King of German Mercenaries

The expansion of the Aurich Palace is in full swing, of course, this does not affect the daily office of the palace. Because the expansion is just adding walls and buildings around the old palace. At most, there is a lot of noise during construction, which affects the mood of the office workers in the palace.

Fortunately, there were no cutting machines in this era, and it was impossible to make very harsh and sharp noises. Otherwise, listening to these sounds would be quite frustrating.

But even so, Marin, a modern person who is used to enjoying it, is still very uncomfortable with the noisy sounds around the palace. So, he began to feel a little irritable. At the same time, I also began to be unwilling to deal with so many government affairs every day...

Therefore, Marin decided to add some agencies to share his work...

The first establishment is the secretariat. The so-called secretariat is an organization that helps your boss handle chores. According to the saying of later generations, it is "let the secretary do something, but do nothing..."

However, because the four college secretaries who followed Marin were all male, the latter half of the sentence was not valid, but the first half of the sentence could still be done.

Also, the state is not a company, and Marin cannot really hand over power to the secretariat. For example, military power, financial power, and important personnel appointment power, Marin did not intend to delegate power to the secretariat.

The military power Marin was planning for the general staff in the city, but because the military education in the counties of East Friesland has just started, it is impossible to train officers who have the ability to serve as staff officers without ten or eight years. Therefore, the General Staff cannot be established for the time being.

And financial power, Marin must be handed over to Kohler for the time being. After all, Kohler is more trustworthy, at least for now. Of course, it is also because of the serious lack of talent under Marin. Therefore, Marin demanded that the Ministry of Finance, which is dominated by Kohler and supplemented by several college students such as Rabbi, has a certain degree of independence and can reject some unreasonable spending demands of Prime Minister Jeffrey. Of course, if the prime minister's request is rejected, a report must be formed, reported to the secretariat, and forwarded to Marin himself for review, so as to avoid a situation where the Ministry of Finance and the prime minister fight.

As for the important appointment of personnel, it goes without saying. Without military power, financial power and important personnel appointment power, the prime minister is just a pure civil servant who handles chores, and cannot make any waves. And Marin wanted to be lazy, so he planned to train the secretariat into an audit department that represented himself.

The things they reviewed were the administrative documents and handling opinions that were handed over by Jeffrey. Then, according to Marin's request, the secretariat gave instructions one by one and used Marin's seal. Of course, without Marin's signature.

At the beginning of the establishment of the secretariat, Marin thought about preventing the secretariat from expanding into an agency similar to the Ming Dynasty cabinet. So, Marin limited the powers of the secretariat. The staff of the secretariat can only use the seal to give instructions under the guidance of Marin.

Also, anything military and financial, the Secretariat can't give instructions. Unless Marin goes out for something, they can make instructions according to the form strictly formulated by Marin. However, in some more important cases, they are not qualified to give instructions. For example, a large-scale military transfer cannot be carried out without Marin's autograph. The Secretariat uses the seal of Marin, and the number of troops that can be mobilized is no more than 100. Moreover, these 100 people must not be in the city of Aurich or drive into Aurich, so as to avoid a palace change. Even, in Marin's vision, even if the General Staff is established in the future, the troops and horses in the city of Aurich cannot be mobilized. The troops and horses in the capital can only be commanded by the people Marin trusts the most.

There is no military command authority, financial audit authority, and no important personnel appointment authority. The secretariat is equivalent to a department that handles chores. Of course, because reviewing the handling opinions submitted by the Prime Minister also has a certain weight.

In this way, the power of the prime minister is limited, but the secretariat cannot handle the documents by itself, but only audit. Kohler, on the other hand, can also supervise financially to check and balance the two parties.

In the future, Marin even plans to set up an agency like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to monitor his subordinates and prevent them from malicious intentions. However, at the moment, Marin has no relevant talents in his hands, so he has to let Sauer's men begin to exercise his abilities in this area.

But even so, Marin decided to limit the intelligence agency's powers. Whether it is Jinyiwei or Dongchang in the Ming Dynasty, or a spy in the Republic of China, because of their detached law enforcement power, they have become a scourge.

