Marin thought that the 7,000 troops in Cuba and Haiti were enough. However, conquering the Aztec Empire in Mexico also required the same number of troops. Moreover, it would be necessary to stay in the future.
The temperature in the Inca Empire was not high on the Andes Plateau. For example, the Potosi Silver Mine was located on a plateau with an altitude of 4,000 meters. The climate was relatively cold and there was no need for heat resistance. For example, Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire, the altitude reached 3,400 meters, which was not hot at all.
Although most of the Mexico region is plateau, its altitude is not very high. For example, Tenochitelland, the capital of the Aztec Empire (that is, Mexico City in later generations), the altitude is only about 2,240 meters, which is more than 1,000 meters lower than Cusco. The altitudes of the two are more than one kilometer apart, and the climate is naturally very different. Therefore, although the climate on the Mexican Plateau is much cooler than Cuba and Haiti, it is still a little hot. The soldiers under their hands are capable of withstanding hot spots, which is not a bad thing after all.
Moreover, whether it is the Mexico or the Inca region, although the plateau is not too hot, if you want to transport goods out, you still have to rely on the port. The ports are located in the lowlands by the sea, and they are not cool, but are pure tropical areas that match the latitude. Therefore, whether it is the Mexico or the Inca region, some soldiers who adapt to the hot climate need to be stationed in the port.
In fact, Marin could actually train local Indians to act as "pseudo-army" to help him maintain his local rule. However, Marin had some concerns. You should know that those puppet troops can be used as supervisors, but they really have to rely on them to fight...
Not to mention their combat effectiveness, even if their combat effectiveness increases, Marin is even more worried. Because they have the capital to resist...
You should know that in history, Saint Martin, the leader who led Latin America from Spain, had participated in the Spanish army. Although another leader, Bolivar, had never participated in the Spanish army, his experience was even better - this guy had been a follower of Napoleon and had been with the European god of war, Napoleon... and Washington, who led North America's independence, also participated in the British colonial army...
In other words, if the colonists mastered a certain level of military command capabilities, they were likely to become a powerful weapon of rebellion.
Therefore, Marin would rather let the local troops sent to fight, and he would not be willing to reuse the "puppet troops". At most, after the victory, those "puppet troops" would act as supervisors and tax collectors.
Of course, in the future, we will definitely need to recruit soldiers from the colonies and participate in some wars. However, Marin will strictly control an insurmountable red line - the officers must come from the local area!
This is the most important thing. Even if the colony has so many soldiers, if the officers with sufficient weight and ability are not able to lead them, they will not be able to make a fuss. And the officers from the local area cannot lead the colonial soldiers to resist the local area. After all, their families are all in the local area.
But this is not absolute. If there are particularly outstanding people among the colonial soldiers who need to be promoted, then the promoted family will move to the local area, or to other colonies. For example, if you are transferred from North America to South America, your whole family will also move to South America... As long as you leave your hometown, you will not easily become a military commander of the resistance forces.
As for civil servants and other things, Malindao didn't care so much. He had to strictly implement the Ming Dynasty's "more than 500 miles away from home" avoidance system, which would prevent local forces from growing up.
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Just as Marin was planning the issue of the deployment of troops in the future colony, news suddenly came from Goslar - something happened!
Marin was shocked and quickly called Kohler to ask what was wrong...
As the chief intelligence officer, Kohler naturally knew what was going on. Kohler said with guilt:
"Your Majesty, Clayman may be in trouble..."
Marin was stunned:
"What's wrong? Didn't he do a good job of picking people before?"
Kohler said helplessly:
"The problem lies here..."
Then, Kohler explained the cause of the problem in detail...
It turned out that although Kleiman's way of selecting people was fine, he was too impatient. He took away most of the coolies from the Goslar Silver Mine Smelter, making the silver smelting of the silver mine suddenly lacked manpower.
Although some miners were urgently found from the underground to make up the numbers, those miners could not adapt to the high temperature environment of the smelter forty or fifty degrees at once, and their production efficiency could not be restored to the original level at once.
At this moment, the merchants who were waiting to ask for silver, lead blocks and copper ingots were no longer doing it...
The merchants from Beihai Country were a little better and didn't dare to say anything. However, those merchants from other vassal states were different. They started to make trouble and finally learned that 4,000 coolies were taken away by the smelter.
Then, these foreign merchants began to inquire why they drew so many coolies from smelters in one go...
Kleiman did not keep this matter secret, and many people in Goslar knew about it. So, the foreign merchants learned that the North Sea Kingdom was going to send 5,000 troops to the colonies and arrested 100,000 Taino people on Haiti to develop other regions...
Originally, this was nothing. Even the merchants found out about this news and didn't think there was anything wrong. However, after the news was sent back to the vassal state where the merchants were located, there was a problem...
Some of them, the princes of the vassal states where they are, are very hostile to Marin. In addition to their disagreement in identity and concerns about Marin and their envy, jealousy and hatred of Marin for the great Beihai Kingdom.
Many German princes who were scattered and waited to die were incapable of their ability, but they were particularly jealous of Marin's ability to start a business empty-handed and conquered the huge North Sea Duchy. In addition to their previous disagreement with Marin's origin and concerns about his "involving things with the emperor", some German nobles were somewhat sensitive to the affairs of the North Sea Kingdom.
After some princes connected and discussed privately, they suddenly felt that this was a basis that was enough to discredit Marin...
What is the basis? Because according to Catholic doctrine, slaves are not allowed. Even if the German serfdom is incompetent, they dare not say that those serfs are slaves, but they are farmers who depend on the lord. Unlike slaves, although those serfs are heavily exploited by the lord, they are "equal" with the lord in terms of doctrine. And the lord cannot kill them at will.
Marin's act of plundering the population in the Americas was obviously like an ancient barbaric means of plundering the population as slaves, and it violated the basic doctrine of "God loves the people and everyone is equal."
Therefore, those Marin's "black-spoken" princes seemed to have found a basis and spread everywhere that Marin was engaged in slavery in his American kingdom, which violated the rules...
Chapter completed!