The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin calculated that from the age of 45 to 60, they could still serve as sheriff for another 15 years. The sheriff is not a small-scale policeman, nor is he a coolie like the joint defense team, so he doesn't need to work too hard. Therefore, it is not a problem to work until the age of 60. As for the age of 65 in later generations, well, that is the age that officials and gentlemen can do.

Ordinary physical work, in fact, can't be done until the age of 50. What's more, most people in Europe are almost dead in their 50s. But these old brothers hang out with Marin, eat and drink, and exercise every day for professional reasons. In addition, Marin is now vigorously promoting hospitals and modern medical skills and traditional Chinese medicine. Although it is only promoted to cities and has not yet reached towns, it will be a matter of time. With these factors, it should not be a problem for the subordinates to live to the age of 60 or above.

Then, the preparation I gave was very reasonable. A sheriff, plus 5 established police officers, the salary expenditure is not much. According to the normal daily salary of 3 Finneys for mercenaries, 5 police officers only need to spend 15 Finneys per day. After a year, it only looks like 91.25 gold coins. With 400 police stations, the daily expenditure is less than 40,000 gold coins.

As for the larger number of auxiliary police officers, they do not need to be paid. Usually, send out more cheap salted fish, cane sugar, canned food and so on, and you can get rid of them. After all, these people can be supported by their respective manors. In this way, you can save a lot of expenses. And traps, sucrose and canned food may be a high-cost item for other countries. But for Marin, these are low-cost cheap things. However, it is even more face-saving to get it. After all, the average person doesn't. Moreover, these things are not sent out every day, they are only sent out during the holidays, and they don't cost a lot of money.

As for the professional quality of these 320 old brothers? Marin really didn't have any expectations. After all, they are all rough men. It is simply not delusional to expect them to solve cases like the police of later generations.

These rough guys know nothing but fighting. Letting them be the police is actually a joke. Because of distrust of their ability to solve crimes, Marin didn't even abolish the existence of those sheriffs.

After all, although those magistrates may not be good people, their professional quality must be much better than these rough guys...

These traditional magistrates are often well-known ruthless people in the local area, who can hold the scene. Moreover, they are clear about local affairs, and they will not make trouble in doing things. For example, those people can be provoked, those people should not be provoked, these magistrates are awake. Even the town mayors were not as well informed as these sheriffs.

Because, those mayors are mostly from aristocratic families, and their circles are different. They generally have little contact with civilian circles, or disdain to contact civilians, so they naturally know much less news. The magistrates are different, they are all local ruthless people, even gangsters. They usually come into contact with three religions and nine streams, and the news is not known how many times better than those town mayors.

Sometimes, when a homicide or a fight occurs in a local area, these seasoned magistrates can guess who did it based on the victim's social relationship without having to step out. This is the power of a local snake, which is much better than a dragon crossing a river.

What's more, when local people have conflicts and disputes, these local tyrants and sheriffs go to mediate, and a scare can quickly calm down the troublemakers. And if it is replaced by someone who has no prestige, it will definitely be difficult to accomplish.

Therefore, in the end, Marin never thought of using the 320 rough men under his command to replace those local snake-like sheriffs. Because these rough men have no ability to maintain local stability.

However, if the original magistrate system is retained, Marin is not reconciled. Because, this means that he has insufficient control over the place. Sometimes the word of the magistrate in those places is more powerful than that of the lord. How can this be tolerated for Marin, who wants to centralize power?

Moreover, some magistrates are also local scourges. They entangled a gang of hooligans to bring disaster to the people in the village. Unfortunately, he can still get away with it.

why? Because the common people don't have a channel to sue them...

this era,

Serfs were not allowed to leave the manor at will. Even if you go to the town, you have to get the consent of the manor owner, let alone go to a farther city? Therefore, even if someone wants to sue them, there is no way. Not to mention, even if you sue, you may not win. Chances are, he will be brutally retaliated afterwards.

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Therefore, Marin took advantage of this opportunity to hide soldiers, formed a police force, and dispersed it to various towns. In addition to raising soldiers, it is the right to divide the magistrates.

The existence of the police makes it unnecessary for the gang of gangsters under the sheriff to exist. Moreover, Marin did not allow the sheriff to support him anymore.

Marin stipulated that in the future, local public security mediation will still be dominated by the magistrate. However, when it comes to armed actions to suppress the mob, the magistrate is not allowed to use helpers, but can only use the police.

The specific procedure is - the magistrate feels that it is necessary to call the police, and greets the sheriff. Then, the sheriff will dispatch a corresponding number of police officers according to the seriousness of the situation. When necessary, 20 auxiliary police officers can be summoned to act together.

In this way, the sheriff only has decision-making power in his hands, but he has no execution ability. If he does something, the police will naturally cooperate. However, if he wants to exploit the common people and do some private work, the police may not ignore him. Because the sheriffs are all veterans, belong to the central system, and are only loyal to Marin. The sheriffs will definitely not do things that harm the interests of Marin and Beihai State. After all, these sheriffs are all veterans who have served Marin for nearly 20 years, and there is no problem with their loyalty.

In this way, even if Marin did not completely control the place, he could firmly control the situation through these loyal sheriffs. Moreover, there is no need to worry about local forces' obedience. Because, the sheriff who has mastered the police force will report everything in the local area.

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Even, Marin felt that this model of using local sheriffs and a veteran army officer as the sheriff to master the local police is more advanced than the police model of later generations.

Why do you say that? It is very wrong for later generations to hand over the appointment of local police to the local government. Because, in this case, the police chiefs promoted by the local leaders can easily be reduced to the lackeys and thugs of the local officials. As long as the local police are in their hands, some corrupt officials can really do whatever they want.

As long as the news is blocked and those who dare to appeal are caught, the magistrate can basically become the emperor of the land. "The sky is high and the emperor is far away", this is no joke.

Of course, after future generations are hungry for the Internet and mobile phones, everything will be different. Because, people can break the news through the Internet. In this way, many problems were exposed, and Mr. Xi had no choice but to fight the tiger.

But what about before? Is that all right? No, there are as many problems. It's just that the common people had no channels to complain at that time, and those corrupt officials would often control the local police and block the news. Therefore, many problems have not been exposed. After all, before the 21st century, people who had been wronged had no recourse because of poor communication of information.

So thank the web and mobile for that. This shattered the dream of some bastards who wanted to cover the sky with one hand...

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It's just that it's the 16th century, and there's no internet or cell phones. Marin is a liberal arts student, and he can't figure out these things. If there are local officials who do evil, he has nothing to do.

Later generations also established police systems in various places, is it useful? Useless! As long as those corrupt officials control the public security organs and violent institutions like the police station, they can really do whatever they want.

However, if you send the police down from above, because you don't know the local situation and you don't have any prestige, you often can't get things done.

Therefore, Marin came up with this "coexistence of sheriff and sheriff" system. The core content is to use local vicious sheriffs to run things, but assign loyal veterans to control the police force. In this way, the magistrate who was born as a local snake can't do harm to the local area because he has no thugs in his hands, but he can solve local affairs. And the sheriff dispatched from above does not have to face the embarrassment of being unable to start work because he is not familiar with the place. However, the armed forces are in the hands of these loyal veterans, which also ensures the central government's control over the localities.

After all, when it comes to loyalty, is there anything more trustworthy than a 20-year veteran? In addition, these sheriffs can also serve as eyes and ears, reflecting the real situation of the place upwards...