Lu Kangzhishi, the concubine of the king of Chu, can be said to be the two major events in the state of Chu in May.

At a time when the people's livelihood in the world is withering and the princes of all parties are advocating frugality, even Liu Xie will try to keep a low profile - whether to accept or accept, after all, it is a matter of "spreading branches and leaves", and in today's world, even as the master of the people, he is not exempt from vulgarity, and the more children, the more reassuring his subordinates are...... But you can't pull hatred!

In terms of etiquette, there is no need for any ceremony to accept a concubine, and you can get it when you enter the palace......

However, because Xu Rong is behind all the Jiangdong clans, and Bai Tu doesn't want to help Xu Rong, who has a lot of black pots, he is very extravagant in the welcome and delivery of dowries and dowries.

And just as Lu Bu instructed, it was propaganda to the outside world, and Queen Lu presided over the arrangement of these.

Looking at the long queue of cars of dowries and dowries on the street, the foreign scholars in Jinling were keenly aware of the "wrong" in them.

Is it time to show "extravagance"?

It's not a time of peace and prosperity, you can use the competition for beauty and wealth to reflect the strength of the side, and now the concubine is too extravagant, I'm afraid it will ......

How could the King of Chu be so careless?

"The Xu family is about to develop, although several sons are not very successful, but Xu Taishi is not only pedantic, but also virtuous and virtuous, and now he is also the princess of Chu...... Gee. ”

"It's not just the Xu family that has a princess, it's our Jiangdong princess!"

"Hey, this team is really long, it deserves to be the Xu family, it is worthy of the king......"

"Haha, do you see those screens? Orders from our family! ”

"No, it's just an order from the workshop where you work......"

"You know a 'beep', this is called the spirit of ownership!"

Many of the people in Jinling ate melons happily, and there was no imaginary resentment.

After all, the state of Chu has a population of more than 10 million, and after the rise of industrialization, the dividends are easy to sink to the whole people - even ordinary people who are not rich can add one or two Jiangdong brocade coats, but the embroidery is not very good, and it may be spliced.

Therefore, for the people of Chu State, their own food, clothing, housing and transportation have changed so much in a few years, so of course, Bai Tu is more extravagant when he takes a concubine, and it is completely acceptable.

The only thing that has some resentment is that for the men of Chu State, "taking concubines" has become more difficult, ordinary rich families basically don't think about it, and some entry-level wealthy families who have thousands of lands may not be able to accept concubines!

After all, in the early days of industrialization, the value of women's labor increased explosively, especially when many men were still bound to the land, and the contrast was even more obvious.

The status of ordinary people's "concubines" is already low, and as long as they work in the workshop, the value created is not much lower than that of men, who wants to be a concubine?

Of course someone would like to......

However, the cost has increased a lot, the threshold for marrying a concubine is also much higher, and the improvement of status has naturally gradually brought about a change in thinking.

Although a large number of wealthy families who have become rich through hard work have appeared in the Chu State, they cannot take concubines like the rich families in the past!

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The concubine of the king of Chu, coupled with Xu Rong's identity, shook the matter in Chu for a while, but compared to the academic examination, it was still quickly covered up.

On the sixth day of June, the three-day academic examination officially began.

Unlike the imperial examination, not only is there a larger number of people, but there is also no need for a fully closed assessment like during the imperial examination.

The examination is much shorter, only one and a half hours for each subject, and the interval between the examinations is not limited, and you can come out of the examination room, so there is no need to prepare a full set of eating, drinking, and lazing as in the imperial examination.

This time, Bai Tu did not go to the town in person, but only published his blessings to all the candidates in the Di newspaper - the original manuscript was naturally drafted by Zhang Chunhua.

Three days later, the academic examination is officially over, and after only one day of rest, the "application" will be handed in on the tenth day of the first month of June, and each person can apply for a maximum of two universities.

In fact...... Now, on average, there are less than two universities to apply for!

The reason why I went through this process is just to explore the way for future study and examination......

After the exam, the mood of the candidates is very different, some are full of ambition and are waiting for admission, and some are forced to smile, but ...... The vast majority of candidates are apprehensive.

However, just as after the start of the classmate exam, no one paid attention to the concubine of the King of Chu, and soon after mid-June, everyone's attention, especially the main energy of the imperial court, also shifted to another thing - the navy, sailing away again!

This move also attracted the attention of many foreign scholars, after all, many of them had direct connections with other princes behind them.

When the State of Chu sold a batch of warships to the State of Wei, many people had already guessed that the warships of the State of Chu would have a major "update"!

Although many princes, even the Wei State, have not yet accurately recognized the importance of naval warfare, they have also understood the importance of some seas and ships.

Because it will encourage the surrounding people and the families of the navy to see them off, it just so happens that the port has not been blocked this time, and many foreign scholars have also come to "see them off".

I don't know, after this personal experience, I found that from Jinling to the port of Biling, not only can you see workshops and people from time to time along the way, and all the way is a flat cement road, no need for fast horses, even if it is a public railroad, three hundred miles can only be reached in a day and a half!

And just look at the number of caravans you encounter along the way, you can see how prosperous it is.

However, many foreign scholars who finally "squeezed" into Piling will be disappointed this time......

The ships of the Navy do not seem to have changed much from before, even if some models are different, wider here and sharper there, they do not seem to have made any breakthroughs!

In contrast, considering the imitation and improvement capabilities of the Wei State's skillful craftsman battalion, I am afraid that when the Wei State launches new ships again, it will be much stronger than the ships of the Chu State.

Of course, this is not so much a "disappointment" with the warships of the Chu State as a disappointment with this "opportunity to observe".

Considering that the state of Chu had previously sold a large number of warships, including the "latest", to the state of Wei, now the warships of the state of Chu are definitely more than that.

The reason why it looks mediocre is probably because this is not the latest warship of the Chu State......

And that's exactly what happened.

The armored cruiser has not yet been manufactured, not to mention, even the iron-clad wooden cruisers, as well as many wooden real gas ships, are still in the shipyard in Yizhou......

After the navy departs from the port, it will first go to Yizhou, change ships, and then go to the "Liuqiu" opened up by the navy in Bozhou not long ago to inspect, and then go to Bozhou to join another batch of real gas ships, and then ...... Continue east!

"Liuqiu" is the result of the navy left in Bozhou, continue to explore the sea area to the south, is an archipelago, the sum of a county of land, because from a distance, it is like a dragon entrenched on the sea, so it is named "Liuqiu".

Because no aborigines were found for the time being, they were directly under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Mansion on Bozhou East Road and included in the overseas territory of Chu.

The governor of Bozhou East Road is Jiang Wan, because there are very few Yamato tribes in Bozhou in the area under his jurisdiction, so it is the governor's palace that focuses on clearing the wasteland and exploring!

This time, Ganning will first confirm the location of Xialiuqiu, and then it will be officially developed as part of Bozhou East Road......