439 Patrol Officer

"What are these Han people calling us here for? I haven't made any mistakes lately, I've been as humble as a dog and as diligent as a cow in the past few years, isn't that okay? A timid and cowardly white man whispered to others, his words full of grief and fear.

"I see, it's not necessarily a punishment for us, the people who have been summoned here today are all people who have reached at least the highest level, and the Han people still need us to farm and work, it is impossible to do anything bad to people like us, otherwise who will contribute to the Han people?"

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While hundreds of white men were whispering, a systematic Han administrative official, protected by several Taiping Army guards, came to the high platform of the playground, surrounded by dozens of Taiping soldiers in charge of guarding them with Hanyang-made rifles.

This is a collective farm that is full of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

"I have good news for you, you are all excellent performers in the past few years, you have passed the examination of the Kingdom of Heaven, and now His Majesty the Merciful Heavenly King has given you a chance to pay your allegiance to him.

As long as you are willing to be loyal to His Majesty the King of Heaven, you can become a patrol police officer in the formation, what does it mean to be a patrol officer, I think everyone knows in their hearts that after becoming a patrol policeman, you can get free poke at your fingertips, and you can also get an iron job bowl to support your family and get married and have children!

Next, those who are willing to pledge allegiance to His Majesty the Heavenly King will come to the registration office next to me to register, and tomorrow, these people who have their hearts set on the kingdom of heaven will be able to leave here. ”

As soon as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom officials on the high platform spoke, hundreds of people below were in an uproar.

The patrol police of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are equivalent to the police force of later generations, as long as they do not openly act as traitors or rebel against the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it is a proper position of superior rank!

Under the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, white people can become patrol officers, which is quite a face-saving thing.

The patrol will have a uniform issued by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, similar to the black police uniform style of the later Republic of China, each with a bayonet and a flintlock smoothbore gun, and can also choose a cold weapon for self-defense according to their will.

The armament is no different from the ordinary regular army of an ordinary country, you must know that even the regular army of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which is now in full swing, is only equipped with smoothbore guns, and only a few Sultan guards have mini rifles.

Except for the Anti-Han League and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the regular armies of other countries were a mix of hot and cold weapons, not because those countries did not know the benefits of firearms, but because the industrial foundation was too weak and they did not have the money to buy firearms in large quantities.

On top of that, the whites who stayed in the collective farms were prisoners of war and boycotters captured since the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and according to the laws of the Heavenly Kingdom, even if they behaved well in the centralized farms, they had to work for more than ten years before they could be freed.

From a coolie who has no freedom to suddenly become a patrol officer with status in the civilian class, few people will let go of this kind of opportunity, anyway, the patrol of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has no combat obligation.

The duties of the patrol police of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are mainly to maintain law and order and assist the officials of the Heavenly Kingdom in collecting taxes......

Even if there is a large-scale armed tax resistance, the patrol police do not need to sell their lives, as long as they report to the Taiping Army for handling.

It can be said that the profession of patrol police is not dangerous in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

After all, the Taiping army is invincible in the world, a large-scale rebel army is impossible to appear, the European continent has been slaughtered by the Taiping army, and not many people dare to rebel without opening their eyes, and even if it appears, it is a small-scale similar bandit rebellion.

Unlike the other occupied territories, these collective farms benefited from the stable environment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for more than ten years, and a large number of good prisoners of war and good prisoners (the bad ones were either tortured to death or shot to death...... )

Now that the Taiping Army has substantially occupied the whole of Europe, if they want to rule such a large area, it is naturally not enough to rely on the Taiping Army alone, even if the local government relies on the municipal committee composed of local celebrities who have surrendered to Cheng, it is not enough!

The most important thing is that Hong Tiancheng is not at ease with those soldiers who did not lay down their arms after surrendering, since he wants to reorganize the white soldiers who were originally demoted to the security forces and local garrisons after surrendering, there must naturally be someone to replace them.

A large number of young men who had performed well in the past few years were selected from the collective farms of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and trained and organized as patrol officers to be placed in the new occupied areas, which became the main business of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after the occupation of Europe.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire was not an anti-Han alliance on the European continent, the anti-Han alliance seemed to be strong, but it had been fighting the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for nearly ten years, and the territory was tormented by repeated wars, the population plummeted, and those who resisted the Taiping army either died or fled.

But the Ottoman Turkish Empire is different, although the European part of the Ottomans collapsed, but their rule in the Middle East is still very strong, the part east of Constantinople has been mobilized by the Ottoman Turkish Empire with all its might, the Ottoman army may not be of good quality, but the quantity will definitely make the Taiping army unreachable.

Hong Tiancheng could guess with his ass that the war against the Ottoman Turkish Empire would inevitably enter a scorching war.

Advanced weapons do not mean that they can be quickly pushed flat, logistics and the stability of the rear occupation area are very important!

What's more, the army of the Ottoman Turkish Empire could dig trenches and build a deep defensive line to resist the attack of the Taiping army layer by layer.

The Ottomans were not fools, and naturally they could learn the methods of the anti-Han alliance against the Taiping army.

Therefore, if he wanted to attack the Ottoman Turkish Empire without distractions, Hong Tiancheng first had to integrate and stabilize the occupied areas and deepen the foundation of his rule.

Selecting coolies from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to serve as patrol officers, and then selecting a group of mixed-race descendants of the Han soldiers of the Taiping Army to serve as grassroots police officers, and sending a small number of administrative officials of the Heavenly Kingdom system, will control the occupied areas of the European continent from the bottom up.

If the law and order force in a place is not enough, or if the law and order force is controlled by people with ulterior motives, there will definitely be a big mess after a long time.

In addition to the 15,000 regular troops of the Taiping Army guarding the territory, the local security of the huge Taiping Heavenly Kingdom relied on white patrols to suppress it.

The white civilians of the people also gave the patrol officers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom a very kind and simple name - the black-skinned dog.

A lackey who wears a black uniform and works for the Han people!