The gendarmerie system first appeared in France, around the time of the Hundred Years' War. To fight the English, the French hired a number of Italian mercenaries at that time.

But mercenaries are corrupt and often plague the locality. The French had no choice but to send his cronies to form a military team by the marshal to maintain discipline in the army, so as not to harm the people. After all, the Hundred Years' War was fought on French soil, and those mercenaries should not be allowed to harm mainland France.

In fact, it was during the Napoleonic Wars that the gendarmerie system really shone brightly. Early European armies were small and easier to manage. For example, an army of 10,000 or 20,000 may belong to several mercenary groups, as long as the leaders of the mercenary groups are told, those commanders will help manage things well.

But once the size of the army increases, it becomes difficult to manage. This is especially true for mobilized soldiers, who are difficult to manage because officers and soldiers are not familiar with each other. Moreover, there are many teams, and coordination with each other is also very problematic.

At this time, it is necessary for the gendarmerie to come out to maintain order, so that those unprofessional mobilizers do not come out in chaos. At the same time, it is also very beneficial for the maintenance of discipline in the modern army.

In short, the existence of the gendarmerie not only maintains military discipline but also facilitates the overall planning and management of a large army. After all, those gendarmes, while maintaining military discipline, are also the eyes of the marshal, who can see all kinds of problems in their eyes and report them in a timely manner, so that the commander-in-chief can make correct decisions.

If the General Staff system can rationally draw up a battle plan, then the existence of the gendarmerie is conducive to the management of the army and the enforcement of military discipline. Moreover, it can supervise the commanders of the various legions, so that they do not form cliques and privatize the army.

Of course, the army of the North Sea State does not have any problems in this regard at the moment. The main thing is that to feed so many troops, you can only rely on local tyrants like Marin. For other monarchs, they simply can't feed tens of thousands of troops. Because of the new agricultural technology, the Beihai Kingdom has enough food, so that those soldiers can not only eat enough, but also eat well.

Therefore, in a short period of time, Marin still does not have to worry about the Beihai State army getting out of control. Not to mention anything else, as long as the army dares to disobey the dispatch and cut off the military rations, it can kill them.

Even if you want to feed tens of thousands of troops by grabbing food, you have to have so much food to grab. For example, the Fifth Army stationed in Edinburgh, with tens of thousands of troops, could only rely on the local transportation of the North Sea Country for the supply of food. This is because the Scottish region is mainly mountainous and has low grain production. It's more troublesome to grab so much food.

However, Marin knew very well in his heart that one day, the secret of the high grain yield of the Beihai Kingdom would be revealed. Moreover, the Portuguese had already begun to come into contact with the Ming Dynasty. Although the Portuguese were originally concentrating on business and did not notice the advanced agricultural technology of the Ming Dynasty, it was the Dutch who learned the advanced agricultural technology of the Ming Dynasty after the island was consoled in the 17th century.

But now history has been changed by Marin, and the Portuguese, under the influence of the "butterfly effect", may not have noticed the advanced agricultural technology of the Ming Dynasty in advance. Although the people of the Ming Dynasty only used manure, which was far less than the technology of "three fertilizers" in Beihai, it could almost double the grain production in Europe. In this way, the supply of food will no longer be a problem.

Once the army at the bottom can get a lot of rations from other sources, then Marin's existing practice of relying on logistics to control the army will be very problematic and will no longer be reliable.

Therefore, it is necessary to establish a gendarmerie system. The gendarmerie is directly subordinate to the royal family and the imperial court, which is conducive to direct monitoring and control of the army, and the role of the generals who lead the troops is monitored.

Its role is somewhat similar to that of the prison army in ancient China. However, it is different from the prison army. The Chinese prison army has too much power, and likes to point fingers and interfere with the command of the generals. In particular, the eunuchs and civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were definitely a scourge.

But the gendarmes are different, they do not interfere with the power of the commander to command the army, but only maintain military discipline. In this way, there will be no constraints on the commander. However, if the commander violates discipline or wants to privatize the army, then the gendarmerie is not vegetarian. Even if there are such signs, they will be stopped.

Therefore, although the gendarmerie is not a prison army and does not have the right to supervise the army, it is able to make the generals honest. Because, their small actions cannot be hidden from the gendarmes.

It is precisely because of this scientific army management system that during the French Revolution, hundreds of thousands of French mobilized soldiers were more convenient to command and better disciplined than other countries.

Then, after being beaten by Napoleon, other European countries also learned the gendarmerie system. Then, the army of hundreds of thousands of people is also more convenient to manage.

However, the gendarmes of some countries have too much power, such as the French gendarmes, which can once patrol the streets and even arrest non-soldiers, which is almost the same as Jinyiwei.

So, Marin absorbed these lessons and allowed only the gendarmes to enforce the law against the military. As for civilians, they are denied the right to enforce the law and can only be handed over to the local police.

Although this increases the cost of manpower, it also avoids the emergence of institutions like Jinyiwei and spies, which endanger society.

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Marin asked Sauer to select upright and inflexible soldiers throughout the army to prepare for an experimental gendarmerie. Its leadership is directly subordinate to Marin, with Sauer as its head and directly responsible to Marin. Later, it will be gradually extended to the whole army.

At the same time, Marin would also mix spies into the gendarmerie to spy on the commanders of the legions, so that they would not cultivate too many cronies and privatize the army.

Just as Marin was busy forming the gendarmerie of the North Sea State, Kohler suddenly held back a smile and sent a piece of information from West Africa......

"Why do you look weird? What's interesting? "There's something strange about Marin.

Kohler stifled a smile and said:

"Look at it, here's the news about the Sultan of Mauritania that you picked, it's ...... Very interesting......

"Puginsky's?" Marin was suddenly interested. But after reading it, he squirted out the sip of tea he had just drunk into his mouth......

"What? This guy castrated a group of juvenile black slaves? ”

After reading the information, Marin was dumbfounded......

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What's going on? It turned out that Puginsky and his 45 Mao fathers-in-law had become the leaders of the thousands of black archers in Senegal. However, I don't know how, the news of their castration spread, and the locals knew about it......

Then, although the local blacks were taken by force and did not dare to say anything on the surface, they often laughed at them in private. Moreover, because of the low level of civilization, the local blacks have a bold and shameless style.

Just like a popular meat saying on the Internet in later generations - primitive society is good, primitive society people engage in ...... anytime and anywhere

These unsophisticated black buddies, in front of this gang of Mao fathers-in-law, what are they doing with black girls, they are often arrogant......

Moreover, many black people talked about Heimei and that in front of their father-in-law without scruples......

Then, the self-esteem of the 46 Mao fathers-in-law was seriously hurt......

"Hmph - the black barbarian dares to humiliate us, we will fight back!" A Mao father-in-law said angrily.

"How to fight back?" Another Mao Gonggong asked rhetorically.

After arguing for a long time, Puginsky, who had been silent, suddenly clapped his head and said:

"Well, don't they look down on us? In the future, we selected a group of black teenagers to train them and teach them skills as successors. But first, we have to 'remove the root of trouble' for those teenagers......

The others were dumbfounded, and Puginsky's deputy, Merov's eyes lit up suddenly, and he said:

"Vola (Puginsky's name), you mean that later our successors, even officers, must be castrated blacks. In this way, no one will dare to laugh at us in the future? ”