Chapter 1600: Hometown avoidance system

In fact, Marlin ’s compulsory military service in the colony is not the same as that of later generations. The difference is that ordinary militias only train the firing of a matchlock gun and the simplest queue, and do not conduct specific tactical training.

Only after careful selection of elite, will they join in the training of specific tactics and battle formations. Even those elites who have been selected may stay in the barracks for a long time, and are no longer ordinary people.

Why do you do this? Because Marin is worried that ordinary people are too powerful, which will lead to colonial rebellion ...

Therefore, for ordinary militiamen, Marin only let the soldiers teach them to shoot with a matchlock, and the simplest queue. Even if such a person is on the battlefield, it can only be the life of the cannon fodder.

What's more, it's useless even if these people's matchlock shooting is done well. Because, the colony does not produce gunpowder and lead shots! Moreover, Marin also does not allow free trade of gunpowder and lead bullets in the colonies, which must be strictly controlled.

In this way, even if the colonial people had arquebuses in hand, if they dared to rebel, Marin would simply cut off the supply of gunpowder and lead bullets, and they could easily dissolve their fighting power.

Without ammunition, what is the matchlock gun, that is a burning stick!

Therefore, Marin will not let people teach the civilians of the colony to assassinate or fight, just teach them to shoot and simple left and right queue training. As long as they manage the ammunition, they will not be able to turn the waves.

As for the selected elite, they will become professional soldiers. Then, it may be transferred back to local service. After retiring, Marin will not allow them to return to their place of origin. Instead, they will reward them with a manor, or even a slave, and open up new places for them.

Anyway, there is nothing else in the Americas, some are land. There are no problems with the placement of elite soldiers. As long as this group of people is not with that group of fellows, even if something goes wrong in the future, nothing will happen.

what? You say these veterans will rebel? Stop it, the rebels are all barefoot. Marin let these veterans be small landlords. Are they going to rebel? Moreover, after they retired, they were at least forty years old and had little fighting power. As long as they are not allowed to return to their hometowns and there is no opportunity to train their hometown lads, it is difficult to pose threats.

Do you really want to go home? Yes, go home and continue to be a serf. If you do not want to be a serf and want to be a manor, you must accept the arrangement ...

In addition to avoiding the return of veterans, Marin will also implement a system of evading civil servants in the colony. The content is that officials should not serve in their hometowns and avoid the creation of local interest groups.

In the Ming dynasty, it even stipulated that "southern officials are north and northern people are official south", so that civil servants cannot be officials in their hometowns.

This policy has indeed avoided the generation of local overlord officials and has done better than later generations. But there is also a problem, that is-it only stipulates that civil servants are not allowed to serve in their hometown, but ignores the problem of evasion by the officials.

As a result, local officials of local overlords have been eliminated, but the officials in Yafu are basically locals. The clerk united, and even had the ability of aerial civilians. If you want to really stop the local rural forces, you need to avoid the hometown of the entire group of workers ...

Generally speaking, the bully forces and the like must be covered by local forces, and the bullies must also be locals. If you can even avoid ordinary homeworkers from your hometown, do nothing, do n’t be too easy. After all, if you go to work outside, will you protect the bullies over there? Hairless, for no reason? If you do n’t adjust, you may still be involved; if you die, you can add yourself to your achievements ...

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Of course, Marin will not really make the little officials avoid his hometown. Why? This is for cost considerations. Because if the low-income officials are also avoided from their hometowns, it may cause many problems. After all, this is not an era of advanced transportation. Letting so many officials leave their homes has many problems and high costs. Moreover, the officials who are not familiar with the local environment are also more difficult to handle.

To give a simple example, the young official wants to deal with villagers. As a result, there was no unified Mandarin in ancient times, only dialects. If the local officials transferred from other places don't understand the local dialect and can't communicate, what else can they do? Therefore, only after the promotion of Putonghua in later generations would the young officials have the possibility of going to work abroad.

Therefore, for the colony, Marin will only learn civil officials to avoid the hometown system, and will not let the officials also avoid it. As for the issue of civilian officials being jointly elevated by local officials, Marin did not care at all ...

Why don't you care? Because officials and officials did not deal with it, Beihai ’s rule became more stable. If the officials and the officials were in the colony, it would not be far from the rebellion ...

Therefore, Marin is allowed for infighting between officials. Even, will be happy. Of course, we should not fight too hard, so as not to delay doing things.

Therefore, Marin will also arrange spies in the colony to monitor the colony's movements. If the local struggle is out of control, the local community will play a role. The easiest is to transfer the civil servants away and change to another person.

Of course, if the local officials are too powerful, the local people will also find a way to transfer a few, rise and fall, and disintegrate their groups.

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For the same reason, the military will never allow it to stay in its hometown. Because if the father and the father of the hometown launched an uprising, if the army of the children of the hometown certainly did not have the heart to shoot and suppress.

This truth was understood by Marin's previous life when he read "Capture the Bastille". At that time, a great revolution broke out in Paris. As a result, the Paris defenders refused to shoot and suppress it, so that the citizens of Paris succeeded in doing things.

What if they were replaced by foreign soldiers stationed in Paris? What? uprising? Brothers and brothers, fire!

When the soldiers and the people are irrelevant, the soldiers will suppress it and will not be merciless. After all, it ’s not an acquaintance, and there are no worries when starting ... Even if your hands are covered with blood, after retiring, those soldiers will not stay in the local area, and they are not afraid of being retaliated ...

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The construction of Kenton is in full swing. However, when Leilton directed the people to build a house, they left the central area and left a large area. Because, here is used to build a church.

According to European practice in this era, churches were generally built in the center of the city or other prominent locations. Moreover, churches in big cities often leave large vacant areas as church squares.

However, with only 200 soldiers and 800 strong soldiers in Leiden's hands, it is impossible to build a church, and only the prefabricated adobe houses where the common people live can be built first.

As for the church in the center of the city, including the school intended to be built next to the church, we can only wait for the arrival of Archbishop Taylor of the North Sea State after sending his apprentices to ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~.

After all, the church is currently a top-notch building in Europe. It is impossible to deal with the adobe house indiscreetly. At least it has a masonry structure. Otherwise, it is the disrespect for God that will be punished ...

Of course, in order to save costs, in addition to some important cathedrals, churches in general villages and towns, Marin intends to simply deal with red brick and cement.

For example, the church in Kenton, because this is not a big city, will certainly not be luxurious enough to be built entirely of stone. Therefore, first build a local clay kiln, and then burn out the red bricks. At the same time, get some cement from the cement factory in Corner Brook on Newfoundland. Building a wall with bricks, plastering cement on the outside ...

Then, it was painted again with white lime, and it looked white and flawless. A simple village church was completed. Moreover, the building quality will not be bad.

Of course, this will have to wait until the relevant missionaries sent from the North Sea country, that is, the apprentices of Archbishop Taylor or something. Then, the professional construction team will be brought over. As for before that, Leilton honestly took the people to build a low-cost but very practical adobe house ...