The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, Marin is still stingy. Lincoln in history was called generous. The "Homestead Act" he promulgated in 1862 was called generous.

The Homestead Act stipulates that all American citizens who have reached the age of 21, or foreign young adults who meet the naturalization requirements, can receive no more than 160 acres of western state-owned land as a share for free or pay a registration fee of $10. After 5 years of cultivation, or those who live on the homestead for half a year within 5 years and pay the fee of 1.25 US dollars per acre, the land received will belong to them...

160 acres! Based on the fact that each acre is equal to 6 mu, that is 960 mu, and the difference of 40 mu is 1,000 mu. Putting it in ancient China, it can barely be called a big landlord. The great landlords in Sichuan and Shu only had more than 10,000 mu of land, which became a legend. A thousand acres of land is considered one size. Marin remembered that the small village in his previous life had only 1,400 mu of arable land before the merger of the villages and towns.

That is to say, the land that the "Homestead Law" gives to every labor force who is willing to go to the west to open up wilderness, almost catches up with the area of ​​arable land in a small village. How cool is it for one person to monopolize the cultivated land of a village?

However, the actual situation is that those western states are not at all the "land of no man" as the old Americans said, but the land of the Indians.

And this dead ghost President Lincoln, who was praised by the old beauty, used this "Homestead Law" to kill many Indians.

You know, those so-called immigrants all marched westward with guns. Throughout the Westward Movement, the Americans slaughtered more than one million Indians.

Even after the American Civil War, there happened to be a large number of veterans who had nothing to do. Therefore, the old Americans organized these veterans to bloodbath the Indian villages in the western region one by one. Men, women, old and young, all killed without leaving behind...

And all of this was done by the same Lincoln who pretended to be compassionate and sympathetic to the black slaves...

On the one hand, he liberated 4 million black slaves in the South, but on the other hand, he came up with the immoral "Homestead Act", which led to the killing of millions of Indians...

How should I put it, this man deserved to die. After all, the 4 million southern black slaves he saved were not in danger of life, at most they would not be free. But his move led to the massacre of the entire Indian village...

Therefore, he was rewarded for being assassinated. According to his crime, it is not too much to be hacked into pieces!

Of course, the later generations of Laomei are the world's boss and have mastered the dominance of public opinion. Hollywood is also desperately advocating this executioner president, so that later generations think that this devil is a saint...It's so funny...

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However, Marin is not a good person. Although he despises Lincoln's character, Marin also understands that this is the best way to seize land from the Indians...

That's thousands of acres of land, it's almost a free gift! Just ask, how many farmers can withstand this temptation?

So, we see in western movies, those immigrants go west with guns. The most classic image of those western cowboys is riding a horse and carrying a revolver. Seeing the "evil" Indians, he raised his hand and shot... Then, he peeled off his scalp to receive a reward... After receiving the reward, he went to enclose his land...

Not to mention these old American immigrants, even Han peasants who are as gentle as sheep will go crazy under this kind of stimulation. The most typical example is the development of Taiwan Island by the Han people. Back then, the land on Taiwan Island belonged to the aborigines, and the Han people came over later.

Not to mention that the land on the western coastal plain was mainly captured by force by the Dutch and the Ming and Zheng armies, and most of the eastern coastal areas were captured by force by the Han immigrants themselves.

For example, the Lanyang Plain in the northeast of Taiwan Island is a coastal plain suitable for farming. In the beginning, the Kavalan people lived here. Han immigrants came here in large numbers around 1796, but decades later, the Kavalan people, who used to have five or six thousand people, were forced to move elsewhere. There is no way, the Lanyang Plain is too suitable for growing rice, and Han immigrants have taken a fancy to it. Although the Han people are usually very gentle,

Once it comes to land, it's crazy. As a result, the Kavalan who once killed the Spanish colonists so that they dared not land were killed by the seemingly docile Han peasants...not to mention the later "drilling X trenches and dividing the cultivated land". When the land was divided, the originally weak peasants immediately burst into battle, and no one dared to hate them. Bald Jiang refused to give the land? Well, I went to Taiwan Island. American? I also went back... As long as it comes to the land, farmers can turn into supermen...

In the future, if Marin wants to seize more American land, he will come to this point sooner or later. Therefore, the "Homestead Law" must be applied in the future, and it belongs to Marin's reserved big move. When the eastern region is almost occupied by the North Sea State, this devilish "Homestead Law" will almost come out...

However, compared to the bearded president, Marin still felt that he was more civilized. why? Because the times are different!

The 16th century in which I lived was itself a barbaric era. The massacre and plunder of indigenous people is nothing but a normal operation. Not to mention the massacre of indigenous people, the Germans were also massacred in religious wars. When the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Han people were also slaughtered...

But Lin Dabeard is different, he is from the 1860s. At that time, Europe and the United States had entered the age of civilization, and the "Geneva Convention" aimed at protecting civilians and war victims came out in 1864. At this time, Lin Dabeard is still making such a genocidal thing, he is definitely a beast...

