"Your Majesty, it's all for Kleiman to be reckless! If he could take away people in batches and prevent the silver mineral production from fluctuating, there wouldn't be such a thing..." Kohler said with some shame.
Marin was indeed a little unhappy, but he also knew that it was meaningless to hold him accountable at this time. Moreover, from the process, Kleiman was not a big mistake, at most he was not doing things in a close relationship. But the problem was that he had not told him to keep it secret before...
Therefore, it is really impossible to hold Kleiman accountable. He also has to hold him accountable. Of course, although he is not held accountable, Kleiman's contribution this time is gone.
After learning about Marin's attitude, Kohler also breathed a sigh of relief. After all, Klein is his younger brother, so it doesn't matter if his credit is lost. He and Kahn will help him make contributions in the future. But if he is punished, it will be affected. A bad stain on the file will leave you, and even if you make contributions in the future, you will easily be questioned. A cold treatment method like Marin is actually a good ending for Klein.
In fact, Marin did not pursue it because of Kahn and Kohler's sake. After all, Kleiman did not make a mistake on purpose. If he tried another person, he would have to take the blame for the monarch even if he was right. Just like Qin Hui, he took the blame for Emperor Gaozong of Song for 800 years...
If Beihai Kingdom is a country that intends to close the door and play with it on its own, Marin could actually ignore these rumors. Anyway, no one can do anything to him with the support of the Holy See. After all, if you want to punish or condemn the rules of the canon, only the Holy See has this right. No matter how others jump around, it is useless.
However, the Beihai Kingdom of Marin needed to recruit immigrants from all over the country and to recruit mountain citizens from the southern region to serve as soldiers. Therefore, Marin cannot ignore this slander and must take countermeasures. In the words of later generations, this is called "crisis public relations". This kind of public relations is generally common when celebrities are exposed to black information, and is generally completed by a professional team.
Of course, the crisis public relations in this era are not that complicated and not that convenient. The simplest way to deal with it is to put a legal and reasonable "coat" for the arrest of the Tylenol labor force, and then make a big publicity.
To this end, Marin summoned all the civil officials and military officials under his command to discuss countermeasures. In terms of civil officials, Prime Minister Jeffrey, Deputy Prime Minister Mikel (formerly the Prime Minister of Denmark), Prime Minister and Governor Heidel of Oldenburg, and Governor Machiavelli, who was recruited from Italy in the Munster area, were also recruited by Marin to discuss matters because he was not far from Orich. In terms of military officials, Schwartz, Stad and Wagner were of course the main. In addition, Kohler and Sauer, who were in charge of intelligence, also attended, plus Kahn, who was the mascot...
At the meeting, Jeffrey made the first speech:
"This is nothing to say, just to recruit farmers in the territory (the beautification name for serfs). It is firmly denied that it is to capture slaves!"
Mikel shook his head and said:
"If you say this, I'm afraid others won't believe it, but it will cause more criticism."
As the former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark, Mikel has rich experience in handling similar matters. He knows that unilateral explanations are useless for such rumors. Once someone doubts you, he will not listen to your one-sided remarks at all. Unless there is an official proof that it is OK to prove that the matter is fine.
But in later generations, even if the official refutes rumors, it is useless. Conspiracy theorists will always find all kinds of weird reasons to say that this is something to cover up. In short, the black man will never listen to your explanation for his life.
Fortunately, there is no such brainless black man in this era. Moreover, there is no illegal place like the Internet for black man to play. Basically, as long as there is an official investigation, the rumors can be denied.
But the question is, how to get the results of the official investigation?
"Or why, letting the Holy See send an investigation team to investigate this matter is a rumor?" Schwartz suggested.
Machiavelli shook his head and said:
"The unilateral investigation of the Holy See may not be convinced by the public. After all, everyone knows the close relationship between His Majesty and the Pope. If the unilateral investigation of the Holy See may not be convinced by the public."
"Then ask the envoys from other countries to go to Haiti to participate in the investigation?" Jeffrey suggested.
"No!" Marin stood up and rejected it. He said firmly:
"You should know that I have been describing the horror of America, that is, I don't want people to know the richness of America. If the envoys of powerful countries like France and Spain set foot on the land of America and see the fertile soil there, it is difficult to guarantee that they will have the intention of robbing!"
Haiti Island is not big, but it is really not small. The area of ​​76,000 square kilometers is a little larger than the Kingdom of Naples. Not to mention Spain, if the French, who are extremely greedy for the land, wouldn’t they have the idea there?
