Chapter 1688： Public execution

Seeing the whole battle report, Marin was amazed. The entire Spike Commander Cook was too calm, and actually spent two days observing the location and habits of the enemy commander. Leng is to find the best time to attack, and then give the enemy a fatal blow.

Throughout the process, Marin, the so-called "military expert", could not pick out any faults. Of course, if you change to Marin, it is estimated that you will choose to attack in the middle of the night. Because, this is his habit, the nature of it. But it also has a disadvantage-if the enemy is prepared, it may just fall into the enemy's ambush.

And when Cook chooses the time to attack, the profit ratio may be like a night attack. However, it is more unexpected and safer. During the day, the dominant party will certainly not expect the enemy to take the initiative. Moreover, the situation outside is clear at a glance, and it is impossible to ambush.

This shows that Captain Cook is a very calm and decisive outstanding officer. It's really rare to find such a brainy officer in a spiked team full of muscular men ...

Now that Cook has done something, Marin will naturally not be stingy. Thanks to Cook's early appearance, the rebels were suppressed. If New York falls, God knows what will happen. In particular, both Albert and his wife live in Manhattan Castle. If they had an accident, the old Hoffman had to beat himself up.

Therefore, Marin ordered-Cook to suppress the rebels, promoted to the head of the square, and served as the commander of the New York Garrison. At the same time, the noble titles of ordinary knights were awarded. Since then, Cook has also stepped into the noble class. At the same time, he also became one of the senior colonial commanders. After all, the New York colony now has two phalanxes. Before the formation of the Colonial Corps, the leader of the phalanx was the most senior colonial officer.

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At the end of Albert's letter, he asked Marin-how to deal with those rebels?

In the letter, Albert told Marin that the officers of the rebels were basically killed, including the loyalty of those rebels. Of course, a lot of bad luck eggs were killed. There was no way. During the war, they just stood on the route of the official charge, blocking the road and had to kill.

Then, after interrogation and statistics, a total of 8,000 rebels, a total of 523 people voluntarily followed the rebellion of Baylors, they were all loyal to Baylors, and they also held the position of officers. The others are basically farmed farmers.

In the previous counterattack, the 523 Baylors ’loyal loyalties were different from others because they were dressed differently, and they also held different weapons in their hands (mainly seized soldiers from several colonies and spare weapons for the soldiers) They were all killed long ago. The remaining four or five hundred people killed were purely blocking the road ...

After reading the letter, Marin thought for a long time ...

This rebellion was too bad and made Marin aware of one thing-that is, farmers who participated in the rebellion are different from farmers who have never done bad things!

Ordinary peasants who have never done extraordinary things are honest but honest and easy to manage. The peasants who participated in the rebellion are different. In terms of the criminal investigation of later generations, they are all people with "existing convictions" and are the key targets of prevention.

In fact, most people in this world are a middleman between good and bad. No one is born a good person, and no one is born a bad person.

Both "human nature and goodness" and "human nature and evil" are nonsense. From the very beginning, people are just a blank piece of paper with no attributes of good and evil.

Therefore, in ancient times, there was an important indicator for official assessment—education of the people!

In other words, people need education, even adults. The law can only organize people to do evil, but it cannot lead them to good.

Only those who have been educated will know about shame and respect morality. Moreover, it is much harder to educate people to be kind than to induce people to do evil.

It takes long and unremitting efforts to educate people, but it only takes one time to induce people to do evil ...

As long as a person with a general concept of good and evil is stolen once, and succeeds, and gets a lot of money, then the person with the general concept of good and evil brought away can easily go astray. Because, he saw the benefits ...

In the same way, those poor peasants, who were originally under the administration of the government, are very honest. Although poor enough to eat, he still abides by the law.

However, they have been threatened once and rebelled once, then it will be different ...

During the rebellion, the leader would certainly treat them with the stolen wine in order to attract them. In this way, after a happy life of "drinking in a big bowl and eating meat in large chunks", the ideas of these original farmers may have changed ...

After all, "it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to extravagance". But if they want to continue to live a luxurious life, they don't understand anything, they can only rebel again ...

