After reading the entire battle report, Marin was amazed. The entire Wolf Fang Commando Captain Cook was so calm that he actually spent two days observing the location and habits of the enemy commander. Stunned to find the best time to strike, and then deliver a fatal blow to the enemy.

The whole process made Marin, the so-called "military expert", unable to find any fault. Of course, if it were Marin, it was estimated that he would choose to attack in the middle of the night. Because, this is his habit, his personality. But there is a downside to this, and if the enemy is prepared, he may fall into an enemy ambush.

And the time Cook chooses to attack, the benefit ratio may be like a night attack. However, it is more unexpected and safer. In broad daylight, the dominant side will certainly not expect the enemy to take the initiative. Moreover, the situation outside is clear at a glance, and it is impossible to ambush at all.

It can be seen that Captain Cook is a very calm and decisive officer. And in the wolf-tooth commando team full of muscular men, it is really rare to find such a smart officer......

Now that Cook has made a meritorious service, Marin will naturally not be stingy with rewards. Thanks to Cook's rise this time, the rebels were suppressed. If New York falls, God knows what will happen. In particular, Albert and his wife live in Manhattan Castle. If something happened to them, old Hoffman would have to beat himself up.

As a result, Marin ordered Cook to take credit for suppressing the rebels, promoted to phalanx leader, and served as the commander of the New York garrison. At the same time, the title of nobility was awarded to ordinary knights. Since then, Cook has also stepped into the aristocracy. At the same time, he also became one of the senior commanders of the colony. After all, now the New York colony is on the formation of two phalanxes. Until the Colony Legion was formed, the Phalanx Commander was considered the most senior officer in the Colony.

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At the end of Albert's letter, he asked Marin what to do with the rebels.

In the letter, Albert told Marin that most of the rebel officers had been killed, including those who were die-hards. Of course, there are also many unlucky people who have been coerced to be killed. There was no way, when the war was fought, they happened to be standing on the route of the charge of the officers and soldiers, blocked the way, and had to be killed.

Then, after interrogation and statistics, it was found that the 8,000 rebels, a total of 523 people, voluntarily followed Bayles to launch a rebellion, and they were all die-hard loyalists of Bayles, and they all held the position of officers. The others, on the other hand, are basically coerced farmers.

In the previous counterattack, the 523 Baylors diehards had already been killed because they were dressed differently from others and had different weapons in their hands (mainly soldiers captured from several colonies and spare weapons for the soldiers). And the rest of the four or five hundred people who were killed were purely in the way......

After reading the letter, Marin thought about it for a long time......

This rebellion was too bad, and it also made Marin realize one thing, that is, the peasants who participated in the rebellion were different from the peasants who had never done anything bad!

Ordinary peasants who have never done anything out of the ordinary are honest and honest, and they are relatively easy to manage. The peasants who participated in the rebellion were different, and in the terminology of later criminal investigations, they were all "people with criminal records" and belonged to the key targets of prevention.

In fact, most people in this world are middle-of-the-road between good and bad. No one is born good, and no one is born bad.

"The original nature of human beings is good" and "the original nature of human beings are evil" are particularly nonsense, and people are actually a blank sheet of paper at the beginning, without the attributes of good and evil.

Therefore, in ancient times, there was an important indicator for the evaluation of officials to educate the people!

In other words, people need to be educated, even adults. The law can only organize people to do evil, but it cannot lead people to good.

Only those who have been educated will know shame and respect morality. Moreover, it is much more difficult to educate people to do good than to tempt them to do evil.

It takes a long and unremitting effort to educate people, but it only takes one time to lure people to do evil......

As long as you take a person with an average concept of good and evil to steal it once, and you get it and you get a lot of money, then this person who is brought with an average concept of good and evil will easily go astray from now on. Because, he saw the benefits......

In the same way, those poor peasants, who were originally under the management of the government, were very honest. Although he is poor and does not have enough to eat, he still abides by the law.

However, if they have been coerced once and rebelled once, it will be different......

When rebelling, in order to win them over, the leader will definitely reward them with the wine and meat they have stolen. In this way, after a happy life of "drinking wine in a big bowl and eating meat in a big piece", the thinking of these originally simple peasants may have changed......

