The Rise of the European Emperor

Who is a Cossack? Many of them were Rus serfs who escaped from the farm. Because he was unwilling to be an oppressed serf, he escaped from the manor, rode on a horse, and ran to the vast Eastern European prairie.

At that time, because the development level of the Eastern European prairie was very low, the Cossacks had a lot of living space. As a result, many Ruthenians (including Ukrainians and Belarusians) and Russians, and even some Poles, Lithuanians, and Tatars, became Cossacks.

In fact, the earliest Cossack tribal subjects were Tatars. Because, among the Cossacks, only the Tatars were the earliest nomads.

The nomads have a habit of accepting strong men to strengthen the tribe. In order to increase the population, the nomads plundered the women of the farming peoples, but also robbed the children of the farming peoples, and trained those boys to be warriors of the tribe to strengthen the tribe's force. In the same way, they are also willing to accept the sporadic and scattered recruits from outside.

Therefore, the Cossack tribe, strictly speaking, was first established on the basis of the Tatars. After the 15th century, because of the rapid expansion of the Cossacks of other ethnic groups, the Cossacks became Slavic, and the Tatars became a very small part.

These Cossacks are mostly nomads at present, and they are not willing to do very hard farming. Moreover, they had escaped from the manor in the first place. If you want to force them to farm, it is estimated that they will be forced to turn against them.

But how wretched is Marin? You don't want to farm, do you? It's okay, I won't force you. However, I will use the trade model of exchanging grain for spirits to lure you to farm...

As long as you plant 20 acres of rye, the wheat you produce can be exchanged for spirits that you can't drink for a year. Are you a Cossack?

In addition, Marin will also order to gradually shrink the trade of exchanging sheep for spirits, forcing the Cossacks to farm land in exchange for spirits.

Of course, if you exchange cattle or excellent horses, you will naturally not refuse...

In this way, through the Cossacks' favorite spirits, Marin used lures to gradually transform them from herdsmen to farmers who adapted to farming.

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In fact, in later generations, during the tsarist period, the Cossacks were transformed from pure herdsmen by the tsarist government into a group of half-farming and half-pasturing. In "The Quiet River Don" written by Sholokhov, it describes the grievances and hatreds of the Cossack villages.

However, that was forced by the environment to change. At the beginning, the Tsar ordered the Cossack tribe to go to remote Siberia and the Far East for reclamation. When they arrived there, no one produced food for them. In desperation, in addition to nomadic and hunting, they also began to try farming by themselves. By the beginning of the 20th century, the originally nomadic Cossacks had become accustomed to a life of half farming and half pastoralism.

However, this change takes a long time. After all, it takes a long, long time to change your mind.

Marin was simple and rude, seizing the weakness of the Cossacks who liked to drink spirits, and tempted them to farm and harvest grain in exchange for spirits. After they get used to farming, and then find a way to get them used to eating bread, the Cossacks will be able to adapt to the life of half-farming and half-grazing.

Then, Marin might not be able to use these Cossacks to help him cultivate the Americas...

You know, in this era, there were two to three million Ruthenians, and nearly half of them lived in the Ukrainian steppe area, that is, one million or hundreds of thousands.

If these people are used, Marin can directly have two or three hundred thousand cavalry in his hands!

In fact, Marin is not that greedy. Not to mention two or three hundred thousand Cossack cavalry, even twenty or thirty thousand is enough for him. After all, the Indians don't even have metal weapons, so they don't need too many soldiers and horses. The only threat, probably, is that the North American Indians are pretty strong in the jungle...

How should I put it, according to the news from South America, the hundreds of Cossack cavalry sent to South America before have already beaten the native Indians on the Pampas prairie to fear. If it weren't for their too few people, it is estimated that the Indians on the Pampas grassland would have disappeared by now. Moreover, although because of the small number of Cossacks,

As a result, the Indians on the prairie could not be cleared. However, no one dared to approach the colonial area at the mouth of the La Plate. Such is the deterrent power of cavalry on open terrain...

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However, Marin would not rashly send the Cossacks directly to America. Because the unmodified Eastern European Cossacks are wild and difficult to control. If they were sent to the American prairie rashly, they would probably be letting the tiger go back to the mountain.

Therefore, the Cossacks Marin sent to America were mixed with many German Cossacks, and the German Cossacks were the commanders. Only in this way can we rest assured that those Cossacks are in America. Otherwise, if they were all Eastern European Cossacks without education, maybe these guys would build an emirate by themselves...

In fact, while luring those Ukrainian Cossacks to farm near Kyiv, Marin will also send a large number of missionaries to encourage those Cossacks to convert to Catholicism, teach them to speak German, and teach them to be loyal to the Hoffman family...

Of course, there are benefits for them to convert to Catholicism, such as giving out spirits on festivals or something. Go to a Catholic church to worship, and you can also get lottery tickets. The reward is similar to the reward of "one more bottle" of the drink of later generations. Of course, it's not "another bottle", but a reward of "a bottle of whiskey". This kind of reward is not only in line with the preferences of the Cossacks, but also the cost is not high, which is very helpful for fooling those Cossacks.

Similarly, when the missionaries taught them German, whoever learned it quickly could also be rewarded with a small bottle of Erguotou...

In his previous life, Marin had seen literacy classes in the countryside when he was a child. If administrative orders are used to force those illiterate farmers to accept literacy, the effect will not be very good. Many people are forced to go to literacy classes and do all kinds of paddling. Sleeping in class is just a basic operation. Women often pretend to listen to the class while knitting sweaters or putting on the soles of their shoes... Even, some teachers are talking on the top, while farmers are taking off their shoes and picking their feet below.

However, if you get some rewards, it will be different immediately. Rural people love to take advantage of small things. If there is a prize for literacy, even if it is just some worthless gadgets, the enthusiasm will be different immediately. Especially those old country women who are greedy for petty gains. Seeing that there are advantages to take advantage of, that is a positive thing. Seeing the rewards, they can learn to read faster than the elders...

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What's more, the Cossacks are addicted to strong alcohol, and even women like to drink. Enticing them to learn German and convert to Catholicism with strong liquor will definitely work. As for the kids, candy works just fine! Anyway, now that Cuba has started to mass-produce sucrose, there is no need to worry about the lack of candy to lure children to learn...

It will be easy to use when Kyiv fully Germanizes the Cossacks, and then introduces some of them and sends them to America. Of course, the mainland of Beihai can also recruit. For example, those Cossacks can be sent to the Jutland peninsula for half-cultivation and half-grazing. Marin built many Cossack villages there. Now, many Cossacks have been transferred to the Lüneburg prairie, and many Cossack villages there happened to be vacant, just enough to accept Cossacks.

The Kyiv area and the Jutland Peninsula act together to recruit Cossacks, and use spirits to lure them to Germanize and convert to Catholicism. They can domesticate them into qualified thugs in the North Sea State as quickly as possible, and act as pioneers for Marin to conquer the Americas, just like the original In history, they helped Tsarist Russia conquer Siberia and the Far East...