Chapter 414: The idea of ​​establishing a religious university

Marin is very satisfied with the situation of this cement road. Now, Marin has a carriage with simple ball bearings. Coupled with the flat cement road, as long as the load is not heavy, running more than 200 kilometers a day is not a problem.

On the cement road, Marin tried it. When using a carriage without bearings, the difference is not particularly great when it is empty. But after the load, the heavier the cargo, the slower the wagon without bearings. Because the friction between the wheel and the axle will increase with the increase of the cargo. Oiled ball bearings avoid this problem perfectly. Even if it is loaded, as long as it is not too heavy, the difference from the no-load speed is not particularly large.

In addition, the friction of the "creaky" wheels and axles in a wagon without bearings is too harsh. The spring shock-absorbing carriage popularized by Marin for nobles not only has good shock absorption, because ball bearings are installed on the axles, and there is no noise when driving. In particular, on concrete pavement, the spring shock absorption effect is hardly used. Because, on such a flat road, there is no vibration at all. But the ball bearings have fully avoided the harsh noise of friction, making the car quieter. However, because the ball bearings use butter as a lubricant, they have to be changed frequently, and the cost is a bit high. Fortunately, Marin now has whale oil as an alternative. Otherwise, the carriage used for transportation also uses butter as a lubricant, and the cost is indeed a bit high. Moreover, people in this era generally lack oil and water. How can butter be wasted like this?

Kohler, who is in charge of financial expenditure, told Marin that the cost of building a cement road is much lower than that of brick paving. Moreover, Marin considered that if the cement plant was relocated to Corner Brook, Newfoundland, the cost would be greatly reduced. Why? Because the limestone mine on Newfoundland is its own, as long as it pays the labor cost of mining. Unlike now, your own limestone still needs to go to Hamburg to buy in large quantities, and the merchants of Hamburg make a lot of profits ...

As long as the cost of cement is low enough, Marin can build cement roads on a large scale and get a traffic system that extends in all directions. Because there are no big trucks in Europe, they are all horse-drawn carriages. Therefore, it is entirely feasible to promote cement roads in Europe.

However, if it is a main road, even a two-way one-way street should be at least 4 meters wide, preferably 5 to 6 meters wide. This is because the carriage itself is very narrow.

In the end, Marin decided to build a main road in the future, all of which will build a 5-meter-wide cement road. As for feeder roads, a 3.5-meter-wide rural cement road will be built. Moreover, the main road cement road with a width of 5 meters is 20 centimeters thick as the country road. This is because, in this era, there were no large trucks weighing more than a dozen tons, and the weight of the carriage was only one or two tons. Under sufficient circumstances, Marin is also trying to save cement. After all, the industry is underdeveloped in this era, and there is no mechanical equipment such as rollers. If you get too much cement, you still have to deal with it manually, and the efficiency is very slow. In the case of enough, the 5 meters wide cement road is definitely ahead of this era, and it is wireless.

Even if you walk a large army, a 5-meter-wide cement road is enough. However, Marin intends to cut all the knives on the middle line when building a 5-meter wide cement road. This is to prevent the thermal expansion and contraction of the concrete pavement.

Although, the fly ash cement currently used by Marin has good thermal expansion and contraction performance. However, after the widespread use of cement in the future, it is certainly not possible to use all fly ash cement. After all, the sources of fly ash are limited. The ordinary cement road is definitely the most common Portland cement. The cement-paved pavement must be cut with a knife, otherwise the pavement is easily damaged. Moreover, after cutting the middle line of the pavement, the cement road can be divided into left and right parts, and then the traffic rules can be formulated to prevent the left and right from interfering with each other, which can greatly facilitate the traffic.

However, if Marin came to formulate traffic rules, he would definitely choose to drive on the right. Unlike the British guy, the one driving on the left is awkward. Many people who went to the UK responded that they were extremely uncomfortable with the traffic rules over there.

Moreover, there are no traffic regulations in Europe. It is easy for Marin to formulate a unified standard. In particular, when Marin wants to conquer England in the future, he decides-he must let the corrupt people accept the traffic rules on the right! Otherwise fine!

Taking advantage of the end of spring cultivation, Marin decided to let the construction team continue to build a cement road from Aurich to Emden Port to facilitate the transportation between the two cities. In the future, Marin also intends to build a concrete road from Aurich to Oldenburg and Münster.

In this way, the transportation between several main cities is convenient and developed, which is also conducive to the rule and influence of these areas. Both the Qin Dynasty and Rome implemented Chidao and Roman Avenues, respectively, in order to strengthen their control over large countries.

In fact, for the German region, the cement road is not so urgently needed. Because, the German region is not very big. In particular, Marin now only occupies a piece of land in the northwest corner of Germany.