After all, "it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift". But if they want to continue to live a luxurious life, they don't know anything, so they can only rebel again......

Therefore, the peasants who participated in the rebellion are different from the peasants who have never rebelled. Their inner thoughts have been very different.

Then, the peasants, who had rebelled, became more dangerous. If they had participated in more than two rebellions and had not been punished too severely, they would probably have felt that the rebellion was just like that...... Then they may take part in a third rebellion, or even a fourth......

So, Ma Lin thought about it and felt that he had to be ruthless this time. Otherwise, these people will not be able to manage it in the future......

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After thinking about it for a while, Marin finally made up his mind and made an extremely severe punishment decision to all the 523 diehards who participated in the Bayless rebellion, even if they have all been killed, but their families will all be executed! Of course, underage girls and unremembered boys under the age of five were spared death, but they were sent out of the New Jersey colony and sent to another area to start their lives anew. Of course, they have no future, and they are also forbidden to study and join the army. They are kept only because the population needs ......

As for the remaining 7,000 people, although they are not the most heinous. However, they participated in the rebellion, and if they did not pay the price, they would continue to participate in the next rebellion in the future.

Therefore, Marin also gave a severe punishment of ten years of labor reform!

In other words, the surviving 7,000 strong men could not be pardoned because they participated in the rebellion for the second time. Later, they will be placed in labor camps, where they will not live with their families like other immigrants, but will participate in collective labor in the camps under the supervision of soldiers.

As for their families, they will not be punished. However, there are only a few opportunities to visit prison each year.

The 7,000-strong labor camp was intended to be used by Marin to specialize in logging and building roads and bridges to serve the construction of public infrastructure in the colony.

North America is full of forests, which can be difficult to develop. At most, most of the immigrants start to cut wood, and when they clear enough land for reclamation, they are mainly busy farming, so how can they have time to cut down again? Only when the farming is not working, can it be organized to cut wood again.

The 7,000 prisoners in the labor camp were different, they lost their freedom, and the colony had enough food to eat. So, just let them cut down trees all year round, and then build roads and bridges to facilitate the development of the colony.

Needless to say, the construction of roads and bridges was convenient for the people of the colony to travel, and it was also convenient for the colonial officials to control the localities.

Logging, on the other hand, is mainly to squeeze the living space of the Indians. In North America, the Indians were difficult because they had dense primeval forests as cover. But if the forest is cut down, these Indians will have nowhere to hide, and they will no longer be a match for the colonial army. Without the forest to hide, the colonial army could easily crush them.

The retreat of the forest means the retreat of the indigenous Indians. Otherwise, on the plains without forest cover, any cavalry team can easily annihilate the Indian tribal warriors.

As long as the 7,000-strong labor camp carved out an extremely wide plain separation zone between the colonial farms and the forests of North America, the colonial farms would be much safer. Because the Indians did not have the courage to go out of the forest and face off against the colonial army on the plains......

This was a punishment for the peasants who followed the rebellion......

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And for the 523 diehards who took the initiative to follow the rebellion, Ma Linke was much more cruel.

In order to deter the prisoner of war peasants in the colony, Marin forcibly ordered the public execution of the families of all 523 diehards on the banks of the Delaware River! Moreover, all colonies must be staffed with strong men to go to the Delaware River to watch the execution!

Only in this way can those strong men who were born as prisoners of war understand that the consequences of rebellion are serious and that the whole family will die!

In fact, public executions of prisoners have always been an important means of maintaining law and order. In later generations, European and American countries brain-dead and privately dealt with criminals, and only then did they lose the original intention of the death penalty. The death penalty was originally intended to deter those who were not right-minded, but it turned out that you would not be executed in public, and the meaning of the death penalty would be lost at all......

In particular, some young people of two hundred and five years did not see the serious consequences of doing evil with their own eyes, and they did not have reverence in their hearts. If you don't feel the cruelty, they will do things in the future.

But young people who have seen a few public executions of prisoners generally calm down. Because, they have intuitively felt the terrible fate of crime......

Similarly, Ma Lin did not hesitate to publicly execute 523 old and weak women and children this time, just to deter those strong men who had a history of rebellion. He wants to use the screams of the 523 women and children before they die to scare them fiercely, so that they will not dare to mess with them in the future......