open sea

Chapter 630
Xiao En was taken aback by the peanuts that Chen Mu brought up. He didn't drink it with a small wine glass, and it didn't matter if he didn't drink it.

In fact, he prefers to drink with people. For example, the clerks of the military yamen, the low-level treasury managers, and even ordinary soldiers are much more comfortable than sitting at the same table with Chen Mu.

He likes the sense of ritual in drinking in the Ming Dynasty. There are various sayings and rituals for everything. This makes Xiao En feel like entering the palace in his hometown. Even if he learns a new drinking order, he will be very happy. .

But only Chen Mu, who he has seen with the highest position and the most authority, it is difficult for Xiao En to find this kind of feeling in him.

Drinking from a glass the way the Highlanders drink--like a savage, it was stupid, but he dared not say anything.

"Why don't you eat?"

Chen Mu put a peanut in his mouth and chewed it. After swallowing, he held up his wine glass to toast. Seeing that several Irish people were eating cucumbers according to photos, they didn’t touch the old vinegar peanuts. Same, appetizers."

Sean is used to drinking northern shochu, his face flushed after drinking two small cups, pointing to peanuts and said: "I've seen this before, the English brought it back from the New World, some people eat it for the first time, it's okay, but the second time and die."

"Dead, dead?"

Chen Mu pursed his lips, a little dazed. He hadn't heard that foreigners would die if they ate peanuts, but seeing Xiao En and the others looking like they were facing a formidable enemy, he simply said, "You all can't eat it? All right, don't eat it." Alright, I'll eat it, and let someone take two more cucumbers for you."

"Since you love cucumbers, let me tell you about the history of this melon. The real name is Hugua. Do you know what Hu means?"

Chen Mu pointed to the eaten and drunk cucumbers on the plate with chopsticks, and said to several people: "We have many dynasties, and each dynasty regarded itself as China. In the past, we thought that China, among the four worlds, was the most noble. There are four directions relative to China."

"People who call the Quartet, Dongyi, Xirong, Beihu, and Nanman, all threaten our safety. Xirong disappeared 500 years ago, and their descendants are standing with us now, and the few remaining Same. In fact, this cucumber should be called Ronggua, but because the Han Dynasty had no Rong but only Hu, and it came from the Western Regions, it was called Hugua.”

"About 1000 years ago, there was a strongman from the north who became the monarch. His name was Shi Le. Because he was a Hu, he ordered people not to speak Hu. Once he held a banquet and asked a minister what it was. , At this time, if you answer wrong, you will be killed."

"My lord, wasn't he born?"

Xiao En was stunned and asked something irrelevant, then shook his head and said, "Your Excellency, then, how did the minister answer?"

He has now figured out that the bureaucrats of Ming Dynasty hold more power than their nobles, and anyone can be an official. At first, he was also worried about the state affairs of Ming Dynasty, but then he understood the truth that surprised him ——The peasants and artisans here also have the opportunity to learn politics.

"The minister's name was Fan Tan. Knowing that he couldn't say his name, he simply talked about his color. He said: Delicious food on a purple table, green tea in a silver cup, nectar in a golden bottle, and cucumbers on a jade plate."

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

"Slave Emperor."

Sean asked with his tongue out, his eyes straightened: "Is he promoting slavery in the country?"

"No, he didn't implement the slave system, he was a slave himself, and later became a general, called Zhao Wang, and became emperor." Chen Mu suddenly remembered his interest, and asked: "This kind of situation rarely happens in your place, right? "

Xiao En thought for a while, he didn't want to be underestimated by Chen Mu, and argued with reason: "Emperor Shile is like Spartacus in ancient Rome, but this situation is not absent in our place, it's just that the situation is different. The emperor of Ming Dynasty is a human being, and the pope who has the power of the emperor there, you use people to manage people, we use religion to manage people, I recently studied your history in college."

The university he mentioned was Beiyang Academy, but it actually meant the same thing.

"In fact, it's almost the same. When you change dynasties, most of you will kill the previous monarchs, and we will burn the heretics to death." Sean seemed to breathe a long sigh of relief. Such words are dared to be said on a land where there is no pious, saying: "It's all for ruling."

"In my country, because of a marriage, King Henry promoted the religious reform, but that was only to prevent the Holy See from controlling England. God is still the greatest authority, but the control of the Holy See is not in the middle."

"I have read a book called "The Instructive and Interesting Golden Book of the Most Perfect State System and Utopian Niijima". The title is very long. The author describes a world that does not exist very well. He opposed the religious reform and was beheaded by King Henry." Xiao En shook his head and said, "If my land can be free from religious influence like Daming, that would be great."

Chen Mu winked, "What book?"

The name was already very long, and Sean drank too much. He spoke some words in Spanish, some in Chinese, and some in his native dialect. This was too much a test for Chen Mu's listening ability.

After Xiao En repeated it three times, Chen Mu finally heard a word he could understand from the middle - Utopia.

"Everything has a price. You have to consider the price. You want to stay away from the Holy See, but you have to be close to the emperor. As a vassal state of Ming Dynasty, you will contribute to the emperor every year and give 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 European countries, only a few times."

"But in those few times, we won big victories. In addition, the imperial court will send people who are proficient in politics to serve as local officials to govern one side, and the power of nobles and kings will be greatly restricted."

"This is exactly what I want. An invincible army. I believe you can see that I am not that good at military affairs, although I am indeed very brave." Sean straightened his back and said this, accompanied by His bearded appearance is very convincing, and said: "But I have analyzed that the time for the nobles to rule everything is almost over."

"We urgently need a new system, commerce and navigation, which makes the nobles who own the land more and more surprised. The nobles who only know how to farm will be so poor that they are not as poor as agricultural workers, while some merchants are as rich as the royal family. They are now No power, but who wouldn't want more?"

"I saw that Daming didn't seem to have this kind of contradiction. I'm here for this, and I'm willing to offer everything to the emperor!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)