However, the cement road has a huge impact on the Americas. The Americas are too big, without cement roads, you simply cannot form effective rule and influence over distant areas.

Originally, the reason why the British divided 13 states on the east coast of North America, and they are not subordinate, is because of the inconvenience of transportation, which led to the 13 states becoming independent. This also laid the groundwork for the later federalism of the United States and the United States.

Marin prefers a centralized system because it can better exert national strength. Moreover, for the colony, what the local people fear most is that the colony loses control. Therefore, in the colonies, centralization is even more needed. Otherwise, North America ’s independence from Britain is a role model.

Therefore, Marin had long thought about the rule of North America-all officials were sent by the locals. In the future, all college students will be responsible. Marin will form a university to train administratively capable college students. Then, sent to various areas of the colony, never give local people the opportunity to get involved in the regime, even if they are descendants of immigrants.

Colonial people want to be in politics? Yes, but you have to go to college in your home country and brainwash for four years. Then, after returning to America, they were not allowed to work in their hometown. In this regard, we must learn the Ming Dynasty's hometown circumvention system and avoid the formation of local township parties. As long as the people in the place are not in a group, then there is no threat.

The other is to exercise weapons control over the people in the colony. They are allowed to own muskets, but they can only be inconvenient musket guns, and they are not allowed to use flintlock and clockwork muskets. In this way, it not only gave the colonists the ability to hunt, but also controlled their ability to resist. In the North American colonies, the muskets were too rampant, and as a result, a bunch of militiamen actually gathered into a continental army. At this point, Marin must prevent it. Rather let them be bullied by the Indians than let them have strong force. Otherwise, immediately send troops to die.

Moreover, as long as it is strictly controlled, it is forbidden to import muskets and horses to the Indians. The Indians, relying on bows and arrows, were unable to conquer the colonial stronghold with a matchlock. The matchlock is inconvenient on the field battlefield, and needs to be covered by a spearman. But when defending the city, it is still very good, the effect is not worse than the flintlock.

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To this end, after returning from the completion ceremony of the cement road, Marin shut himself in the office and began to draw up plans to promote the construction of cement roads in the local and colonial areas. In addition, a colonial gun restriction bill is also being drafted. These are the needs of future rule and are also very important.

Of course, what is more important than these two points is not to provoke colonial immigration. Therefore, when enacting future laws, the colonies must not be too oppressive, lest immigrants be rushed to rebel.

In addition, it is very important that the people of the colony should be fooled into place. Therefore, Marin decided to apply to the Holy See to establish a theologically based university in Aurich.

As for the name of the university, Marin decided to make it-Aurich Catholic University. Moreover, this school only teaches theology. The principal, naturally, is Bishop Taylor.

Obviously, this is Marin's plan to allow Bishop Taylor to recruit more disciples, not to ask how good is the study of religion, but he must teach Hu Youxue well.

In the future, all graduates from this university will be the priests of the churches. Even, in the future will be the bishop of each district.

Their mission is to take advantage of Sunday worship to desperately promote the wisdom of Marin and his heirs and the idea of ​​"sacred by the king" to the people of the country and the colonies. .

As long as it is not too bad, plus the timely allocation of rescue in the event of a disaster, to avoid the tragedy of the Ming Dynasty. Coupled with the hard work of Taylor's apprentices, the possibility of rebellion in the colony should be unlikely.

Of course, who dares to spread other denominations in the country, it is appropriate to behead the public. Otherwise, the common people will be fooled by some other denominations, and they will do the killing of the king.

Among them, the most unfortunate representative is Louis XVI. In fact, Louis XVI himself is a good person, and like Chongzhen, he is not a faint monarch. But in order to support American independence, he drained his finances, and on the eve of the Revolution, France, like the Ming Dynasty, suffered natural disasters such as hail, which caused the price of bread to rise. Therefore, under the encouragement of the liberal and Huguenot Protestants, Louis XVI was cut off his head, and he was very sad.

Therefore, Marin will use this religious university to vigorously train Taylor's apprentices and grandchildren to promote himself. At the same time, develop secret police, try to arrest anyone with different religious opinions, catch and kill, and hire professional writers to vilify these people and occupy the commanding heights of public opinion ...

Now that the Pope is Marin ’s father-in-law, is it not easy to apply to him for a religious university? Of course, this is just a religious university selling dog meat. Because the purpose of the religious university is not to proclaim God with all its strength, but to proclaim God and Marin ...

According to the habits of Taylor and his apprentices, when preaching, God is just an introduction to the topic. Next, there will be a large section of Fools preaching Marin's wise martial arts ... to the end, and then preaching the glory of the Lord-well, end to end proclaiming God, fit the theme. But the ones intervening in the middle are all Marin's wise martial arts ... This kind of fooling, insisting every week, against the whole people, unbelief has no effect ...