The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin is very satisfied with the condition of the cement road. Now, Marin has a wagon with simple ball bearings. Coupled with the flat concrete road, as long as the load is not heavy, running more than 200 kilometers a day is not a problem at all.

On the cement road, Marin tried using a carriage without bearings. When it was empty, the difference was not very big. But after the load, the heavier the cargo, the slower the carriage without bearings. Because, the friction between the wheel and the axle will increase as the load increases. Oiled ball bearings avoid this problem perfectly. Even if it is loaded, as long as it is not too heavy, the speed difference between it and no-load is not particularly large.

In addition, the "squeaky" wheels and axles of the carriage without bearings are too harsh. The spring shock-absorbing carriage promoted by Marin for the aristocracy not only has good shock absorption, but also has ball bearings installed on the axles, so it does not make much noise when driving. In particular, on concrete roads, the damping effect of the spring is almost useless. Because, on such a flat road, there is no vibration at all. On the contrary, the ball bearing fully avoids the harsh friction sound, making the cabin relatively quiet. However, because the ball bearing uses butter as a lubricant, it has to be replaced frequently, and the cost is a bit high. Fortunately, Marin now has whale oil as a substitute. Otherwise, the carriage of goods also uses butter as a lubricant, and the cost is indeed a bit high. Moreover, the common people of this era are generally short of oil and water, so how can butter be wasted like this?

Kohler, who is in charge of financial expenditures, told Marin that the cost of building concrete roads is much lower than that of brick paving. Moreover, Marin considered that the cost would be significantly reduced if the cement plant was relocated to Corner Brook, Newfoundland. why? Because the limestone mines on Newfoundland Island are their own, they only need to pay the labor fee for mining. Unlike now, my own limestone still needs to be purchased in large quantities in Hamburg, and the hamburger merchants have made a lot of profits...

As long as the cost of cement is low enough, Marin can build cement roads on a large scale and create a transportation system extending in all directions. Because there are no big trucks in Europe now, they are all horse-drawn carriages. Therefore, it is entirely feasible to promote cement roads in Europe.

However, if it is a main road, even if it is a two-way one-way street, it must be at least 4 meters wide, preferably 5 to 6 meters wide. This is also because the carriage itself is very narrow.

In the end, Marin decided to build a 5-meter-wide concrete road in the future to build the main road. As for the branch roads, a 3.5-meter-wide rural concrete road will be built. Moreover, the 5-meter-wide main road cement road has the same thickness as the rural cement road, which is 20 cm. This is because, in this era, there are no large trucks weighing more than ten tons, and the horse-cart weighs only one or two tons. It is almost impossible to overturn the 20-centimeter-thick concrete road. In the case of enough, Marin also try to save cement. After all, in this era, the industry is underdeveloped and there are no mechanical equipment such as road rollers. If you make too much cement, you still have to deal with it manually, which is very slow. In the case of sufficient use, the 5-meter-wide concrete road is definitely ahead of this era, and it is wireless and coquettish.

Even if the army is walking, a 5-meter-wide concrete road is enough. However, Marin intends to cut all the knives on the middle line when building a 5-meter-wide concrete road. This is to prevent thermal expansion and contraction of cement pavement.

Although, the fly ash cement currently used by Marin has good thermal expansion and contraction performance. However, after the use of cement is popularized in the future, it is definitely not possible to use all fly ash cement. After all, there are limited sources of fly ash. Ordinary cement roads are definitely the most common Portland cement. The road paved with cement must be cut with a knife, otherwise the road will be easily damaged. Moreover, after cutting the middle line of the road, the cement road can also be divided into left and right parts, and then the traffic rules can be formulated, and the left and right do not interfere with each other, which can greatly facilitate traffic.

However, if Marin came to formulate traffic rules, he would definitely choose to drive on the right. It's not like driving on the left like the British guy does, which makes people uncomfortable. Many people who went to the UK responded that the traffic rules there,

Extremely uncomfortable.

Also, there are no traffic rules in Europe right now. Marin to formulate, it is easy to form a unified standard. In particular, when Marin wanted to conquer England in the future, he decided - the people of the rotten country must accept the right-hand traffic rule! Otherwise you will be fined!

Taking advantage of the end of the spring ploughing, Marin decided to let the construction team continue to build a cement road from Aurich to the Port of Emden to facilitate the traffic between the two cities. Later, Marin also intends to build a concrete road from Aurich to the cities of Oldenburg and Münster.

In this way, the transportation between several main cities is convenient and developed, and it is also conducive to the rule and influence of these areas. The Qin Dynasty and Rome both implemented Chidao and Roman Avenue respectively, in order to strengthen their ability to control such a huge country.

In fact, concrete roads are not so urgently needed for the German region. Because the German region is not very big. In particular, Marin now occupies only a piece of land in the northwest corner of Germany.

