Volume 4 is in the ascendant Chapter 523: Battery
The officials in the Shuhou Mansion could not guess what the Chu State wanted to do, and Deng Zhi would not take the initiative to "show his weakness". In addition, there was a powerful enemy from the south waiting in the wings, so they could only let Deng Zhi "slaughter" them.
Deng Zhi took the opportunity to propose launching an investigation in Shu to ensure that no foreign slaves from the north had flowed in. In order to prove his "innocence", the Marquis of Shu had no choice but to agree.
Of course, there are strict limits on the size of the investigation team, and Shu will also send people to monitor the entire process...
Zhang Song and others naturally suspected that the State of Chu wanted to take the opportunity to spy on the topography of Xichuan, and even secretly establish connections with the local families in Xichuan.
However, the Shuhou Mansion could no longer care too much about this kind of influence and could only try to avoid it through "surveillance".
If the State of Chu really attacks Xichuan with all its might, the Shuhou Mansion still has a chance to take a gamble. As long as they dare to take the gamble, they can at least delay the State of Chu for a few months.
However, if Chu also plans to "delay" the situation and prevent Shu Houfu from fully dealing with the rebellion in the south, Yizhou will be in chaos within a year or two. Who can stop Chu from sending troops by then?
Even now, Chu has decided that the garrison in Badong County will suspend its withdrawal "before the investigation is completed."
Fortunately, the Shuhou Mansion had no intention of mobilizing troops from Ba County, but instead used more core troops from Shu County and Guanghan to go to the south to resist the rebellion.
As for Yan Yan of Jiangzhou, he will continue to keep an eye on Badong County.
The Chu army, which has always been known for its strict military discipline and its mission of maintaining Chu learning, is also always concerned about the safety of the people in Yizhou.
Instead of putting any pressure on Yan Yan, he sent someone to ask Yan Yan if he needed the Chu army to help maintain order...
If necessary, as long as Jiangzhou makes way, Zhao Yun will immediately lead his men to the rebellious area in southern Yizhou to restore order and effectively protect the lives and property of the people of Yizhou!
Regardless of whether Yan Yan agreed or not, the Chu army has always been promoting this, and Zhao Yun did send people to inquire, but Yan Yan's reaction was very indifferent and he even wanted to curse. So it was not Chu's problem.
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In the fourth and fifth years of the Chu calendar, after the delivery of warships, the relationship between Chu and Wei officially emerged from its "honeymoon period".
Although because of the fig leaf of "civilian organization", in theory it was not the Wei court that had friction with the Chu navy in Bohai, and there was no tension at the official level, but the relationship had obviously become much more strained.
Especially recently, the Wei court finally woke up. Even though the Chu State took the initiative to exempt the export tax, the Wei State still started to collect import taxes!
However, under the trade threat from Chu, they dared not set the price too high for the time being. After all, Wei's reliance on Chu was much higher than Chu's reliance on Wei. If Wei set the price at 10%, Chu would dare to set the price at 20%...
However, this did not affect Xiahou Juan too much. Even from the perspective of classical morality, the princess should not be treated coldly after marrying because of her motherland.
Of course, in reality, even if it is not treated too coldly, it is bound to be affected .
for example……
Two months ago, Xiahou Juan suddenly stopped creating, which caused speculation from the outside world, suspecting that the relationship between Chu and Wei would further deteriorate.
However, not long ago, Xiahou Juan appeared in public again, accompanied by Bai Tu, and she was... pregnant!
The many original speculations were finally dispelled - it turned out that more than a month ago, Xiahou Juan was found to be pregnant, and then for safety reasons, she did not resume normal activities until she had passed the dangerous period of the first three months.
After all, unlike Lu Lingqi, although Xiahou Juan was born into a military family and could not be considered delicate, she was still just an ordinary healthy woman. Although the pregnancy age was very scientific and safe, she still had to be extra careful in the first three months.
Now is finally a relatively safe time...
In order to relax and clarify the rumors, Bai Tu specially attended the "Creation Day" event in October with Xia Hou Juan.
At Bai Tu's request, Lu Lingqi did not follow - if she followed as the Queen of Chu, Bai Tu would not mind, but the problem was... Lu Lingqi insisted on following as the head of the guard at the beginning.
Wouldn't that mean that Bai Tu and Xiahou Juan would attend the event, sitting side by side in the main seats in the front, with Lu Lingqi standing silently behind them?
Bai Tu always felt that something was strange, so he put in all his effort last night to convince Lu Lingqi to give up this awkward plan.
Today... following behind Bai Tu and Xiahou Juan, the person temporarily taking over the position of chief guard is none other than Lu Lingqi's "student" - Sun Shangxiang.
Today, the creative group is no longer just a group of people who select a few excellent plays after soliciting them from the public. It has become a complete industry and is no longer just employed by the government. There are also many commercial channels, playing their role in the soft expansion of culture and guiding public opinion.
