This family is as rich as any country and accounts for half of the world’s trade. Why is their marriage policy so weird?

As one of the top ten most wealthy families in the world, the Rothschild family accounts for half of the world's trade. The reason why they have such a weird marriage policy is to ensure the purity of the family's bloodline. Their tradition of marrying close relatives for this purpose continued for nearly 150 years.

According to research, from 1824 to 1877, among the twenty-one marriages of the old Rothschild descendants, at least fifteen occurred within the family. It can be said that a cousin married a cousin. Marry your cousin. Marriage between close relatives not only ensures the bloodline, but also ensures that the land built by the ancestors will not be divided up as inheritance by future generations, making the wealth more and more powerful and the family's power growing.

But what is surprising is that although the Rothschilds are all consanguineous, they have never heard of any problem children in their family. On the contrary, they are all very smart people. Until now, they The tribesmen still have an excellent sense of finance and business.

It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the Rothschild family gave up the tradition of intermarriage with the development of the times. Although the tradition of incestuous marriage has been abandoned, in the new era, there are still two principles for offspring to be resolutely implemented and inherited: namely, eternal unity between brothers, male offspring are the core of the family, and females, including daughters and daughter-in-law, are excluded .

More than two centuries have passed since the death of old Rothschild. The Rothschild family’s wealth is not as brilliant as before, but the family is still the world’s largest diamond supplier and the world’s largest diamond supplier. The most important supplier of red wine, it also still has a decisive influence on the British gold market.