The Rise of the European Emperor

Judging from Giuliano's name, Felice is an ambitious woman. If Marin hadn't promised to fully support Felice's eldest son Robert to run for the Pope in the future, Felice might have thought of returning to Rome with all her heart.

In fact, Marin was very kind to Felice's children. Robert Marin has confirmed that he will be the Pope in the future, and Ma Yun has also reserved the heir to the Earl of Dongfan on Taiwan Island. As for Giuliano, he also made a count of Uruguay, whose territory is several times larger than that of Taiwan Island.

Of course, in terms of benefits, Jack Ma's territory is still more affordable. Although Dongfan Island is small, its status is extremely important because it can trade with the Ming Dynasty. It is much better than Giuliano going to farm in Uruguay to deduct some profits casually.

In fact, since deciding to develop Australia, Marin is also thinking about which son to give Australia to in the future. No way, there are no airplanes these days, and no diesel-powered ships. It is ridiculously far to go to Australia from mainland Europe. Therefore, it is better to enclose Australia.

Why did the ancients implement the system of enfeoffment in the first place? Wasn't the traffic inconvenient at that time?

During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the development of the whole of China was not high, and the Central Plains were even full of rhinos. At that time, the population was not large, and the food production was also small. Therefore, the imperial court at that time could not afford to support so many troops stationed in various places. Moreover, there was no unified avenue in the whole country at that time, and the management of other places was extremely difficult.

Therefore, under the production conditions and traffic conditions at that time, the enfeoffment system was more reasonable than the centralized system. Mainly, it's too far away and I really can't manage it...

By the time of the Qin Dynasty, the use of manure had begun to be popularized, and grain production had greatly increased. And Qin Shihuang ordered the construction of Chidao, the earliest "national road" leading to the whole country, and this was the basis for governing the world. If there is no Chi Dao, it would be difficult for the Qin Dynasty to manage the world.

At the same time, ancient Rome also built the Roman Avenue and completed the control of the huge Roman Empire...

In other words, if you want to control a large territory, traffic issues are critical. Why did Britain not become a global hegemon until the Victorian era in the 19th century? Because steam warships only began to appear and promote in the Victorian era.

With steam warships, Britain can successfully control the core colony of India, and can also complete control of South Africa and Australia. Before that, it took a long time to go to India from the UK, and the management was very inconvenient.

Therefore, at that time India was entrusted with the management of the East India Company. But when steam engine warships became popular, Britain obviously had the ability to directly manage India. Therefore, Britain directly took back the management rights of India.

Marin presided over the creation of the steam engine, but unfortunately it was the lowest version of the single-cylinder Watt steam engine, and it was still very bloated. In addition, there was a serious shortage of mechanical engineers in Beihai at this time.

God knows when it will take to successfully move the steam engine onto the warship and produce a multi-expansion marine steam engine that is more suitable for the warship.

Therefore, Marin can only engage in the enfeoffment system at present. Especially in the vast lands of South America and Australia that are far away, except for the most important Chilean saltpeter mines and some gold mines, it is also a good choice to hand over the rest to other sons to manage alone. Anyway, even if the relationship between the brothers is not good in the future, they are still their own sons. Meat rotten in the pot, in fact, nothing. Presumably, Zhu Yuanzhang also thought so at the time, so he didn't care about the problem of the feudal king becoming bigger...

In fact, Marin felt that such a large territory would not be needed, as long as the future generations of Laomei’s territory were managed well, a world power would not be able to escape properly.

Look at the old beauty of later generations, starting from the colonies of the 13 coastal states, expanding westward step by step, hitting the Pacific coast, and a superpower known as the "Chosen Land" was born.

Therefore, Marin set a secret family motto for Caesar and his later successors-Never lose North America, even if you lose the territory of Germany, it's okay, North America must be kept!

