Marin was actually helpless about the French in this era. How to say that the French Kingdom in this era had a status equivalent to that of the Americans in later generations. Therefore, the French were different from the people of other Western European countries. Because they were confident.
As a resident of a great country, even if he has become a fugitive and immigrant, among the 300,000 people, many people still hold airs and think they are noble. This makes Marin very troubled. Nitmo has become a fugitive and surrendered to us. Are you still proud of yourself?
When the first batch of immigrants first landed in Ocean Harbor, when local colonial officials asked these people to swear allegiance to Marin, many people actually felt resistant. The news was sent back to Orich, which also made Marin feel fearful.
Moreover, Marin could not treat these French immigrants too much. Because France stood behind them. Although they had left France, France could still point fingers on these immigrants. This has a term called "protecting expatriates."
In other words, these French people have not put down their airs of being residents of big countries. Moreover, France does not think that they are completely out of touch with France, but rather that they are expatriates.
If Marin treated these French people at high pressure, France might put pressure on Marin under the pretext of "protecting the expatriates". Before the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty dispatched warships to force Mexico to surrender because of the massacre and ransacking Chinese merchants in Mexico, let alone France in this era?
Therefore, Marin's immigration transaction is a bit of a loss. It seems that we can't treat these French immigrants as our own people at once. We have to subtly influence them before we can trust them.
This is different from the immigration of the vassal states in southern Germany. Those vassal states were unable to test pressure on Marin. Their immigrants, including Hungarian prisoners of war, were controlled by Marin. The same was true for the Austrian immigrants sent by His Majesty. His Majesty would never turn against Marin for a few immigrants. After all, Austria still relies on Marin in all aspects.
There was no way, Marin had to use the Delava Peninsula to resettle these French immigrants first. Fortunately, they were not useless, and they were also very profitable to grow grapes and make wine, log wood and make wood.
However, Marin will definitely mix sand among them. For example, school problems...
After all, these immigrants are uneducated victims. Marin set up a school in the local area and only teaches German, so they have to accept it. Unless, you don’t want to go to school.
After the descendants of this group of immigrants grew up and received German education from Beihai Kingdom, they recognized Beihai Kingdom, and only then did these group of immigrants truly count themselves as their own people.
But the most important thing at the moment is to prevent these immigrants from engaging in autonomy. Why did many colonies in the later British Empire eventually break away from British control? Here we have to mention an important phenomenon - colonial autonomy.
Because they are unable to manage the immigrant settlements in those colonies, and the local area lacks sufficient management talents. Therefore, in the absence of some strategic locations in England, most remote areas, implement the principle of immigration autonomy. It is to allow immigrants to elect their own parliament members, form the immigration parliament, and manage themselves.
This practice certainly saves trouble and saves management costs. However, it has caused the colonies to think that "we can do it without a sect leader country." When they are not strong enough in the early stage, they will still hold on to the sect leader country. But if they are strong enough and the sect leader country declines, these colonies that are used to being self-governed will become independent.
Therefore, Marin would never allow such a situation to happen. At the beginning, he did not intend to allow immigrants to rule themselves.
To this end, Marin asked Albert to select 3,000 young and strong people from the early German immigrants and Hungarian immigrants to form a police force, settle in the Delaware Peninsula, and manage these French immigrants.
In addition, Marin recruited 200 Wallonians who could write and calculate from the South Netherlands under the Habsburg family, which was later Belgium, to serve as officials in the Delaware Peninsula Colonial.
The Wallonians are a mixture of Germans and Celtics. Most of them can speak French. Because they are under the rule of the Habsburg family, many Wallonians also learn German after going to school. Of course, there are also many who can read and write French. But what Marin needs is the Wallonians who can read and write German.
Therefore, it is not easy, but it is not difficult to recruit 200 Wallonians who can read and write German from the South Netherlands under the Habsburg family.
Because they can speak French, it is not difficult for these people to communicate with 300,000 French immigrants. The ability to read and write German makes it easy for them to integrate into the officialdom of Beihai.
Marin asked them to unconditionally obey the instructions issued by Orich and New York. They managed the 300,000 French immigrants in the form of the North Sea.
In addition, Marin also hired 500 Wallonian missionaries who could read and write German from the Wallonia area. Their task was to open schools on the Delaware Peninsula to teach French immigrant children and read and write German. Moreover, in order to stimulate the teaching enthusiasm of these missionaries, Marin offered a bonus. The more French immigrant children who could read and write German, the more bonus they would receive...
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Marin's concerns were indeed not unreasonable. At the end of June, news came from New York that riots occurred in Ocean City, a colony of the Delaware Peninsula.
As for the reason for the riot, it was the one that Marin was worried about - French immigration demanded autonomy...
The first batch of French immigrants arrived in total were more than 60,000. At the beginning, there was nothing wrong with the immigrants. Everyone was busy logging and building houses, and they had no time to pay attention to anything else.
