440 Integration of Europe
In addition to selecting patrols from the collective farms where the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was full of young and strong people, it also recruited a large number of white civilians with good citizenship certificates from the mainland, that is, the 'honest people' in the official records of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
In a matter of months, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gathered and trained hundreds of thousands of white patrol officers!
One can imagine how tempting the position of patrol officer is for white civilians.
Of course, so many people are willing to work as patrol officers for Hong Tiancheng, and the most important reason is safety.
If the Taiping Army recruited the Han Association Army or even local garrison troops with war obligations, I am afraid that even hundreds of thousands of people would not be able to pull out 100000 of them......
Hundreds of thousands of patrol officers seem to be a lot, but when spread evenly across Europe, they are only enough, and those remote towns and ordinary villages cannot set up patrol police branches at all.
The patrols of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could only be set up at the town level.
As for the local security forces and local garrison forces that were originally reorganized from Chengcheng, they were reorganized into the Han Association Army on a voluntary basis.
The Taiping army did not force these troops, because Hong Tiancheng knew that the twisted melon was not sweet, and the white soldiers were not highly motivated to fight for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and if they were forced to recruit again, they were afraid that it would cause a small-scale mutiny, and no matter how bad it was, they fled from the team in anger to join the local guerrilla bandits, which was also a trouble for Hong Tiancheng.
Therefore, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom simply let them choose for themselves, and those who are willing to join the Han Association Army are naturally welcomed, and the salary is one level higher than that of the Patrol Police, after all, the Han Association Army is going to the battlefield.
It doesn't matter if you don't want to, just distribute a lowest-level certificate of good citizenship for free, and then go home and eat by yourself.
However, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has given a lot of preferential policies, due to the lack of a large number of labor in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as long as you are willing to settle in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after retiring from the army, you will enjoy a one-year tax exemption and a three-and-a-half-year tax policy!
Although the European continent where the war had just ended, there were more women than men, but after removing the patrol officers in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the ratio of men to women reached an astonishing 1 to 100!
For men, it is a happy ratio, and the soldiers of the Taiping Army have three wives and four concubines who can't digest it!
But for the government, it's a big trouble!
Therefore, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has rarely given a number of preferential policies, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which has always been very strict in the tax threshold, has issued a large number of tax reduction and exemption policies in order to absorb a large number of male laborers to settle down in the reclamation, which is available in all walks of life, and the reclamation is even more unique!
If it weren't for the fact that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been carrying out sinicization education for many years, so many preferential policies would have been smashed, and a large number of people would have poured into the Heavenly Kingdom itself.
It's a pity that most white people don't want to let themselves and their children learn Chinese, and believe in the Taiping Church that deified Hong Tiancheng, so the inflow of population from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has always been limited.
Of course, for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which owns the whole of Europe, the lack of local labor is not a big problem, no one farms, and it is a big deal to transfer it from other vassal countries in Europe, it is just a matter of Hong Tiancheng's order, no one works in the workshop to produce daily necessities, and it is completely possible to hire workers in other vassal countries.
It was the local whites who really suffered from the lack of local labor, not the Taiping regime.
Just like in many countries in the 21st century, some provinces are rich and some provinces are poor, but the overall national strength of the country has been rising, and while the national strength is rising, the rich provinces are still rich, and the poor provinces have not improved much......
Hong Tiancheng doesn't expect the local economy to bring much economic benefits, he wants an absolutely stable environment in the local area, after all, the industrial heart of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is all located in the Kiev region.
In 1683, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom spent more than a year replacing the loyal and reliable patrol forces trained in the territory with the security forces and local garrisons in the occupied areas of other vassal states in Europe.
Under the guns of the main force of the Taiping Army, the reorganization work went very smoothly.
At this point, the vassal states under the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will only have the armed force of the patrol police, and there will no longer be a separate local garrison, which is also a means for Hongtian to prevent the rebellion of the local municipal councils with too much autonomy.
Those patrol officers are all salted fish who don't want to go to the battlefield, even if their allegiance to Hong Tiancheng only stops at shouting slogans, but if they really want them to take up arms to fight the Taiping army, they will disperse in a hurry before they see the Taiping army......
Or, these patrolmen will immediately arrest those careerists who want to drag them to rebel and send them to death, tie them up and hand them over to the Taiping army to receive rewards......
In addition to the patrol police, the armed forces of the European vassal countries are the regular army units of the Taiping Army.
There were a regiment of the Taiping Army, armed with a small number of Maxim heavy machine guns and grenadiers.
The French vassal also garrisoned a regiment of the Taiping Army, the Maxim heavy machine gun and grenadier configuration were the same, and the German vassals, Dutch vassals, Belgian vassals, Swiss vassals, and Danish vassals were the same as the French vassals.
The original Kingdom of Austria, along with the Kingdom of Czechoslovakia and Hungary, had long since been annexed by the German Republic, and were now naturally part of the German vassals.
However, under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which relied mainly on the local autonomy of the municipal councils, the German vassal states appeared to be very large, but the subordinate towns were mainly controlled by local elites.
For example, the Czechs naturally had the final say in the municipal councils of the Czech regions, and even the national assemblies of the German vassal states rarely intervened.
In addition to military power and financial power, other rights Hong Tiancheng is still very generous, who said that he does not have enough manpower to control all the towns?
The Kingdom of Italy surrendered as a whole after the anti-Han League retreated to the British Isles, and although Hong Tiancheng wore the Italian crown, he did not abolish the Italian royal family, but formed an alternative parliament for the Italian royal family to act as the speaker, and the Italian National Assembly was the only place where the Italian nobles had great power.
Therefore, on the Italian peninsula, Hong Tiancheng arranged only an ordinary infantry regiment without Makqin heavy machine guns and grenadiers.
To the north to the border of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, to the west to the border of the German vassal states, to the east of the Black Sea, to the south to the periphery of the Balkan Peninsula, the Great Romanian vassals integrated by Hong Tiancheng arranged an infantry regiment similar to that of the French vassals.
The Taiping Army was composed of 5 regiments of an infantry division, and the Balkan Peninsula was resisting the invasion of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
This is already the result of Hong Tiancheng's efforts to draw the main force......