Relevant laws and regulations were added to "Chu Law" last year, and Xiahou Juan specifically sought Xu Rong to "calculate" a creator's day as a symbol to protect the rights and interests of creators.
This is the first "Creators' Day" this year. In Jinling's theme event, in addition to Xiahou Juan, who is also a creator, Bai Tu also came in person. On the one hand, he was with Xiahou Juan, and on the other hand, it was to express his attention. After all, various operas and plays account for most of the propaganda among the people and the soft assimilation to the outside world.
Especially after the commercial channels were liberalized, many behaviors still need to be regulated.
Bai Tu also specifically emphasized that the literacy rate of Chu will continue to improve in the future...
In fact , many people have discovered that Baitu has recently started to focus on literacy rates again.
The literacy rate in Chu was already high enough. In the past two years, the number of people who could read simply, that is, those who could understand the menu in a restaurant, has increased to an astonishing proportion of about half. Thirty percent of people can understand vernacular novels and official reports, and at least ten percent of the total population can read and write completely!
However, this is also related to the form of elementary education in Chu State. The proportion of "complete reading and writing" is higher than the proportion of "understanding the classics"...
Taking the Eastern Han Dynasty twenty years ago as an example, the literacy rate was 10%, and the people who could read and write completely accounted for "one of one tenth", or about 1%. And this 1% were all able to understand the classics - regardless of whether their interpretation was correct or not, at least they thought they understood them.
This is also because, for the people at that time, "interpreting classics" was the purpose of mastering "complete reading and writing", and naturally the two were completely overlapping - if it was not for the purpose of reading the classics of sages, why would you bother learning the whole set?
Isn’t it enough to be able to understand a few words and write a letter?
This has also invisibly increased the difficulty of mastering "complete reading and writing".
The Chu State's elementary schools taught reading and writing first. Before the differentiation of majors, the essence of each classic was only excerpted in the textbooks, thus untying "complete reading and writing" from "interpreting the classics."
To some extent, this is also the impact of the change that as the cost of paper is reduced, complex spoken and vernacular expressions can be directly put into writing.
Otherwise, in the era of carving bamboo slips or paper being precious, "books" had to be written in written language - otherwise it would be too time-consuming and laborious!
In order to improve literacy and reading and writing rates, the State of Chu, to a certain extent, also implicitly advocated the vernacular movement and the simplified character movement.
Vernacular does not mean "blank words", but refers to directly putting spoken expressions into writing.
The word "simplified" is just as the name suggests - the characters in Cheng Ji's world were discovered by Bai Tu at the beginning of his journey to be much simpler than normal seal characters, otherwise Bai Tu might not have been able to understand it at the time. It's just that now... it has been further simplified.
As a result, the literacy rate of Chu State reached a staggering 50%. There were about 5% people who could interpret the classics, that is, traditional scholars, but only about 10% could master complete reading and writing - more than 10% of the total population !
Considering the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, this was already quite impressive data.
If everything had continued step by step, the level of education would have been very harmonious.
However, recently the King of Chu and the Chu court have repeatedly hinted that literacy rate, or elementary education, as well as county schools, universities, and craftsman schools, will be the next focus of support for the Chu State.
This made many officials of Chu think a lot, and they felt like... they were looking for trouble?
The last time I had this feeling was when the State of Chu insisted on increasing food consumption to support the cultivation of the entire nation and... to lay steel on the ground!
In fact, it is not surprising to feel this way.
Because the white map is not just for "literacy" itself, but the Ministry of Industry has made new discoveries...
In the process of optimizing the "spiritual report", Pang Tong gradually mastered more electrical technology - after all, the spiritual report is essentially different from the pure mental communication of the armor, and it still requires the use of electrical signals, or to be more precise, the "mental telegram".
Inspired by Bai Tu, Pang Tong successfully produced a lead-acid battery, laying the foundation for the use of electrical energy, but...
In the world of Cheng Ji, although the principle of magnetoelectric power generation is applicable, to generate electricity on a large scale... there is no coal!
The old saying is no coal!
Even in later times when clean energy is advocated and nuclear power technology is even proposed, thermal power generation still accounts for 70% to 80%. In comparison, hydropower and wind power are just extra.
In the period when industrialization was not yet complete, thermal power generation was the absolute mainstay...
However, without coal, thermal power generation would be a joke. As for burning charcoal? It's the same reason... Even if Wuling and Jiaozhou were bald, it wouldn't be enough of a disaster.
As for the "Qi Machine" to generate electricity, it is indeed feasible to a certain extent, but the efficiency... is not high.
Even the amount of "true qi tax" collected by the Chu State was actually far less than the "inexhaustible" coal in Bai Tu's impression when the Industrial Revolution just began.
In terms of resources, the world of Cheng Ji is actually very inconvenient.
Fortunately, Pang Tong also knew how to adapt. From the reaction between mental power and electricity, he discovered a method to use "mental power" to make the lead-acid battery produce a storage reaction...
However, the source of mental power has become a new problem!