Therefore, the peasants who participated in the rebellion are not the same as those who have never rebelled. Their inner thoughts are already very different.

Then, such rebellious farmers became more dangerous. If they were given more than two rebellion experiences but were not severely punished, it is estimated that they will feel that-the original rebellion will be the same ... Then, they may participate in the third rebellion, even the fourth ... …

Therefore, Malin thought about it and felt that he had to fight hard this time. Otherwise, this group of people will not be able to manage it in the future ...

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After thinking over and over again, Marin finally made up his mind and made a very severe punishment decision-all the 523 diehards who participated in the Belles rebellion, even if they have been killed, all their families are executed! Of course, underage girls and little boys under 5 years old who do not remember can die, but they will be sent away from the New Jersey colony and sent to other areas to restart their lives. Of course, they have no future, and they are prohibited from reading and joining the army. The reason for leaving them is just because the population needs ...

As for the remaining more than 7,000 people, although it is not sinful. However, if they did not pay the price, they would continue to participate in the next rebellion.

Therefore, Marin also gave severe punishment-all labor reform for ten years!

In other words, the 7,000 surviving survivors could not be forgiven because they participated in the rebellion for the second time. In the future, they will be organized into labor camps. They cannot live with their families like other immigrants, but in a labor camp, under the supervision of soldiers, participate in collective labor.

As for their families, they will not be punished. However, there are only a few opportunities to visit the prison each year.

In this labor camp composed of 7,000 strong men, Marin intends to let them specialize in logging and road construction to serve the construction of public infrastructure in the colony.

Forests are everywhere in North America, making development difficult. Most of the immigrants are logging at the beginning at most. After clearing enough land to clear, they are mainly busy planting land. How can there be time to log? Only when the farm is free can we organize the logging again.

The prisoners in these 7,000 labor camps are different. They have lost their freedom, and the colony has enough food. Therefore, simply let them cut down trees all year round, and then build roads and bridges to facilitate the development of the colony.

Needless to say, building roads and bridges is convenient for the people of the colony to travel, and it is also convenient for the colonial officials to take control of various places.

And logging is mainly to squeeze the Indian living space. In North America, the Indians are difficult to tangle because they have a thick virgin forest as cover. But if the forest was cut down, the Indians would have nowhere to escape, and they would no longer be opponents of the colonial army. Without the forest hiding place, the colonial army could easily crush them.

The retreat of the forest means the retreat of Native Indians. Otherwise, on a plain without forest cover, any cavalry can easily wipe out Indian tribal warriors.

As long as these 7,000-person labor camps cut down an extremely wide plain barrier between the colonial farm and the North American forest, then the colonial farm would be much safer. Because the Indians did not have the courage to walk out of the forest and compete with the colonial army on the plains ...

This is a punishment for farmers who follow the rebellion ...

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And for the 523 diehards who took the initiative to follow the rebellion, Malin Ke was much cruel.

To deter those prisoner-of-war peasants in the colony ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Marin compulsorily ordered the public execution of all 523 **** family members by the Delaware River! Moreover, all colonies must send all Zhuangding to the Delaware River to watch the torture!

Only in this way can the strong soldiers from prisoners of war understand that the rebellion has serious consequences and will kill the whole family!

In fact, the public execution of prisoners has always been an important means of maintaining public order. In later generations, European and American countries dealt with criminals in a crippling manner, only to lose the original intention of the death penalty. The death penalty was originally intended to deter those who have improper mentality. As a result, if you do well, if you do not execute in public, you will lose the meaning of the death penalty ...

In particular, some 250 young people did not feel awe in their hearts without seeing the serious consequences of evil. Not feeling cruel, they will commit crimes in the future.

However, young people who have seen several public executions of prisoners generally calm down. Because, they intuitively experienced the terrible end of crime ...

Similarly, Marin did not hesitate to publicly execute 523 old and weak women and children this time, just to deter those strong men who had rebelled against their previous convictions. He wanted to scare them violently before the death of the 523 women and children, lest they dare to mess up afterwards ...