Judging from Giuliano's name, Felice is an ambitious woman. If Marin hadn't promised to fully support Felice's eldest son Robert to run for the Pope in the future, Felice might have been devoted to returning to Rome.
In fact, Marin was very good for the children that Ferris gave birth to. Robert Marin was determined to be the pope in the future, and Jack Ma also booked the heir to the East Earl of the East. As for Giuliano, he also named the Earl of Uruguay, and his territory was several times larger than that of Taiwan.
Of course, in terms of affordability, Jack Ma's territory is more affordable. Although Dongfan Island is very small, it has extremely important status because it can trade with the Ming Dynasty. If you deduct some profits, it is much better than Giuliano's farming in Uruguay.
In fact, since he decided to develop Australia, Marin has also been thinking about which son he would give Australia to in the future. There is no way. There are no planes or diesel-powered ships these days. It is really far from going to Australia from Europe. So, it is better to enfeoff Australia.
Why did the feudal system be implemented in ancient times? Isn’t the transportation inconvenient at that time?
During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the development level of the entire China was not high, and the Central Plains was even full of rhinos. At that time, there was not much population and the grain output was small. Therefore, the court at that time could not afford to support so many troops stationed in various places. Moreover, there was no unified road in the country at that time, and it was extremely difficult to manage foreign places.
Therefore, under the production and transportation conditions at that time, the feudal system was more reasonable than the centralized system. The main reason is that it is too far away and it really can't be controlled...
By the Qin Dynasty, manure had already begun to be promoted and used, and grain output was greatly increased. Qin Shihuang ordered the construction of the earliest "national highway" to the country - Chidao, which had the foundation for managing the world. Without Chidao, the Qin Dynasty would be difficult to manage the world.
At the same time, ancient Rome also built the Roman Avenue and completed control of the huge Roman Empire...
In other words, if you want to control large territories, transportation issues are critical. Why did Britain become the global overlord in the 19th century? Because steam warships began to appear and promote in the Victorian era.
With the steam warship, Britain could successfully control India, the most core colony, and also complete control over South Africa and Australia. Before that, it took a long time to go from Britain to India, and management was inconvenient.
Therefore, India was entrusted to the East India Company to manage it at that time. But when steam engine warships became popular, Britain obviously had the ability to directly manage India. Therefore, Britain directly took back India's management rights.
Marin presided over the creation of the steam engine, but unfortunately it was the lowest-level version of the single-cylinder watt steam engine, and it was very bloated. In addition, Beihai Kingdom had severely lacked mechanical engineers at this time. If you want to successfully carry the steam engine onto the warship and create a multi-swelling marine steam engine that is more suitable for warships, you know when it will be.
Therefore, Marin can only implement a feudal system at present. Especially the vast lands in South America and Australia that are far away, except for the most important Chilean saltpeter mines and some gold mines, the others are left to their sons to manage alone. Anyway, even if the brothers have a bad relationship in the future, they are still their own sons. The meat is rotten in the pot, and it is actually nothing. I believe that Zhu Yuanzhang thought so at the time, so he ignored the issue of the vassal kings becoming bigger...
In fact, Marin felt that it would not be possible to use such a large territory. As long as the territory of the Americans in the future was well managed, a world power would definitely not be able to escape.
Look at the later generations of the United States. Starting from the thirteen coastal colonies, they expanded westward step by step, and striving to the Pacific coast, a superpower known as the "Selected Place" was born.
Therefore, Marin set a secret family motto for Caesar and his later successors--North America must not be lost, even if it is lost German territory, it is no problem, and North America must be preserved!
The continent is really war-torn and cannot develop well. Among them, Germany is the most tragic. It is obviously a very powerful nation, but it is trapped in the center of the continent - the west is the strong France, and the east is the Russians... Austria is its own family, and the northwest sea has long been occupied and blocked by the British...
Because of this, Marin formulated a plan to annex England from the beginning. Otherwise, Germany would still be locked in a broken place in Central Europe. Regarding Germany's only advantage, it is probably that the coal and potassium salt in the Ruhr area. Without these two strategic resources, it would be difficult for Germany to rise in later generations.
Of course, although Germany has a bad geographical location, its people's quality is pretty good. The main thing is that it's not timid...
Therefore, if Germany can be retained, it is better to keep it as much as possible. After all, Germany is a farming and Warring States country similar to Qin, and it is the best soldier.
In fact, China was a powerful farming and warring nation. Until the Han Dynasty, China was a country with strong combat power, so there was a saying of "strong Han". Unfortunately, later, Confucianism was the only one who respected Confucianism, and a group of half-baked Confucian scholars forced China into a cowardly country that could not fight.
It’s not that Confucianism is useless, but that it should not be respected by Confucianism alone. At best, Confucianism is suitable for education, and doing other things is not possible. The most appropriate distribution method is actually to let Confucianism take charge of the Ministry of Rites, the military corpses take charge of the Ministry of War, the Mohist corpses take charge of the Ministry of Works, the farmers and merchants take charge of the Ministry of Revenue, and the lords take charge of diplomacy... Only in this way can people make the best use of it...
As a result, Confucianism is good. It does everything by itself, and even if you don’t understand, it will be a blind commander, and it will ruin China...
The most ridiculous thing is that Confucianism reduced the war ability of China too much. As early as the Warring States Period, a Qin State with only 5 million people could gather 600,000 strong soldiers. However, in the Song Dynasty, even though it had a population of hundreds of millions and had a prosperous economy, it could only raise hundreds of thousands of people, and it was very laborious. When fighting, it was a loss in various ways...
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In Marin's view, Prussia was actually a replica of the Qin Dynasty. The only place that improved over the Qin Dynasty was probably that Emperor Frederick the Great promoted compulsory education, which made the quality of low-level officers higher. However, after becoming the second generation of Germany, the military meritorious class was too strong and kidnapped the entire country, which caused bad consequences.
Therefore, although Malin, in the current Beihai Kingdom, encouraged farming and war and rewarded military merits, at the same time, he also trained many students among the civilians as future civil servants.
At that time, the nobles will manage the army, and the literati will be in charge of the government affairs, and the two sides will not interfere. Of course, the children of the nobles 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, they will no longer contact the generals in the army within five years, so that they can participate in politics, and they will no longer be frequently contacted with the generals in the army after participating in politics. Moreover, the children of the nobles who have heavy troops will not be allowed to hold senior civil positions, and avoid the appearance of super families with both civil and military dominance. Similarly, the children of the senior civil servants are not allowed to hold senior generals...
At the same time, Marin also adopted two sets of standards for the management of colonies-North American colonies are managed according to local standards and are managed by the civil servant system.
Places outside North America are semi-military-managed by the military aristocracy according to colonial standards. The interests are also biased towards those nobles who participated in the colonial period as compensation for the military aristocracy's loss of control over the local and North American civilian systems.
Of course, Marin would not allow them to establish independent vassal states, but would still be subject to local control. The main thing that is subject to local control is the military ownership and command power. In terms of management, Marin's principle is to let go if possible...
To this end, Marin specially formulated a decree to divide civil and military responsibilities, but it was not promulgated immediately. The main reason was that Marin did not want to expose the situation of the American colonies. But when the time was right, the decree would be made public.
However, he communicated privately with Schwartz, Kahn, Wagner, Steindorf and other top generals in the army, and revealed some of the situation to them in advance.
Chapter completed!