The Rise of the European Emperor

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Marin had calculated in his mind that the 7,000 troops in Cuba and Haiti were enough. But just as many troops were needed to conquer the Aztec Empire in Mexico. Moreover, permanent residence is required in the future.

The Inca Empire is on the Andes plateau, and the temperature is not high. Like the Potosí silver mine, which is located on a plateau at an altitude of 4,000 meters, the climate is relatively cold and does not need any heat-resistant properties. Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire, has an altitude of 3,400 meters and is not hot at all.

Although most of the Mexican region is also a plateau, the altitude is not very high. For example, Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire (that is, Mexico City in later generations), is only about 2,240 meters above sea level, which is more than a thousand meters lower than Cusco. The altitude difference between the two is more than one kilometer, and the climate is naturally very different. Therefore, although the climate on the Mexican plateau is much cooler than that of Cuba and Haiti, it is still a little hot. It's not a bad thing after all that the fighters under his command are capable of hot spots.

Moreover, whether it is the Mexican region or the Inca region, although it is not too hot on the plateau, if you want to transport the goods out, you still have to rely on the port. The ports are all located in the lowlands by the sea, so it is not cool, but a purely tropical area that matches the latitude. Therefore, whether it is the Mexican region or the Inca region, some soldiers who are adapted to the hot climate are required to be stationed in the port.

In fact, Marin can also train local Indians to serve as "pseudo-army" to help him maintain local rule. However, Marin had some concerns. You know, those puppet troops can be used as supervisors, but you really have to rely on them to fight...

Not to mention their combat effectiveness, even if their combat effectiveness improved, Marin was more worried. Because they have the capital to resist...

You know, in history, San Martin, the leader of Latin America's independence from Spain, had joined the Spanish army. And the other leader, Bolivar, although he has never joined the Spanish army, has even better experience-this guy has been Napoleon's entourage and mixed with Napoleon, the European god of war...and Washington, who led the independence of North America, also participated British colonial army...

In other words, if the people in the colonies have mastered a certain degree of military command ability, they are likely to become a powerful weapon for rebellion.

Therefore, Marin would rather let the troops sent by the mainland fight than to reuse those "pseudo-armies". At most, after the victory, let those "puppet troops" act as supervisors and tax collectors.

Of course, in the future, there will definitely be a need to recruit troops from the colonies to participate in some wars. However, Marin will strictly control an insurmountable red line-officers must come from the mainland!

This is the most important thing. Even if the colony has so many soldiers, if they do not have enough weight and ability to lead them, they will not be able to make waves. It is impossible for officers from the native land to lead those colonial soldiers to rebel against the native land. After all, their families are all native.

But this is not absolute. If there are particularly outstanding colonial soldiers who need to be promoted, then the family of the promoted person will be relocated to the mainland, or to another colony. For example, if you are transferred from North America to South America, your family will also move to South America... As long as the whole family leaves their hometown, it will not be easy to become a military commander of the resistance forces.

As for the civil servants, Malindo didn't care that much. We had to strictly implement the hometown avoidance system of "more than five hundred miles away from home" in the Ming Dynasty, so as to avoid the rise of local forces.

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Just as Marin was planning the deployment of troops in the colony in the future, news suddenly came from Goslar—something went wrong!

Marin was taken aback, and quickly called Kohler to ask what happened...

As the chief intelligence officer, Kohler naturally knew what was going on. I saw Kohler's face full of guilt and said:

"Your Majesty, Kleiman may have caused trouble..."

Marin was taken aback:

"What's the matter? Didn't he do a good job of picking people before?"

Kohler said helplessly:

"That's where the problem lies..."

Then, Kohler explained the cause of the problem in detail...

It turned out that although Kleiman's way of selecting people was fine, he was a little too impatient. He immediately took away most of the coolies in the Goslar silver smelter, making the silver smelting in the silver mine suddenly short of manpower.

Although some miners were urgently recruited from the underground to make up the number, those miners could not adapt to the high temperature environment of the smelter at 40 to 50 degrees, and the production efficiency could not be restored to the original level immediately.

This time, those merchants who were waiting for silver, lead and copper ingots quit...

The businessmen in the Beihai country are better, and they dare not say anything. However, those businessmen from other vassal states are different. They started arguing, and finally learned that 4,000 coolies had been taken away from the smelter.

Then, these foreign businessmen began to inquire - why so many coolies from the smelter were taken away at once...

Kleiman did not keep this secret, and many people in Goslar knew about it. Therefore, those foreign businessmen inquired about the news that the North Sea State was going to send 5,000 troops to the colony and capture 100,000 Taino people on Haiti Island to develop other areas...

Originally, this was nothing, and even those businessmen didn't think there was anything wrong after they found out the news. However, after the news was sent back to the vassal states where the merchants were located, something went wrong...

Some of them, the princes of the princes where they are, are very hostile to Marin themselves. In addition to their disapproval of Marin's identity and worry that Marin would help the emperor unify Germany, their envy and hatred for Marin's ability to own the huge North Sea State is also an important reason.

Many German princes who were eating and waiting to die were incapable of themselves, but they were particularly jealous of Marin's ability to start a business with nothing and conquer the huge Grand Duchy of the North Sea. Coupled with the previous disapproval of Marin's origin and concerns about his "collusion" with the emperor, some German nobles are a little sensitive to the affairs of the North Sea.

No, some princes, after connecting and discussing in private, suddenly felt that this was a basis enough to discredit Marin...

What basis? Because according to Catholic teachings, slaves are not allowed. Even the serfdom in Germany dare not say that those serfs are slaves, but only that they are peasants attached to their lords. Different from slaves, although those serfs were oppressed by the lord, they were "equal" to the lord in terms of doctrine. And the lord can't kill them at will.

And Marin's act of plundering the population in the Americas is obviously like an ancient barbaric method of plundering the population as a slave, and it violates the basic teaching of "God loves the people and everyone is equal".

Therefore, those Marin's "spotters" princes seemed to have found a basis, and they spread everywhere that Marin practiced slavery in his American kingdom, which violated the canon...

Although the Holy See will not really pursue Marin, but if those people are allowed to smear, Marin's reputation will be stink. So, this time Marin is indeed in trouble... Please pay attention to Weixin's "novel search"