Sean was startled by the peanuts brought by Chen Mu, and he didn't drink it with a small wine glass, nor did he drink it.

In fact, he prefers to drink with others in comparison, for example, the scribes of the military government's yamen, the unpopular treasury managers, even ordinary soldiers, are much more comfortable than sitting at the same table with Chen Mu.

He likes the ritual sense of Ming people drinking, everything must have various sayings and rituals, which makes Sean feel like entering the court in his hometown, even if he learns a new wine order, it can make him feel very happy.

But only Chen Mu, who was the highest and most powerful he had ever seen, it was difficult for Sean to find this feeling in him.

Like the way the highlanders of England drank, with a cup in his hand, and drank - like a barbarian, it was stupid, but he did not dare to say anything.

"Why don't you eat it?"

Chen Mu put a peanut bean in his mouth and chewed, swallowed it and raised the wine glass to toast, and saw that several Irish people were eating cucumbers, but the old vinegar peanuts didn't touch a bite, and said: "This is very delicious, it's the same as shooting cucumbers, and it's a snack." ”

Sean was already accustomed to drinking northern soju, and after only two small glasses, his face was flushed, and he pointed to peanuts and said: "I've seen this, the English brought it back from the New World, and some people were fine the first time they ate it, and they died the second time they ate it." ”

"Dead, dead?"

Chen Mu pursed his lips, a little stunned, he hadn't heard that foreigners would die if they ate peanuts, but seeing the appearance of Sean and the others as if they were facing a great enemy, he simply said, "You can't eat it?" Okay, don't eat it, I'll eat it, and let someone shoot you two more cucumbers. ”

"Since you love cucumbers, let me tell you the history of this melon, this real name is courgette, do you know the meaning of hu."

Chen Mu pointed to the cucumber that was eaten and drunk in the plate with chopsticks, and said to a few people: "We have many dynasties, each dynasty regards itself as China, in the past, we thought that China, among the four directions, is the most noble place, relative to China has four directions. ”

"The people of the Quartet, Dongyi, Xirong, Beihu, and Nanban, all threaten our safety, Xirong was gone 2,500 years ago, and their descendants are now standing with us, and the rest are the same. In fact, this courgette should have been called Rong melon, but because there was no Rong in the Han Dynasty, only Hu, it came from the Western Regions, so it was called Hu gourd. ”

"About a thousand years ago, there was a strong man from the north who became a monarch, named Shile, because he was a Hu person, so he ordered people not to speak Hu characters, once set up a banquet to point to Hu Gua and ask a minister what this is, at this time, if you answer wrong, you will be killed."

"Monarch, not born?"

Sean was stunned for a moment and asked something unrelated, then shook his head and said, "Your Excellency continued, how did the minister answer?" ”

Now that he had figured out that the Ming bureaucracy wielded more power than their aristocracy, and that anyone could be an official, he was worried about the Ming state at first, but then he realized the truth that surprised him - the peasants and artisans here also had the opportunity to learn politics.

"The minister's name is Fan Tan, and he knew that he couldn't say his name, so he simply said the color, and he said: Purple case delicacies, silver cups of green tea, golden bottles of nectar, jade plate cucumbers."

Chen Mu smiled lightly and said, "So later, the name spread, although the slave-born emperor fell apart not long after his death, the name of the cucumber has been passed down to this day. ”

"Slave Emperor."

Sean asked with a wide tongue, his eyes a little straight: "Is he enforcing slavery in the country?" ”

"No, he didn't promote the slave system, he was a slave himself, and later became a general, called King Zhao, and became an emperor." Chen Mu suddenly remembered his interest and asked, "This kind of situation rarely happens in you, right?" ”

Sean thought about it, he didn't want to be looked down upon by Chen Mu, and argued: "Emperor Shile is like Spartacus in ancient Rome, but this situation is not uncommon in us, it's just that the situation is different, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is a person, and we have the power of the emperor there. ”

The university in his mouth is Beiyang Academy, which actually means the same thing.

"Actually, it's pretty much the same, most of you will kill the monarch of the previous dynasty when you change dynasties, and we will burn the heretics to death." Sean seemed to breathe a long sigh of relief, and only a man like him, who was not so devout to Catholicism, would dare to say such a thing in a land where there was no piety at all, and said, "It's all about domination." ”

"In my country, because of a marriage, King Henry promoted the Reformation, but that was only to prevent the Holy See from controlling England, God is still the greatest authority, but there is no control of the Holy See in the middle."

"I read a book called 'A Useful and Interesting Golden Book on the Most Perfect State System and a Utopian New Island), which had a very long name, and the author depicted a world that did not exist very well, and the author was later beheaded by King Henry because of his opposition to the Reformation." Sean shook his head and said, "It would be nice if my land could be like Da Ming and not affected by religion." ”

Chen Mu squeezed his eyebrows, "What book?" ”

The name was already very long, Sean drank and drank with a big tongue, some words he said in Spanish, some words in Chinese, and some words in his hometown, which was too much of a test for Chen Mu.

After Sean repeated it three times, Chen Mu finally heard a word he could understand in the middle - utopia.

"Everything has a price, you have to think about this price, you want to stay away from the Holy See, but this must be close to the emperor, as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, the dynasty contributes everything every year, and gives everything when the emperor needs it." Chen Mu swallowed a glass of wine and said, "In return, my army will help you fight, we don't have much experience in fighting the countries of Europa, only a few times." ”

"But we have won a great victory on those occasions, and in addition, the imperial court will send people who are proficient in governing the government to serve as local officials and govern one side, and the power of the nobles and the king will be greatly limited."

"This is exactly what I want, an invincible army, and I believe Your Excellency can also see that I am not so good at military affairs, although I am indeed brave." Sean straightened his back and said this, with his bearded appearance very convincingly, and said, "But I have analyzed, the time for the aristocracy to rule everything is almost over. ”

"We urgently need a new system, commerce, seafaring, which makes the land-owning aristocracy more and more surprised, the nobles who only farm the land will be poor to the point of being less than the peasant labourers, and some of the merchants are so rich that they are worthy of the royal family, they have no power now, but who wouldn't want more?"

"I see that Da Ming doesn't seem to have this kind of contradiction, and I'm here for this reason, and I'm willing to give everything to the emperor!" /14_14088/