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 tell the palace officials much about it.
After all, from the current point of view, due to the special resources of Chengji World, "spiritual energy" is extremely cost-effective in the field that overlaps 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 Qi 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 was 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 felt 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 it". What if "everyone can practice it" in the future?
Baitu was not sure whether it was cost-effective, so he did not give many directional orders and 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 would take the mental power of a second-rate counselor to drive it.
, the difference in training costs is not that 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 so. 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 major event in the fifth year of Chuli was that at the end of the year, an official road that could barely be regarded as a "road" was finally paved to Jiaozhou - although some areas, even with cement and the use of explosives to open the mountain, were still rugged and bumpy, but finally in theory
You can take the "full official road" from Jinling to Jiaozhou. Even in the narrowest place, at least one carriage can pass on the official road!
Although there were official roads before, they were intermittent and dilapidated. In some areas, they had long been integrated with the surrounding mountains and forests. This time, the paving process, which lasted almost four years, reconnected and repaired these official roads, especially with the use of "new roads".
"Technology" reinforcement, some mountain roads have also been converted 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 a shovel and dug a handful of soil.
To represent Jiaozhou, I am very happy to connect 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 gathering and farming as a supplement. The other small part is also the other way around. Few are purely farming and self-sufficient, which is worse than the small-scale peasant economy.
The farming 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...
The various tribes in Jiaozhou even used "Chu coins" to trade, and Shi Xie did not stop this.
At this time, after the official roads were completely cleared, many merchants, including hundreds of "merchants" who were still wearing animal skin shorts and bone and tooth pendants, spontaneously appeared at the completion ceremony with joy and excitement.
But in theory, the cultivation can only go so far. After all, Jiaozhou... is Shi Xie's territory, and the Shi family has not officially "submitted" yet.
How could Chu be easily allowed to come in and build roads?
And just where the road connects, 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 of the obstruction of mountains 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.
During the second half of the ceremony to celebrate the completion, Wei Teng, the minister of the Ministry of National Affairs of Chu, who came specially to preside over the ceremony, also invited Shi Xie to enter the "tower" to talk about it.
Although Shi Xie was a little curious looking at the signal tower which did not look like a place to entertain guests, he still entered with Wei Teng. More than half an hour later, Shi Xie's expression remained calm and he still looked very kind.
Appeared at the same time as 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 all over 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 go to Jiaozhou to open up new opportunities...
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 Day again, and Bai Tu felt that since time travel, this year had passed particularly quickly... 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 grand event. 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 the heavens and fight to the death with the Lord 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 about 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. 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 Chu".
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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 court was in the same format as the tribute to the Chu State, and the number of tributes was more to the Chu State. This made Liu Xie usually have a lot of dissatisfaction with the Shi family, but
Now Liu Xie has ignored this point in his mind, thinking that "Chu will attack Jiaozhou, which 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
Follow the example of Chu State and give him 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 a king with real power. If he surrenders to Chu, his power and status will not be lower than what he is now, right?
This made the King of Chu unable to rest assured about Shi Xie unless Shi Xie surrendered to Chu immediately and unconditionally... But how could that be 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 - the Chu State's tireless road construction has greatly shortened the journey time from Chang'an to Jiaozhou.
Basically, as long as you enter the Chu Kingdom, there is a horse racing road until the Five Ridges Land. Even in the Five Ridges Land, there is "barely a road".
Twenty years ago, a one-way trip from Chang'an to Jiaozhou, even if traveling lightly, would have taken at most one year. If the envoy's ceremonial record was followed, it would have taken two or three years.
However, after the development of the Han Dynasty (Liu Xie imagined), half a year is enough for a 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 didn't think the problem was big, but it did bring uncertainty to the canonization. It was for this reason that Liu Ai discouraged Liu Xie and Dong Cheng... because the previous envoys of Shi Xie "didn't understand the rules".
Neither of them brought him a gift, so this time he and Liu Ai were in the same camp to oppose the canonization.
"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 limited number of 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 the words "conferring Jiuxi is just a formality" are 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 the will of heaven" has been unable to be overcome, and there is already some "God's will ptsd".
Liu Ai and Dong Cheng wanted to persuade them again, but Liu Xie, who was already a little irritable, said: "Okay! I have made up my mind!"