In fact, Marin is still stingy. The original historical Lincoln, that is called generosity. His 1862 Homestead Law was called a generous one.

The Homestead Act provides that U.S. citizens over the age of 21, or foreign nationals who meet the naturalization requirements, can receive up to 160 acres of Western State land as a share of land free of charge or by paying a $10 registration fee. After five years of cultivation, or for half a year in the homestead, and paying a fee of $1.25 per acre, the land received belongs to him......

160 acres! According to the calculation that every acre is equal to 6 acres, that is 960 acres, and the difference of 40 acres is 1,000 acres. If it is left in ancient China, it can barely be called a big landlord. The large landowners of Sichuan and Shu have more than 10,000 acres of land, which has become a legend. A thousand acres of land is also considered to be the number one. Ma Lin remembered that in the small village of his hometown in his previous life, before the merger of villages and towns, the cultivated land in the village was only 1,400 acres.

In other words, the land given to every laborer who is willing to go to the west to pioneer is about to catch up with the cultivated land area of a small village. How cool is it for one person to monopolize the cultivated land of a village?

It's just that the reality is that those western states are not "terra nullius" as Lao Mei calls them, but Indian lands.

And Lincoln, the dead ghost president who was blown up by the United States, used this "Homestead Law" to kill many Indians.

You know, those so-called immigrants are all going west with guns. And throughout the Westward Expansion Movement, the Americans slaughtered more than a million Indians.

Even, after the American Civil War, there happened to be a large number of veterans who had nothing to do. As a result, Lao Mei organized these veterans to bloody Indian villages in the western region one by one. Men and women, old and young, kill them all without leaving ......

And all this was also done by Lincoln, who pretended to be compassionate and sympathetic to the black slaves......

On the one hand, he emancipated 4 million black slaves in the South, but on the other hand, he created the immoral Homestead Law, which led to the killing of millions of Indians......

How can I say it, this man is innocent of death. After all, the 4 million southern black slaves he saved were not in danger of life, at most they were not free. But his move led to the slaughter of the entire village of the Indians......

Therefore, his assassination can be regarded as a good reward. According to his crime, it is not too much to be cut by a thousand cuts!

Of course, in later generations, Lao Mei is the world boss and has the leading power of public opinion. Hollywood also desperately preached the executioner president, causing future generations to think that this demon was a saint...... It's funny......

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However, Marin is not a good person. Although he despised Lincoln's character, Marlin also understood that this was the best way to take land from the Indians......

That's thousands of acres of land, almost for nothing! How many peasants can resist this temptation?

So, we see in Western movies that those immigrants are going west with guns. The most classic image of those western cowboys is riding a horse and carrying a revolver. When you see an "evil" Indian, you raise your hand and shoot it...... Then, he also peeled off people's scalps to receive rewards...... After receiving the reward, I went to occupy other people's land......

Not to mention these old American immigrants, even Han farmers who are as docile as sheep will go crazy under this kind of stimulation. The most typical example is the development of Taiwan Island by the Han people. At that time, the land on Taiwan Island was all indigenous, and the Han people ran over later.

Not to mention that the land in the western coastal plain was mainly seized by force by the Dutch and the Ming and Zheng armies, and most of the eastern coastal areas were taken by the Han immigrants themselves.

For example, the Lanyang Plain in the northeast of Taiwan Island is a coastal plain that is very suitable for farming. In the beginning, it was the Kamalam people who lived here. Han Chinese immigrants only entered the area in large numbers around 1796, but a few decades later, the Kamalans, who once numbered five or six thousand, were forced to move elsewhere. There is no way, the Lanyang Plain is too suitable for growing rice, and the Han immigrants have taken a fancy to it. Although the Han people are usually very gentle, when it comes to the land, they go crazy. As a result, the Kamarans, who had killed the Spanish colonists so that they did not dare to land, were killed by the seemingly docile Han Chinese peasants...... Not to mention the later "X trench and division of cultivated land", as soon as it was said that the land was divided, the originally weak peasants immediately burst into combat power, and no one dared to scare them. Jiang bald head does not give land? Okay, I'm going to Taiwan Island. Old beauty? I also went back...... When it comes to land, farmers can be transformed into supermen......

In the future, if Marin wants to seize more lands in the Americas, he will come to this point sooner or later. Therefore, the "Homestead Law" must be applied in the future, and it belongs to Marin's retention strategy. When the eastern region is almost occupied by the Beihai Kingdom, this demonic "Homestead Law" can almost come out......

However, compared to the bearded president, Marin still felt more civilized. Why? Because the times are different!

The 16th century, in which I lived, was itself a barbaric era. The massacre and plundering of indigenous people is nothing more than normal practice. Not to mention the massacre of the natives, the religious wars, the same massacre of the Germans. The Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and the Han people were slaughtered like ......

And Lin Dabeard is different, he is from the 60s of the 19th century. At that time, Europe and the United States had entered the age of civilization, and the Geneva Conventions aimed at protecting civilians and war victims were issued in 1864. At this time, Lin Dabeard still made this kind of genocidal thing, and he was definitely a brute......

