The officials of the Marquis of Shu Mansion couldn't guess what the Chu State wanted to do, and Deng Zhi would not take the initiative to "show his cowardice", and with the great enemy of the Southern Barbarians serving, he could only let Deng Zhi "slaughter".

Deng Zhi took the opportunity to propose that an investigation be launched in Shu to ensure that there was no influx of foreign slaves from the north, and the Marquis of Shu had no choice but to agree in order to prove his "innocence".

Of course, there is a strict limit on the size of the investigation team, and Shu will also send people to monitor the whole process......

Zhang Song and others naturally suspected that the Chu State was taking the opportunity to spy on the terrain of Xichuan, and even secretly establish contact with the local families in Xichuan.

However, for this kind of influence, the Shuhou Mansion can no longer take care of it too much, and can only avoid it in the way of "monitoring".

If the State of Chu really attacked Xichuan with all its might, the Marquis of Shu Mansion still had a chance to gamble, as long as he dared to gamble, at least he could drag the State of Chu for a few months.

However, once the Chu State also has the idea of "dragging it out", so that the Shu Marquis Mansion cannot fully deal with the rebellion in the south, it will not take a year and a half, and Yizhou will be in a mess, and when the Chu State sends troops, who can stop it?

Even now, the state of Chu has made up its mind that the garrison of Padang County will suspend the evacuation "until the investigation is over".

Fortunately, the Shuhou Mansion was not ready to move the soldiers and horses of Ba County, but used the more core armies of Shu County and Guanghan to go to the south to resist the rebellion.

As for Yan Yan in Jiangzhou, he will continue to keep an eye on Padang County.

The Chu army, which has always been known for its strict military discipline and its responsibility to defend Chu studies, 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 if he needed Chu Jun's assistance in maintaining order......

If necessary, as long as Jiangzhou gets out of the way, Zhao Yun will immediately take people to the rebel area in the south of Yizhou to rebuild order and effectively protect the lives and property of the people of Yizhou!

Whether Yan Yantong agrees or not, anyway, Chu Jun has always been so promoted, and Zhao Yun did send someone to ask, but Yan Yan's reaction was very flat, and he wanted to scold people a little, so it was not Chu State's problem.

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In the fourth and fifth years of the Chu calendar, after the delivery of the warships, the relationship between Chu and Wei officially came out of the "honeymoon period".

Although there is still a fig leaf of "non-governmental organizations", it is not the Wei court that theoretically has friction with the Chu navy in the Bohai Sea, and it will not be tense at the official level, but the relationship is also obviously much stiffer.

Especially recently, the Wei court finally woke up, even if the Chu State took the initiative to exempt the export tax, the Wei State still began to collect import taxes in its own way!

It's just that under the trade threat of Chu, it is not too high for the time being, after all, the degree of dependence of Wei on Chu is much higher than that of Chu on Wei......

However, this did not affect Xiahou Juan too much, even from the perspective of classical morality, after the princess got married, she should not be treated coldly because of the relationship between her mother country.

Of course, in fact, in this case, even if it is not too cold, it is bound to have an impact.

Like what......

Two months ago, Xiahou Juan suddenly stopped creating, which once caused a lot of speculation from the outside world, suspecting that the relationship between Chu and Wei would deteriorate further.

However, not long ago, Xiahou Juan appeared in front of the public again, and he was accompanied by Bai Tu, who was actually ...... Pregnant!

The original many speculations have only then dispersed - it turned out that more than a month ago, Xiahou Juan was found to be pregnant, and then for the sake of safety, it was not until the dangerous period of the first three months that he began to move normally.

After all, unlike Lu Lingqi, although Xiahou Juan was born in a general, he cannot be regarded as delicate, but he is still only in the category of ordinary healthy women, although the gestational age is very scientific and safe, but the first three months are still to be doubly careful.

Now it's finally relatively safe......

In order to distract himself and clarify the rumors, Bai Tu specially attended the "Creation Day" event with Xiahou Juan in October.

Under Bai Tu's pleading, Lu Lingqi didn't follow - if she followed as the queen of Chu, Bai Tu didn't mind, the problem was ...... Lu Lingqi had to follow as the chief of the guard at first.

Wouldn't that become, Bai Tu and Xiahou Juan attended the event, sitting side by side in the main seat in front, and Lu Lingqi silently followed behind?

Bai Tu always felt that something was weird, so he worked hard last night to persuade Lu Lingqi to give up this awkward plan.

Today...... Following Bai Tu and Xiahou Juan, the temporary substitute for the post of chief of the guard was Lu Lingqi's "student" - Sun Shangxiang.

Nowadays, the creator group is no longer the original Ministry of Rites, after the private solicitation, the selection of a few excellent repertoire has long been another complete industry, and it is no longer only official employment, there are many commercial channels, and it plays its own role in the soft expansion of culture and the guidance of public opinion.