Therefore, even if such an intelligence agency is established, Marin does not intend to give them the power of judicial judgment to prevent them from making big and unjust cases.

To this end, Marin came up with a solution-that is, the intelligence bureau has only the powers of investigation, proof and prosecution, similar to the procuratorial organs of later generations. However, the procuratorial organs are open and are easily monitored by those with intentions. And the intelligence bureau is secret, not only cannot monitor, but will be secretly monitored. Therefore, its role is even greater than that of the procuratorate.

However, the intelligence bureau does not have the ultimate judicial adjudication power, and even the law enforcement power has been compressed to the limit. To arrest an official or nobleman, you must obtain the authorization of the Chancellor. Moreover, the judicial power also belongs to the court. In this way, no matter how good the intelligence bureau is, because it has no judicial power, and does not have the ability to frame others and frame it, it can avoid becoming bigger. However, because of his pervasive ability, he can also make Marin "sight and ears" to understand the situation all over the country and avoid being deceived. In addition, the existence of the Intelligence Bureau, as long as a few beautiful shots, can deter those who have bad intentions.

With the rise of commercial trade, Marin could foresee a growing urban population in East Friesland. Then, the issue of public security in the city needs to be taken seriously.

In the past, the population of East Frisian counties was very small, but Marin is now expanding the city on a large scale, and it is also engaging in immigration, and the urban population will definitely form a large scale in the future.

The city is also a place to hide dirt. In the current rural areas, because of the existence of serf manors, the serfs are restricted to the manor, and they do not run around, and there is no floating population, as long as the manor or manager manages those serfs according to the law. Therefore, in rural areas, there is currently no security problem.

But the city is different. The city has always been the center of the three religions and nine streams, and there are many messy things. Without security forces, it is impossible.

Before, although there were magistrates everywhere, they were generally held concurrently by local officials. Moreover, the security personnel under them are not regular. Either the sheriff's younger brother, or simply a local soldier. These people are often gangsters and hooligans themselves, and the law enforcement is relatively rough. Even, there are acts of oppression of the people. Compared with the security personnel of this era, the urban management of later generations should not be too civilized...

Therefore, Marin signed an order to cancel the establishment of the sheriff and set up a special police force. Of course, in rural areas, the sheriff system is still used, and other officials serve concurrently. But in the five major cities - Aurich, Emden, Lyle, Den Burg and Norden, Marin established police stations, abolished the former sheriff, and formed a formal police station. The former sheriff was replaced by the police chief.

The source of the police is some of the former soldiers who retired due to injuries after the last battle in Lyle County. Of course, although these veterans couldn't stay in the army any longer, their injuries weren't too serious. At least there was no problem in forming a team to beat the gangsters.

Because these people have received strict military training and are well disciplined, they will not oppress the people like gangsters, but they are also very combative and can hold the scene.

Marin selected a total of 300 outstanding soldiers who chose to retire after being injured, and sent them to 5 cities to establish police forces.

The police are different from ordinary people. They need to beat up gangsters at any time and have the ability to stop riots. In the choice of weapons, Marin hesitated for a long time...

First of all, muskets are not suitable. Musket is too lethal, suitable for killing people, not suitable for law enforcement. Moreover, the muskets of this era have too long to reload and poor accuracy. If one shot can't focus the criminals, it will make oneself unlucky, and it is easy to accidentally injure innocent people.

So, Marin ruled out the musket first. Anyway, he has banned guns all over the country for a long time, and he does not worry about people using guns to oppose the police. Then, Marin began to consider equipping the police with swords.

Then, the light sword used by the knight entered Marin's line of sight. This light sword, easy to carry and not heavy, is suitable for police to patrol and perform tasks and fight crime. Therefore, the light sword is to be equipped.

However, it is easy to hurt people when drawing a sword when teaching a thorn. Therefore, it is necessary to have a baton. However, Marin didn't have the rubber to make a rubber baton for professional beating. So, Marin remembered the fighting artifact of later generations-the baseball bat... Then, the baseball bat became one of the police's equipment...

