After the class teacher returned to the court, Marin held a meeting to discuss the solution to the Jever problem.
The members present mainly include Palace Prime Minister Jeffrey, Minister of Finance Kohler, Justice and Mayor of Aurich Haider, and several major generals.
It should be mentioned that although Haider was not conferred the title of court baron like Kohler, he was also conferred the title of hereditary knight. Kohler is mainly because he also serves as a quartermaster and can share military merits. Moreover, because Kohler helped Marin take the blame, he was awarded the title of Baron. And for a civil servant like Haider, being able to bestow a hereditary jazz is already considered a favor.
Moreover, Marin abolished the mayoral election system popular in Europe and changed it to the imperial appointment system. This move is conducive to the centralization of power and facilitates the imperial court's control of the local area.
The mayoral election system popular in Europe is the source of division. Because the mayor is elected by the local people, then they don't need to care too much about the attitude of the court, as long as they please the local gentry who are eligible to vote. When the imperial court demands a tax increase, the mayor elected by the locals may even confront the imperial court and refuse to increase the tax.
Therefore, in order to strengthen centralization, Marin decisively abolished the mayor election system. However, local councils remained. However, local councils have been deprived of executive powers and personnel appointment powers, leaving only supervisory powers. Of course, if the mayor appointed by the imperial court is too unbearable, such as extortionate taxation and extortion, if he is an evil party, the local council has the right to impeach and report to the imperial court judicial organs. However, local councils do not have the power to remove local officials, only the powers of supervision and impeachment. Moreover, even if it is impeached, a judicial investigation is needed, and the evidence can be conclusive before the impeachment can be successful. Of course, councils retain one power - that tax increases require their approval.
In this way, Marin emptied most of the local council, and the local government has no right to speak about administrative matters. And the local officials are all appointed by Marin, then these local officials will be directly responsible to Marin, and will also put Marin's interests first. In this way, Marin can easily control the place.
If Marin pursued such an anti-democratic policy in normal times, he would naturally encounter fierce opposition. But what is the situation now? Marin had just killed most of the nobles who were not all the way. This is the moment when people are panicking. Who has the courage to stand up and oppose
Therefore, under the horror of Marin's blood, this plan was implemented very easily. Then, a large number of noble descendants who were close to the Marin and Bullock families were appointed as magistrates after a brief investigation. Moreover, Marin has fully implemented the "hometown avoidance" system, and does not allow locals to serve as local officials in their hometowns, so as to avoid excessive local power and form interest groups against the central government.
In addition, the term of office of magistrates is also 5 years, and shall not exceed 10 years. After more than ten years, the place must be changed. Because, even if you are a foreigner, if you have been a magistrate in a place for more than ten years, you can easily become a local tyrant.
Haider is a very good civil servant. He is diligent and honest. He does not have too much ambition. The only shortcoming is that he does not have too much experience in politics and lacks exercise. Therefore, while making Haider the mayor of Aurich, Marin studied with Jeffrey more. Of course, it is not to learn from Jeffrey's naughty and shameless, but to learn from Jeffrey's years of political experience. Geoffrey has been a palace minister in East Frisia for 8 years and has extensive experience in administrative management. It would be perfect for him to be Haider's teacher. Geoffrey is too slippery and not loyal enough. Moreover, he is not young anymore, he is 50 years old. In this day and age, it is normal to die in your fifties, and it is not uncommon to die in your forties. Therefore, Marin didn't know when Jeffrey would die. Therefore, training the young Haider in advance is considered a preparation. As for Kohler, he is a professional in managing money, and his basic cultural level is far behind that of Haider, so he is good at mathematics. Therefore, Marin intends to let Kohler manage the money. As for government affairs, it is more reassuring to hand over the medieval college student Haider.
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The Jever issue discussed this time was a big problem Marin encountered. The former Count of East Frisia, Edsard I, failed to solve it, and Marin also felt very difficult.
Jever was originally an area on the northeast coast of East Frisia, roughly equivalent to the northern half of Frisland County in Lower Saxony, Germany, and the well-known city of Wilhelmshaven in later generations. The total area is about About 500 square kilometers. It belongs to the powerful Wiemken family in the East Frisian region, and the contemporary Baron of Jever is named Edo Wiemken.