Relevant laws and regulations were added to "Chu Law" last year, and Xiahou Juan specially found Xu Rong to "count" a creator's day, which was used as a sign to protect the rights and interests of creators.

This year is the first "Creator Day", in Jinling's theme activities, in addition to Xiahou Juan, who is a part of the creator, Bai Tu also came in person, on the one hand, to accompany Xiahou Juan, on the other hand, it is also to express attention, after all, now the propaganda of the people, as well as the soft assimilation of the outside world, all kinds of operas, repertoire, account for most of the role.

Especially after the liberalization of commercial channels, many behaviors also need to be regulated.

Bai Tu also specially emphasized that in the future, the literacy rate of Chu will continue to increase......

In fact, many people have noticed that recently Bai Tu has begun to focus on the literacy rate again.

The literacy rate of Chu is already high enough, and those who can read and write simply, that is, they can understand recipes in restaurants, in the past two years, about half of them have been mentioned, and those who can read and write can also have thirty percent, and those who can read and write completely can also have at least one percent of the total population!

However, this is also related to the form of Mongolian education in the Chu State, and the proportion of "complete reading and writing" is higher than the proportion of "reading and understanding the classics......

In the Eastern Han Dynasty 20 years ago, the literacy rate was 10%, and the ability to read and write completely was "10% of the 10%", that is, about 1%, and these 1% were all able to read and understand the classics - not to mention the correctness and error of the interpretation, at least people thought they understood.

This is also because, for people at that time, "interpreting the classics" was the purpose of mastering "complete reading and writing", and naturally the two completely overlapped - if it was not for the purpose of reading the classics of the sages, what would you do with a complete set of mechanics?

Isn't it enough to be able to read a few words and write a letter?

This invisibly also increases the difficulty of mastering "complete reading and writing".

Before the professional differentiation, each classic was only excerpted from its essence in the textbook, so that "complete reading and writing" and "interpretation of the classics" were unbound.

To some extent, this is also the impact of the change that has brought about the reduction of the cost of paper, which can directly implement the complicated colloquial vernacular expression into writing.

Otherwise, in the era of carved bamboo slips or expensive paper, "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, the state of Chu also invisibly advocated the vernacular movement and the simplified character movement to a certain extent.

Vernacular, not the word "white picture", but refers to the expression of partial colloquialism, directly put into writing.

The simplified character is more as the name suggests - the text of the city Ji world, at the beginning of the white map crossing, it was found that it was much simpler than the normal seal character, otherwise the white picture may not be understood at the beginning, but now...... Simplification has been further made.

As a result, the literacy rate of the state of Chu has reached an astonishing 50%, and the number of people who can read the classics, that is, the traditional scholars, is about 5%, but the number of people who have mastered complete reading and writing is more than 10% - more than 10% of the total population!

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, it was already a very considerable data.

Originally, as long as it continued step by step, the popularity of this education has actually been very harmonious.

However, recently, the king of Chu and the court of Chu have repeatedly hinted that the literacy rate, or Mongolian learning, and even county schools, universities, and craftsman studies, will be the focus of Chu State's next support.

This made many Chu ministers also think about it, and there was a kind of ...... Feeling like you're looking for something to do?

The last time I had this feeling, it was because the Chu State had to increase food consumption to support the cultivation of the whole people, and ...... When the steel is laid on the ground!

It's not surprising that it actually feels this way.

Because it is true that the white map is not only for the sake of "literacy" itself, but also for the Ministry of Industry to make new discoveries......

In the process of optimizing the "Jingbao", Pang Tong also gradually mastered more power technology - after all, Jingbao is essentially different from the pure spiritual power exchange of the battle armor, and still uses electrical signals, which should be "spiritual telegram" to be precise.

Inspired by Bai Tu, Pang Tong successfully made a battery based on the principle of lead-acid, which laid the foundation for the use of electrical energy, but it was just ......

In the world of Castle Hime, although the principle of power generation is applied to magnetic electricity, large-scale power generation is required...... No coal!

There is no coal as the cliché!

Even in the later generations of advocating clean energy and even pointing out nuclear power technology, thermal power still accounts for seventy or eighty percent, compared to hydropower, wind power is just a plus.

In the period when industrialization was not completed, thermal power generation was the absolute pillar......

However, without coal, thermal power generation would be a joke, and as for burning charcoal? Again...... Cutting down Wuling and Jiaozhou is not enough to cause disaster.

As for the "real gas engine" power generation, it does have a certain feasibility, but the efficiency is ...... Not high.

Even the amount of "true gas tax" collected by Chu is actually far less than the "inexhaustible" coal in Bai Tu's impression when the industrial revolution was just emerging.

In terms of resources, the world of Chengji is actually very inconvenient.

Fortunately, Pang Tong also knew how to be flexible, and from the reaction between mental power and electricity, he discovered a way to use "mental power" to make lead-acid batteries have an electric storage reaction......

It's just the source of spiritual power, and it's a new problem!