Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 526 Shi Xie’s surprise

After Bai Tu learned about "spiritual power generation" and that the study place was suitable for building a "power plant", he revealed a little bit to Diange and strongly encouraged an increase in investment in education.

He didn't explain much about electricity to the courtiers, and he didn't even say anything about it to the palace.

After all, from the current point of view, due to the special resources of Cheng Ji's world, "spiritual energy" is extremely cost-effective in areas that overlap with "qi energy".

The efficiency of an electrified workshop is far lower than that of a pure gas workshop...

It's just that in Bai Tu's memory, electric energy can play a huge role in many places where infuriating energy cannot benefit, so he is willing to support it, such as computers that "may" appear in the future.

Although Bai Tu penetrated simple calculation principles into Pang Tong, Pang Tong became more inclined to use gears to simulate binary and use real air pistons to push the color module to realize the display function, but... Bai Tu still feels that from the subsequent development Speaking from a practical point of view, is the potential of the Qi Computer too limited?

What's more, the reason why "Zhen Qi Neng" appears to be more efficient now is simply because "everyone can practice Qigong". What if "everyone has Shu Nian" in the future?

Baitu was not sure whether it was cost-effective, so he did not give many directional orders, but continued to develop step by step.

Of course, at least for now, in the category of electric energy-driven power facilities, they are definitely far less efficient than Zhenqi machines...

Just like the current Zhenqi agricultural tools, ordinary people who have initially cultivated Zhenqi can use some simple ones. However, to make an "electric version" with comparable effects, I am afraid it will take the mental power of a second-rate counselor to drive it. , the gap in training costs is not so big!

Therefore, the application of electric energy is mainly in the "information age", and there is no sign of the electrical age at all.

With such a large span, it is difficult for Bai Tu to make other people understand the purpose of doing this. Fortunately... increasing investment in education was originally the "right thing to do", but now it is just accelerated.

Since Bai Tu strongly supported it, the atmosphere naturally lifted.

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The real big event in the fifth year of the Chu calendar was that at the end of the year, there was finally an official road that barely counted as a "road" and it was paved to Jiaozhou. There is a "full official road" from Jinling to Jiaozhou. At the narrowest place, at least one carriage can pass on the official road!

Although there were official roads before, they were intermittent and dilapidated, and even in some areas, they had long been integrated with the surrounding mountains and forests. This time, the road paving lasted nearly four years to reconnect and repair these official roads. Technology" reinforcement, some mountain roads have also been changed into tunnels, shortening the distance...

On the day when the road was completed, which was connected to an official road in the border town of Jiaozhou, Shi Xie contacted him personally. Even though he was over seventy years old, he symbolically picked up the shovel and dug a handful of soil.

To represent Jiaozhou, I am very happy to be connected with Chu State...

Not only Shixie and Jiaozhou Prefecture, but also after Chu State began to build roads, especially in the past two years, people-to-people exchanges between Jiaozhou and Chu State have also increased.

After all, Jiaozhou is dominated by "hundred tribes", and it is not a small-scale peasant economy. Most of the tribes are mainly engaged in collecting and farming as a supplement. The other small group is also the opposite. There are few who are purely farming and self-sufficient, which is lower than the small-scale peasant economy. The agricultural civilization of China is more diligent in "exchange".

Moreover, the land of Lingnan, with its specialties of jade, pearls, precious wood, ivory carvings, wood carvings, etc., was originally a place suitable for "exchange". In later generations, in the planting industry, various fruits, rubber and other economic crops were also more cost-effective. ...The small-scale farmer economy will not bring much profit.

Therefore, after Chu State began to build roads, especially after the banditry was eliminated along the way, there were more and more caravans from both sides between Jiaozhou and Chu State...

There have even been cases where "Chu coins" were used to trade among the various tribes in Jiaozhou, and Shi Xie did not stop this.

At this time, after the official roads were completely cleared, many merchants, including "merchants" from hundreds of ethnic groups wearing animal skin shorts and bone and tooth pendants, spontaneously appeared at the completion ceremony with joy.

But in theory, it only ends here. After all, Jiaozhou...that is Shi Xie's territory, and Shi Xie has not officially "surrendered" yet.

How could Chu be easily allowed to come in and build roads?
And just where the road connects, the Chu State also built a "signal tower" - connected to a signal tower in a mountain col in the distance through an underground line, but... because it is blocked by rocks and trees, it can't be seen here at all. Other signal towers.

So for a while some people didn't understand what this was for.

In the second half of the ceremony to celebrate the completion, Wei Teng, the servant of the Ministry of Chu, who came to preside over it, also invited Shi Xie to enter the "pagoda" for a narration.

Although Shi Xie was a little curious when he looked at the signal tower, which did not look like a place for entertaining guests, he still entered with Wei Teng. After more than half an hour, Shi Xie's expression remained calm and he still looked very kind. Out together with Wei Teng.

However, some juniors or confidants who are familiar with Shi Xie have noticed that Shi Xie's expression is a bit stiff. However, it is not easy to ask questions in this situation. Anyway, there is no threat to Shi Xie's personal safety.

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Reports of the completion of the road between Chu State and Jiaozhou were published in newspapers across Chu State at the end of October.

In addition to the purpose of "celebrating", it is also calling on all walks of life in Chu State to open up new opportunities in Jiaozhou...

