The Rise of the European Emperor

In the Beihai National Army, a thousand non-commissioned officers were assigned to serve as deputies in the army, which did not cause turmoil. After all, Marin said hello a long time ago, and many people knew that there would be such a day.

Moreover, Marin also made it clear that this group of non-commissioned officers is too young to take the lead all at once. They will study for years with the old officers who are now promoted by merit, and then, when someone retires due to old age, they will take over.

In addition, these 1,000 people mainly served as the deputy captain of the squad and the company captain, who belonged to the grassroots officers and did not touch the interests of those nobles.

In fact, Marin has preferential treatment for the military nobles of the North Sea State. The children of military aristocrats who were knighted for their military exploits went to higher schools than those of ordinary people. At least, the faculty is different.

For example, most of the schools attended by the 2,000 non-commissioned cadets are taught by small military officers or even soldiers who were injured and retired. These instructors themselves have little culture, and they can't understand many military textbooks, let alone teach those civilian students and non-commissioned officers.

And in the special school for noble children in Aurich city, middle and senior generals are the teachers of military theory courses, and the difference in the number of teachers is not so big.

That's why Marin eliminated half of the 2,000 non-commissioned officers. In addition to reasons such as personal character and aura, poor military theory foundation is also one of the important reasons. After all, the general's lecture and the veteran's lecture are two completely different concepts.

Moreover, when assigning official positions, in addition to the grades, the children of the nobles should also give priority to higher positions when the grades are similar.

For example, this time, the team adjutants and company adjutants are mainly arranged. Generally, those who are assigned as company adjutants are the children of nobles with good grades. As for the civilian children, only a few with excellent grades will be arranged as the company adjutant like the noble children, and will take over as the company captain in the future. The starting point is much higher than those of the team adjutants. According to the difference in the number of people in charge, the difference between the two is ten times! Because there are only 25 people in a small team, and 250 people in a company...

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As for those 1,000 excellent graders who were selected as grass-roots officers and adjutants, the whole Beihai country had no opinion. After all, the Beihai National Army has long been accustomed to being different from the old army. A regiment commander of civilian origin like Steindorf is completely impossible in other countries.

But for the remaining 1,000 non-commissioned officers, Marin formed an army alone, which made many officers jealous...

Those are all "high-achieving students" who have received 10 years of education! Everyone understands being an officer, but what is it to be an ordinary soldier?

Even Schwartz,

He also expressed dissatisfaction with Marin's leaving 1,000 non-commissioned officers to form an army alone. What they are dissatisfied with is that it is too extravagant and wasteful for so many educated "high-achieving students" to serve as the leading soldiers!

You must know that in this era, the literacy rate in Europe is extremely low, only about 1%. Moreover, priests accounted for a large proportion of them. After all, preaching also requires culture.

In such a big environment, every scholar who has studied for many years is a treasure. In some small places, these scholars, even if they are common people, will be hired by local officials to serve as clerks (equivalent to secretaries, or ancient Chinese masters).

After all, in ancient Europe, civilians could not be officials. But the children of nobles are not all academic masters, and there are many more ignorant and incompetent than academic masters. After they become officials, they need the help of educated people. In addition, share their workload.

And it is not without benefits for those educated civilian children to serve as clerks of the nobles. With access to those official documents, they have ample opportunity to profit for themselves. Even the whole family can follow suit. After all, the identities of the people around the officials are also very powerful. If one person attains the Tao, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.

This is where Schwartz and the others are dissatisfied-these are all educated "high-achieving students". Even if they can't serve as military officers, it's not bad to throw them into the local government as a clerk or something. Why waste talents like this?

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Why didn't Marin know this? But the talents trained by Beihai National School are not limited to these people, there are also college students. When those college students graduate, it is the core of politics. Compared with the current official clerks, these non-commissioned officers with average education levels are indeed slightly better. But compared with college students who will graduate in less than two years, it is not worth mentioning. After all, the first batch of college students was originally the best group of people selected from the first batch of primary school graduates.

Therefore, although it is a bit wasteful to treat this group of non-commissioned officers as big soldiers, Marin doesn't feel very distressed. Because, there will be more powerful college students in the future. It would be no pity to waste a few cadets.

Moreover, the grades of the eliminated cadets were not good. It's not all their fault, but when Marin founded the private craftsman school to train common people, he couldn't find qualified teachers, so he just made up at random. Many semi-literate people who can only read and write are also drawn into artisan schools to serve as cultural teachers. It is strange that they can teach excellent students.

But this can’t be helped. When Marin first got the Counties of East Frisia, there were only tens of thousands of people in the country, and the literacy rate was 1%... In other words, there were only a few hundred literate people in the country at that time, and there were no Count the scumbags among these hundreds of people...

And these literate people, most of them serve in churches in the government. Therefore, one can imagine how many people can be teachers...

To put it bluntly, most of the teachers in the artisan schools back then were basically just making up numbers, and their level was extremely poor. Being able to recognize all the words in the Bible is considered excellent.

Under such a background, it is conceivable what kind of students are cultivated...

In Marin's eyes, the previous students are only half-finished products of education and belong to "defective products". Only after the first batch of college students come out and Beihai has teachers with a solid cultural foundation, can the students trained in the future be regarded as real finished products.

Of course, you don't have to be a college student. For example, Beihai has actually set up a technical secondary school for teachers. That is, after three years of junior high school, select the best batch to go to high school and college. Then, the rest went to secondary school teachers. After graduation, I went to the countryside to work as an elementary school teacher or something.

Because they were eliminated once after graduating from elementary school, the group of people who studied in the technical secondary school teachers were not scumbags, but at the middle level of grades. They may not be capable enough to teach junior high schools, but they are more than sufficient to teach elementary schools. Now, the first batch of technical secondary school normal students are about to graduate. In the future, there will be professional primary school teachers in Beihai, instead of just bringing someone who can read a few words to become a teacher. As for the previous batch of unqualified teachers, Marin planned to give a sum of money as severance pay. After all, they will not be used in the future. Of course, this group of people has also played an important role in the education of Beihai State. Marin will definitely arrange a good job and will not treat them badly. For example, it can be arranged to work as an accountant in the manor. Marin remembers that every village in later generations will have a special accountant, who will use the statistical calculation of money and food. These eliminated teachers, although their education level is almost low, they can write and count anyway. Arranged as the accountant of the manor, it can be regarded as the best use of people.

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To put it bluntly, Marin disliked the lack of education of the first batch of non-commissioned officers. In his eyes, these first few batches of non-commissioned officer cadets can only be regarded as "defective products" in terms of cultural and educational level, not necessarily military ability, and may not be better than the scumbags of later generations. It is too reluctant to use it as a cultural person. But letting it go unused would be a bit of a waste, after all, in this day and age one can be considered a cultural person. Therefore, it is very suitable to form a high-quality elite army.