Women have always had a very low status among the ethnic minority tribes in northern China. Ethnic minorities here do not have any sense of courtesy and honesty, and women are often traded as goods. Even among the ethnic minorities in the north, there has been a primitive phenomenon of marriage snatching for a long time. Nomadic men of appropriate age would band together to attack other tribes and forcibly take away young women as their wives, regardless of whether they had their own families or not.
Most importantly, such behaviour was once considered legal among ethnic minorities. Whoever has the bigger fist should have more, better-looking women as their wives and concubines. This kind of behavior exists to a certain extent. You know, the grassland is vast and sparsely populated, and it is far more cost-effective to grab it directly than what the Ming media is marrying. Second, in the concept of ethnic minorities, this kind of behavior is regarded as a rational allocation of resources.
According to expert research, the Mongols at that time already had the concept that close relatives could not marry. However, due to the sparse population and scattered tribes at that time, the cost and difficulty of marrying the Ming media were too high, and ordinary people could not afford it at all, so they had to grab it.
This situation was not completely forbidden until the time of Genghis Khan. It is said that when Genghis Khan's father saw Genghis Khan's mother, he felt that this woman was easy to raise and must be able to give birth to a great son, so he directly robbed it, and there was a later Genghis Khan.
By the time of Genghis Khan, the retribution for Genghis Khan's family robbery finally came. Genghis Khan was marrying a woman from a neighboring tribe, and it wasn't long before his wife was snatched away by the beggars.
The beggars saw this as retribution for Genghis Khan, because they thought that Genghis Khan's father had robbed their bride. But they did not expect that Genghis Khan would immediately assemble his army and start the first war of his life, in order to regain his wife.
Although Genghis Khan was quick to do it, the war was still a relatively long process after all. When Genghis Khan snatched back his wife, his wife was already pregnant, and he didn't know whether Genghis Khan was a happy father or a real father.
It is said that it was this incident that stimulated Genghis Khan and made him explicitly prohibit this vulgar marriage robbery system. In fact, after Genghis Khan unified the major tribes, the originally scattered tribes were gradually unified, and the marriage robbery would undoubtedly intensify the contradictions quickly.
You know, Genghis Khan was an ambitious emperor, and what he wanted was to truly unify the cohesive tribes. Therefore, Genghis Khan ordered that those who robbed marriages would be directly executed. From this point on, ethnic minorities began to drive livestock, take livestock for dowry, and ming media were marrying. This raises a new question, which is what about single sticks that don't have money?
As mentioned earlier, Genghis Khan was a male lord with a lofty embrace. So Genghis Khan incorporated these bare sticks into his army and told them that although the desert north is sparsely populated, there are many people in the south!
In this case, these bare sticks naturally united quite closely around Genghis Khan and helped Genghis Khan conquer the battlefield. Genghis Khan's order not only saved the women, but also stabilized the tribal order, which can be said to be a multiplier. However, although this policy increased the combat effectiveness of the Mongol army, foreign women suffered, and where Genghis Khan passed through the war, women were defiled and robbed.