"Your Majesty, our Daqin not only has exquisite porcelain, crystal clear glass, exquisite and luxurious silk, Johnson & Johnson's healthy tea, but also various fine wines. The set of crystal glass wine glasses we brought are actually not used to drink milk wine like you, but to drink wine..."

While thinking about it in his heart, Li Shun thought about how to seduce Antioch III. A group of translators next to him quickly translated Li Shun's words word by word.

"Oh~" Antioch III looked at Li Shun in surprise, then looked at the wine glass in his hand, shook his head slightly drunk, "Our camel milk wine is the most precious and delicious wine in Persia. The winemakers in the court are superb skills. They are the grandson of the royal winemakers of Alexander the Great..."

"Your Majesty, I'm not bragging to you. If you drink our Daqin wine, you will think that the best camel milk wine is similar to urine." Li Shun shook his head disrespectfully.

After Li Shun's vulgar words were confirmed by two groups of translators, the queen and the two concubines who were sitting next to Antioch could not help but cover their mouths and blushed their cheeks.

Antioch III was very upset by being slapped in the face so naked. He slowly put down his silver wine glass. A hint of anger appeared on his young and domineering face, and his tone became much colder. "You Daqin certainly have exquisite porcelain glass and silk, but we may not have no exquisite utensils when we rest in peace. I have drunk countless fine wines. The wines you mentioned are all Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, but they are far inferior to camel milk wine. You Daqin's wines are just like this..."

"I knew that Your Majesty didn't believe it, but whether Your Majesty would be willing to make a bet with me. If Your Majesty wins, then after I return to Daqin, I will ask the caravan to send you one hundred exquisite silks for free. But if I win, Your Majesty will pay me 3,000 gold coins in advance to be the payment for the purchase of silk. After I return to Daqin, I will arrange for the caravan to deliver them to you. What do you think?"

"Really?" Antioch III's face turned angry and happy.

"A promise of a thousand gold is the best quality of our people in the Qin Dynasty. If I have bad character, His Majesty the First Emperor will not hand over such an important task to me on the mission to your country. We have worked hard for more than 20,000 miles to reach your country. We must not be lying, but for the most precious friendship between the two countries. You have a saying in peace: You can never be friends with a liar. So please believe in my character!"

"Okay, I believe you, but how did you let me taste the wine of Daqin? I hope you don't use the wine of the Egyptians purchased in Anxu to perfunctorily..."

"Don't worry, our Daqin wine is different. Liu Tongyi, please go to the hotel to get the bottle of Qinghe wine I hid in my suitcase. By the way, there is also mahjong..." Li Shun said to an official from the Dianke Office next to him.

"Qinghe Wine?!" Several mission officials who came with him looked at Li Shun in surprise.

They all knew that after wading through mountains and rivers, many pack horses and luggage items were lost on the way, and more than a dozen people even died. However, the only pair of mahjong was well protected. This was the only spiritual food on the way. Whenever they settled in a safe place to rest, they would play mahjong to show their longing for their hometown. Officials, servants and imperial guards would visit and place bets in batches. Therefore, throughout the journey, this precious mahjong was the treasure of the entire mission. Not only did they lose one hundred and thirty-six cards, but there were few traces of damage.

Moreover, along the way, they also taught kings and nobles from more than ten countries, including Dayuan, Kangju, Daxia, etc. to play mahjong, and deeply carried forward the concept of Qinghe Hou's request to spread the Daqin culture. The magical game of mahjong also attracted the likes of the nobles and kings of the countries along the way. The king of Daxia even enthusiastically invited the mission officials to stay in the palace for two days and guided his royal craftsmen to create a pair of sterling silver mahjong with silver. In the end, each mission official also gave a golden mahjong, weighing five taels each, which was very welcoming and hospitable.

But there was no wine in the ceremony carried by the group.

Looking at the appearance of a group of mission officials, Li Shun laughed dryly and said, "Haha, before leaving, a bottle given by Qinghe Hou has been hiding in his suitcase and is reluctant to drink it. Go and get it!"

"Why did the Queen Qinghe secretly give you a bottle of fine wine?" Liu Tongyi couldn't help but speak.

Li Shun shivered and said with a little dark face: "Before leaving, the Marquis told me that mission to the West is both a glory and a journey of death, and maybe he would encounter misfortune. Therefore, he specially gave me a bottle of wine and said that if he was about to die, he would drink a sip to satisfy his craving, so as not to become a lonely ghost who misses his hometown and is unable to be at peace after death!"

A group of officials:...

"The Marquis is too partial!" Liu Tongyi muttered and stood up and left with an eunuch.

Twenty minutes later, amid the expectation of a group of people, the two of them returned. The eunuch held the mahjong box and Liu Tongyi handed Li Shun a wooden box held in his arms. Li Shun opened the wooden box, then opened the tightly wrapped oil cloth, poured out the stuffed reed flowers, and took out an extremely exquisite porcelain bottle from it.