However, when Ocean City was built, especially after the town hall of Ocean City was built, several French immigrant leaders suddenly negotiated with the colonial authorities, demanding the establishment of a parliament and allowing the immigrants to elect their favorite members...
Merck, the manager of Ocean City, was panicked, but he still refused their requests on the excuse of different management models of Beihaiguo. Then, the group of people surrounded the town hall...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Merck was shocked, but fortunately, he had 200 well-trained musketeers and 300 sword and shield soldiers. Under the defense of sword and shield soldiers, the immigrants were unable to rush into the town hall.
Merck, on the other hand, sent a carrier pigeon urgently and contacted Albert from New York.
Albert was also shocked when he received the message. However, he remembered Marin's instructions and could not compromise on the issue of autonomy. So he immediately mobilized 500 cavalry to rush to Ocean City by land. Moreover, he also sent a fleet to transport 1,000 infantry soldiers, all wearing armor.
Three days later, the cavalry arrived first outside Ocean City. However, they were unable to enter the city and could only confront the immigrants on the dock.
The infantry sent by Albert also arrived a few days later. Seeing the surging crowds in the city, the infantry phalanx leader Carrey directly used his ultimate move...
Although there is no tear gas used to disperse the crowd, Carey's soldiers are equipped with another magical artifact to suppress the riots - chili powder!
Chili powder is not fatal, but it will be extremely uncomfortable to sprinkle your face!
Carey asked his 300-bitten shield soldiers to bring goggles and mask their faces with water-dipped facial towels. Then, he raised the shield with his left hand and sprinkled chili powder with his right hand to open the way.
And the 500 cavalrymen had already been away from the distance when they saw Carrie spreading chili powder. It was not that they were afraid of chili powder, but that the war horses were afraid...
Where did the French immigrants who were causing trouble have seen the power of chili powder? They were directly pulled and their noses were snot flowing, and they coughed continuously, and they had to dissipate.
Then, Carey's men and Merck's men met, finally controlled the situation, and arrested several leaders who caused trouble. Finally, a spy named Lebel emerged from the water...
It turned out that those immigrant leaders were inciting trouble by Leber. Leber was one of the French spies sent, unlike other spies. Leber did not have a curious look and would not easily find out the news. Because his mission was mainly in the later stage, that is, to try to steal control of this colony.
The best way to steal control is to escape from the control of the sect leader through colonial autonomy. Of course, this task is not a dead mission, but is completed as appropriate.
In other words, the French court had no hope of controlling this French immigrant colony at all. It was just holding the idea of ​​"beating rabbits with grass and hitting rabbits" to see if there could be any gains.
But Leber is different, Leber is very concerned about this. Because Baron Adale promised that if he could do it, the Dharma King might give him a title. At least the fief knight, or even the baron.
Therefore, even if the French court does not expect success, Leber is looking forward to success. But the premise of all this is that the local government must implement immigration autonomy. Without immigration autonomy, French immigrants cannot make their own voices. How can they break away from the control of the Beihai Kingdom?
Therefore, Leber, who was hiding well in front, took the risk of standing up in order to control this colony in the later stage, instigated several immigrant leaders to cause trouble and demand autonomy.
But unexpectedly, the Beihai Kingdom was so determined to do so, and it was not allowed. Before, the immigrants just surrounded the town hall of Ocean City. But after a few days, Merck refused to let go, and the immigrants were about to lose patience and prepared to move. Fortunately, Carrey's army arrived in time, otherwise there would be a large-scale bloody conflict.
Carey's men took a lot of effort to catch Lebel. But Lebel was unwilling to surrender and kept shouting:
"I was sent by the King of France, you can't treat me like this!"
Carrey had a headache. If this was the case, she really couldn't do anything to this person. But Merck, the lord of Ocean City, turned his eyes and asked loudly:
"You said you were sent by the King of France. Is there a certificate of appointment? Is there a letter of state?"
Lebel was stunned. He was just a spy and had no light. How could he have a letter of appointment and a letter of state? So he was speechless.
Merck actually worked under Kohler before, and knew that spies did not have these things, so he raised this question in a targeted manner.
Seeing that LeBelle could not give an answer or prove his identity, Merck directly slashed LeBelle with a blunt politely and hung his head on the flagpole in the town hall. Of course, the charge was "pretending to be the envoy of the Dharma King."
Several immigrant leaders were just making trouble because they did not use force. Therefore, these people were not killed. However, Merck sentenced them to exile on the spot. As for where they were exiled, they were naturally sent to the New York colony. It was said that they were exiled, but these people would definitely lose their freedom in the future...
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When the news reached Orich, Marin was shocked. So he quickly sent 2,000 regular troops to the Delaware Peninsula to prevent the possible riots of French immigrants. Moreover, he also asked the fleet to transport a large amount of cement to build bunkers. As long as the bunkers are laid into grids and beacon towers, they form a grid pattern. Even if the rebellion broke out in French immigrants, they could respond calmly and suppress them as quickly as possible.
Chapter completed!