However, the cement road has a huge impact on the Americas. America is too big, and without concrete roads, you simply cannot form effective domination and influence over far-flung regions.

In the original history, the reason why the British divided thirteen states on the east coast of North America, and they did not belong to each other, was because of the inconvenience of transportation, which led to the thirteen states being independent. This also paved the way for the later federalism of the United States.

Marin prefers the centralized system, because this system can better exert the national strength. And, for the colonies, what the natives fear most is the colony losing control. Therefore, in the colonies, the need for centralized power is even greater. Otherwise, North America's independence from Britain would be an example.

Therefore, Marin has long thought about the ruling model in North America - all officials are dispatched from the local area. In the future, all college students will be in charge, and Marin will set up a university to train college students with administrative skills. Then, sent to various areas of the colony, never giving the locals a chance to meddle in the regime, even the descendants of immigrants.

Colonial people want to go into politics? Yes, but you must first go to the local university to wash your brain for four years. Then, after returning to America, he was not allowed to serve in his hometown. In this regard, we must learn from the Ming Dynasty's hometown to avoid the system and avoid the formation of local township parties. As long as the local people don't form a group, then they are not a threat.

In addition, weapons control is imposed on the people of the colonies. They were allowed to have muskets, but only inconvenient arquebuses, flintlocks and clockwork muskets were not allowed. This gave the colonists the ability to hunt and control their ability to resist. In the North American colonies, there were too many muskets, and as a result, a bunch of militiamen gathered into the Continental Army. This, Marin must prevent. It would be better for them to be bullied by the Indians than to have great force. Otherwise, send troops to destroy immediately.

Moreover, the importation of muskets and horses to the Indians was prohibited as long as it was strictly controlled. With bows and arrows, the Indians could not conquer the colonists' strongholds with arquebuses. Arquebuses are inconvenient in the field and require the cover of a spearman. But when defending the city, it is still very good, and the effect is not worse than the flintlock gun.

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To this end, after returning from the completion ceremony of the cement road, Marin locked himself in his office and began to formulate a plan to promote the construction of the cement road in the mainland and the colonies. In addition, the colonial gun control bill is also being drafted. These are the needs of future rule and are very important.

Of course, more important than these two points is not to provoke the immigrants of the colonies. Therefore, when future laws are formulated, the colonies cannot be too oppressive, lest the immigrants be forced to rebel.

In addition, a very important point is to fool the people of the colony into place. Therefore, Marin decided to apply to the Holy See to establish a theology-based university in Aurich.

As for the name of the university, Marin decided to set it as the Catholic University of Aurich. Moreover, this school only teaches theology. Principal, of course, it is Lord Bishop Taylor.

Obviously, Marin's plan is to ask Bishop Taylor to recruit more disciples. He doesn't ask how good religious studies are, but he must teach flicking.

In the future, graduates from this university will all be priests of various churches. Even, in the future, he will be the bishop of each district.

Their task was to take advantage of the Sunday service, and desperately preach to the people at home and in the colonies, advocating Marin and his heirs' wise and divine martial arts and the idea of ​​"divine right of kings" to ensure the rule of the Hoffman family.

As long as you don't do too badly, and in the event of a disaster, you can allocate funds for rescue in a timely manner to avoid the tragedy of the Ming Dynasty. Coupled with the hard work of Taylor's disciples and grandchildren, it should be unlikely that the colony will rebel.

Of course, whoever dares to spread other sects in the territory will be beheaded to show it to the public. Otherwise, if the common people are fooled by some other sect guy, they will also do something like killing the king.

Among them, the most unlucky representative is Louis XVI. In fact, Louis XVI himself was considered a good man, and like Chongzhen, he was not a scumbag. However, in order to support the independence of the United States, he exhausted his finances, and on the eve of the Revolution, France, like the Ming Dynasty, suffered from natural disasters such as hailstorms, which caused the price of bread to rise. Therefore, under the agitation of liberals and Huguenot Protestants and other forces, Louis XVI was beheaded, which is extremely sad.

Therefore, Marin will use this religious university to vigorously train Taylor's disciples and grandchildren to advocate for himself. At the same time, develop a secret police, make every effort to arrest anyone with a different religious opinion, kill them if they catch them, and hire professional writers to vilify these people, occupying the commanding heights of public opinion...

The current Pope is Marin's father-in-law. Isn't it easy to apply to him for a religious university? Of course, this is just a religious university that sells dog meat. For the purpose of the religious university is not to proclaim God with all its might, but to proclaim God and Marin . . .

As Taylor and his apprentices were accustomed to, when preaching, God merely opened the conversation. Next, there will be a long section of proclaiming Marin's wise and marvelous flickering... At the end, I will proclaim the glory of the Lord again - well, the first and the last are proclaiming God, which is in line with the theme. But in the middle of the broadcast, it's all Marin's wise and marvelous skills... This kind of flickering, insists on every week, targeting the whole people, if you don't believe it, it will have no effect...