Marin calculated in his heart that the 7,000 soldiers and horses in Cuba and Haiti were enough. However, the conquest of the Mexican Aztec Empire required just as many soldiers and horses. Moreover, a permanent residency is required in the future.

On the side of the Inca Empire, on the plateau of the Andes, the temperature was not high. Like the Potosi Silver Mine, located on a plateau at an altitude of 4,000 meters, the climate is relatively cold, and there is no need for heat resistance. For example, Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire, reached an altitude of 3,400 meters, which is not hot at all.

And although most of the Mexican region is also a plateau, the altitude is not very high. For example, the capital of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan (later known as Mexico City), is only about 2,240 meters above sea level, more than a thousand meters below the altitude of Cusco. The altitude difference between the two is more than a kilometer, and the climate is naturally very different. So, although the climate on the Mexican highlands is much cooler than that of Cuba and Haiti, it is still a little hot. The ability of his soldiers to withstand hot spots is not a bad thing after all.

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 goods out, you still have to rely on ports. The harbors are located in the lowlands by the sea, which is not cool, but a pure tropical area in accordance with the latitude. Therefore, whether it is the Mexican region or the Inca region, soldiers who need to be partially adapted to the hot climate are stationed in the port.

In fact, Marin can also train local Indians to act as "puppet soldiers" to help him maintain his rule in the region. However, Marin had some concerns. You know, those puppet armies can be used as overseers, but you really have to rely on them to fight......

Not to mention the problem of their combat effectiveness, even if their combat effectiveness comes up, Marin is more worried. Because, they have the capital to resist......

You must know that in history, San Martin, the leader who led Latin America to independence from Spain, participated in the Spanish army. And the other leader, Bolívar, although he did not participate in the Spanish army, had an even better experience - this guy was Napoleon's retinue and mixed with Nathan, the European god of war...... And Washington, who led the independence of North America, also participated in the British colonial army......

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

Therefore, Marin would rather let the troops sent by the native fight than reuse those "puppet armies". At most, after victory, let those "puppet armies" act as overseers 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 a red line that cannot be crossed - the officer must be from the homeland!

This is the most important thing, even if the colonies have so many soldiers, if they do not have enough weight and ability to lead them, they will not be able to make waves. And it is impossible for an officer from the mainland to lead the colonial soldiers against the mainland. After all, their families are all homegrown.

But this is not absolute, if there is a particularly outstanding soldier in the colony who needs to be promoted, then the whole family of the person who is promoted must move to the mainland, or, to another colony. For example, when I moved from North America to South America, my family moved to South America...... As long as the family leaves their hometown, it is not easy to become a military commander of the resistance.

As for civil officials or something, Ma Lindao didn't care that much. We had to strictly implement the Ming Dynasty's hometown avoidance system of "more than 500 miles away from home" to avoid the growth of local forces.

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Just when Marin was planning the issue of the future colony's troop projection, news suddenly came from Goslar's side - something was wrong!

Marin was taken aback and hurriedly called Kohler to ask what was wrong......

As the chief intelligence officer, Kohler naturally knew what was going on. I saw Khloe with a guilty face and said:

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

Marin was stunned:

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

Kohler said helplessly:

"Here's the problem......"

Kohler then explained the cause of the problem in detail......

It turned out that Kleiman's way of selecting people was fine, but he was too impatient. He drained most of the coolies from the Goslar silver smelter at once, so that the silver smelting of the silver mine was suddenly short of manpower.

Although some miners were urgently found from the underground to make up the numbers, those miners could not adapt to the high temperature environment of the smelter of forty or fifty degrees at once, and the production efficiency could not be restored to the original level at once.

At this moment, the merchants who were waiting for silver, lead, and copper ingots were gone......

The merchants of the North Sea Country are a little better, and they don't dare to say anything. However, the merchants from other vassal states were different. They made a fuss, and in the end, they learned that 4,000 coolies had been drained from the smelter.

Then the foreign businessmen began to inquire why so many coolies in the smelter were drained at once......

Kleiman didn't keep it a secret, and many people in Goslar knew about it. Therefore, the foreign merchants heard that the North Sea State was going to send 5,000 troops to the colonies and capture 100,000 Taíno on the island of Haiti to develop other areas......

Originally, it was nothing, and even those businessmen didn't feel anything wrong after finding out the news. However, when the news reached the vassal states where the merchants were located, something went wrong......

Some of them, the princes of the vassal states to which they belonged, were themselves very hostile to Marin. In addition to their disagreement with Marin's identity, and their fear that Marin would help the emperor unify Germany, they were also envious and jealous of Marin's ability to have the huge Beihai Kingdom, which was also an important reason.

Many German princes who ate and waited for death had no ability themselves, but they were especially jealous that Marin could start a business empty-handed and lay down the huge Grand Duchy of Beihai. Coupled with the previous disagreement with Marin's origin, as well as the concern that he and the emperor were "in the same stream", some German nobles were a little sensitive to the affairs of the Beihai Kingdom.

No, after some princes privately connected and discussed, they suddenly felt that this was a sufficient basis to discredit Marin......

On what basis? For according to Catholic doctrine, slaves are not allowed. Even the serfdom in Germany did not dare to say that those serfs were slaves, but only that they were peasants dependent on the lords. Unlike slaves, those serfs were "equal" to the lords, although they were oppressed by the lords. And the lords can't kill them at will.

Marin's act of plundering the population in the Americas is obviously like an ancient barbaric method of plundering the population as slaves, and it is contrary to the basic doctrine that "God loves the people and all men are equal."

Therefore, those "sunspot" princes of Marin, as if they had found a basis, went around propagating Marin's practice of slavery in his American kingdom, which violated the canon......

Although the Holy See will not really pursue Marin, if those people are allowed to smear him, Marin's reputation will also be stinky. So, this time Marin is really in trouble......