The Rise of the European Emperor

After reading the entire battle report, Marin was amazed. The entire Spike Commando Captain Cook was so calm that he actually spent two days observing the location and habits of the enemy commander. Leng found the best time to attack, and then gave the enemy a fatal blow.

During the whole process, Marin, the so-called "military expert", could not find any faults. Of course, if it were Marin, he would probably choose to attack in the middle of the night. Because, this is his habit and his character. But this also has a disadvantage-if the enemy is prepared, it may just fall into the enemy's ambush.

And when Cook chooses to attack, the profit ratio may be like a night attack. However, it is more unexpected and safer. In broad daylight, the dominant side will certainly not expect the enemy to take the initiative to attack. Moreover, the situation outside is clear at a glance, and it is impossible to ambush.

It can be seen that Captain Cook is a very calm and decisive excellent officer. And in the Spike Commando, which is full of muscular men, it is really rare to find such a brainy officer...

Now that Cook has made meritorious service, Marin will naturally not be stingy with rewards. Thanks to Cook's appearance this time, the rebels were suppressed. God knows what would happen if New York fell. In particular, both Albert and his wife lived in the Manhattan Castle. If anything happened to them, old Hoffman would have to beat himself up.

So, Marin ordered——Cook was successful in suppressing the rebels, was promoted to the leader of the phalanx, and served as the commander of the New York garrison. At the same time, the title of nobility was granted to ordinary knights. Since then, Cook has also entered the aristocratic class. At the same time, he also became one of the senior commanders of the colony. After all, the New York Colony now has two phalanxes. Before the successful formation of the Colonial Legion, the leader of the phalanx was considered the most senior officer position in the colony.

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At the end of Albert's letter, he asked Marin for instructions-how to deal with the rebels?

Albert told Marin in the letter that the officers of the rebel army were basically killed, including the loyalists of those rebel officers. Of course, there were also many unlucky people who were coerced and killed. No way, during the war, they happened to stand on the route of the official army's charge, blocked the way, and had to be killed.

Then, after interrogation and statistics, 8,000 rebels, a total of 523 people voluntarily followed Bayless to launch the rebellion. They were all loyal to Bayless and all served as officers. The others are basically coerced farmers.

In the previous counterattack, the 523 Bayless loyalists were dressed differently from others and held different weapons in their hands (mainly soldiers captured from several colonial points and their spare weapons), They were all killed long ago. The remaining four or five hundred people who were killed were purely blocking the way...

After reading the letter, Marin thought for a long time...

This rebellion was too bad,

It also made Marin realize one thing-that is, farmers who participated in the rebellion are different from farmers who have never done bad things!

Ordinary farmers who have never done anything extraordinary are honest and simple, and they are easier to manage. The peasants who had participated in the rebellion were different. In terms of criminal investigation in later generations, they were all "convicted" people and belonged to the key prevention targets.

In fact, most people in this world are in the middle between good and bad. No one is born good and no one is born bad.

"Human nature is good at the beginning" and "human nature is evil at the beginning" are all nonsense. In the beginning, human beings are actually a blank sheet of paper, without the attributes of good and evil.

Therefore, in ancient times, there was an important indicator in the evaluation of officials - to educate the people!

In other words, people need education, even adults. The law can only prevent people from doing evil, but it cannot guide people to do good.

Only educated people will know shame and respect morality. Moreover, it is much more difficult to educate people to be good than to seduce people to do evil.

Educating people requires long-term and unremitting efforts, but it only takes one time to seduce people to do evil...

As long as you take a person with a general concept of good and evil to steal once, and if you succeed and get a lot of money, then this person with a general concept of good and evil can easily go astray from then on. Because, he saw the benefits...

In the same way, those poor peasants were originally under the management of the government and were very honest. Although he is poor and cannot eat enough to eat, he still abides by the law.

However, if they were coerced once and rebelled once, it would be different...

During the rebellion, in order to win them over, the leader would definitely reward them with the stolen wine and meat. In this way, after a period of happy life of "drinking in big bowls and eating meat in large pieces", the thoughts of these originally simple farmers may have changed...

After all, "it is easy to go from thrift to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality." But if they want to continue to live a luxurious life and don't understand anything, they can only rebel again...

