Judging by Giuliano's name, Ferris is an ambitious woman. If Marin hadn't promised to fully support Felisse's eldest son Robert in his future candidacy for the Pope, perhaps Felice would have wanted to return to Rome.

In fact, Marlin was very good with the children that Felise had. Robert Marin is sure that he will be the pope in the future, and Ma Yun has also booked the heir to the title of Earl of Dongfan on Taiwan Island. As for Giuliano, he was also made a Uruguayan count, and his territory was several times larger than that of Taiwan Island.

Of course, in terms of affordability, it is Jack Ma's territory that is more affordable. Don't look at Dongfan Island is very small, but because it can trade with the Ming Dynasty, its status is extremely important. Deducting some profits casually is much better than Giuliano going to Uruguay to farm.

In fact, since deciding to develop Australia, Marin is also thinking about which son to give Australia to in the future. No way, there were no airplanes and no diesel-powered ships these days. It is ridiculously far to want to go to Australia from the European mainland. Therefore, it is better to divide Australia out.

Why did the ancient government start to divide the feudal system? Wasn't it inconvenient at the time?

During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the development of the whole of China was not high, and the Central Plains was even full of rhinoceros. At that time, the population was also not large, and the production of food was also small. Therefore, the imperial court at that time could not afford to raise so many troops stationed in various places. Moreover, at that time, there was no unified avenue in the whole country, and it was extremely difficult to manage the field.

Therefore, under the production conditions and transportation conditions at that time, the sub-feudal system was more reasonable than the centralized system. Mainly, it's too far away to really manage......

In the Qin Dynasty, manure had begun to be popularized at this time, and grain production was greatly increased. And Qin Shi Huang ordered the construction of the earliest "national highway" leading to the whole country - Chi Road, which has the basis for managing the world. If there was no Chidao, it would be difficult for the Qin Dynasty to govern the world.

At the same time, ancient Rome also built Roman roads and completed the control of the huge Roman Empire......

In other words, if you want to control a large territory, the traffic problem is very important. Why did Britain not become a global hegemon until the Victorian era in the 19th century? Because steam battleships only began to appear and promote in the Victorian era.

With the steam warships, Britain could smoothly control the core colony of India, as well as complete the control of South Africa and Australia. And before that, it took a long time to go from the UK to India, and it was very inconvenient to manage.

Therefore, at that time, India was entrusted to the East India Company. But when steam-engine warships became widespread, Britain apparently had the ability to directly administer India. Therefore, Britain directly took back the administration of India.

Marin presided over the creation of a steam engine, but unfortunately it was the lowest version of the single-cylinder watt steam engine, and it was still very bloated. In addition, there was a serious shortage of mechanical engineers in the North Sea Kingdom at this time. If you want to successfully put the steam engine on the warship and make a multi-expansion marine steam engine that is more suitable for the warship, the devil knows when.

Therefore, Marin can only engage in the sub-sealing system at present. Especially in the vast land of South America and Australia, which are far away, in addition to the most important Chilean saltpeter mines and some gold mines, it is also a good choice to leave the rest to be managed by other sons alone. Anyway, even if the brothers don't have a good relationship in the future, they are still their own sons. The meat rots in the pot, but it's nothing. Presumably, Zhu Yuanzhang also thought so at the time, so he didn't care about the problem of the vassal king becoming bigger......

In fact, Marin felt that he couldn't use such a large territory, as long as he managed the territory of the old United States in the future, a world power would not be able to run away.

Looking at the old United States in later generations, starting from the colonies of thirteen coastal states, it expanded westward step by step, hitting the Pacific coast, and a superpower known as the "Chosen Land" was born.

Therefore, Marin set up a secret family motto for Caesar and his successors - North America must not be lost, even if it is lost to German territory, North America must be kept!

The European continent is really in turmoil, and it is not able to develop well. Among them, Germany is the most sorrowful. It is obviously a very powerful nation, but it is trapped in the middle of the European continent - strong France in the west, and Maozi in the east...... Austria to the south is its own family, and the northwest sea has long been occupied and blockaded by the British......