Although nominally a baron, the Barony of Jever under the control of the Wilmken family is actually independent. Of course, it doesn't mean how powerful the Wilmken family is. Rather, it was because the Wilmken family had secretly allied with the Earl of Oldenburg. Moreover, not long ago, after the death of his ex-wife, Baron Edo Wilmken continued to marry Gerhard VI, the former Earl of Oldenburg (did not die, but passed the throne to his eldest son, who died in 1500 ) youngest daughter, Hedwig, sister of Adolf, current Count of Oldenburg. If it is said that Oldenburg's support for Jever was still secret before, since Gerhard VI married his daughter Hedwig to Baron Edo, Oldenburg's support for Jever became public.
In fact, Oldenburg is not a powerful country, its area is only less than twice that of East Frisia, and its population is less than 100,000. Such a small garbage country, Marin can easily flatten it...
However, the Oldenburg family was too lucky. In 1448, because of the extinction of the Danish royal family, Christian I, the eldest son of Dietrich, Earl of Oldenburg, was lucky enough to be elected King of Denmark.
From then on, the Oldenburg family of grass chickens flew up to the branches and became phoenixes. Because Denmark was a powerful country in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages. The power at sea, even the United Kingdom has to give up three points.
The current Earl of Oldenburg and the Danish royal family are relatives of the same family, so they are natural allies. After Christian I was elected King of Denmark, he gave up the Earl of Oldenburg to his younger brother Gerhard VI. The current king of Denmark is Hans, the son of Christian I, and King Hans is the nephew of the former Earl of Oldenburg Gerhard VI who is still alive...
The uncle of the King of Denmark, such a title is absolutely thunderous to the German princes. Therefore, although the Earl of Oldenburg is weak, the power of Gerhard VI and his son Adolf is not small.
Gerhard VI and his son Adolf supported the Barony of Jever to fight against the Counties of East Frisia and split. In this regard, Edsard I had nothing to do. Who told the Earl of Oldenburg to have such a powerful nephew as the King of Denmark...
Even Marin scratched his head in the face of Oldenburg's support of Jever...
It's easy to clean up the Barony of Jever, and a phalanx can solve the problem. It is not difficult to defeat the Earl of Oldenburg, can't a phalanx solve it? That's two!
But what about after defeating the Earl of Oldenburg? The Danish King Hans looked at it—it’s okay, that little bastard named Marin beat my uncle and cousin, isn’t that a slap in the face? Then the Danish army arrived, and Marlin died...
Therefore, facing the Earl of Oldenburg, Marin must now endure this tone. Regarding the autonomy of the Barony of Jever, first turn a blind eye and close one eye. However, it is also necessary to prevent Jever from overreaching and expanding.
Therefore, the final result of the discussion at the meeting was that everyone agreed that Marin sent the fourth phalanx to the east for long-term stationing. In addition, 1,000 militiamen were recruited, with a strong momentum, to frighten the people of Jever and Oldenburg, lest the Earl of Oldenburg and Jever want to take advantage of the opportunity of the East Frisian regime change, from East Frisia Lambert took some territory.
For the Earl of Oldenburg, which has a very hard background, Marin is also very grumpy. It's easy to beat someone like this, but his background is much stronger than you. After defeating the Earl of Oldenburg, the Danish warships may sail to the port of Emden to "visit"...
Even if Marin can rely on the strong city to block the attack of the Danish army, the Danish navy is extremely strong and blocks Marin's ocean trade without any pressure, and it can easily prevent the salt produced on Texel Island from being transported out... Ma Lin's finances depend on the sea transportation trade. Compared with the huge profits from the sea transportation trade, Jever's land is not worth mentioning...
After thinking about it again and again, Marin decided to pretend not to see Jever's separatist behavior. As long as the opponent does not attack, Marin will ignore the opponent...
When Denmark goes to war with others and its own strength becomes stronger, it will take the opportunity to send troops to retake Jever. However, for Oldenburg, you still can't do it... Who told the backstage to be super hard...