Was inbreeding a good or bad thing?
From the point of view of the general public, inbreeding couples were more likely to give birth to children with genetic defects, which was not conducive to good reproduction.
This was a scientific fact.
Since the beginning of the primitive era, the cruel natural environment had already helped humans eliminate most of the genes of dominant diseases.
After millions of years, when humans developed a relatively advanced civilization, genetic diseases were recessive. Only when both parents carried the recessive gene of the same disease, their children had about a quarter of the chance of suffering from genetic diseases.
Note that it must be the recessive gene of the same disease.
Relatives with similar bloodlines, because the genes came from the same ancestor, were more likely to carry the same recessive gene. Their children were more likely to have dementia or abnormalities.
However, if close relatives were to reproduce for tens, hundreds, or even thousands of generations … all the recessive defective genes in the bloodline would be completely exposed. Then, the children who carried the 'pairs' of recessive defective genes would be abandoned. The remaining children would definitely have fewer recessive defective genes than the previous generation.
In other words, through the cruel elimination system, inbreeding was beneficial to reduce the defective genes. It was a disguised genetic optimization.
Of course, genetic optimization was two aspects. In addition to reducing inferior genes, it also increased good genes. It was more practical hybridization.
Here, only the problem of 'inbreeding to reduce inferior genes' was discussed.
To achieve inbreeding genetic optimization, at least the efforts of dozens of generations were needed. If a new bloodline was added halfway, it would bring new defective genes. All the previous efforts would be wasted, and they would have to start all over again.
Without a thousand years of direct blood marriage, the plan of 'noble bloodline' could not be thought of.
And the Great Celestial Empire did not have a thousand years of absolute aristocratic families. The kind that could reject the marriage of the royal family. Therefore, for the Huaxia people, inbreeding marriage was always a taboo that should be avoided.
Even in the history of Earth, only the pharaoh family of ancient Egypt could do this. Later on, they were defeated by the system of inbreeding. Because of the 'inferior' mixed blood in the middle, everything had to be redone.
But if they kept giving birth to freaks and retarded heirs, they could not maintain the rule of the dynasty that was collapsing day by day. If the ruling power did not decline, would the 'noble' pharaoh marry other families?
In the end, the ancient pharaoh family was almost extinct. The people may not have died, but the dynasty and the system it established were all eliminated.
The ancient European aristocrats had similar ideas as the pharaoh, but they were worse than the pharaoh. For example, the hemophilia that caused the collapse of the European royal family.
The main reason was that they could not carry out direct reproduction. From time to time, new blood would be added halfway.
However, many families in the Ice and Fire Continent had done what the people on Earth could not do. They had the true royal bloodline.
House Targaryen, for example.
In fact, the Targaryens were only a small branch of a great race that once reproduced in the continent of Ursos — the Ancient Valleglia's Free Bastion.
How strong were Valleglia's bloodlines?
Just look at Daenerys Targaryen now, and you'll understand.
Apart from the Valyrian descendants, the Duke's family of Westeros (formerly the royal family, but due to Aegon Targaryen's invasion and unification of the Eight Kingdoms, the royal family was demoted to dukes) were more or less … Well, they could only be considered as' secondary 'descendants, and they even married into other families.
This world was able to achieve "Inbred Genes Optimization" mainly because their history was too long. For example, the main character's family, the Wolf Stark family, had at least 8,000 years of family history.
Frey of the Twin Towers, who had organized the Bloody Wedding, had always been discriminated against by the upper-class nobles due to their shallow background.
Then how 'nouveau riche' was the Frey family?
Well, they were just a marquis family with a 'mere' 600 years of history. They had nothing but money.
Well, if a 600-year-old family was placed in the Celestial Empire, then …
All of the above meant one thing: Viserys's attempt to climb into his sister's bed was a crime in the barbaric and magical world of Ice and Fire, but it was not a crime of ethics.
The Targaryen family had always followed an ancient tradition: the marriage of brothers and sisters.
For example, Aegon, who founded the Targaryen dynasty, married two sisters.
Well, yes, two sisters: the elder sister, Visania, and the younger sister, Rhaenys.
The King's Landing City was made up of three hills, Aegon's High Hill, Rhaenys Hill, and Visania Hill to commemorate the three founders of the dynasty.
In fact, Danny Targaryen's parents, 'Mad King' Aeris and Queen Reila, were also siblings. Even her grandparents were siblings.
If Danny had been born ten years earlier — no, about five years would have been enough — she would most likely have married her elder brother, Rhaegar.
"And then?" Danny said to Lilith calmly. "Viserys is a bastard. I already knew."
Lilith looked at her strangely, puzzled by her nonchalance.
At the same time, seeing that she could not hurt Danny with words, the anger in her heart grew. She turned her head abruptly and pointed at Sir Jorah, who was looking at her warily. "He did me too. Although he did not call out your name, the way he looked at me … seemed to be f * cking your soul through my skin."
