In fact, there were more Russians in this era. The population of the Grand Duchy of Moscow was estimated to exceed 6 million at this time. However, Marin would rather choose to recruit Ukrainians than Russians.
Why? Because of religious issues!
Although the Ukrainians and Russians at this time were both Eastern Slavs and believed in Orthodox religions, the two tribes had different beliefs in Orthodox religions.
The Grand Duchy of Moscow is not mentioned, it is a firm Orthodox country, and most of its residents are firm Orthodox people. The Ukrainians are more complicated because the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is a Catholic country...
Although the Ukrainians still maintained the Orthodox faith under the rule of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, because Catholicism is the state religion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Ukrainians did not reject Catholicism. After all, that was the state religion. In order to infiltrate the upper class of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, some Ukrainians also converted to Catholicism.
The Russians are different. They are Orthodox Christians who are determined to be loyal. After the fall of Constantinople, the Grand Duchy of Moscow became the only sovereign state with Orthodox religion as the state religion. Moreover, the current Grand Duchy of Moscow Vasily III, because his mother was a member of the Byzantine Empire and regarded himself as the heir of the Eastern Roman Empire. Even his advocacy in the Grand Duchy of Moscow was the "third Rome", which made the Russians more determined in the Orthodox religion.
Unlike the Ukrainians who are used to Catholicism, the Russians' Orthodox beliefs are extremely firm and difficult to change. Therefore, Marin was not willing to recruit Russians as citizens, but was more willing to recruit Ukrainians who are used to Catholicism.
What? Do you think the beliefs of Ukrainians are difficult to change? This is too simple. After Simon became the earl of Ukraine, Marin would find ways to send a large number of German missionaries to the Ukrainian region and try every means to transfer Orthodox missionaries from Ukraine.
At that time, do you want to worship? The church is full of Catholic missionaries, who advocate Catholicism all day long. If it doesn’t work for a day or two, what will happen for a lifetime? If you don’t believe in fooling you, you won’t be lame...
Then, Malin learned the trick of meetings in rural China in later generations - changing the Catholic Church to distribute welfare...
Welfare is not very good. During festivals, Catholics distribute food, salted fish, etc., or even Erguotou liquor, and Orthodox people do not... In addition, the church is full of Catholic missionaries... Humans who have the nature of seeking profit and avoiding harm will know how to choose...
It is not advisable to blindly use violence to force the people to change their beliefs. However, without some means, the effect of verbal persuasion alone is not great.
Therefore, on the one hand, Marin sent out the Orthodox missionaries, so that the Orthodox priests could not find Orthodox priests during their week. Later, many people must have fallen with the popular food and salted fish that were tempted by this era, as well as the most popular spirits of Eastern Europeans. There are one to two, and then it will be much easier to deal with...
And Russians are not used to the dominance of Catholicism, so it is too difficult to deceive them. Therefore, Marin does not recruit Russian men now, but is only willing to accept Maomei. Maomei is a woman and is much easier to persuade than men. Even in this era, there is no need to patiently persuade them - domestic violence will become honest...
Although this practice may be criticized by later feminist tycoons, it is not surprising in this era. Not to mention that this era is not surprising, even in later Russia, it is not surprising to beat a wife.
After these Mao girls were bought by Marin, they would mostly marry soldiers in the army. At that time, could the children they gave birth to be converted to Orthodox religion? Not to mention that Mao girls dare not blow up stings in front of their husbands in this era, they would not dare to...
As for the Russian men, Marin has no intention of recruiting them at the moment. At most, he will buy castrated Russian men from Crimean slave traders... Well, he should not call him a man, but a Madam Mao...
If Eunuch Mao cannot give birth to offspring, he will most likely serve as a servant or slave, which will naturally not affect religious issues.
Don’t underestimate religious issues. In this era, because of religious issues, people can fight each other for life. Religious wars are not a sea of ​​blood? Therefore, Marin would rather accept the Ukrainians who were used to the existence of Catholicism than accept the Russians. Otherwise, there would be religious conflicts in the future...
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In order to prepare for the purpose of seducing the Ukrainians to convert, Marin specially summoned Bishop Taylor of the Beihai Kingdom. This man was a big fool and also helped Marin train many small fools.
This time, Marin still came to him and asked him to prepare a group of missionaries who were good at bewitching the people for himself, and sent them to Kiev to fool the local Ukrainians into converting to Catholicism.
In order to facilitate communication, Marin specially sent people to the Ukrainian church to hire German-speaking missionaries to come to Bishop Taylor as the principal to serve as the Ukrainian teacher in the Department of Theology of Orich University.
When the students of theology department of Orich University learn Ukrainian language, they can be sent to the Ukrainian region to fool the locals into converting their religion. Moreover, they can serve as teachers to teach local children to speak German for free.
Bishop Taylor is now incomparable to the past. Not to mention his own powerful deception ability, now he has trained several classes of cadets with strong deception ability for Marin, and was sent by Marin to various places and the army to promote Marin's greatness and call on people to be loyal to Marin.
When Marin asked Bishop Taylor to train another group of small tricks to fool the Ukrainians, Bishop Taylor waved his hand and said:
"Duke, I don't need to take action personally!"
"What? You don't want to help me?" Marin's face changed suddenly, and a dangerous light appeared in her eyes.
Bishop Taylor felt the danger and immediately explained:
"It's not that I don't want to, but that my students can take on this important task!"
It turned out that Bishop Taylor's first batch of students had been "dedicated" to the position of fooling people for more than ten years. 10 years of fooling people have given these Bishop Taylor's first batch of disciples with extremely rich fooling people.
Therefore, Bishop Taylor believes that it is possible to allow his early group of disciples to come forward to train new tricks to complete Marin's mission.
Although these early disciples of Taylor were not as skilled as Bishop Taylor, they had a lot of people. Bishop Taylor recommended dozens of his earliest batches of disciples to Marin, intending to ask them to help with training. Dozens of old disciples each brought dozens of people... In this way, it would be better to train more than a thousand people at a time than Bishop Taylor could only bring dozens of people at a time...
Marin thought it was right. Bishop Taylor alone could not train too many people. So he agreed to Bishop Taylor's plan, intending to reuse dozens of old disciples recommended by Bishop Taylor to help him train a new generation of small fools. But at the same time, Marin also asked Bishop Taylor not to rest. At that time, Marin will select dozens of the best-in-class apprentices with the best talent and give them to Old Fool Taylor to train himself... These people will be a powerful weapon for Marin to appease the people...
Chapter completed!