Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 524 Batteries

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 cowardice". In addition, there was a powerful enemy of the Southern Barbarians waiting for him, so naturally he could only let Deng Zhi "slaughter" him.

Deng Zhi took the opportunity to propose that an investigation should be carried out in the Shu Kingdom to ensure that there would be no influx of alien slaves from the North, and the Marquis of Shu had no choice but to agree in order to prove his "innocence".

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 Chu State wanted to take the opportunity to explore the terrain of Xichuan, and even secretly establish contact with local aristocratic families in Xichuan.

However, the Shuhou Mansion no longer cares too much about this influence and can only use "monitoring" to avoid it as much as possible.

If Chu State really attacks Xichuan with all its strength, Shuhou Mansion still has a chance to gamble. As long as it dares to gamble, it can hold Chu State back for at least a few months.

However, once the Chu State also has the idea of ​​"delaying", so that the Marquis of Shu cannot fully deal with the rebellion in the south, within a year or so, Yizhou will be in chaos. When the Chu State sends troops, who will Can it be blocked?
Even now, Chu State has made up its mind that the garrison in Badong County will suspend the evacuation "before the investigation is completed."

Fortunately, the Shuhou Mansion was not planning to use Bajun's troops, but instead sent the more core troops from Shujun and Guanghan to the south to resist the rebellion.

As for Yan Yan in 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 duty to safeguard Chu learning, is also always concerned about the safety of the people of Yizhou.

Instead of putting any pressure on Yan Yan, he sent someone to ask Yan Yan whether he needed the help of the Chu army to maintain order...

If necessary, as long as Jiangzhou gets out of the way, Zhao Yun will immediately take people to the rebel area in the south of Yizhou to restore order and effectively protect the lives and property of Yizhou people!
Regardless of whether Yan Yantong agreed or disagreed, the Chu army had been propagating this way anyway, and Zhao Yun did send someone to inquire, but Yan Yan's reaction was very flat, and he wanted to curse, so it was not Chu's problem.

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In the fourth and fifth years of Chu Li, after the warships were delivered, the relationship between Chu and Wei officially came out of the "honeymoon period".

Although there is still a fig leaf of "civilian organizations", in theory, it is not the Wei court that has friction with the Chu Navy in the Bohai Sea, and there will be no tension at the official level, but the relationship is obviously much stiffer.

Especially recently, the court of Wei State has finally awakened. Even though Chu State voluntarily waived the export tax, Wei State will still go its own way and start collecting import tax!
But under the threat of trade from the Chu State, we don’t dare to set it too high for the time being. After all, the Wei State is much more dependent on the Chu State than the Chu State is on the Wei State. If the Wei State decides to settle for [-]%, the Chu State will dare to settle for [-]%. become……

However, this did not affect Xia Houjuan too much. Even from a classical moral perspective, after the princess married, she should not receive any cold treatment because of her mother country.

Of course, in fact, in this case, even if there is not too much cold treatment, it is bound to have an impact.

such as……

Two months ago, Xia Houjuan suddenly stopped writing, which once caused speculation among the outside world that the relationship between Chu and Wei would further deteriorate.

But not long ago, Xia Houjuan appeared in public again, accompanied by Bai Tu, and she was...pregnant!
Many original speculations were dissipated. It turned out that Xia Houjuan was found to be pregnant more than a month ago. Then, for the sake of safety, he did not start normal activities until he passed the dangerous period of the first three months.

After all, unlike Lu Lingqi, although Xia Houjuan was born in a general family and cannot be considered delicate, she is still only in the category of ordinary healthy women. Although the pregnancy age is very scientific and safe, she still needs to be more careful in the first three months.

It is finally a relatively safe time now...

In order to relax and clarify the rumors, Bai Tu and Xia Houjuan specially attended the "Creation Day" event in October.

Under Bai Tu's plea, Lu Lingqi did not follow - Bai Tu wouldn't mind if she followed as the Queen of Chu, but the problem was... Lu Lingqi had to follow as the Chief of Guards at the beginning.

Wouldn't that mean that Bai Tu and Xia Houjuan attended the event and sat side by side at the front, while Lu Lingqi stood silently behind?

Bai Tu always felt that something was strange, so he tried his best last night to persuade Lu Lingqi to give up this awkward plan.

Today... following Bai Tu and Xia Houjuan, the person who temporarily took over the post of chief guard was none other than Lu Lingqi's "student" - Sun Shangxiang.

Nowadays, the group of creators is no longer a complete industry after selecting a few excellent choreographed repertoires after the civil collection by the Ministry of Rites. It is no longer just official employment, but also many commercial channels. It plays its own role in guiding public opinion.

