters to the Great Khan is women."
"Hey, I didn't know that beautiful women are hard to find."
Haohai Tatsuyu sighed.
Seeing that there was no one around, Mahamu whispered: "Father seems to have forgotten that there is a strange and beautiful woman ten miles northeast of here. She is the only Gergentana on this grassland..."
