The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, Marin's compulsory military service system in the colony is different from the compulsory military service system of later generations. The difference is that ordinary militiamen only train matchlock shooting and the simplest formation, and do not conduct specific tactical training.

Only carefully selected elites will join specific tactics and battle formation training. Even, those selected elites may stay in the barracks for a long time in the future, and are no longer ordinary people.

Why do you do this? Because Marin is worried that ordinary people are too powerful, which will lead to rebellion in the colonies...

Therefore, for ordinary militiamen, Marin only asked the soldiers to teach them to shoot with matchlock guns, and the simplest queue. Even if such a person is dragged into the battlefield, he is nothing more than cannon fodder, and cannot be an elite.

What's more, no matter how good these people's matchlock shooting skills are, it's useless. Because, the colonies do not produce gunpowder and lead bullets! Moreover, Marin does not allow free trade in gunpowder and lead bullets in the colonies, which must be strictly controlled.

In this way, even if the colonial people have matchlock guns in their hands, if they dare to rebel, Marin only needs to cut off the supply of gunpowder and lead bullets to easily dissolve their combat effectiveness.

Without ammunition, what is an arquebus gun? It's a fire stick!

Therefore, Marin will not let people teach the civilians in the colony to assassinate and fight, but to teach them shooting and simple left and right queue training. As long as they manage their ammunition well, they won't be able to make waves.

As for the selected elite, they will become professional soldiers. Then, it may be transferred back to the homeland to serve. After retiring, Marin will not allow them to return to their original place. Instead, they will reward them with manors and even slaves, and open up new places for them to live.

Anyway, America has nothing but land. There is no problem in placing the elite retreating soldiers. As long as this group of people doesn't stay with that group of fellow villagers, even if something happens in the future, nothing will happen.

What? You say these veterans will rebel? Stop making trouble, the rebels are all barefoot. Marin made these veterans small landlords, and they were going to rebel when they were full? Moreover, after they retired, they were at least in their forties and had no combat effectiveness. As long as they are not released to return to their hometowns and there is no opportunity to train the young men from their hometowns, it will be difficult to pose a threat.

Do you really want to go home? Yes, go back to your hometown and continue to be a serf. If you don't want to be a serf and want to be a manor owner, you must accept the arrangement...

In addition to preventing veterans from returning to their hometowns, Marin will also implement a system of civil servants' hometown avoidance in the colonies. Its content is—officials are not allowed to hold posts in their hometowns, so as to avoid the creation of local interest groups.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was even stipulated that "people from the south govern the north, and people from the north govern the south", so that civil servants could not be officials in their hometowns.

this policy,

Indeed, it avoided the emergence of local toubob officials, which is better than that of later generations. But there is also a problem in it, that is-it only stipulates that civil servants are not allowed to hold posts in their hometowns, but it ignores the avoidance of small officials.

As a result, the officials of the local tyrants were eradicated, but the small officials in the government office were basically locals. When these officials united, they even had the ability to evade foreign civil officials. In order to really stop the local rural forces, the entire group of workers must avoid their hometowns...

Generally speaking, the bullies and the like must be covered by local local forces, and the bullies must also be locals. If it is really possible for ordinary workers to avoid their hometowns, to fight gangsters or something, don't take it too easy. After all, if you go to work in other places, will you protect the bullies over there? No relatives and no reason, protect the hair? If you don't do it, you may be implicated; if you do it, you can add achievements to yourself...

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Of course, Marin will not really make the little official avoid his hometown. why? This is for cost considerations. Because, if small officials with low incomes are also allowed to avoid their hometowns, many problems may arise. After all, this is not the era of developed transportation in later generations. There are many problems and high costs for so many officials to leave their homes. Moreover, it is also difficult for small officials who are not familiar with the local environment to handle affairs.

To give a simple example, a small official has to deal with villagers. As a result, there was no unified Mandarin in ancient times, only dialects. If the small officials transferred from other places don't understand the local dialect and can't even communicate, how can they talk about doing things? Therefore, only after Putonghua was popularized like later generations, it is possible for petty officials to work in other places.

Therefore, for the colonies, Marin will only learn the system of civil servants avoiding their hometowns, and will not let the petty officials avoid them too. As for the issue of civil servants being emptied by local officials, Marin doesn't care at all...

Why don't you care? Because officials and petty officials did not deal with each other, the rule of Beihai Kingdom became more stable. If the officials and petty officials form a group in the colony, then the rebellion is not far away...

Therefore, Marin allows infighting among officials. Even, will be happy. Of course, you can't fight too hard, so as not to delay doing things.

Therefore, Marin will also arrange spies in the colony to monitor the movement of the colony. If the local struggle gets out of control, the local people will hit the board. The easiest way is to transfer the civil servants away and replace them with someone else.

Of course, if the local officials are too powerful, the local government will find a way to transfer some of them away, and they will rise up and down secretly to disintegrate their groups.

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For the same reason, the army is never allowed to be stationed at home. Because, if the elders in the hometown launched an uprising, if it was an army formed by the children in the hometown, they would definitely not have the heart to shoot and suppress it.

Marin understood this truth when he read "The Capture of the Bastille" in his previous life. At that time, the Great Revolution broke out in Paris. As a result, the Paris defenders refused to shoot and suppress it, so that the citizens of Paris succeeded in doing things.

What if it was replaced by foreign soldiers stationed in Paris? What? uprising? It's not the elders of the hometown, brothers, fire!

When the soldiers and the people have nothing to do with each other, the soldiers will not be merciful when they suppress. After all, if you're not an acquaintance, you don't have any scruples... Even if your hands are covered with blood, after retiring, those soldiers will not stay there again, and they are not afraid of being retaliated...

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Kenton's construction is in full swing. However, when Leighton ordered the people to build houses, they left the central area, leaving a large area. Because, this place is going to be used to build a church.

According to the European practice of this era, churches are generally built in the center of the city or in other prominent locations. Moreover, churches in big cities often leave large open spaces as church squares.

However, at the moment, Lairton only has 200 soldiers and 800 strong men, so it is impossible to build a church, so he can only build adobe houses for ordinary people to live in first.

As for the church in the center of the city, including the school planned to be built next to the church, we can only wait for the arrival of the disciples and grandchildren of Beihai Kingdom Archbishop Taylor, and then call a group of craftsmen to come to build the church and school.

After all, the church is a top-level important building in Europe at present, and it is absolutely impossible to deal with it carelessly with an adobe house, at least it must be a masonry structure. Otherwise, it means disrespecting God and will be excommunicated...

Of course, in order to save costs, except for some important cathedrals and churches in general villages and towns, Marin intends to simply deal with them with red bricks and cement.

For example, the church in Kenton, because this is not a big city, is certainly not so extravagant that it is all built with stones. Therefore, first build an earthen kiln locally, and then burn red bricks. Meanwhile, get some cement from the cement factory in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Build a wall with bricks and put cement on the outside...

The exterior is then painted with white lime for a clean look, and a simple village church is complete. And, the build quality isn't bad either.

Of course, this will have to wait until relevant missionaries are sent from the mainland of Beihai, that is, disciples and grandchildren of Archbishop Taylor. Then, the professional construction team will be brought in. As for before that, Leighton should honestly lead the common people to build low-cost but practical adobe houses...