"Wow, @^@..." Looking at this extremely exquisite wine bottle, the princes and two concubines of Antioch couldn't help but stand up and couldn't even turn their eyes away.

Antioch was also a little excited in an instant. The Great Qin was indeed different. The wine bottles were more expensive than all the utensils in his palace. The gold and silver tableware on the table looked extremely tacky in an instant.

"Pok~~"

Li Shun carefully scraped off the wax seal with the silver knife on the dining table and opened the cork bottle. As a few drops of red wine spilled out, a faint and clear fragrance of wine spread in the air.

"Your Majesty, please clean the glass of wine given by His Majesty the First Emperor yesterday and then take it. This wine of wine must be drunk with a crystal wine glass to be the most authentic and delicious!" Li Shun sniffed it gently at the mouth of the bottle, and was instantly intoxicated.

Two years...it took two years, and I finally smelled the wine of grapes again.

Liu Tongyi and several other officials of the mission also twitched their nostrils almost at the same time, carefully savoring the long-lost taste of hometown.

I would rather have a twist of soil in my hometown than a thousand taels of gold in a foreign land!

This is the earnest teaching of Qinghe Hou before leaving.

But for Li Shun, he thought about the land of his hometown and the ten thousand taels of gold from a foreign land. This is not a multiple-choice question that cannot be obtained with both fish and bear's paw. As a mature adult, he generally does not do multiple-choice questions. Multiple-choice questions are something that primary school students can do.

Compared with the Qin Dynasty, there is indeed nothing worthy of praise. This is synonymous with primitiveness and barbarity. There are no steel, cement, porcelain, glass, silk, tea, buns, steamed buns, noodles and wine in Daqin, not to mention high-end facilities such as cement roads, Cuju Square and four-wheeled carriage newspapers.

If it were ten years ago, Li Shun might not have had such an idea, but now, compared with the development of the Great Qin and what he saw in Western countries, he has deeply realized the huge changes that the Qinghe Marquis brought to the Great Qin. This is a completely different gap between the two eras.

If there are ten years of comparison, Li Shun himself dare not imagine how big the gap between the two is.

Given the exquisite packaging of grape wine, the Queen of Antioch went to pick up the glasses himself. Ten minutes later, he personally brought six clean glasses on a golden tray on the dining table. Li Shun stood up to pour wine.

A bottle of Qinghe wine is only two pounds, and it will be almost gone if it fills six cups. Therefore, Li Shun pours only one-third of each cup. As this blood-red wine is injected into the crystal clear glass, an instantly refreshing smell mixed with the aroma of grapes and fruits is emitted, and countless screams of exclamation suddenly sounded in the sunny palace garden.

Li Shun ignored everyone's surprise and commotion, capped the bottle and picked up a glass to return to his seat. He shook it gently for half a minute and sniffed it slightly, then sucked it gracefully, wrapped it in his mouth and rinsed it gently, then slowly penetrated into his throat along the roots of his teeth, cheeks and tongue.

“Hu~~delicious~~”

After a while, Li Shun opened his slightly closed eyes in a long breath, with an extremely comfortable face. It seemed that after the aftertaste of this wine blended into his soul, Li Shun smiled and said, "Your Majesty, this is the most precious grape wine in my Great Qin. No one in the world is better than that. This bottle of wine was also given by the Left Prime Minister of the Great Qin Empire before leaving. I took care of it carefully and traveled through mountains and rivers and went through 20,000 miles. Your Majesty can see and taste its unique flavor today..."

Li Shun turned the bottle over and looked at the signature of Emperor Shin-Yi-nine years at the bottom of the bottle. He pointed it to Antioch and his queen and concubine with emotion. "Please see, Your Majesty, this bottle of wine was brewed five years ago. It was aged and refrigerated in an ice cellar for five years. A bottle is worth at least 100 gold coins..."

After listening to the translation, Antioch, who was holding up the wine glass, shivered slightly, and several drops of red wine inside.

"Your Majesty, you need not be surprised. This kind of wine cannot be bought even if you have money in Daqin. Only the emperor and few nobles can drink it. Today I would like to ask Your Majesty to taste it and see if it is my Daqin wine delicious or the Egyptian wine delicious you mentioned..."

Li Shun made a gesture of invitation. He had never known that there were wines in the West at all, and even if he knew, he would only disdain. Qinghe wine was brewed by Qinghehou, a disciple of the immortal family, using magic taught by gods. How could the messy wines brewed by these Western barbarians be compared? Especially these so-called horse milk wine, goat milk wine, and camel milk wine, all tasted one by one, sour and slutty. If it were placed in Daqin, no one would be willing to drink it.
Chapter completed!