In fact, the compulsory military service system that Marin practiced in the colonies was different from the compulsory military service system in later generations. The difference is that ordinary militiamen train only arquebus shooting and the simplest queues, and do not conduct specific tactical training.

Only the elite who have been carefully selected will join the training of specific tactics and battle formations. Even, those selected elites may have to stay in the barracks for a long time in the future, and they are no longer ordinary people.

Why? Because Marin is worried that ordinary people are too powerful, it will lead to a rebellion in the colony......

So, for the ordinary militia, Marin had only the soldiers teach them to shoot with arquebuses, and the simplest queues. Such a person, even if he is pulled into the battlefield, is only the life of cannon fodder, and he cannot be an elite.

What's more, even if these people practice arquebus shooting skills well, it is useless. Because, the colonies do not produce gunpowder and lead bullet! Moreover, Marin did not allow the colonies to trade gunpowder and lead bullet freely, which must be strictly controlled.

In this way, even if the colonists had arquebuses in their hands, if they dared to rebel, Marin would only need to cut off the supply of gunpowder and lead bullets, and their combat effectiveness could be easily dissolved.

Without ammunition, what is an arquebus, it's a burning stick!

Therefore, Marin would not let the civilians of the colony be taught assassination and combat or anything, but would teach them shooting and simple left-right queue training. As long as they take care of the ammunition, they can't make waves.

As for the selected elites, they will become professional soldiers. Then, it may be transferred back to the home country to serve. After retiring, Marin will not allow them to return to their place of origin. Rather, they would be rewarded with estates, and even slaves, and they would be given new places to live.

Anyway, there is nothing else in the Americas, and there is land. There is no problem in placing elite retired soldiers. As long as these people don't stay with those fellows, even if something happens in the future, nothing will happen.

What the? You say these veterans will rebel? Don't make a fuss, the rebels are barefoot. Marin made these veterans small landlords, and they were going to rebel when they were too late? Moreover, after they retired, they were at least forty years old and had no combat effectiveness. As long as they are not allowed to return to their hometowns, and there is no opportunity to train the boys in their hometowns, it is difficult to pose a threat.

Do you really want to go back home? Yes, go back to your hometown and continue to be a serf. If you don't want to be a serf and want to be a manor owner, you have to accept the arrangement......

In addition to preventing veterans from returning home, Marin also introduced a system of civilian avoidance in the colonies. The content is that officials are not allowed to serve in their own hometowns, so as to avoid the creation of local interest groups.

During the Ming Dynasty, it was even stipulated that "southerners are officials in the north, and northerners are in the south", so that civil officials could not be officials in their hometowns.

This policy did avoid the emergence of local overlord officials, and it did better than later generations. But there is also a problem, that is, it only stipulates that civil officials are not allowed to serve in their hometowns, but ignores the problem of avoiding minor officials.

As a result, the local overlord officials were eliminated, but the officials in the government were basically locals. Together, these officials have the ability to override foreign civil officials. In order to truly stop the local local forces, it is necessary for the entire group of workers to avoid their hometowns......

Generally speaking, the bully force or something, there must be a local local force on it, and the bully must also be a local. If you can really avoid your hometown and sweep away gangsters or something, don't be too easy. After all, when you go to work in the field, will you protect the bullies over there? No relatives and no reason, hair protection? If you don't organize it, you may also be affected; If you die, you can still add to your achievements......

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Of course, Marin won't really make the little officials avoid their hometowns. Why? This is for cost reasons. Because, if you let the low-income officials avoid their hometowns, then it may cause a lot of problems. After all, this is not the era of transportation in later generations. Leaving so many officials from their homes is a lot of problems and very costly. Moreover, it is also difficult for small officials who are not familiar with the local environment to do things.

As a simple example, the clerk has to deal with the villagers. As a result, there was no unified Mandarin in ancient times, only dialects. If the officials transferred from other places don't understand the local dialect and can't communicate, what else can they talk about? Therefore, only after the promotion of Mandarin in later generations did it be possible for the officials to go to work in other places.

Therefore, for the colony, Marin will only learn the system of civilian officials avoiding their hometowns, and will not let the officials also avoid them. As for the issue of civil officials being jointly elevated by local officials, Marin didn't care at all......

Why don't you care? Because officials and petty officials did not deal with each other, the rule of the Beihai Kingdom became more stable. If officials and petty officials had been in the colony, they would not be far from rebellion......

Therefore, infighting between officials, Marin is allowed. Even, will be happy. Of course, you can't fight too hard, so as not to delay your work.

Therefore, Marin will also arrange spies in the colony to monitor the colony's movements. If the local struggle gets out of control, the local will play the board. The simplest thing is to transfer the civil officials and replace them with a different person.

Of course, if the local officials are too powerful, the local government will also find a way to transfer a few, rise and fall secretly, and disintegrate their groups.

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In the same way, the army is never allowed to be stationed in the homeland. Because, if the fathers and elders of the hometown launch an uprising, if it is an army composed of the children of the hometown, they will definitely not be able to bear to shoot and suppress it.

This truth was understood by Marin in his previous life when he read "The Storming of the Bastille". At that time, the Great Revolution broke out in Paris, but the defenders of Paris refused to shoot and suppress it, so that the citizens of Paris succeeded in doing things.

What if it were a foreigner soldier stationed in Paris? What? Uprising? It's not the hometown fathers, brothers, open fire!

When the soldiers and the people are people who have nothing to do with each other, the soldiers will not show mercy when they suppress them. After all, they are not acquaintances, so they have no scruples about starting...... Even if their hands are covered in blood, after they retire, those soldiers will not stay in the local area, and they are not afraid of reprisals......

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The construction of Kenton is in full swing. However, when Railton directed the people to build houses, he left the central area behind, leaving a large area. Because, this is to be used to build a church.

According to European practice at this time, churches were generally built in the center of the city or in other prominent locations. Moreover, churches in large cities often leave large open spaces as church squares.

However, at present, Railton only has 200 soldiers and 800 strong men in his hands, and it is impossible to build a church, so he can only build a version of the adobe house where the common people live first.

As for the church in the center of the city, including the school that was planned to be built next to the church, it could only wait for the arrival of the disciples sent by the Archbishop Taylor of the Beihai Kingdom to gather a group of craftsmen to come and build the church and school.

After all, churches are the most important buildings in Europe today, and they cannot be dealt with with in a so-so adobe house, at least they must be made of masonry. Otherwise, it is disrespectful to God, and it is punishable......

Of course, in order to save costs, except for some important cathedrals, the churches of ordinary villages and towns, Marin intends to use red bricks and cement to deal with them simply.

For example, the church in Kenton, because it is not a big city, is certainly not so extravagant as to be built entirely of stone. So, first build a clay kiln in the local area, and then burn red bricks. In the meantime, get some cement from the cement factory in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland. Build the walls with bricks and plaster the outside with cement......

Then, the exterior was painted again with white lime to look flawless, and a simple village church was completed. Moreover, the quality of the construction will not be bad.

Of course, this will have to wait until the relevant missionaries are sent from the North Sea Country, that is, the disciples and grandchildren of Archbishop Taylor. Then, a professional construction team will be brought over. Until then, Railton was honestly leading the people to build low-cost but practical adobe houses......