The times are different, and the criteria for judging are also different. Just like the Manchus and the little devils, the Manchus slaughtered people in the barbaric era, while Little Japan slaughtered the people in the civilized 20th century. Although the Man Qing massacred more people, judging from the degree of brutality, it must be the devils who were more brutal. Because the backgrounds of the two eras are completely different. A country that massacres civilians decades after the Geneva Conventions came out can only be a beast. Moreover, Japan was independent at that time, so it is impossible not to know about this convention.

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Of course, Marin doesn't want to comment on those right and wrong. Because in this time and space, none of these things have happened yet.

In addition, Marin plans to postpone the implementation of the job field issue. For this group of 320 surviving old brothers, he does not intend to take back the jobs assigned to them, but to let their descendants also inherit.

The main reason is that this group of old brothers Marin has different feelings for them. In addition, the idea of ​​the job field was only thought of after Schwartz and the others allocated the land, and the original decision could not be overturned. This explanation is also reasonable...

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In addition to the issue of dividing the land, the reason why Marin came to Schwartz in a hurry is actually a very important thing. That is - Marin wants to form a police force...

What? You said that there are already magistrates in the rural areas of Beihai, and there is no need for police?

wrong! The magistrate system was already somewhat backward. Because, the sheriff is only one...

Yes, rural sheriffs, and often there is only one sheriff in a town. As for how the sheriff handles the case? People are not fighting alone, but will recruit a few local jobless vagrants and even gangsters to be their "helpers". Of course, there are also those who ask their own brothers for help.

Then, when handling a case, the only magistrate in the town, surrounded by his own brothers or helpers, would appear on the stage in a majestic manner, frightening criminals and the like...

And the brothers and helpers of these sheriffs are obviously not regular police officers. Because the biggest characteristic of these people is that they bully the weak and fear the hard. If this kind of person is dragged into the battlefield during a war, he will definitely be held back...

As a result, Marin sometimes recruits the Sheriff Mounted Police, but can only recruit the Sheriff himself. Their helpers are basically trash...

That's why Marin planned to form a police force to replace the original sheriff plus a group of bullying helpers.

And how to build it? Marin hadn't thought of it before. But taking advantage of this opportunity for 320 old brothers to retire from the army, Marin suddenly thought of—since these old brothers have retired, why not arrange them to go to various places to form a police force?

These old brothers are at least 25 small captains with rich experience in military training. If they are distributed to various townships as police chiefs, they can recruit a group of local young men and train them into a police force that can be drawn out to fight in wartime.

Not too many for each person, 320 old brothers, each of whom trains a small team (25 people) out, won't there be 8,000 troops? Once there is a war, it can be pulled out and used...

What? You said that 25 police officers are too many for a small town?

Well, there is nothing wrong with this, it is indeed a bit much. However, Marin's real intention was to take advantage of the opportunity of forming a police force to secretly hide a second-line force among the people. When it comes to war, let alone expecting them to fight north and south, at least they must be able to defend their homeland, right? In this way, Marin can safely lead his troops to fight in the north and south!

Moreover, these 320 old brothers are only the first batch of sheriffs arranged by Marin. When the second and third batches of veterans are discharged, the sheriff can continue to be arranged. Marin's ultimate goal is to hide a police force of 10,000 to 20,000 people among the people.

Of course, there are definitely not so many in the establishment. Usually, these police chiefs assigned to each township will only bring five police officers under their command. However, they can train more people during the slack season, at least 25 young and strong. When nothing happened, I only took 5 people to the police. When the sheriff is manned, the other 20 people can be pulled out for a while.

And for those 20 reserve police officers, Marin also gave a very Chinese title-auxiliary police...

In other words, these sheriffs usually retain the five most elite members as official police officers. The other 20 people are auxiliary police officers.

The official police officers are busy with law and order all day long, but the auxiliary police officers are different. They usually do farm work at home and receive supplies distributed by the manor. But during the slack time, he was recruited into the police force for training and training in combat skills. These people don't have to pay full salaries, they just need to give more benefits to get rid of them. After all, they usually have supplies distributed in their respective manors, don't they?

In this way, Marin can form a police force of 10,000 people as long as he sends out 400 sheriffs. If 800 sheriffs are thrown out, 20,000 police forces can be created. Moreover, there is no need to keep them like the six major legions. Except for the official police officers who only account for one-fifth of the number, which need to be paid, other auxiliary police officers only need to be paid some material benefits. For example, salted fish, sucrose, canned food and so on during the holidays are enough to get rid of. After all, these people are not the lordly citizens of later generations, but serfs in the 16th century. If you can reward some welfare materials, you can make a lot of money...

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In this case, Marin can not only quietly hide a large second-line police force among the people, but also enhance the background of the war. Moreover, the skills of this old brother have not been wasted. After all, they are only around 45 years old, which is far from retirement. It would not be a waste of their skills to give him another ten years as a township sheriff (Marin is trying to exploit them until they grow old)...