The Rise of the European Emperor

In addition to post-war reconstruction, the most important thing for Marin is probably the "demolition" of the old noble gates of the 8 vassal states (remove the Earl of Gelden, but joined the Earl of Schaumburg). ".

It would definitely be impossible to keep these old-fashioned nobles in place, otherwise, these local snakes would take over the place, greatly reducing Marin's control over the newly incorporated territories.

Therefore, Marin's method is very simple and rude - forcibly relocate the nobles of the original 8 countries to Bremen, so as to facilitate centralized management and monitoring.

However, these local small nobles who are used to being uncles in the local area will definitely not be willing to give in easily. To this end, during this time, Marin divided 20,000 soldiers and horses to go to various places to supervise the relocation of the nobles of the eight countries by force.

This situation is very similar to the forced demolitions carried out in some parts of China in later generations. Moreover, it is simpler and cruder. After all, the forced demolition of Huaxia in later generations generally controlled people and then used machines to forcefully push the house, but generally they did not dare to hurt people.

And Marin is much simpler here - you don't want to relocate? Well, die if you don't move, you choose...

If you don't move, you will die, hit someone or something, that's the basic operation. Therefore, in the original aristocratic manor of the eight vassal states, chickens and dogs jumped everywhere. Seeing that their resistance was ineffective, the old-fashioned nobles became selfish, and had to go out with their entire families to load valuables into carriages or boats (transport by boats by canals), and move the family to Bremen Province.

It's just that there are a little more old-style nobles in these 8 vassal states, and there are more than 200, which is more than the more than 150 in the original Bremen Province.

There are still nobles with fiefs, and there are hundreds of nobles who do not have fiefs. They also relocated, but in a different place.

More than 200 nobles with fiefs were replaced by Bremen. Because the number of more than 200 people is far more than the 100 aristocratic manors vacated before. Marin had to urgently negotiate with other local non-aristocratic landlords in Bremen Province, buy the manor from them, and then distribute it to the replaced nobles.

Although this kind of purchase is meant to be a forced purchase, Marin did not let those commoner landowners (in fact, most of them also came from aristocratic families, just because they were not the eldest son and failed to inherit the title of Taoist nobles) suffered a loss. Those nobles stayed after the relocation. Under the manor, Marin replaced it to them. Moreover, the land exchanged is only more or less.

And those nobles who did not have fiefs, Marin also concentrated them for resettlement. The city of Las Vegas, located on the east bank of the Elbe Estuary, has become the preferred resettlement area. In addition, some people were resettled to the small town of Salzhausen near the Lüneburg Held.

The reason why some nobles of the 8 countries without fiefs were placed in Salzhausen near the Lüneburg steppe,

It's because Marin intends to use them.

These nobles account for about one-third of the landless nobles, and there are more than 30. They are in the original country and are not reused. Therefore, the princes of the previous eight countries were unlucky, and they did not feel the same way.

When Marin sent someone to take over the 8 vassal states, the more than 30 nobles took the initiative to come to the door, asking to serve the Beihai Kingdom.

However, Marin was a little scared by the betrayal by the group of noble children of the Third Army and the Sixth Army, and did not dare to accept them into the regular army of Beihai Kingdom.

However, when people take the initiative to seek refuge, they cannot chill their hearts. So, Marin thought of a way - to place them in the small town of Salzhausen on the Lüneburg Prairie.

Salzhausen is located 15 kilometers west of the city of Lüneburg, on the edge of the Lüneburg steppe. Marin planned to turn the 7,200-square-kilometer Lüneburg steppe into a cavalry base and relocate 5,000 Cossacks.

As for the more than 30 old landless aristocrats who took refuge in themselves, Marin arranged for them very simply—learning the characteristics of the Cossack cavalry, combined with the martial arts characteristics of the old European knight families, to develop a regular light cavalry. It's the kind that doesn't wear heavy armor, but charges in a disciplined group.

In order to develop the future regular light cavalry, Malin built a cavalry school in Salzhausen. And the more than 30 landless noble families will send their children to enter this school as instructors. The students of the school came from the children of the commoners who were gifted in horsemanship. Even the children of the Cossacks.

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Why do you want to do this? Because Marin had carefully observed. He found that - although the Cossacks were very aggressive, this group of people was very informal.

For example, the martial arts of the Cossacks are not very systematic, and they are completely developed by the Cossacks since they were young.

This kind of martial arts, although very practical, but the wild way is too obvious, and it is more dependent on talent. Moreover, these Cossacks must be considered very powerful when they are in groups, but if they fight alone, they are generally not the opponents of knights. After all, other knights are people who have practiced formal martial arts for more than ten years.

In addition, the children of those knight families are all literate. Unlike those Cossacks, they were all illiterate and had only one streak of bravery. However, if you are an officer, you can't even read the order book, so you can't be an officer.

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Therefore, after the war, Marin, after careful consideration, decided to establish a cavalry school on the edge of the Lüneburg grassland to train powerful and literate cavalry for Beihai Kingdom.

The most basic instructors of the cavalry school are the family children of the more than 30 landless nobles. Their task is to teach those students the martial arts of foot and horse fighting in the traditional way of cultivating children of knight families.

However, since it was a school for light cavalry, the martial arts of using a cumbersome lance would be skipped, and instead the focus was on the martial arts of using a one-handed sword on horseback. Of course, noble swordsmanship in foot combat is also compulsory.

In addition to teaching the nobles' martial arts to the children of more than 30 nobles, Marin will also select some Cossack masters who are good at taking apprentices from the Cossacks to teach the children Cossack riding and how to use the saber. After all, the one-handed weapons used by European knights were mainly knightly straight swords, not sabres. When it comes to the use of sabres, the authentic Cossacks are more powerful.

In addition to learning these two martial arts, Marin also allows students to learn cultural knowledge. Of course, daily prayers and brainwashing of allegiance to Marin are also required.

As for the source of the students, Marin had already thought about it for a long time. From the elementary school graduates every year, he selected a group of strong elementary school scumbags and sent them to the cavalry school in Salzhausen for martial arts training.

Primary school graduates are generally only twelve or thirteen years old, which is a good age to start practicing martial arts. Because, the general knight also began to formally practice riding and martial arts from the age of 14. Before the age of 14, the knights who were still servants can only be regarded as servants. They mainly study etiquette, and even serve as servants for the knights they follow. Only when Dao is promoted from servant to servant at the age of 14 will he begin to formally practice martial arts. .

Therefore, Marin selected the students of the cavalry school from the scumbags who graduated from elementary school, which was the right age.

After several years of mixed education of traditional knights and Cossacks in cavalry schools, these children will grow into advanced cavalry with high martial arts. Even, capable of serving as a cavalry grass-roots officer.

In the future, Marin will definitely form a large-scale cavalry regiment. And this cavalry school is the cornerstone of the establishment of the cavalry of the large army...