When encountering thorns and gangsters, the police don't have to draw their swords, just take out a baseball bat and give it a swipe. However, when faced with a group of people making trouble, there is some trouble.

So Marin thought of the riot police who used shields in later generations. The reason for the use of shields is to resist the attacks of objects thrown by the troublemakers, and to a certain extent, they can also resist the knives. Moreover, riot police lined up with shields can also use shields to forcibly push and drive away the troublemakers.

Therefore, Marin decided that the police's riot gear should be a square wooden shield and baseball bat, as well as a wooden riot hat.

This kind of equipment can completely beat any gangster group, and can also resist those angry crowds. In the future, after Marin obtained chili peppers from the Americas, he plans to make spicy chili powder instead of tear gas to disperse the rioting crowd. However, the caster must wear glasses and masks first, otherwise it will endanger himself...

After successively setting up the secretariat, strengthening the Ministry of Finance, establishing the intelligence bureau and the police station, Marin also set up tax bureaus in five major cities for the development of domestic commerce.

The IRS personnel were dispatched by Marin himself, with assistance from Kohler's Treasury Department. In other cities, the tax office mainly collects taxes on street shops and street vendors. Even the city's entry tax is under the jurisdiction of the tax bureau.

Marin stipulates that the "one tax system" will be adopted in the future. That is to say, if you enter or leave the city in the future, you only have to pay the entry tax, and you do not need to pay the exit tax. At the same time, various domestic tax cards have been cancelled, local governments are not allowed to set up tax cards privately, and the right to levy tax is returned to the tax bureau. For goods in transit, as long as they are invoiced and stamped by the local tax office, when they arrive at another part of East Frisian Country, they only need to present the stamped invoice, as long as the type and quantity of the goods on the invoice are consistent with the inspection results. , no more taxation is required.

This reform is meant to be progressive. In the Middle Ages, it was very common for the same country to set up private tax cards in various places. Moreover, the tax from the privately set up tax cards in these places will not be handed over, but will be privately divided by local officials.

This move by Marin is actually very damaging to the interests of local officials. If you change to another country, you may encounter a lot of resistance.

But East Frisian counties are different. The old East Frisian nobles who followed the Serksner family were killed by Marin. The remaining old aristocrats and new aristocrats were very afraid to face the ruthless Marin. Therefore, they dare not violate Marin's policy, lest they be "clicked".

Therefore, with the previous bad reputation, Marin easily took back the power of commercial taxation in various places, and only retained the power to maintain a certain degree of retention when collecting agricultural taxes. After all, local officials also have to eat. However, the people from the tax bureau will also send people to supervise the whole process to prevent these former tax officials from extorting the people. But in fact, in Germany in this era, the fields in the countryside are basically in the hands of tyrants, and there are basically no homesteaders. The tax officials just want to extort and have no suitable targets. Those manor owners are basically nobles or noble relatives, and they are not easy to mess with. In the past, the ordinary people who did business in the city were very suitable targets for extortion. But Marin has taken back the right to collect taxes in the city, so, in fact, the original tax officials can't make extra money, at most they can only go to the country manor to eat and drink...

As a result, four new institutions, the Secretariat, the Intelligence Service, the Police Service and the Tax Service, were established in East Friesland.

The police station and the tax bureau are easy to handle. You can follow the old practices, add some new ideas, and you can start working right away. As for the Intelligence Bureau, because there was no precedent to follow, it could only explore slowly. Moreover, related talents also need to be cultivated and explored.

As for the secretariat, facing four young college students, Marin didn't expect them to get started right away. At the very least, it will take a year or two before these college students who are too bookish can gradually adapt to government work and initially become politicians. That's when Marin can get rid of most of the baggage and have time to do something else...

Of course, although Marin wanted to shake off the burden, he didn't lose his head. For the most important military power and important personnel appointment power, no matter when, Marin will not let go. As long as these two powers are mastered, no matter how the people below make trouble, they will not be able to turn the waves...