After reading the full battle report, Marin was amazed. The wolf-tooth commando captain Cook was so calm that he actually spent two days observing the location and habits of the enemy commander. He found the best time to attack and then gave the enemy a fatal blow.
The whole process made Marin, the so-called "military expert", unable to find any fault. Of course, if it were Marin, he would probably choose to attack in the middle of the night. Because this is his habit and personality. But this also has a disadvantage - if the enemy is prepared, he may fall into the ambush of the enemy.
The time when Cook chooses to attack may be less profitable than night attacks. However, it is even more unexpected and safer. In broad daylight, the dominant side will definitely not expect the enemy to take the initiative to attack. Moreover, the situation outside is clear at a glance, and it is impossible to ambush it.
It can be seen from this that Captain Cook is a very calm and decisive officer. It is really rare to find such a smart officer in the Wolf Teeth Commando full of muscular men...
Since Cook made a contribution, Marin naturally would not be stingy with the rewards. Fortunately, Cook stepped forward this time and suppressed the rebels. If New York fell, God knew what would happen. In particular, Albert and his wife lived in Manhattan Castle. If something happened to them, Old Hoffman would have to beat him up.
So Marin ordered that Cook made contributions to suppressing the rebels, and promoted him to the commander of the platoon, and served as the commander of the New York garrison. At the same time, he was awarded the title of aristocratic person as an ordinary knight. From then on, Cook entered the aristocratic class. At the same time, he also became one of the senior commanders of the colony. After all, the New York colony now has two platoons. Before the colony regiment was successfully formed, the platoon leader was considered the highest officer in the colony.
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At the end of Albert's letter, he asked Marin for instructions - what should those rebels do?
Albert told Marin in the letter that all the rebel officers were killed, including those loyalists. Of course, many unlucky guys who were trapped in the arms were killed. There was no way. When fighting, they happened to stand on the charge route of the official army, blocked the way and had to kill them.
Then, after interrogation and statistics, a total of 523 people from the eight thousand rebels voluntarily followed Bayless to launch a rebellion. They were all loyalists of Bayless and held positions of officers. The others were basically farmers who were trapped.
In the previous counterattack, the 523 Bayles' loyalists were killed long ago because they were dressed differently from others and held different weapons (mainly the spare weapons seized from several colonial sites and soldiers). The remaining four or five hundred people killed were purely blocking the way...
After reading the letter, Marin thought about it for a long time...
The rebellion was too bad, and Marin realized one thing - that is, the farmers who participated in the rebellion were different from those who had never done bad things!
Ordinary farmers who have never done anything out of the ordinary are honest and honest and easy to manage. However, farmers who have participated in the rebellion are different. In later criminal investigation terms, they are all people with "criminal records" and are the key targets of prevention.
In fact, most people in this world are centrists between good and bad. No one is born a good person, and no one is born a bad person.
"The nature of a person is good" and "the nature of a person is evil" are nonsense. At the beginning, a person is actually a piece of white paper without the attributes of good and evil.
Therefore, in ancient times, there was an important indicator for official assessment - educating the people!
In other words, people need education, even adults. The law can only organize people to do evil, but cannot guide people to be good.
Only educated people will know shame and respect morality. Moreover, it is much more difficult to educate people to be good than to tempt people to do evil.
Educating people requires long-term and unremitting efforts, but it only takes one time to lure people to do evil...
As long as you take a person with an average concept of good and evil to steal it once, and succeed and get a lot of money, then this person with an average concept of good and evil that was brought to you will easily go astray from now on. Because he saw the benefits...
By the same token, those poor farmers were originally very honest under the management of the government. Although they were poor and could not eat enough, they still abide by the law.
However, they were convicted and rebelled once, and that would be different...
During the rebellion, in order to win over them, the leader would definitely reward them with the stolen wine and meat. In this way, after a happy life of "drinking a big bowl and eating a big piece of meat", the thoughts of these originally simple farmers may have changed...
