Golden Greenery

The scattered snowflakes outside the window were mixed with the same scattered rain. After struggling and falling, the garden and lawn were muddy. Otto Fon dragged on a blanket and sat on the sofa, looking at the gray and cold sky outside. The warmth emanating from the fireplace in the study still didn't seem to suit his liking. He frowned and looked at the fireplace, and then at the messy window outside the window. Sleet.

Picking up the coffee on the small coffee table, although Otto von was very careful, the coffee still spilled out due to the trembling of his arms and splashed on the blanket. Otto von almost threw the coffee cup back on the coffee table. He closed his eyes and leaned against the back of the sofa, frowning.

In November last year, Otto von spent his 98th year in the Oak Palace. He has lived in this world for a long time, but he still clearly remembers what happened when he was just four years old. . In the winter of that year, Otto von's great-uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph I, passed away. Young Otto and his father, Karl I, held the coffin at the funeral. This was also the earliest scene that remained in his memory.

Otto von still remembers that after his father took over as emperor of the empire, he said to him: "From today on, the throne of Habsburg belongs to our family. I will pass it on to you in the future, and you will pass it on from generation to generation." Go down and let the throne stay in our family forever."

Otto was still young at that time and could not understand his father's words, but he understood later.

Although the Habsburg family originated in France, their ancestors were of Germanic descent. For more than a thousand years, especially the eight hundred years since the Habsburgs ruled the Holy Roman Empire and became the first family in Europe and the world, due to repeated marriages with other royal families and nobles in Europe, today's major royal families and those senior nobles In fact, they are all related by blood to the Habsburgs, but they are just far away.

Historically, the Habsburg family attached great importance to the purity of their blood. In order to maintain the nobility in their blood, they would only choose their spouses carefully within a narrow circle of nobles. As time goes by, marriages come and go. In fact, cousins ​​are getting married, and this happens from generation to generation.

The Chinese have long made it clear that close relatives are not allowed to intermarry. The most basic rule is to have five marriages, that is, the two parties to the marriage must not have a common ancestor within five generations. In the past, it was common sense not to marry with the same surname, and there were even many popular sayings such as "Wu" and "Yu" not to intermarry, because the distant ancestors of these surnames were the same person or brothers.

However, Europeans are far less sophisticated than the Chinese in this regard. This may have something to do with their cultural roots. How can a "Greek Mythology" be so "garbled"? Throughout the history of Greek mythology, there has been nothing but chaos. The only thing is that you dare not think or believe. Without them, you dare not chaos.

Because of the narrow-mindedness and ignorance in choosing a mate, the Habsburg family suffered greatly. Not only were their children rare, but they often died young. There were also many defective ones who survived, including those who were epileptic, insane, mentally retarded, and ugly... There is a famous European term - Habsburg chin, which specifically refers to the long and protruding lower jaw that was the hallmark of the former Habsburg men, which was extremely ugly.

Many famous kings in Habsburg history were ugly and mentally retarded, suffering more epilepsy attacks every day than eating. These emperors were able to govern smoothly and achieve great results because the Habsburg royal family had a regency and a council of elders.

There was no genetics at that time, and by the time the Habsburgs realized this problem, to be honest, it was already a bit late. The Austrian Habsburgs and the Spanish Habsburgs successively cut off their throne inheritance due to the absence of male heirs.

But there are always two sides to everything, and they are two very magical sides.

A small island in New Zealand in the South Pacific and a village in a closed mountainous area in Guangxi, China. These two places are thousands of miles apart, but they have the same extraordinary feature - they are both famous longevity villages.

To live to be seventy or eighty years old would be a shame to our ancestors.

Ninety-one hundred is the standard, and it's not unusual for someone to work in the fields in their early 100s. When the reporter came to Guangxi, he happened to meet a 110-year-old man who had just returned from the fields carrying a hoe.

After investigation, it was discovered that the two distant places of longevity had the same reason - their earliest ancestors were two brothers and sisters!

Would you say it's strange? After geneticists explain it, it is actually not difficult to understand. There are indeed many offspring of incest marriages like this, but some very excellent DNA will also be passed down through the purification and screening of genes. In other words, the genes of those poor offspring will be eliminated because they cannot marry a wife, while those excellent genes will become better and better after layers of screening.

Although the Habsburg family has no worries about having a wife no matter what monster they give birth to, their excellent polarized genes, although rare, are still highlighted through years of sifting.

When the almost idiot Ferdinand I became the heir to the imperial throne, the Senate began to take the issue of family incense seriously. Ferdinand I's father, Francis II, and his mother, Princess Teresa of Naples, were double cousins, which meant that their grandparents and maternal grandparents were the same.

Ferdinand I suffered from severe epilepsy and hydrocephalus. Not only did he convulse more than 15 times a day on average, he also had a speech impediment, which made him extremely difficult to speak and drooled very quickly.

The Council of Elders has decided that it cannot continue like this! Although they did not understand what genetics was, they were not blind, so the elders found the best bloodline in the family - the Franz Joseph bloodline.

All the way back to Habsburg Lorraine, there has never been a crooked melon or cracked jujube in the history of the Kou Kou family, nor a 'Habsburg chin'. The appearance of that handsome man and beautiful woman is not to mention Habsburg. Inside the castle, royal families from all over Europe were amazed. Moreover, the average lifespan of Joseph's branch is higher than the average of other family lines, and he is smart and healthy.

As a result, the Senate selected Franz Joseph I as the heir to the throne of the empire, and soon asked the foolish emperor Ferdinand I to abdicate. Thus, this was the last heroic leader of Habsburg and the last glory of the family.

In modern times, the University of Santiago de Compostela, which has made great achievements in the field of genetics, has also confirmed the wisdom of the Habsburg Senate. Through research, it investigated tens of thousands of members of the Habsburg family around the world and analyzed more than 3,000 genetic samples. The University of Santiago de Compostela clarified the genetic content of the Habsburg family. The existing flaws also confirmed that the Kou Kou family was genetically untainted.

Of course, the Feng family of Otto Feng's lineage was the chosen spare tire if the elders would hang themselves from a tree.