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Who were the Cossacks? Many of them were Rus' serfs who had escaped from the farms. Because he was unwilling to be an oppressed serf, he escaped from the manor, rode a war horse, and galloped to the vast Eastern European steppe.

At that time, because the Eastern European steppes were very undeveloped, the Cossacks had a lot of room to live. As a result, many Ruthenians (both Ukrainians and Belarusians) and Russians, and even some Poles, Lithuanians, and Tatars, became Cossacks.

In fact, the first Cossack tribe subjects were the Tatars. Because, among the Cossacks, only the Tatars were the first nomadic peoples.

And the nomads have a habit of accepting strong men in order to strengthen the tribe. In order to increase the population, the nomads robbed the women of the farming people, but also the children of the farming people, and raised the boys to be warriors of the tribe to strengthen the tribal force. In the same way, they are willing to accept the scattered foreign warriors who take refuge in them.

So, the Cossack tribes, strictly speaking, were first founded on the basis of the Tatars. After the 15th century, the Cossacks became Slavic, and the Tatars became a very small part, as the size of the Cossacks of other peoples increased dramatically.

These Cossacks, most of whom were nomadic at the moment, were not very willing to work hard in agriculture. Moreover, they had fled from the manor in the first place. If you want to force them to farm, it is estimated that you will force them to rebel.

But how obscene is Marindo? You don't want to farm, do you? It's okay, I won't force you. However, I will lure you to the land with the trade model of exchanging grain for spirits......

As long as you plant 20 acres of rye, the wheat produced can be exchanged for spirits that you can't drink for a year, are you a Cossack tempted?

In addition, Marin would order a gradual curtailment of the trade in sheep for liquor, forcing the Cossacks to farm in exchange for liquor.

Of course, if you trade cattle or good horses for them, you will naturally not refuse......

In this way, through the Cossacks' favorite liquor, Marin gradually transformed them from herders to farmers who were adapted to farming.

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In fact, in later generations, during the Tsarist period, the Cossacks were transformed from pure herdsmen into half-farming and half-pastoralizing groups by the tsarist government. In Sholokhov's book "The Quiet Don", it describes the grievances and feuds of the Cossack villages.

However, it was forced by the environment to change. At first, the tsar ordered the Cossack tribes to go to distant Siberia and the Far East to settle the land. When they arrived in the local area, there was no one to produce food for them. In desperation, in addition to nomadism and hunting, they also began to try to cultivate on their own. By the beginning of the 20th century, the originally nomadic Cossacks had become accustomed to a half-farming and half-herding life.

However, this change has been a long time. After all, it takes a long, long time to change your mindset.

Marin was simple and rude, seizing on the weakness of the Cossacks' penchant for drinking spirits, luring them to farm the land and harvest grain for spirits. When they got used to farming, and then find a way to get them used to eating bread and something, the Cossacks would be able to adapt to a half-farming and half-pastoralizing life.

Then, Marin could not use these Cossacks to help him conquer the Americas......

You know, in this era, there were two or three million Ruthenians, and nearly half of them lived in the steppes of Ukraine, that is, one hundred thousand.

If these people are used, Marin can directly have two or three hundred thousand more cavalry in his hands!

In fact, Marin is not so greedy. Not to mention two or three hundred thousand Cossack cavalry, even twenty or thirty thousand, it was enough for him. After all, the Indians didn't even have metal weapons and didn't need too many soldiers and horses. The only threat is probably that the North American Indians are very strong in the jungle......

How to say, according to the news from South America, the hundreds of Cossack cavalry sent to South America have already beaten the indigenous Indians on the Pampas steppe. If it weren't for their small manpower, it is estimated that the Indians in the Pampas would have been extinct by this time. Moreover, although because of the small number of Cossacks, it was impossible to clear the Indians of the steppe. However, no one dared to approach the colonial area at the mouth of the La Platte anymore. This is the deterrent power of cavalry on open terrain......

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However, Marin would not rush to send the Cossacks directly to the Americas. Because, the Eastern European Cossacks, which have not been transformed, are wild and difficult to control. If they are rashly sent to the American grasslands, it is estimated that they will be released and returned to the mountains.

Therefore, the Cossacks sent by Marin to the Americas were mixed with a lot of German Cossacks, and the German Cossacks were the commanders. Only in this way can you rest assured that those Cossacks are in the Americas. Otherwise, if it were all Eastern European Cossacks and had not been educated, maybe these guys would have built an emirate on their own......

In fact, while luring the Ukrainian Cossacks to farm near Kiev, Marin also sent a large number of missionaries to encourage the Cossacks to convert to Catholicism, teach them to speak German, and teach them allegiance to the Hoffman family......

Of course, there are benefits to their conversion to Catholicism, such as giving out spirits on holidays and so on. Go to a Catholic church and get a raffle ticket. The reward is similar to the reward of "one more bottle" of the drink in the afterlife. Of course, it's not a "bottle again", but a reward for a bottle of whiskey. This kind of reward was not only to the liking of the Cossacks, but also not expensive, which was very conducive to fooling the Cossacks.

In the same way, when the missionaries teach them German, whoever learns it quickly can also be rewarded with a small bottle of two-pot head......

In his previous life, Marin had seen a literacy class in the countryside when he was a child. If the administrative order is used to force the illiterate peasants to accept literacy and literacy, the effect is not good. Many people are forced to go to literacy classes after all kinds of paddling. Sleeping in class is only a basic operation, and women often pretend to listen to the lecture while wearing sweaters or soles...... Even, there are teachers talking above, and there are farmers below who are taking off their shoes and picking their feet, making a mess and making a miasma......

However, get some rewards, and it's immediately different. Rural people like to take advantage of small advantages, if there is a prize for literacy, even if it is just some worthless gadgets, the enthusiasm will be immediately different. Especially those country ladies who love to be greedy for small and cheap, when they see that there is a cheap to take advantage of, it is called a positive, and when they see the reward, they are faster than the old men who can read and write......

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Not to mention that the Cossacks were already fond of spirits, and even women liked to drink. It is absolutely good to lure them to learn German with spirits and to convert to Catholicism. As for the kids, candy is just fine! Anyway, now that Cuba has begun to mass-produce cane sugar, there is no shortage of candy to lure children into learning......

When Kyiv fully Germanizes those Cossacks, and then introduces some of them and sends them to the Americas, it will be easy to use. Of course, the Hokkaido itself can also be recruited. For example, those Cossacks could be sent to Jutland to be half-cultivated and half-pasted. Marin built a lot of Cossack villages over there. Today, many Cossacks have been transferred to the Lüneburg steppe, where many Cossack villages are empty enough to accommodate Cossacks.

The Kiev region and Jutland struck together, recruiting Cossacks and luring them to Germanize and convert to Catholicism with liquor, so that they could be domesticated as quickly as possible into qualified thugs of the North Sea State, and serve as a spearhead for Marin's conquest of the Americas, just as they had helped Tsarist Russia conquer Siberia and the Far East in the past......