Therefore, the peasants who participated in the rebellion are different from the peasants who have never rebelled. Their inner thoughts are already very different.

Then, this kind of rebellious peasants became more dangerous. If they had participated in the rebellion for more than two times, but they were not punished too severely, they would probably feel that the rebellion was just like that... Then, they might participate in the third rebellion, or even the fourth time... …

Therefore, after thinking about it, Malin felt that he had to be ruthless this time. Otherwise, this group of people will be out of control in the future...

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After thinking over and over again, Marin finally made up his mind and made an extremely severe punishment decision - all 523 diehards who participated in the Bayless rebellion, even though they had been killed, their family members were all executed! Of course, underage girls and boys under the age of five who don't remember anything can be spared, but they will be sent out of Colonial New Jersey and sent to other areas to start their lives anew. Of course, they have no future, and they are forbidden to study and join the army. The reason why they are kept is only because the population needs...

As for the remaining 7,000 people, although they are not guilty of the most serious crimes. However, they participated in the rebellion. If they did not pay the price, they would continue to participate in the next rebellion in the future.

Therefore, Marin also gave a severe punishment-all reform through labor for ten years!

In other words, the surviving 7,000 strong men, because they participated in the rebellion for the second time, cannot just be pardoned. In the future, they will be assigned to labor camps. They cannot live with their families like other immigrants, but will participate in collective labor in labor camps under the supervision of soldiers.

As for their families, they will not be punished. However, there are only a few prison visits per year.

As for the labor camp composed of 7,000 strong men, Marin intends to let them specialize in logging and building roads and bridges to serve the construction of public infrastructure in the colony.

North America is full of forests, and it is very difficult to develop them. Most of the migrants started logging at the beginning, and after clearing enough land for reclamation, they mainly went to farming. How could they have time to log? Only when the farming is slack can logging be organized again.

The 7,000 prisoners in the labor camp are different. They have lost their freedom, and the food in the colony is enough to eat. So, simply let them cut down trees all year round, and then build roads and bridges to facilitate the development of the colony.

Needless to say, building roads and bridges is convenient for the people of the colonies to travel, and it is also convenient for the colonial officials to control various places.

The logging is mainly to squeeze the living space of the Indians. In North America, the Indians are difficult to deal with because they have dense virgin forests as cover. But if the forest was cut down, these Indians would have nowhere to hide, and they would no longer be opponents of the colonial army. Without the forest to hide in, the colonial army could easily crush them.

The retreat of the forest means the retreat of the native Indians. Otherwise, on the plain without forest cover, any cavalry team could easily annihilate the Indian tribal fighters.

As long as these 7,000-person labor camps cut down an extremely wide plain isolation zone between the colonial farms and the North American forests, then the colonial farms will be much safer. Because the Indians didn't have the guts to go out of the forest and confront the colonial army on the plains...

This is the punishment for those peasants who follow the rebellion...

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But for those 523 diehards who took the initiative to follow the rebellion, Marin was much crueler.

In order to deter those prisoners of war farmers in the colonies, Marin forced an order-to publicly execute the families of all 523 diehards by the Delaware River! Moreover, all colonial points must send all their strong men to the Delaware River to watch the execution!

Only in this way can those strong men who were born as prisoners of war understand that the rebellion will have serious consequences and the whole family will die!

In fact, the public execution of prisoners has always been an important means of maintaining law and order. In later generations, European and American countries dealt with criminals in private, so that the original intention of the death penalty was lost. The death penalty was originally intended to deter those with evil intentions, but it turned out that you were lucky, and the execution was not public, and the meaning of the death penalty was lost at all...

Especially some young people of two hundred and five, who haven't seen the serious consequences of doing evil with their own eyes, so they don't have awe in their hearts. Don't feel cruel, they will commit crimes in the future.

But young people who have seen several public executions generally calm down. Because they have intuitively experienced the terrible consequences of crime...

Similarly, Marin did not hesitate to publicly execute 523 old and weak women and children this time, just to deter those strong men who had a history of rebellion. He wants to scare the 523 families of women and children with howls before they died, lest they dare to mess around again...