The officials in the Shu Hou 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 an investigation in Shu to ensure that no foreign slaves from the North would flow in. 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 kind of influence, and can only use "monitoring" to try to avoid it.
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 intends to "delay" and the Shuhou Mansion is unable to fully respond to the rebellion in the south, Yizhou will be in chaos in less than a year and a half. 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 troops from Ba County, but instead sent the more core troops from Shu County and Guanghan to the south to resist the rebellion.
As for Yan Yan from Jiangzhou, he will continue to focus 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 southern Yizhou to restore order and effectively protect the lives and property safety of the people of Yizhou!
Regardless of whether Yan Yantong agreed or not, the Chu army had always promoted this, and Zhao Yun indeed sent people to inquire. However, Yan Yan's reaction was very dull 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 because of the fig leaf of "civilian organizations", theoretically it was not the Wei imperial court that had friction with the Chu navy in the Bohai Sea, so tensions would not escalate at the official level, but the relationship was obviously much stiffer.
Especially recently, the Wei court finally woke up. Even if Chu took the initiative to waive export taxes, Wei still went its own way and began to collect import taxes!
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 relies on the Chu State much more than the Chu State relies on the Wei State. If the Wei State decides to settle for 10%, the Chu State will dare to settle for 20%.
become……
However, this did not affect Xia Houjuan too much. Even from a classical moral point of view, 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 you don't receive too much cold treatment, it will definitely have an impact.
for example……
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 actually...pregnant!
Many of the original speculations were dispersed - it turned out that Xia Houjuan was found to be pregnant more than a month ago, and 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 could not be considered delicate, she was still in the category of an ordinary healthy woman. Although the gestational age was scientific and safe, she still had to be extra careful in the first three months.
It is finally a relatively safe time now...
In order to relax and clarify the rumors, Bai Tu specially attended the "Creation Day" event in October with Xia Houjuan.
At Bai Tu's request, 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 takes over the post of Chief of Guards is none other than Lu Lingqi's "student" - Sun Shangxiang.
Nowadays, the group of creators is no longer just a few outstanding choreographed plays after the Ministry of Rites solicited private collections. It has become a complete industry. It is no longer only official employment, but also has many commercial channels. In the soft expansion of culture,
It plays its own role in guiding public opinion.
Relevant laws and regulations were added to "Laws of Chu" last year, and Xia Houjuan specifically asked Xu Rong to "calculate" a creator's day as a sign to protect the rights of creators.
This is the first "Creator's Day" this year. At the theme event in Jinling, in addition to Xia Houjuan, who is a creator, Bai Tu also came in person, on the one hand to accompany Xia Houjuan, and on the other hand to
In order to express attention, after all, now publicity among the people and soft assimilation to the outside world, various operas and repertoires account for most of the role.
Especially after 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 simple words, that is, can read recipes in restaurants. In the past two years, the rate has reached an astonishing rate of about half, while those who can read scripts and newspapers
, there can be 30%, and at least 10% 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 classics"...
For example, in the Eastern Han Dynasty twenty years ago, the literacy rate was 10%, and those who could read and write completely were "10%", which is about 1%, and these 1% were all 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 are completely overlapped - if it is not to read the classics of sages, what are you going to do with the whole 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".
However, the Chu State'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 implicitly advocated the vernacular movement and simplified character movement.
Vernacular is not a "white picture" of words, but refers to the direct implementation of oral 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.
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As a result, the literacy rate of Chu State reached an astonishing 50%. Those who can interpret the classics, that is, traditional scholars, are about 5%, but those who master complete reading and writing are 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, we just had to continue step by step, but the popularity of education has actually become very harmonious.
However, recently the King of Chu and the Chu State's court have repeatedly hinted that literacy, or elementary education, and even county schools, universities, and craftsmanship will be the next focus of Chu State'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 that you would feel this way.
Because the white picture is indeed not just for "literacy literacy" itself, but also a new discovery made 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 utilization 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 if we promote clean energy and even point out the future of nuclear power technology, thermal power generation still accounts for 70% to 80%. In comparison, water power and wind power are just additions.
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 principle... cutting Wuling and Jiaozhou bare 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 that Bai Tu had in mind 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!