After Bai Tu learned about the "spiritual power generation" and the fact that there was a suitable place for learning to build a "power plant", he revealed some of it to the palace and tried his best to encourage an increase in investment in education.

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

After all, from the current point of view, because of the particularity of the resources of the Chengji world, the "spiritual energy" is in a mess with low cost performance in the field that coincides with the "true qi energy".

The efficiency of an electrical chemical workshop is far lower than that of a real gasification workshop......

It's just that in Bai Tu's memory, electric energy can also play a huge role in many places that True Qi energy can't be, so he has the heart to support it, such as the computer that "maybe" appear in the future.

Although Baitu infiltrated the simple calculation principle to Pang Tong, Pang Tong was more inclined to use gears to simulate binary and use the real gas piston to push the color module to realize the display function, but ...... Bai Tu still thinks that in terms of follow-up development, will the potential of the True Qi computer be too limited?

What's more, the reason why "True Qi Energy" is more efficient now is because "everyone has practice", and what if "everyone can have a book" in the future?

Bai Tu wasn't sure if it was a good deal, so he didn't have too many directional orders, but continued to develop step by step.

Of course, at least for the time being, in the category of power facilities driven by electric energy, it is certainly far less efficient than the real gas engine......

Just like the current True Qi farming tools, as long as ordinary people who have initially cultivated True Qi can use some simple ones, but to make an "electric energy version" with a comparable effect, I am afraid that it takes the spiritual power of a second-rate strategist to be able to drive it, and the cultivation cost gap is not ordinarily large!

Therefore, the application of electric energy is mainly in the "information age", and the electric age has no signs at all.

With such a large span, it is difficult for others to understand the white picture, and the intention of this is that it is ...... Increasing investment in education was originally a "right thing for the court", but now it is just speeding up.

Since Bai Tu strongly supports it, the atmosphere is naturally driven.

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The real major event in the five years of Chu Li was that at the end of the year, there was finally an official road that was barely considered a "road", paved to Jiaozhou - although some sections, even if there is cement and the use of explosives to open the mountain, it is still rugged and bumpy, but finally theoretically it can be the official road from Jinling to Jiaozhou "full official road", the narrowest place, at least one carriage of official roads!

Although there were official roads before, but they were intermittent and dilapidated, and even some sections had long been integrated with the surrounding mountains and forests, and this time, the paving of almost four years has reconnected and repaired these official roads, especially reinforced with "new technologies", and some mountain roads have also been changed into tunnels to shorten the distance......

On the day of the completion of the road, that is, an official road connecting with the border city of Jiaozhou, Shi Xie personally approached him, and at the age of more than seventy, he symbolically picked up a shovel and dug a handful of soil.

On behalf of Jiaozhou, I am very happy to be in contact with the State of Chu......

Not only Shixie, but also Jiaozhou Mansion, after Chu began to build roads, especially in the past two years, there have been more and more people-to-people exchanges between Jiaozhou and Chu.

After all, Jiaozhou is dominated by "hundreds of ethnic groups", which is not a small-scale peasant economy, most of the tribes are mainly gathered, supplemented by farming, and a small part is also the opposite, and there are few pure farming and self-sufficiency, which are more diligent in "exchange" than the farming civilization under the small-scale peasant economy.

Moreover, the land of Lingnan, with jade, pearls, precious wood, ivory carving, wood carving, etc., is a place suitable for "exchange", and in later generations, it is also more cost-effective to use various fruits, rubber and other cash crops in the planting industry...... The benefits of a small-scale peasant economy are modest.

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

There have even been cases of trading with "Chu coins" between the various tribes in Jiaozhou, and Shixie has not stopped this.

At this time, after the official road was completely repaired, many merchants, including the "merchants" of the hundred tribes who were still wearing animal skin short clothes and bone and tooth pendants, all appeared at the completion ceremony with joy and enthusiasm.

However, theoretically, it is only repaired here, after all, Jiaozhou is ...... That is Shixie's territory, and now the Shi clan has not officially "returned to obedience".

How could it be easy to let the State of Chu come in to build roads?

And just where the road is connected, Chu also built a "signal tower" - a signal tower in a mountain col in the distance, connected by an underground line, but ...... Because of the rocks and trees, there are no other signal towers in sight.

So at one time someone didn't understand what it was for.

In the second half of the ceremony to celebrate the completion, Wei Teng, the waiter of the Chu Ministry of Nationalities, who came to preside, also invited Shixie to enter the "tower".

Although Shi Xie looked at this signal tower that didn't look like a place of hospitality, he was a little curious, but he still entered with Wei Teng, and after more than half an hour, Shi Xie's face was no different, and he still looked very kind and out of sync with Wei Teng.

However, some juniors or confidants who are familiar with Shixie have found that Shixie's expression is a little stiff, but it is not easy to ask on this occasion, and there is no threat to Shixie's personal safety anyway.