For a while, many people were interested, but Jiaozhou... was not the land of Chu State after all, so most of the people who were interested only had the mentality of trading.

Two months later, it was New Year's Eve again, and Bai Tu felt that this year had passed particularly quickly since he traveled through time... just like the development of Chu State.

And for this year's New Year's Day Festival, Bai Tu was specially prepared to make a big show. A temporary large altar was built in Jinling City after a long absence. On the New Year's Day, Bai Tu also dressed up and came to the altar after parading the float on the street. It feels a little unusual.

Everyone speculated whether the King of Chu could not bear it anymore and was preparing to officially go on stage to worship heaven and fight to the death with the prince of Shu...

At the same time, in the Han Dynasty court in Chang'an, Liu Xie also wore grand makeup, but at this time Liu Ai and Dong Cheng were trying to dissuade Liu Xie.

In fact, more than half a year ago, the news that Chu State and Jiaozhou were going to pass through had already reached the Central Plains, Guanzhong, and Liu Xie's ears.

It stands to reason that the speed of road construction is too fast, and it is still in a place like the Five Ridges. No matter how you look at it, Liu Xie feels that the credibility is not high, but it does have a symbolic role of "Jiaozhou is getting closer to the Chu State" .

While Liu Xie was angry, he also felt a crisis - although Shi Xie had frequently flattered the Chu State, it was undeniable that Shi Xie had been paying tribute to the Han Dynasty in the past two years.

Although... "there are rumors" that Shi Xie's tribute to the imperial court was in the same format as the tribute to Chu State, and the number of tributes was more to Chu State. This made Liu Xie usually have a lot of dissatisfaction with Shi Xie, but Now Liu Xie has ignored this point in his heart, and is full of "Chu State wants to attack Jiaozhou who is loyal to the Han Dynasty."

In order to boost the morale of Jiaozhou and give the old turtle Shi Xie some courage to resist the Chu State and help the Han Dynasty, Liu Xie wanted to confer Shi Xie as the King of South Vietnam at the New Year's Day meeting and order him to "forever rule Tiannan", and also Following the example of Chu State, he was given the title of "Hereditary Disciple".

Not only did it satisfy Shi Xie's thoughts, it also made him more motivated... Not to mention causing some trouble for the Chu State, at least not to continue to move closer to the Chu State!

Moreover, from a political point of view, making Shi Xie the king also increased the "cost" of Shi Xie's surrender to Chu.

After all, the Han Dynasty is already the real power and king. If they surrender to Chu, they will not be able to have less power and status than they are now, right?

This is also invisible, so that the king of Chu can't rest assured about Shi Xie, unless Shi Xie immediately surrenders to Chu unconditionally... But how is that possible?
Regarding Shi Xie's request, Liu Ai and others in the court had already analyzed it for Liu Xie!
Ordinarily, there is nothing wrong with Liu Xie's idea, but there are some "small flaws", that is, the envoy disguised as a caravan and went to Jiaozhou failed to come back before the end of the year...

In the original plan, the envoy disguised as a caravan should be able to return last month - Chu State's tireless road construction has greatly shortened the journey time from Chang'an to Jiaozhou.

Basically, as long as you enter Chu State, there is a horse racing road until you reach the land of Wuling. Even in the land of Wuling, there is "barely a road".

If it were 20 years ago, from Chang'an to Jiaozhou, even if you traveled lightly, one year would be enough for a one-way trip. If you set up the envoy's guard of honor, it would be possible to travel for two or three years.

However, after the development of the Han Dynasty (Liu Xie imagined), half a year is enough for one round trip.

But now that an accident has occurred, there is no way to know Shi Xie's attitude towards the canonization. Even more pessimistically, Shi Xie may not even know about the canonization.

Liu Xie thought it was not a big problem, but it did bring uncertainty to the canonization. It was precisely because of this that Liu Ai dissuaded Liu Xie, Dong Cheng... because Shi Xie's envoys "didn't know the rules", They didn't even bring him a gift, so this time they opposed the canonization in the same camp as Liu Ai.

"Your Majesty, the matter of conferring the king is not in a hurry. Fortunately, this time in order to be on guard against Chu State's actions, the news has been blocked before. Even the envoys were sent in person by Shizhong Zhong. Only a few people knew about this matter. Xi is just a formality. You can wait for the waiter to come back and choose an auspicious day to be sure. Otherwise... what if Shi Xie doesn't know about it yet? When the Xian envoy finds out, he will definitely make the appearance of the King of Nanyue appear in front of all the people. ." Liu Ai was already a little old at this time.

"The Han Dynasty was granted the title of king. Regardless of whether Shi Xie knew about it or not, would he still refuse?" Liu Xie frowned at Liu Ai who tried to dissuade him.

At the same time, I always feel that "conferring Jiuxi is just a formality" is a bit harsh.

"Your Majesty! Conferring a king is a big deal and cannot be done carelessly. Since the envoy has not returned, God's will may be involved..." Dong Cheng said quickly.

"Don't mention God's will to me!" Liu Xie said excitedly, because the public opinion of "returning the seal against heaven" has been unable to be overcome, and he already has some "God's will PTSD".

Liu Ai and Dong Cheng wanted to persuade him again, but Liu Xie, who was already a little irritable, said: "Okay! I have made up my mind!"

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