Therefore, Marin did not want French envoys to go to Haiti to participate in the investigation, and was not happy at all!
Kohler kept silent beside him, and suddenly said:
"Since His Majesty does not want the French and Spanish envoys to come, then, don't invite them to come..."
"If you don't invite them, you won't be able to convince..." Wagner said.
Kohler thought for a while and explained:
"With that being said, but as far as I know, these rumors that smear the North Sea Kingdom have nothing to do with France and Spain, but are just rumors caused by some dissatisfaction and jealousy among some princes within Germany. If that is the case, why don't we directly target these rumor-mongers and ask them to send envoys to supervise the investigation?"
"His Majesty is worried that France and Spain will become greedy when they see the land in America because France and Spain have strong national strength and great potential for navigation. However, if we invite the messengers of German inland states who spread rumors to supervise, even if they see the vastness of America, so what? They are small inland states, and even if they are greedy for those lands, they will not be able to send ships to grab them..."
"Good idea!" Marin slapped the table after hearing this.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Indeed, those small states that spread rumors and smeared Marin are all small inland states in southern Germany. Even if they were asked to send envoys to Haiti Island to see it, it would be fine. Anyway, those small states have no possibility of developing navigation. After all, who said they were inland states?
Even if they were allowed to see the vastness of Haiti, they could not do anything. Of course, in order to prevent them from spreading the beauty of the American colonies, Marin decided to only take the survey team to the small coastal castle besieged by the natives of Santo Domingo, and not to the Havana colony in Cuba, which had been developed into fertile soil.
Even when the investigation team went to Santo Domingo, he had to pretend that the supplies were not good. For example, the food that was usually very good was changed to eating sweet potatoes, and he ate sweet potatoes for three meals a day. At most, he sent a boat to sea to prepare some fish. Then, he found a chef with poor cooking skills to make some sea-boiled fish, even if he added a meal to entertain the investigation team.
Compared to the survey team, after seeing the bad life of sweet potato rice every day and occasionally boiling fish in sea water to improve food, those German envoys will definitely promote it after returning. This is in line with the theme of Marin deliberately smearing America in the past.
Of course, we can't just take them to visit the besieged city of Santo Domingo, but we can also take them to visit the Lower Cuba Island. However, it cannot be the Havana colony in the west of Cuba Island, nor the Moa colony in the northeast where the mines were mined.
Based on the principle of proximity, Marin planned to temporarily build a fake Cuban colony in an undeveloped area of ​​Cuba Island and invite a survey team to visit.
This fake Cuban colony must have a certain degree of development, as well as castles and farmland. However, the conditions cannot be too good, and people cannot see the superiority of Cuba Island.
So, after thinking about it, Marin finally came up with an idea - to choose a place in the area closest to Haiti Island on the southeast coast of Cuba Island, and build a fake colony like a set set in later generations to fool the envoys of other countries from the investigation team.
And this place was selected by Marin in a very, very famous place in Cuba in later generations - Guantanamo!
Guantanamo is an excellent harbor on the southeast coast of Cuba, but Guantanamo is not very famous in the city or harbor. The truly famous one is the "Guantanamo Prison" on the east coast of the exit of this harbor.
That was used by the United States to detain a terror-like son, and there was a scandal of prison abuse, which was famous all over the world. And where Marin wanted to build a deceptive "set", it was in the Guantanamo Prison in later generations, an area of ​​about 117 square kilometers.
Marin planned to build a small castle on that piece of land and station two hundred soldiers. Then, he mobilized his troops to cultivate large areas of sugarcane land around the castle, creating the illusion that "it has been reclaimed here for a long time."
This is secondary. Marin also plans to dispatch 1,000 of the 2,000 indigenous "pseudo army" of the Havana colony in Cuba to disguise themselves as barbaric indigenous soldiers. When the investigation team visited Guantanamo Castle, they deliberately came to siege the castle, creating the illusion that "it is very dangerous here". Then, through the mouths of those onlookers, they sent it back to Europe, allowing everyone to see the "terrible parts" of colonization in the Americas...
He did what he said, and Malin immediately mobilized a large number of engineering personnel, carried a large amount of supplies, moved to Guantanamo and built a castle. At the same time, he ordered Tara to send 10,000 Cuban indigenous serfs to the Guantanamo area, cut down trees and build fields, and make a piece of sugarcane field to fool the people of the investigation team...
It can be said that Marin built a huge set in Guantanamo. It works, not filming, but acting to fool the onlookers of the vassal states in the investigation team...
Chapter completed!