"No." Sir Jorah had been guarding against Lilith from hurting the 'pitiful and weak' Danny, but he did not want to be dragged into it. His face flushed red, and his hands in iron gloves waved. "You are slandering me. I did not think that way."
"I have read countless people. You can't fool me." Lilith smiled contemptuously.
"Ahem, you are Kalixi now. You are no longer the red card of Reese's brothel." Danny was embarrassed and immediately warned her sternly. "I don't think Khal Jaco wants to hear what you said before."
She had long known that Jorah Mormont had feelings for Danny Lilith.
Well, before she transmigrated, she had learned from "Game of Thrones" that when Big Bear and Tyrion met in the brothel, he was hugging a silver-haired, purple-eyed Volantis prostitute. That prostitute was cosplaying as the famous Queen of Meereen — Danny Lilith two or three years later.
(PS: This book is mainly based on "Song of Ice and Fire." "Game of Thrones" is also an important reference. The lousy author not only watched the TV series, but also read the book several times. The protagonist of this book only watched the popular TV series, so the plot after that may be out of her expectations.
As for Big Bear's whoring … it is more obvious in the TV series. This plot in "Ice and Fire" is a hint. In fact, many plots in the book are hints, and then the TV series clearly states it. The two plots do not change, such as the gay relationship between Renly and the Knight of Flowers.)
"Jake?" Danny could not scare her. Lilith's mouth became more and more twisted. She leaned close to Danny's ear and said in a voice that only she could hear, "How do you think I followed him?"
Danny's heart tightened. Did she become Helen in "Troy"?
"Does he also love me deeply? It doesn't seem like it. "She whispered back, not embarrassed at all.
Lilith sneered, "Because he is the same as me. He only wants the same things as Khal. You and Drogo's horse and king's tent are no different in his heart."
"Then you are not even as good as Drogo's tent?" Danny pushed her head away and directly drove her away loudly, "Go, I don't want to talk about these boring topics with you anymore."
"Okay, I'll go. Anyway, Khalasar will return to Horse King City almost every year. At that time, I hope you, who joined the ranks of the old Dosh Khalasar, can still be as proud as you are now."
Lilith left angrily.
Early the next morning, at the first glimmer of dawn, Jake's Khalasar also stepped on the cold morning fog and slowly moved towards the north.
She had no choice but to leave. Not to mention drinking water and horse grass, even the firewood for the fire was gone a few days ago.
The Red Wasteland was dry and hot during the day, but the temperature dropped below ten degrees at night. It was a typical climate of the Gobi Desert.
Walking out of the dim tent, Danny found that the outside world was frighteningly bright.
The rising sun was like a furnace dripping with molten gold. The burning golden liquid sprinkled on the ground, scorching the ground until it cracked and hollowed out.
The small camp was not quiet. The coughing of the old man came from the nearby straw shed. A small group of children ran and played in the open space of the camp despite the heat. Further away, there were some women doing their daily chores.
More than a hundred horses had been removed from their saddles. They kicked the ground and walked around listlessly. From time to time, they neighed as if they were complaining, "Why isn't there even a single blade of grass in this damned place?"
Seeing Danny's figure, the maidservants immediately waited by the side with water, wine, fruits and roasted meat.
After wiping her face, Danny ate something casually and asked Aggo and the others to command Kars to move back to the original position of the straw curtain palace.
Although it was also desolate, at least the hills next to it helped to block the sun and sand.
Keso and Haggo were still in the tent with the dying Drogo. Danny called Aggo, Quero, Jhogo, Kalalok and Sir Jorah to the shade and sat in a circle on the ground.
The first political expansion meeting was held under the small mound.
"Drogo's Khalasar is gone," she said to them directly.
Jhogo said matter-of-factly, "A khal who can't ride a horse is not qualified to be a khal."
"The Dothraki only follow the strong," Sir Jorah said. "Your Highness, I'm sorry, but we can't keep them. Starting from Ponoko, Drogo's warriors, big and small, are all leaving day by day. "
"Hmm, how many men and supplies do we have left?" Danny asked.
"Khaleesi, none of your Kars left," Aggo said solemnly. "We are Khaleesi's guards, and we swore loyalty to you and not to the khal, so we all stayed."
Danny was happy. Although the Dothraki were barbaric, their moral integrity was much better than the more civilized races, such as the Westeros who treated sacred oaths as shit.
"Who else?" Danny asked in a brisk tone. "We have less than a hundred kars, and I saw at least two hundred clansmen when we were moving the tents."
No matter which Daenerys it was, the Dothraki were her foundation. The centaurs were loyal, brave, and straightforward. They were truer and more trustworthy than the people of their homeland tens of thousands of miles away.
Danny, on the other hand, was the khal's wife, and had already changed her "household register" with the Dothraki Sea of Grass.
So she called the Dothraki her "clansmen."
The others did not notice such a subtle change in mentality, or it could be said that the Centaurs in front of her had always regarded her as a clansman.
Jhogo answered her, "The elderly who can't move freely stayed, as well as the cowards, the weak and the sick. The new Khalasar who left was unwilling to take them in."
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