Different times have different judgment criteria. Just like the Manchus and the little devils, the Manchus slaughtered the people in the barbaric era, while Little Japan slaughtered the people in the civilized 20th century. Although the Manchus slaughtered more people, judging by the degree of barbarism, it must have been the devils who were more brutal. Because, the background of the two times is completely different. A country that slaughters civilians decades after the Geneva Conventions came out is nothing but brutes. Moreover, at that time, Japan was ****, and it was impossible not to know about this convention.

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Of course, those rights and wrongs Marin does not want to comment. Because none of this has happened on this plane.

In addition, regarding the issue of the job field, Marin intends to suspend implementation. This group of 320 surviving old brothers, he does not plan to take back the land allocated to them, but let their children and grandchildren also inherit it.

Mainly, this group of old brothers Marin has different feelings for them. In addition, the idea of Zhitian was only thought of after Schwartz and the others had allocated the land, and the original decision could not be reversed. This interpretation is also reasonable......

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In addition to the issue of dividing the field, the reason why Marin came to Schwartz in a hurry is actually a very important matter. That's – Marin is going to form a police force......

What the? You say that now there are sheriffs in the rural areas of Beihai Country, and there is no need for police?

Wrong! The sheriff system is already a bit backward. Because, the sheriff is only one......

Yes, the village sheriff, often a sheriff in a town. As for how the sheriff handles the case? People are not alone, but will recruit a few local unemployed vagrants or even gangsters to be their own "helpers". Of course, there are also those who ask their own brothers for help.

Then, when the case is handled, the only sheriff in the town, surrounded by his own brothers or helpers, will appear in a majestic manner and scare the traitors and the like......

And the brothers and helpers of these sheriffs are obviously not regular police. Because, the biggest characteristic of these people is that they bully the soft and fear the hard. This kind of person, if he is pulled into the battlefield in wartime, will definitely be held back......

As a result, Marin sometimes recruited the sheriff's mounted police, only the sheriff himself. Their helpers are basically waste......

Therefore, Marin plans to form a police force to replace the original sheriff and a group of gangsters who bully the weak and are afraid of the hard.

And how to form it? Originally, Marin didn't expect it. But taking advantage of the opportunity of the 320 old brothers to retire from the army, Marin suddenly thought - since these old brothers have retired from the army, why not arrange them to go to various places to form a police force?

These old brothers are at least 25 squad leaders, and they have rich experience in military training. If they are sent to various townships and towns to serve as police chiefs, it is completely possible to recruit a group of local young people and train them into a police force that can be pulled out to fight in wartime.

Not too much for everyone, 320 old brothers, each training a squad (25 people) to come out, won't this come out with 8000 troops? Once there is a war, you can completely pull it out and use it......

What the? You say 25 cops are too much for a small town?

Well, there's nothing wrong with that, it's a bit much. However, Marin's real intention was actually to take advantage of the opportunity of forming a police force to secretly hide a second-line unit among the people. When it comes to wartime, not to mention counting on them to fight in the north and south, at least they must be able to defend their homeland, right? In this way, Marin can rest assured that he will lead his troops to fight in the south and in the north!

Moreover, these 320 old brothers are just the first batch of sheriffs arranged by Marin. When the second and third groups of veterans are discharged, they can continue to arrange for sergeants. Marin's ultimate goal is to hide a police force of 10,000 or 20,000 people among the people.

Of course, there are certainly not so many in terms of compilation. In normal times, these sheriffs assigned to various townships will only bring 5 subordinate police officers to the police. However, they can train more people during the off-season, at least 25 young people. When it's okay, only 5 people are sent to the police. When you are a sheriff, you can pull out the other 20 people as well.

And the 20 reserve police officers, Ma Lin also gave a very Chinese name - auxiliary police......

In other words, these sheriffs usually keep five of the most elite members as regular police officers. The other 20 people are auxiliary police officers.

Unlike regular police officers, who are busy with policing all day long, auxiliary police officers who usually work at home as usual and receive supplies from the estate. However, during the off-season, he was recruited into the police force for training and training in combat skills. These people don't have to pay full salary, they just need to give more benefits, and they can get away. After all, they usually have supplies distributed in their respective estates, don't they?

In this way, Marin only needs to send 400 sheriffs out to form a police force of 10,000 people. If you send 800 sheriffs out, you can create 20,000 police troops. Moreover, you don't have to keep it like the 6 major legions. Except for regular police officers, who only account for one-fifth of the number, they need to be paid, and other auxiliary police officers only need to pay some material benefits. For example, the salted fish, cane sugar, canned food and so on during the New Year's festival are enough to send them away. After all, these people were not the old-fashioned citizens of later generations, but only serfs in the 16th century. If you can reward some welfare materials, you can count it as a big profit......

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In this way, Marin can not only quietly hide a large second-line police force in the people, but also enhance the war foundation. Moreover, he hasn't wasted this old brother's ability. After all, they are only about 45 years old, and they are still early to retire. Give him another more than ten years as a township sheriff, and it will not be a waste of their skills (Ma Lin is trying to exploit them until they are old)......