Chapter 1798 Royal West Point Military Academy
Why did Marin insist on enfeoffing the nobles to America? First, the land in China is not large enough, and second, it is because these nobles will find ways to recruit people to reclaim land.
In addition, these nobles have certain military qualities and basically have received training in military command since childhood. Once they have interests in the Americas, they will be very enthusiastic about protecting the sovereignty of the Americas.
But if you only hand over the colonial land to merchants, adventurers, or even exiled prisoners like the British, the consequences are probably not very good. You should know that whether it is merchants, adventurers or exiled prisoners, they are all inferior in character, and having milk is the kind of mother. Although the nobles are not very good, at least they also pay attention to glory and loyalty. Therefore, it is also necessary to let some nobles settle in the Americas.
Moreover, if aristocrats want to protect their rights, they must first recognize and protect the rights of the royal family. Otherwise, the royal power will be subverted, and the next step is that their privileges will be deprived. Therefore, although the nobles are not good people, for Marin, it is more reassuring to cooperate with them than with merchants and adventurers.
In addition, once the nobles settle in the Americas, they will inevitably become one of the core members of the local council. Once they vote for independence, these people will definitely choose to support the royal family in order to protect their titles. Otherwise, once they rebel, their titles will no longer exist. After all, without the existence of the royal family, the nobles who were enthroned by the royal family will lose their meaning.
Therefore, no matter what, in the American colonies, a group of nobles would still be left to guard the market. Otherwise, they would be represented by merchants and adventurers, and they might have a strange intention one day.
In fact, the collapse of the colonial system of the British Empire in later generations was also related to the death of too many noble officers in the two world wars. With those noble officers, naturally, they would not easily allow the colony to be independent. However, without those noble officers, when the regime is controlled by the capitalists, those people don’t care. In the eyes of capitalists, the colony will retain its profits, throw it away without making any money, and it doesn’t care about the difficulties of the ancestors when they are trying to seize the colonies. In their eyes, as long as the interests are sufficient, the country can be sold. Officials from civilian origins are often more likely to be bribed by capitalists because of their financial difficulties. Officials from aristocratic origins often value face and honor more and are not easily bribed. Because they are not short of money...
Therefore, after being a monarch for a long time, Marin gradually changed his initial position of being closer to the civilians and becoming closer to the military aristocracy. Because when encountering danger, those military aristocracy are more reliable than those civilians. It is not that those military aristocracy have good character, but that they are more consistent with their own interests. Although civilians may be grateful to them in the early days. However, over time, when the people have become accustomed to these good things, it is hard to say. At that time, they will want more, if they don't give...
Of course, even if Marin prefers military aristocrats, he will not be willing to use any fool. Generally speaking, the nobles are naturally preferred in the army. But if it is during a war, it means that military merits are king. Whoever has the greatest military merits will be more likely to be promoted. Unless, when a noble child is similar to a civilian child, the noble child will be preferred...
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After all, this is still a question of "the butt determines the head". When Malin first came here, he was still the mentality of the common people, and was closer to the common people, and was somewhat hostile to the nobles.
After becoming a prince of Germany, Marin gradually discovered that he and the nobles were in the same group...
Treating civilians yourself will certainly make civilians grateful. However, people are forgetful. When they get used to the benefits, one day you suddenly refuse to give them... This is the so-called "supering mien to fight against mien"...
But the old aristocrats and themselves really can't pee in the same pot. The old aristocrats look down on Marin's origin and bloodline, and Marin also looks down on the old aristocrats' two-faced and incompetent...
In desperation, Marin could only select new military aristocrats from the civilian soldiers, and use his own ideas to influence them, turning them into people like him. In this way, with enough helpers, he would not worry about being unlucky and having no supporters in the future.
However, the basic qualities of these military aristocrats who were born from civilians are really unfair. Kahn is stupid, but most of the nobles who were born from civilians are at the same level as this guy. Only Schwartz and Stadt, who were born in the backbone of the declining nobles, could barely be considered talents because they had received good basic education since childhood.
In short, Malin was very disappointed with the level of these guys. Even afterwards, most of these guys could only reach the level of second grade in elementary school in later generations, which was really embarrassing.
However, Marin had high hopes for their descendants. After all, receiving education from an early age is definitely much better than literacy after adulthood. The first group of officers are now in high school and are about to go to college.
However, the Beihai Kingdom currently does not have a special military university, only Orich University has a military academy. Marin felt that his qualifications were not enough and decided to improve his status as a military academy.
Just so happened that he had just gotten into the title of king, and it would be wasted without using it. As a sovereign monarch, the king could issue edicts and prepare for the establishment of a university. Unlike the Grand Duke of Beihai, building a university requires approval from the Holy See or the emperor. There is no way, although the Grand Duke of Beihai has autonomy, it is not a sovereign state in name.
But the American Kingdom that the Holy See rewarded him this time was different. Although it was a wild land, Marin alone had the final say. In the name of the king, in the name of pacifying the wild natives, it was still possible to build a military university.
So, Marin thought of West Point Military Academy...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Well, everyone is in North America, and they are all called American XX. So, I will also build a West Point Military Academy... Just calling West Point Military Academy is not domineering enough, so... it's called the 'Royal West Point Military Academy'..."
In this way, Marin happily named this university affiliated to the Kingdom of America "Royal West Point Military Academy". The location of the school was Marin planned to be located on the west bank of the Hudson River in New York City. Later generations, West Point Military Academy was located 80 kilometers north of New York City on the west bank of the Hudson River.
But Marin did not intend to build it so far from New York, but was directly preparing to build it on the west bank of Manhattan Island across the river. Then, build a castle called West Point, which was also named West Point Fortress... Well, West Point Military Academy is just doing this...
Then, in order to make sense, Marin first issued a castle called West Point Fortress on the west bank of the Hudson River in New York.
Two days later, Marin signed a new order - intending to build the first university in the Kingdom of America based on West Point Fortress... Royal West Point Military Academy...
In this way, the appearance of the name West Point Military Academy will not seem so abrupt...
However, considering that there were probably no military aristocrats willing to send their children to "remote" New York to go to school, Marin adopted a compromise plan - to separate the Military Academy of the University of Orich from Orich and incorporate it into the newly established "Royal West Point Military Academy". Then, the original "Orich University Military Academy Branch" outside Orich City was directly renamed "Royal West Point Military Academy Orrich"...
In this way, the problem of the school being too remote is solved. West Point Fortress is only named. At that time, teaching is still being educated in the branch campus outside Orich City. As for the campus of the Royal West Point Military Academy... God knows when will the enrollment be completed...
But that doesn't matter. Marin just borrowed a name anyway. He is now the king and is qualified to use the title of Royal (English Royal) or Koniglich (German Royal). In short, this is a title that improves its character. With it, it sounds much taller. Just like Real Madrid in later generations, if there was no "Emperor", it would be called "Ma (Derri)"... The character immediately fell to a hundred and eight thousand miles...
Chapter completed!