An exquisite appetizer, Li Xiaoyu has achieved her goal, in her previous life she read a book called "Giuliano's Kitchen", an Italian chef sharing the flavor of her hometown. Every dish www.biquge.info is a very ordinary Italian home cooking, and this capers and eggplant toast is like this.

There may not be such a dish in the city of Rome today, but the sense of identity of a people still exists.

The bread slices are slightly baked until the surface is a little hard, rub a clove of garlic on the surface of the bread, the bread has a garlic aroma, and the rest of the garlic is finely chopped. Tomatoes seeded and finely chopped, fresh thyme finely chopped. Then cut the eggplant and mozzarella cheese into 8 slices. Dip the eggplant slices in olive oil and roast them on the oven or pan-fry them in a pan.

This mozzarella cheese Li Xiaoyu can't be found, but there are still many kinds of cheese in Outer Mongolia, and Li Xiaoyu chooses a peculiar light cheese from the frontier with the most similar taste.

She then mixes chopped pear, minced garlic, thyme and capers, adding the remaining olive oil, salt and crushed black pepper. Each slice of garlic bread is topped with eggplant, cheese, ham, and then a large spoonful of its own secret sauce. The bread is then placed in the oven and baked until the cheese begins to melt and is served hot.

Eating a steaming appetizer, Gaius felt as if he was in the western part of Rome.

Mr. Hu Zhenyuan is obviously not very interested in this appetizer, he feels that the taste is average, but the taste is very innovative, after all, he is a person who is used to eating Chinese food, and he still has some excuses for new things.

Shen Xiao saw Gaius's appearance, but he was very satisfied, in the eyes of Chinese-style businessmen, when receiving customers, as long as the customers are satisfied with food and accommodation, then the business is basically eighty percent likely to be negotiated.

Li Xiaoyu saw the scene today, looked at the state of the three of them, and seemed to understand what was going on Shen Xiao asked Gaius to discuss business matters, as if he wanted to sell a large number of silk, porcelain, and a large number of spices to Gaius, and Gaius came to meet the current emperor, and Hu Zhenyuan was the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, so he was naturally responsible for receiving Gaius.

And Gaius didn't know much about the etiquette of Middle-earth, so today Hu Zhenyuan took advantage of the two to talk about business, and came to mention some etiquette and cultural differences with Gaius, so as to avoid any mistakes that should not be made when he met the emperor seven days later.

Watching Hu Zhenyuan communicate with Gaius, Li Xiaoyu hurriedly brought up the garlic oysters, this garlic oysters are very distinctive, the Western cooking method, the Chinese dishes are generous and beautiful, the two are perfectly integrated, and the black mountain pork belly salad in the middle is made a large portion, placed between the garlic oysters.

When the seafood and asparagus risotto was served, Hu Zhenyuan's brows furrowed into a big pimple, how could this hodgepodge of things be served on the table? Hu Zhenyuan just wanted to speak, but he saw Gaius can't wait to fill himself with a bowl of risotto, and then eat it in a big gulp.

"Oh my God, this is the best seafood risotto I've ever had!" Shen Xiao looked at Gaius with interest, but in his heart he was thinking about who Li Yu learned from this skill.

Li Xiaoyu looked at the three of them, chatting non-stop, but said to Qingluo beside him, "Qingluo, you go and pour them wine, and listen to what they said by the way." After Li Xiaoyu finished speaking, Qingluo skillfully picked up the wine jug and ran over.

"Gaius, as long as my father and the emperor give him enough face, everything is very good, I want to talk to you about our business now, I have spices, silk, porcelain, now it depends on what you want, the various gems of your country are very popular with my dynasty!" After Shen Xiao finished speaking, Gaius smiled.

"These gems are a tribute to Your Majesty." Gaius looked embarrassed.

Shen Xiao smiled and said, "For such a long journey from Rome to Chang'an, Your Excellency won't just bring a little tribute to the emperor of the dynasty, right?" As far as I know, Your Excellency has done a lot of business in the country of Uzi, Loulan, and Qiuci, and has made a lot of money. ”

Gaius smiled awkwardly, "Sure enough, I can't hide anything from the sixth master." As he spoke, he slowly took out a blue crystal from his hand, and said with a smile, "I still have more than a hundred of the best sapphires, and there are probably hundreds of red, yellow, and green gemstones, as well as your Han people's favorite Turkic scimitar, each of which is made of Damascus steel." After he finished speaking, the Arab servant behind him took out a scimitar and offered it.

The scimitar is beautifully made, and the hilt is inlaid with a delicate gem that depicts this very delicate carving, and even the blade of the scimitar is a very elaborate church rune.

Shen Xiao smiled slightly, "You really understand our minds, some people just like this kind of thing." Looking at this beautifully made, but useless scimitar, Shen Xiao was very satisfied.

This kind of scimitar is like to be used by the Hu people on the battlefield, but for the heavy cavalry of the Han nationality, their scimitar is not threatening at all, and it is difficult for such a scimitar to cut into the armor of the heavy cavalry, so this is just something that the children of the nobles of the Han family play with.

"I... I bought a lot of scimitars in Loulan and Dayue, that place produces gems and metals, and their whole country seems to be producing such exquisite scimitars, and their arsenal is full of all kinds of scimitars, I specially sell them to you, I just picked out some of the most valuable scimitars and brought them to you. Gaius said, while Shen Xiao and Hu Zhenyuan were bright-eyed.

Hu Zhenyuan even took a deep breath and said with a smile: "It seems that the land of Longxi will be able to send troops after the New Year." ”

"Hmph, the three surnames of Longxi are indeed going to be unlucky!" The Dayue clan lives in the Hexi Corridor in the west of Longxi, and is friendly with the three surnames of Longxi, if the imperial court sends troops, it is worried that the Dayue clan will participate in the tribes of the three surnames of Longxi, and the scale of the war will expand too much.

Now Goguryeo has been subdued by the cavalry general Shen Shuo, and there are constant disputes in the southern Xinjiang, but there are Pingshan kings and Leshan kings guarding them, which is not a problem, and the imperial court is worried about the movements of the tribes and small countries around Longxi.

But now that they heard that those two countries use the Damascus steel, which they cherish in their country, to build these scimitars, what do they have to worry about? There is only one weapon in a country's arsenal, and this weapon does not pose a threat to their heavy cavalry at all, so they can directly attack the three surnames of Longxi.