After all, "It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality." But if they want to continue living a luxurious life and don't know anything, they can only rebel again...
Therefore, the farmers who have participated in the rebellion are different from those who have never rebelled. Their inner thoughts are already very different.
Then, these rebellious peasants became more dangerous. If they had participated in more than two rebellions but were not punished too seriously, they would probably feel that the rebellion was just like that... Then, they might participate in the third rebellion, or even the fourth rebellion...
So, Marinsi thought about it and felt that he had to take ruthless action this time. Otherwise, these people would be unable to control it in the future...
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After thinking about it for a while, Marin finally made up his mind and made an extremely severe punishment decision - all 523 deadly members who participated in the Bayless rebellion were killed, but their families were all executed! Of course, underage girls and boys under 5 years old who had not remembered could be spared from death, but they would be sent out of the New Jersey colony and sent to other areas to start their lives again. Of course, they had no future, and they were prohibited from studying and joining the army. The reason they were left was only because of the population needs...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! As for the remaining more than 7,000 people, although they are not very guilty. However, if they participate in the rebellion, if they do not pay the price, they will continue to participate in the next rebellion in the future.
Therefore, Malin also gave severe punishment - all labor reform for ten years!
In other words, the 7,000 surviving men could not have been pardoned because they participated in the rebellion for the second time. In the future, they would be incorporated into labor camps and could not live with their families like other immigrants, but would participate in collective labor in labor camps and under the supervision of soldiers.
As for their family, they will not be punished. However, there are only a few opportunities to visit prison every year.
As for the labor camp composed of 7,000 strong men, Marin planned to let them specialize in logging and building roads and bridges to serve the construction of the colony's public infrastructure.
North America is full of forests, and it is very difficult to develop. Most immigrants log at the beginning at the beginning. After clearing enough land that has been reclaimed, they mainly go to farm. How can they have time to log? Only in the slack farming period, can they organize logging again.
The prisoners in these 7,000 labor camps are different. They have lost their freedom and the grain in the colonies is enough to eat. Therefore, they simply let them cut down trees all year round, and then build roads and bridges to facilitate the development of the colonies.
There is no need to mention building roads and bridges. It is convenient for the people of the colonial population to travel and also facilitate the colonial authorities to control various places.
The purpose of logging is to squeeze the living space of the Indians. In North America, the reason why Indians are difficult to deal with is because they have dense primeval forests as cover. But if the forest is cut down, these Indians will have nowhere to hide and will no longer be opponents of the colonial army. Without the forest hiding, the colonial army can easily crush them.
The forest retreat means the Indian natives' retreat. Otherwise, any cavalry team could easily annihilate the Indian tribe warriors on the plain without forest cover.
As long as these 7,000-person labor camps cut down extremely wide plain isolation zones between colonial farms and North American forests, the colonial farms will be much safer. Because the Indians did not have the courage to walk out of the forest and confront the colonial army on the plains...
This is a punishment for those farmers who followed the rebellion...
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And for those 523 deadly hard-working elements who took the initiative to rebel, Marin was much more cruel.
In order to deter the farmers of prisoners of war in the colonies, Marin forced the order to publicly execute all 523 families of dead and hard-working elements on the Delaware River! Moreover, all colonial sites must send all the strong men to the Delaware River to watch the execution!
Only in this way can those strong men from prisoners of war understand that the consequences of rebellion will be serious and the whole family will die!
In fact, public execution of criminals has always been an important means to maintain public order. Later generations, European and American countries lost the original intention of the death penalty. The death penalty was originally intended to shock those with bad intentions, but you would be fine. If you don’t execute publicly, you will lose the meaning of the death penalty at all...
Especially some young young people who have not seen the serious consequences of doing evil with their own eyes, they have no awe in their hearts. If they cannot feel the cruelty, they will make trouble in the future.
But young people who have seen several public executions of prisoners will generally calm down. Because they intuitively felt the terrible consequences of crime...
Chapter completed!