Last year, relevant laws and regulations were added to "Law of Chu", and Xia Houjuan specifically asked Xu Rong to "count" a creator's day as a sign to protect the rights and interests of creators.

This is the first "Creator's Day" this year. In the theme event of Jinling, besides Xia Houjuan who is a creator, Bai Tu also came in person. In order to express attention, after all, now publicity among the people and soft assimilation to the outside world, various operas and plays account for most of the role.

Especially after the commercial channels are liberalized, many behaviors still need to be regulated.

Bai Tu also specifically emphasized that the literacy rate of Chu State will continue to increase in the future...

In fact, many people have discovered that Baitu has recently begun to focus on literacy rates again.

The literacy rate in Chu State is already high enough. Those who can read simply, that is, can read recipes in restaurants, have reached an astonishing rate of about half in the past two years, while those who can read scripts and newspapers , there can be [-]%, and there are at least [-]% of the total population who 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 classics"...

Taking the Eastern Han Dynasty 20 years ago, the literacy rate was 1% and those who could read and write completely were "1% of [-]%", which is about [-]%, and these [-]% were also able to read and understand classics—— Not to mention whether the interpretation is right or wrong, at least people think they understand.

This is also because, for people at that time, "interpreting classics" was the purpose of mastering "complete reading and writing". Naturally, the two completely overlapped - if it were not to read the classics of sages, what would you do with the entire set?
Isn't it enough to understand a few words and write a letter?
This invisibly increases the difficulty of mastering "complete reading and writing".

In contrast, the Chu Kingdom's primary education taught reading and writing first. Before professional differentiation, only the best excerpts from each classic were included in the textbooks, thus unbundling "complete reading and writing" from "interpretation of classics."

To a certain extent, this is also the impact of this change after the cost of paper has been reduced, allowing complex spoken and vernacular expressions to be directly implemented in writing.

Otherwise, in the era when bamboo slips were carved or paper was expensive, "books" had to be written in written language - otherwise it would be too time-consuming and laborious!

In order to improve the literacy rate and reading and writing rate, Chu State, to a certain extent, also invisibly advocated the vernacular movement and the simplified character movement.

The vernacular is not the words of "white pictures", but refers to the direct implementation of spoken language expressions into writing.

Simplified characters are exactly as the name suggests - the characters in Cheng Ji's world were much simpler than the normal seal characters that Bai Tu discovered when he first traveled through time. Otherwise, Bai Tu might not have been able to understand them at first, but now... they have been further simplified. .

As a result, the literacy rate of Chu State reached an astonishing 50%. About 5% of the people who could interpret the classics, that is, traditional scholars, but those who mastered complete reading and writing were only a few 10% - one of the total population. More than that!
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, this was already a very impressive figure.

Originally, as long as we continue step by step, the popularity of this education is actually very harmonious.

However, recently the King of Chu and the Chu court have repeatedly hinted that literacy, or elementary education, and even county schools, universities, and craftsmanship will be the next focus of Chu's support.

This made many Chu Chen think about it, and they felt like... they were looking for trouble?
The last time I had this feeling was when the Chu State had to increase food consumption to support the cultivation of all the people, and... it was when they laid steel on the ground!
In fact, it’s not surprising to feel this way.

Because the white map is indeed not only for "literacy" itself, but also a new discovery by the Ministry of Industry...

In the process of optimizing "Jingbao", Pang Tong also gradually mastered more power technology - after all, Jingbao is essentially different from the pure mental communication of the armor. It still requires the use of electrical signals. To be precise, It should be "spiritual telegram".

Inspired by Bai Tu, Pang Tong successfully produced a battery based on the lead-acid principle, laying the foundation for the use of electrical energy, but...

Although the Johime World applies the power generation principle of magnetic electricity, large-scale power generation is required... without coal!

As the old saying goes, there is no coal!

Even in later generations who advocate clean energy and even point out nuclear power technology, thermal power still accounts for [-]% to [-]% of power generation. In comparison, water power and wind power are just superfluous.

In a period when industrialization has not yet been completed, thermal power generation is the absolute backbone...

However, without coal, thermal power generation would become a joke. As for burning charcoal?It's still the same truth... cutting Wuling and Jiaozhou bald would not be enough of a disaster.

As for the "Zhen Qi Machine" power generation, it is indeed feasible to a certain extent, but the efficiency... is not high.

Even the amount of "Qi tax" collected by Chu State is actually far less than the "inexhaustible" coal in Bai Tu's impression when the Industrial Revolution just started.

In terms of resources, Chengji World is actually very inconvenient.

Fortunately, Pang Tong also knew how to adapt. From the reaction between mental power and electricity, he discovered a way to use "mental power" to cause the lead-acid battery to have a charging reaction...

But the source of mental power has become a new problem!

(End of this chapter)