Continental Europe is full of endless wars and cannot develop well. Among them, Germany is the most tragic reminder. It is obviously a very powerful nation, but it is trapped in the very center of the European continent - to the west is the powerful France, to the east is Maozi... the south is Austria, and the northwest sea has long been occupied and blocked by the British...

Because of this, Marin made a plan to annex England from the very beginning. Otherwise, Germany will still be locked in the broken place of Central Europe. As far as Germany's only advantage is concerned, I am afraid that the coal in the Ruhr area still has potassium salt. Without these two strategic resources, it would be difficult for future generations of Germany to rise.

Of course, although Germany's geographical location is not good, the quality of its people is not bad. Mainly, don't be cowardly...

Therefore, if the territory of Germany can be preserved, it should be preserved as much as possible. After all, Germany is a farming country similar to Qin, and it has the best soldiers.

In fact, Huaxia is a powerful farming and fighting nation. Until the Han Dynasty, China was a country with strong combat power, so there was a saying of "strong man". It's a pity that later on Confucianism was the only one, and a group of half-baked Confucian scholars forcibly turned China into a cowardly country that could not fight.

It's not that Confucianism is useless, but that Confucianism should not be respected alone. At best, Confucianism is suitable for education, but not for other things. The most suitable distribution method is actually to let the Confucianists be in charge of the Ministry of Rites, the military strategists in charge of the Ministry of War, the Mohists in charge of the Ministry of Industry, the peasants and merchants in charge of the Ministry of Households, and the strategists in charge of diplomacy... In this way, talents can be used to the best of their ability...

In the end, Confucianism is good, they can do everything by themselves, and those who don’t understand can give directions blindly, and they forcibly ruined China’s half…

The most ridiculous thing is that Confucianism has reduced China's war capabilities too much. As early as the Warring States Period, a Qin State with a mere 5 million people could gather 600,000 strong soldiers. However, in the Song Dynasty, there were obviously hundreds of millions of people and a prosperous economy, but they could only support hundreds of thousands of people, and it was very laborious. In a war, there are all kinds of losses...

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In Marin's view, the later Prussia was actually a replica of the Qin Dynasty back then. The only thing that is more advanced than the Qin Dynasty is probably that Frederick the Great promoted compulsory education, which made the quality of low-level officers higher. It's just that after he became the second in Germany, the military class was too powerful and kidnapped the entire country, which caused bad results.

Therefore, in the current Beihai country, although Marin encourages farming and warfare and rewards military merits, at the same time, he also trains many students among the common people as future civil servants.

At that time, the nobles will be in charge of the army, the literati will be in charge of the government, and the two sides will not interfere with each other. Of course, the children of nobles also have the right to participate in politics, but they must quit the army for more than five years, and at the same time stop contacting the generals within five years before they can participate in politics. Moreover, the children and brothers of the nobles who mastered heavy troops were not allowed to hold high-ranking civil positions, so as to avoid the emergence of super families with both civil and military dominance. Similarly, the children of senior civil servants are not allowed to serve as senior generals...

At the same time, Marin also adopted two sets of standards for the management of the colonies-the North American colonies were managed according to local standards and were governed by the civil service system.

In places other than North America, according to colonial standards, the military aristocracy conducts semi-militarized management. Among them, the interests are also biased towards those aristocrats who participated in the colonization, as compensation for the military aristocrats losing control over the native and North American civil service systems.

Of course, Marin would not allow them to establish an independent vassal state, but a territory still subject to local restraint. What is subject to local restraint is mainly the ownership and command of the army. In terms of management, Marin's principle is to let it go...

For this reason, Marin specially formulated a decree on the division of civil and military responsibilities, but it was not promulgated immediately. Mainly, Marin did not want to expose the situation in the American colonies. But when the time is right, the decree will be made public.

However, he communicated privately with Schwartz, Kahn, Wagner, Steindorf and other top generals in the army in advance, and revealed a little information to them in advance.

Of course, in exchange for their support, Marin's return is also very sincere - Brazil...