Sean was shocked by the peanuts brought by Chen Mu and was neither drinking nor not drinking.

In fact, he prefers to be drunk with others. For example, the clerks in the military government office, the poor custodian, and even ordinary soldiers, are much more comfortable to sit on the same table with Chen Mu.

He likes the ritual of drinking in Ming people, and there are various statements and rituals in everything. This makes Sean feel like he is entering the palace in his hometown. Even if he learns a new wine order, he will be very happy.

But only Chen Mu, who has the highest position and the most powerful position, is hard for Sean to find this feeling in him.

It was stupid, like the way the English Highlanders drank, holding a cup and drinking—like a savage, but he dared not say anything.

"Why don't you eat?"

Chen Mu picked up a peanut bean and put it in his mouth to chew it. After swallowing it, he picked up a wine glass to toast. He saw several Irish people taking pictures of cucumbers and eating, but the old vinegar peanuts did not touch them at all, and said, "This is delicious, just like taking pictures of cucumbers, serve wine."

Sean was used to drinking northern soju. After only two small glasses, he drank red. He pointed to peanuts and said, "I have seen this. Englishmen have brought it back from the New World. Some people are fine for the first time, but they die when they eat it the second time."

"Die, dead?"

Chen Mu pursed his lips and was a little stunned. He hadn't heard that foreigners would die once they ate peanuts. However, seeing Shawn and others as if they were facing a great enemy, he simply said, "You can't eat them? Okay, stop eating them, I'll eat them, and let someone take a picture of two more cucumbers for you."

"Since you like to eat cucumbers, I will tell you the history of this melon. This real name is Hu Gua. Do you know what Hu means?"

Chen Mu pointed at the cucumbers that had been eaten and drunk on the plate and said to several people: "We have many dynasties, and each dynasty regards itself as China. In the past, we believed that China was the most noble place among the four directions, and there are four directions compared to China."

"The people who call the four directions, Dongyi, Xirong, Beihu, and Nanman, all threatened our safety. The Western Rong disappeared two thousand five hundred years ago. Their descendants are now standing with us, and the rest are the same. In fact, this Hu Gua should have been called Rong Gua, but because there were no Rong in the Han Dynasty, there were only Hu, and they came from the Western Regions, they were called Hu Gua."

"About a thousand years ago, a strong man from the north became the monarch named Shile. Because he was a Hu person, people could not speak the word "Hu". Once, he held a banquet and pointed at Hu Gua and asked a minister what this was. At this time, if he answered wrongly, he would be killed."

"Aren't the monarch born?"

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

He had now figured out that the bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty held greater power than their nobles, and that anyone could become an official. At first, he was worried about the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty, but then he understood the truth that surprised him - the peasants and craftsmen here actually had the opportunity to learn politics.

"The minister was named Fan Tan. He knew that he could not say the name, so he simply said the color. He said: purple table delicacies, silver cup green tea, golden cup nectar, jade plate cucumber."

Chen Mu chuckled 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 wide, his eyes wide open: "Is he promoting slavery in the country?"

"No, he was either a slave, he himself was a general, called King Zhao, and became the emperor." Chen Mu suddenly remembered his interest and asked, "This situation rarely happens to you, right?"

Sean thought about it, but 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 without us, it's just that the situation is different. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty is a human, and the pope with the power of the emperor. You use people to manage people, we use religion to manage people, I recently learned your history at university."

The university he mentioned is Beiyang Academy, which actually all means the same.

"Actually, when you change dynasties, most of you will kill the former monarchs, and we will burn the heresy to death." Sean seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Only people like him who are not so devout to Catholicism dare to say such words on this land where there is no piety at all, saying: "It's all for rule."

"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 have read a book called "The Good and Interesting Golden Book on the Most Perfect National System and the Imaginary New Island". It has a long name. The author portrays a world that does not exist well. Later, the author was beheaded by King Henry because of his opposition to the Reformation." Sean shook his head and said, "If my land could be as good as the Ming Dynasty and not influenced by religion, that would be great."

Chen Mu winked at the eyes, "What book?"

The name was already very long, and Sean drank with a big tongue. Some of the words he spoke in Spanish, some of the words spoke in Chinese, and some of the words spoke in hometown dialect. This was a test of listening skills 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 consider 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, you will contribute to the above things 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 have not had much experience in fighting with the countries of Europa, only a few times."

"But we all won a great victory in those few times. In addition, the court will send people who are proficient in governance to serve as officials in the local area to govern the party. The power of the nobles and kings will be greatly restricted."

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

"We urgently need a new system, business, and navigation, which makes the land-owned nobles increasingly surprised. Nobles who only know how to farm will be poorer than peasants and workers, while some merchants are rich and equal to the royal family. They have no power now, but who would not want to ask for more?"
Chapter completed!