After Li Kuan left the Summer Palace, he immediately returned to the Chu Palace.

However, when he was excited to arrange someone to prepare a sauerkraut fish and spicy hotpot, he found that the atmosphere in the palace seemed a little different.

"Prince, can this chili really be eaten?"

Qing'er asked carefully.

She remembered the painful scene of little corn just now.

"Just just now, Xiao Mei was naughty and took the pepper to soak in water. She ended up crying there and her eyes were red and swollen."

Cheng Jingwen added aside.

"ah?"

Li Kuan didn't expect that in just a while, the little girl would have done such a thing.

Drink chili water?

How about this idea...

“Do you drink too much?”

"I still drank a lot, and I just took a sip and was already crying."

Cheng Jingwen obviously doesn’t understand the use of chili peppers, and it doesn’t look like it can be eaten at all.

"This girl, chili is not eaten like this! Let's wait a moment, let you see the use of chili."

When he found out that it was a false alarm, Li Kuan was going to the kitchen to arrange for the chef to prepare supper himself.

"Aye, you are lying!"

At this time, Xiao Yumi stared at her red eyes and ran over with aggrieved look on her face.

"Little girl, see if you dare to be disobedient in the future, you secretly took Aye's peppers to water. How about it? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Li Kuan scratched Xiao Yumi's head, and was also helpless towards this little girl.

"I heard Qing'er say that this pepper is your favorite food in Aye, but I think Aye, you must be lying to people. How could such a bad thing be your favorite food?"

Xiao Yumi had a deep resentment towards Chili at this time and thought that this thing was simply a disaster.

"Prince, I also tasted the chili water with a little dipped in it. It was really very unpalatable. Do you still need someone to pick up the seeds in the warehouse?"

Qing'er couldn't help expressing her opinion at this time.

She felt a little wronged. She was obviously doing things as Li Kuan told her, but she seemed to have done something wrong and caused her county lord to suffer.

"Whether it tastes good or not, you will know if it is useful in the evening! Let's wait now."

Li Kuan felt that he would hurry up and get the pickled fish and spicy hotpot, and then add a sour and sour potato shredded potatoes and sour hand-teared hand-dried soy sauce. He would definitely be able to cook three bowls of rice tonight.

...

"Prince, can this fish be eaten?"

Before eating hot pot, the sauerkraut fish came.

The red peppers floated all over the copper pot. Although the fragrance was everywhere, Cheng Jingwen and Wu Meiniang stared at the peppers inside with a little fear.

As for Xiao Yumi, she looked at her Aye in amazement.

Didn’t we eat a kind of chili?

"I'll try it first!"

Li Kuan did not have Cheng Jingwen's questions and answered this question directly with actions.

The peppers simmered with hot oil emit a burst of fragrance.

The smell of coriander has greatly increased Li Kuan's appetite.

I have to say that the chef of the King of Chu Mansion has also mastered his cooking skills over the years.

I just gave a simple guide and was able to make these dishes as decently.

When Li Kuan picked up a piece of fish fillet and put it in his mouth, the feeling of being smooth and tender in the mouth, and the taste was sour and refreshing, it seemed that he had forgotten that this was the Tang Dynasty.

At this moment, time was still here, and Li Kuan could not swallow it, nor could he bear to swallow this tender and tender flesh.

After closing his eyes slightly and savoring it in his mouth for a while, Li Kuan swallowed the fish.

"Delicious! So delicious!"

The chili peppers that come back from South America are very spicy.

However, in this cold weather, eating this spicy pickled fish is extremely wonderful.

Next, Li Kuan immediately accelerated the pace and stopped after eating more than a dozen fish fillets in one breath.

At this time, Cheng Jingwen, Wu Meiniang, Xiao Yumi, Qing'er and others all looked at Li Kuan with strange eyes.

"You really won't try it? I'll tell you, with this chili, you won't have to worry about not being able to eat anymore. Even if it's bibimbap with chili sauce, it can kill a large bowl."

"Since the prince appreciates the dishes so much, I'll try it too."

Although Wu Meiniang was a little scared when she saw the red pepper, after hearing Li Kuan say this, she still picked up the chopsticks on the table, carefully picked up a piece of fish from the pepper, and put it in front of her for a long time before putting it in her mouth.