Because of this, Marin made a plan to annex England from the very beginning. Otherwise, Germany would remain locked in the shabby of Central Europe. If you want to talk about Germany's only advantage, I am afraid that it is coal and potash in the Ruhr area. Without these two strategic resources, it would be difficult for Germany to rise in the future.

Of course, although Germany's geographical location is not good, the quality of its people is not bad. Mainly, not to be intimidated......

Therefore, if the territory of Germany can be preserved, it is better to keep it as much as possible. After all, Germany is a cultivated country similar to Qin, and it has the best soldiers.

In fact, Huaxia is a powerful farming nation. Until the Han Dynasty, China was a country with strong combat effectiveness, so there was a saying of "strong Han". It's a pity that later Confucianism was monopolized, and a group of half-Confucians tossed China into a cowardly country that couldn't fight.

It's not that Confucianism is useless, but that Confucianism shouldn't be respected alone. At best, Confucianism is suitable for education, but not for others. The most appropriate way to distribute it is to let Confucianism be in charge of the Ministry of Rites, let the soldiers be in charge of the Ministry of War, let the Mohists be in charge of the Ministry of Industry, let the farmers and merchants be in charge of the household department, and let the Zongheng family be in charge of diplomacy...... In this way, people can make the best use of it......

As a result, Confucianism is good, everything comes by itself, and those who don't understand it are blindly commanded, and they forcibly scrap Huaxia in full......

The most ridiculous thing is that Confucianism has reduced China's war capability too much. As early as the Warring States Period, a Qin State of 5 million people could gather 600,000 strong soldiers. In the Song Dynasty, it was clear that it had a population of hundreds of millions and a prosperous economy, but it could only support hundreds of thousands of people, and it was extremely laborious. When it comes to fighting, it is also a variety of losses......

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In Ma Lin's view, the later Prussia was actually a copy of the Qin Dynasty. The only improvement over the Qin Dynasty was probably Frederick the Great's promotion of compulsory education, which made the quality of low-ranking officers higher. It's just that after becoming De Er, the military class was too powerful and kidnapped the entire country, which caused evil consequences.

Therefore, in the current Beihai Kingdom, although Marin encourages farming and warfare and rewards military merits, at the same time, he also cultivates many students among the common people as future civil officials.

At that time, the aristocracy was in charge of the army, and the literati were in charge of the government, and the two sides did not interfere with each other. Of course, the children of the nobility also have the right to participate in politics, but they must withdraw from the army for more than five years, and at the same time no longer contact with the generals in the army within five years before they can participate in politics, and they are not allowed to have frequent contact with the generals in the army after participating in politics. Moreover, the children and brothers of the nobles who control the heavy army are not allowed to hold high-level civilian positions, so as to avoid the emergence of super families that dominate both civil and military. Similarly, the children of high-ranking civil servants are not allowed to serve as high-ranking generals......

At the same time, Marin also adopted two sets of standards for the management of the colonies - the North American colonies were governed according to the local standards, and the civilian system was in charge.

Outside of North America, the military aristocracy was semi-militarized by colonial standards. The interests were also skewed in favor of the nobles who participated in the colonization, as compensation for the loss of control of the military aristocracy over the civilian system of the homeland and North America.

Of course, Marin would not allow them to establish independent vassal states, but territories that were still subject to native control. And what is controlled by the homeland is mainly the subordinate authority and command of the army. In terms of management, Marlin's principle is to let go if he can......

To this end, Marin specially formulated a decree on the division of civil and military responsibilities, but it was not immediately promulgated. Mainly, Marin did not want to expose the situation in the American colonies yet. But when the time is right, the decree will be made public.

However, he communicated privately with Schwarz, Kahn, Wagner, Steindorff and other top generals in the army in advance, and revealed a little information to them in advance.

Of course, in exchange for their support, Marin offered a very sincere return - Brazil......