"My Lords, this is not how you eat bananas. You have to peel them."

Liu Hao quickly picked up a banana and demonstrated to the ministers how to peel it.

Then Liu Hao peeled the skin and put the banana into his mouth in a few bites.

Seeing that Liu Hao was eating with gusto, the ministers followed his example and peeled the fruit, only eating the flesh.

Although the flesh looks soft and smells fragrant, it tastes extremely astringent and is still difficult to swallow.

Even Ren Hao vomited out what he couldn't eat.

He suddenly couldn't understand why modern bananas were so delicious, but the ancient bananas were so unpalatable?

But he soon figured out that the reason why modern bananas are sweet and delicious is that they have been cultivated and grafted for several generations and finally have the sweet and delicious taste.

The reason why bananas in ancient times tasted bad was that they had not been cultivated or grafted and were primitive species.

In this era, bananas cannot be called fruits, but food.

Shen He who was standing next to him started to introduce banana to Ren Hao. Although banana can be eaten raw like this, it will taste better if it is roasted and then crushed and steamed with rice.

The people in the Linnan areas, in addition to rice as their staple food, also eat bananas.

Although the banana tasted very bad, Wen Yan still ate it all, unlike other ministers who spit it out directly.

After all, she is the emperor and cannot lose her manners.

When the ministers in the court saw that Wen Yan had eaten all the astringent bananas, they also picked up the bananas that he had just spit out and stuffed them into their mouths.

After all, the emperor ate everything, so how could his ministers not eat everything too?

"I wonder if Your Majesty is satisfied with these extra tributes from me?" Liu Hao asked cautiously.

"I am very satisfied." Wen Yan nodded, and then continued: "I have also prepared a gift for my brother."

"Send some wine." Wen Yan waved his hand, and the old eunuch started shouting.

After a while, a palace maid walked into the hall carrying a plate.

On the plate was a long-spouted wine jug made of gold and a jade cup.

When Peng Wen and the envoys saw that the gift given to Liu Hao was actually a pot of fine wine, they immediately curled their lips in disdain, thinking that the emperor was too stingy.

Liu Hao sent her so many tributes, and he just dismissed them with a pot of wine?

It's used to send away beggars.

Even Liu Hao felt a little embarrassed. He didn't expect that his royal brother would only give him a pot of good wine.

But when the palace maid raised the pot and poured the wine into the jade cup, the overflowing aroma of the wine immediately attracted Liu Hao, especially the crystal clear wine that looked like spring water, which made Liu Hao unable to take his eyes off.

"Is this...is this water or wine?"

Liu Hao stretched out his index finger and dipped it in the wine in the glass. When he put his index finger into his mouth and tasted it, he immediately showed an incredible look.

"Brother Wang, how about this wine?" Wen Yan asked.

Liu Hao came back to his senses and said, "Your Majesty, this is the first time I have tasted this wine. It is simply a heavenly wine. It really amazes me. I wonder what this wine is called?"

"This wine and even the Maozi were invented by Lord Sikong. Especially the immortal wine you drank is the best of the best. The amount produced every day is very small."

"Even I don't have it every day."

"But I see that my brother likes it very much. When he goes back, I will have someone prepare a few jars of Maozi for you." Wen Yan started to talk nonsense in a coaxing and deceptive manner.

"Thank you very much, Your Majesty." Liu Hao hurriedly expressed his gratitude, and then did not forget to distribute the Maozi to Peng Wen and the envoys, inviting them to taste it together.

They used to look down on Maozi, thinking that the emperor was just sending away beggars.

But after tasting the Maozi, everyone was so surprised that they couldn't express it in words.

This is more than just fine wine, it's divine brew.

They all suddenly felt that the fine wine they had drunk before was no longer fine wine, but rather muddy water, not even a bit as good as this thatch.

Seeing that Liu Hao and the other Linnan envoys were all out of control, he actually raised his head and turned the wine glass upside down, drinking up the few drops of immortal wine left in the glass.

All the ministers in the court secretly sneered at them, thinking that they were all ignorant and unscrupulous.

The sense of superiority in my heart suddenly soared.

"Although this kind of top-quality magnolia is rare, there are still many high-quality magnolias."

"Hurry up and get some wine."

Seeing that Liu Hao and the envoys liked Maozi so much, Wen Yan immediately gave orders.

Following the old eunuch's summons, after a while many palace maids came into the hall carrying straw to serve wine to the ministers.

After tasting Maozi, Liu Hao made an unsolicited request to the emperor. He was afraid that he would not be able to drink this wonderful wine when he returned to Linnan, and he hoped that the emperor would give him the recipe for brewing Maozi so that he could go back and brew it.

Wen Yan rejected Liu Hao's request on the grounds that the recipe for brewing Maozi was a secret recipe passed down from Lord Sikong's ancestors and it was inconvenient to reward him.

Although Liu Hao felt somewhat unwilling, he still nodded. Since he couldn't get the formula, he could always buy it.

He hoped that His Majesty could open a Maozi Restaurant in Shacheng, so that he could drink Maozi every day and wouldn't have to worry about it anymore.

Wen Yan agreed to this request immediately.

She was waiting for Liu Hao to say this.

The fact that Maozi Restaurant can be opened in Shacheng is equivalent to placing an eyewitness next to King Linnan.

Peng Wen was shocked by Liu Hao's request. Opening the Maozi Restaurant in Shacheng meant that the emperor was placing spies around him.

He quickly walked up to Liu Hao and whispered, "Prince Nan, this... this is absolutely not allowed. If we open the Maozi Restaurant in Sand City, wouldn't we be living under your majesty's..."

Before Peng Wen could finish his words, Liu Hao reached out to stop him from continuing.

Of course he knew that opening the Maozi Restaurant in Shacheng would mean living under the emperor's surveillance.

But this is exactly the effect he wants.

Previously, Peng Wen had asked His Majesty for the right to mint coins and change the territory and fiefdom, but failed. He could have let Peng Wen die and directly rebelled and proclaimed himself emperor, and then joined forces with the Northern Wei to attack the Han Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty was not concerned about the north and the south, and it was only a matter of time before it could capture the capital.

But he didn't want to divide the Han Dynasty with the Northern Wei. What he wanted was the entire world, including the Northern Wei.

For the sake of the whole world, he could only lie dormant and wait for the opportunity.

But there is a previous record. Even though he cried his eyes out and acted very well when he came, and it seemed that all the blame was borne by Peng Wen alone, even if His Majesty no longer had the intention to kill him, he would definitely be on guard.

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