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At the end of October, the report on the completion of the road between Chu and Jiaozhou was published in the newspapers of various parts of Chu State.

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

All of a sudden, many people were moved, but Jiaozhou ...... After all, it is not the land of Chu State, which makes most people who are interested in it only have the mentality of trading.

Two months later, it was the New Year's Day again, and Bai Tu felt that this year had passed particularly quickly since he crossed over...... It's the same as the development of the Chu State.

And on this year's New Year's Day Festival, Bai Tu is specially preparing to do a big job, Jinling City has built a temporary altar for a long time, on the day of the New Year's Day, Bai Tu is also after the float parade on the street, dressed up to come to the altar, which makes people feel a little unusual.

Everyone speculated that it could be that the king of Chu had no patience and was ready to officially take the stage to worship the heavens and fight to the death with the Marquis of Shu......

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

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

It stands to reason that the speed of this road construction is too fast, and it is still in the land of Wuling, no matter how you look at it, Liu Xie feels that the credibility is not high, but it does have the symbolic role of "Jiaozhou is getting closer to Chu".

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

Although it is ...... "rumored" that Shixie's tribute to the imperial court is the same as that of the tribute to the Chu State, and the number of tributes is still more for the Chu State, which makes Liu Xie usually have a lot of discussions about the Shi family, but now Liu Xie has ignored this point in his heart, and is full of "The Chu State wants to attack Jiaozhou, which is loyal to the Han family".

In order to boost the morale of Jiaozhou and give Shixie, the old turtle, some courage to resist the Chu State and support the Han Dynasty, Liu Xie wanted to make Shixie the king of Nanyue at the New Year's Day Dynasty Meeting, and ordered him to "Yongzhen Tiannan", and also learned from the Chu State and gave him the title of "hereditary replacement".

Not only did it fulfill Shixie's thoughts, but it also made him more motivated...... Don't talk about going to find some trouble for the Chu State, at least don't continue to move closer to the Chu State!

And from the perspective of power, the sealing of Shixie as the king also increased the "cost" of Shixie's reduction to Chu.

After all, in the Han family, they are already kings with real power, and if they surrender to the Chu State, they can't have power and status, and they are still smaller than now, right?

This is also invisibly, so that the king of Chu cannot rest assured of Shi Xie, unless Shi Xie immediately and unconditionally surrenders to Chu...... But how is that possible?

Regarding Shixie's request, Liu Ai and others in the DPRK have long analyzed it for Liu Xie!

It is said that there is nothing wrong with Liu Xie's idea, but there are some "small mistakes", that is, the envoy who pretended to be a caravan and went to Jiaozhou failed to come back before the New Year's Day......

In the original plan, the envoy pretending to be a caravan should be able to return last month - the tireless construction of roads by the Chu State has greatly shortened the travel time from Chang'an to Jiaozhou.

Basically, as long as you enter the Chu State, until the land of Wuling, there is a horse road, even if it is the land of Wuling, there is "barely a road".

Twenty years ago, from Chang'an to Jiaozhou, even if it was light and simple, it was enough for a one-way trip at most, and if the envoy's guard of honor was placed, it was possible to go for two or three years.

However, now after the development of the Han family (Liu Xie's brain supplement), most of the half a year is enough for a round trip.

But now that there was an accident, there is no way to know that Shi Xie's attitude towards canonization, or even more pessimistic, may not know about the canonization that Shi Xie doesn't even know.

Liu Xie thought that the problem was not big, but this did bring uncertainties to the canonization, and it was because of this that Liu Ai dissuaded Liu Xie, Dong Cheng...... Because the previous messenger of Shixie was very "ignorant of the rules" and did not bring him a gift, he opposed the canonization of the unified camp with Liu Ai this time.

"Your Majesty, the matter of the king is not in a hurry, fortunately, this time in order to guard against the action of the Chu State, the news has been blocked before, and even the envoys are personally sent to the seed, and the number of people who know about this is limited, and the awarding of Jiuxi is just a formality, you can wait for the waiter to come back, and choose an auspicious day, so that it is foolproof, otherwise...... What if Shixie doesn't know yet? When the Xian envoy learns about it, he will definitely make the demeanor of the king of Nanyue appear in front of all the people. Liu Ai was also a little old at this time.

"The Han family is the king, no matter whether Shixie knows about it or not, will he still refuse it?" Liu Xie frowned at Liu Ai, who dissuaded him.

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

"Your Majesty! It is a big deal to be crowned king, and it is not allowed to be sloppy, since the envoy has not returned, there is no providence in it......" Dong Cheng hurriedly said.

"Don't mention Providence to me!" Liu Xie said excitedly, because the public opinion of "returning the seal against the sky" has not been able to come back, and there is already some "providence PTSD".

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