Not as uncomfortable as I thought!

On the contrary, it has a kind of oily but not greasy, sour and spicy, making people feel endlessly savored and fragrant with lips and teeth.

Unconsciously, Wu Meiniang picked up a piece of fish fillet again and put it in her mouth to eat it.

After seeing Wu Meiniang's performance, Cheng Jingwen and Qing'er became curious and picked up the chopsticks and tasted it.

"Hiss! So spicy!"

Cheng Jingwen just took a bite and couldn't help but put down her chopsticks, picked up a glass of water and started drinking.

Obviously, she couldn't eat spicy food at all.

"The princess, it seems to taste OK!"

Qing'er's performance is similar to Wu Meiniang.

"This chili pepper will be very popular among those who like it, but the ones who don't like it can't eat it at all. It seems that Jingwen, you and Xiao Yumi are sweet parties, and we are spicy parties."

Li Kuan saw everyone's reaction and couldn't help but smile and say.

"Your Majesty, just this chili, isn't it too exaggerating to compare it with potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes? Didn't you say that there are actually many important things in America that are worth introducing to our Tang Dynasty?"

Cheng Jingwen still doesn’t think that peppers are of great significance.

Without this, the food is more delicious.

"It's not an exaggeration, not an exaggeration at all! I think my appetite has improved when eating. This chili pepper has a stimulating effect on the mouth and gastrointestinal cavity, can enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote the secretion of digestive juices, and improve appetite. For people with good health, eating more chili peppers is actually beneficial.

Besides, if I arrange too many tasks for the fleet in one go, everyone may not find the key points, and the final harvest may not be better. It is better to let them focus on finding traces of high-yield grains, and then slowly find rubber trees, peanuts, tomatoes, etc.

Guanshishan Academy has now set up a special award to reward those who bring back rare animals and plants from overseas. As long as someone brings back to tomatoes, peanuts, or rubber trees from the Americas, I will directly reward 10,000 yuan!”

There are so many good things in America, and Li Kuan will naturally not give up.

However, you must do things step by step and don’t always think about eating in one bite and become fat.

"There are so many good things in America, but the distance is too far. If there are faster ships that can reach America in one or two months, it will be much more convenient."

Cheng Jingwen is also quite familiar with the globe created by Li Kuan and knows how far America is from the Tang Dynasty.

"There will be! In our lifetime, we will definitely have the opportunity to travel to America and travel around the world. At that time, let the Donghai Fisheries Dengzhou Shipbuilding Workshop make a super luxurious sea boat, and we will ride it to play around the world together."

The progress of the Steam Engine Research Institute of Guanshishan Academy has reached a critical moment. With the rubber exchanged by Li Kuan, the sealing problem of the steam engine has been greatly improved.

In a few years, a mature and reliable steam engine will become possible if it enters the vision of the people of the Tang Dynasty.

As for steamboats, they will also become reality from imagination.

So Li Kuan feels that it is still possible to take Cheng Jingwen and the others around the world at that time.

Of course, this will happen at least ten years later.

At that time, the Tang Dynasty had already firmly established itself as the leader of the aristocratic family.

"Huh? Where is the fish?"

When Li Kuan was about to pick up a piece of pickled fish and eat it again, he found that there was no fish slices in the copper pot.

Wu Meiniang and Qing'er were chewing beside each other in beautiful and rosy colors, obviously they were just enjoying their meals.

With the opening of pickled fish, the next spicy hotpot naturally became Li Kuan, Wu Meiniang and Qing'er's favorite.

As for Cheng Jingwen and Xiao Yumi, they looked at the chili peppers with disgust and ate other dishes by themselves.

...

While Li Kuan was enjoying this delicacy, some people were evaluating the various impacts that the fleet had brought after returning from the expedition.

"Brother, what you mean is that we seize this opportunity and buy a large amount of potato seeds from the Chu Palace, and ask the people from Guanshishan Academy Agricultural College to guide the planting of potatoes?"

In the Du Mansion, Du He was very surprised when he heard his elder brother's decision.

He naturally witnessed the grand occasion in the Weishui Wharf today.
To be continued...