The Rise of the European Emperor

The gendarmerie system first appeared in France, around the time of the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France. In order to fight against the English, the French hired many Italian mercenaries at that time.

However, the military discipline of mercenaries is corrupt and often harms the local area. The French had no choice but to send cronies from the marshal to form a military law team to maintain discipline in the army so as not to harm the people. After all, the Hundred Years' War was fought in mainland France, and those mercenaries should not be allowed to harm the mainland of France.

In fact, the gendarmerie system really shined during the Napoleonic Wars. Early European armies were small in scale and easier to manage. For example, an army of 10,000 to 20,000 may belong to several mercenary regiments. As long as the commanders of the mercenary regiments are instructed, those regiment leaders will help manage things.

But once the size of the army expands, it will be difficult to manage. Especially mobilized soldiers, because officers and soldiers are not familiar with each other, it is difficult to manage. Moreover, there are many teams, and mutual coordination is also very problematic.

At this time, the gendarmerie is needed to maintain order and prevent those unprofessional mobilized soldiers from messing around. At the same time, it is also very beneficial to the maintenance of the discipline of the modern army.

In short, the existence of the Gendarmerie can not only maintain military discipline, but also facilitate the overall planning and management of large-scale troops. After all, those gendarmes, while maintaining military discipline, are also the marshal's eyeliner. They can see various problems in their eyes and report them in time, so that the commander can make correct decisions.

If the general staff system can formulate a reasonable battle plan, then the existence of military police is conducive to the management of the army and the enforcement of military discipline. Moreover, it can also supervise the commanders of various legions to prevent them from forming gangs and privatizing the army.

Of course, the army of the North Sea State currently has no problems in this regard. The main reason is that to feed so many troops can only rely on local tyrants like Marin. For other monarchs, there is simply no way to support tens of thousands of troops. That is to say, because Beihai has new agricultural technology and has enough food, the soldiers can not only eat enough, but also eat well.

Therefore, in a short period of time, Marin still does not have to worry about the loss of control of the Beihai Army. Among other things, as long as the army dares to disobey the dispatch and cut off the military rations, it will be fatal.

Even if you want to feed tens of thousands of troops by robbing food, you must have so much food to rob. For example, the Fifth Army stationed in Edinburgh, with an army of tens of thousands, can only rely on the transportation of food from the North Sea. Because Scotland is dominated by mountainous areas, and grain production is very low. It is more troublesome to grab so much food.

However, Marin knew very well that one day, the secret of Beihai's high grain production would be revealed. Moreover, the Portuguese have already begun to contact the Ming Dynasty. Although the Portuguese were preoccupied with doing business in history and did not notice the advanced agricultural technology of the Ming Dynasty, it was only after the Dutch consoled the island in the 17th century that they learned the advanced agricultural technology of the Ming Dynasty.

But now history has been changed by Marin,

Under the influence of the "butterfly effect", the Portuguese may have noticed the advanced agricultural technology of the Ming Dynasty in advance. Although people in the Ming Dynasty only used manure, which was far inferior to Beihai's "three fertilizers" technology, it could almost double the grain production in Europe. In this way, the supply of food will no longer be a problem.

Once the underlying army can get a lot of military rations from other channels, Marin's current practice of relying on logistics to control the army will become very problematic and become no longer reliable.

Therefore, the establishment of the gendarmerie system is very necessary. The gendarmes are directly under the royal family and the imperial court, which is conducive to direct monitoring and control of the army, and the role of the generals who lead the troops by monitoring.

Its function is a bit similar to the supervisory army in ancient China. However, it is different from the Supervising Army. Huaxia's supervising army has too much power, and likes to dictate and interfere with the general's command. Especially the eunuchs and civil officials supervising the army in the Ming Dynasty were definitely a scourge.

But the gendarmerie is different. The gendarmerie does not interfere with the commander's power to command the army, but only maintains military discipline. In this way, there will be no constraints on the commander. However, if the commander violates discipline, or wants to privatize the army, then the military police are not vegetarians. Even if there is such a sign, it will be stopped.

Therefore, although the military police are not supervising the army, nor have the right to supervise the army, they can keep the generals honest. Because their small actions cannot be hidden from the military police.

It is precisely because of this scientific military management system that during the French Revolution, hundreds of thousands of French conscripts were more convenient to command than other countries and had better discipline.

Then, other European countries also learned the gendarmerie system after being beaten up by Napoleon. Then, the management of an army of hundreds of thousands of people is also more convenient.

However, the military police in some countries have too much power. For example, the French military police were once able to patrol the streets and even arrest non-soldiers, making them almost like Jin Yiwei.

Therefore, Marin absorbed these lessons and only allowed the military police to enforce the law against the soldiers. As for civilians, they are not given the right to enforce the law and can only be handed over to the local police.

Although this increased the cost of manpower, it also avoided the emergence of agencies like Jinyiwei and secret agents, which would endanger society.

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Marin asked Sauer to select honest and inflexible soldiers from the entire army, preparing to form an experimental gendarmerie. Its leadership is directly under Marin, with Sauer as the leader and directly responsible to Marin. In the future, it will be gradually promoted to the whole army.

At the same time, Marin will also add spies to the gendarmerie, which will be used to monitor the commanders of the legions, so as to prevent them from over-cultivating cronies and privatizing the army.

When Marin was busy forming the Beihai National Gendarmerie, Kohler suddenly suppressed a smile and sent a piece of information from West Africa...

"Why do you look weird? What interesting things did you encounter?" Marin was a little strange.

Kohler suppressed a smile and said:

"Look here, here is the news about the Sultan of Mauritania you have chosen, very... very interesting..."

"Pujinsky's?" Marin suddenly became interested. But after reading it, he spit out the sip of tea he just drank in his mouth...

"What? This guy castrated a group of young black slaves?"

After reading the information, Marin was dumbfounded...

...

What happened? It turned out that Pujinski and his 45 father-in-laws became the leaders of the thousands of black horse archers in Senegal. However, for some reason, the story of their castration spread, and the locals all knew about it...

Then, although the local blacks dared not say anything publicly due to force, they often made fun of them in private. Moreover, the local blacks have a bold and shameless style because of their low level of civilization.

Just like a popular saying on the Internet in later generations - primitive society is good, and people in primitive society engage in...

These unrefined black buddies, in front of this gang of father-in-laws and black girls, are very bold and unrestrained...

Moreover, after the incident, many black people still talked about black girls and that kind of thing in front of Mao Gonggong without any scruples...

Then, the self-esteem of the 46 Mao father-in-laws was seriously hurt...

"Hmph—the black savage dares to humiliate us, we have to fight back!" an eunuch Mao said angrily.

"How to fight back?" Another eunuch Mao asked back.

After everyone quarreled for a long time, Puginsky, who had been silent all the time, suddenly decided:

"Well, don't they look down on us? In the future, we will select a group of black teenagers to train them with all our strength and teach them skills as successors. But first, we must 'remove the roots of trouble' for those teenagers..."

The others were stunned, but Puginsky's deputy Merov's eyes lit up suddenly, and said:

"Vola (Puginsky's name), what do you mean, our successors, even officers, must be castrated blacks in the future. In this way, no one will dare to laugh at us in the future?"