Chapter 184

Wine is good wine. It's the kind of highly distilled whisky that Colonel Jones commissioned major hank to bring Gao Shu tribe to prepare a bottle of wine for 100 beaver skins.

Just like laomaozi's vodka and Huaxia's Maotai, whisky can also be called British national wine.

In fact, the world recognized whisky is produced in Scotland, and brewing history at least more than 500 years of history. As soon as this kind of wine came out, it was welcomed by many British people.

However, in this era, because the British government began to levy a "whisky tax" on the people, whether they buy or sell wine, they all need to pay taxes to support the wars of various lines and the needs of the nobles, so many winery owners closed their wineries because they could not afford to pay high taxes, so they began to brew whisky secretly. This kind of distillery is called "illegal distillery" by British government.

And ordinary people can't afford to pay this kind of tax, so they secretly buy this kind of wine produced by illegal distillery, because they don't have to pay tax to buy this kind of wine.

Therefore, this kind of illegal distillery is a thorn in the eye of British senior management.

In the 18th century, there were only eight legal whisky distilleries in Britain, while there were more than 400 illegal distilleries.

Since it's an illegal distillery, the quality and taste of the whisky they brewed can't be guaranteed. After all, everyone knows what it's like for a small distillery to change places with one shot. Although the whisky produced by the legal large distilleries is of good quality and good taste, the price of the whisky produced by the legal distilleries is usually very high because they have to pay a high "whisky tax".

In particular, some of the special supply of the best whisky for the aristocracy and even the royal family, the price is even higher to a staggering level.

Just like the bottles of whisky brought out by Colonel Jones, they are among the best in Britain. This kind of wine can only appear on the table of the royal family and those powerful aristocrats.

A bottle of this whisky brewed by a legal distillery in Scotland is worth two royal rose gold coins, or four pounds!

In this era, the pound is still extremely valuable. At this time, the pound is directly linked to silver. A pound is equal to a pound of silver!

A British civilian who works hard for a whole year can earn ten pounds and eight pounds; As a major, William hank is also a middle-level officer in the military, and he has left his family to fight in the new world. His annual salary is only forty-eight pounds!

So, four pounds worth of whisky is really bad!

In terms of today's silver price, four pounds at that time was equivalent to about 1100 dollars in modern times!

One thousand and one hundred dollars is enough to buy a very good bottle of red wine at the top five wineries.

Since Colonel Jones showed his sincerity, the stone bear would not hide it. Anyway, Colonel Jones and major hank want refined salt, which is too much for the gaoshu tribe. For the 60000 pounds put forward by Colonel Jones, the stone bear has no pressure at all.

The dish is specially made by stone bear. Although Ferguson has started to try it himself, his skill is not good enough. The fried food can only be swallowed reluctantly. In the words of later generations, that is to say, this guy's own fried food can definitely compete with British dark food.

Therefore, if you want to eat stir fry, you have to eat the dishes made by the boss himself.

Major hank, of course, had never had this kind of stir fry, so the meal almost made him unable to walk. A Maj. officer of the Royal Army of the British Empire, who was very unpromising, ate and supported

Major hank also brought a little tea from the Far East this time. Although it's not a good tea, for the stone bear who didn't like tea in the past, this kind of tea foam, which is estimated to be two yuan and a carriage in the future, is also the cream of jade now.

Meimei sips the tea, and the familiar taste almost makes the stone bear hum comfortably.

"Guardian, can Colonel Jones have enough salt this time?" Hank lit his pipe and gave it a good smack before he said.

"No problem, it's 60000 pounds. There are in the tribe!" Stone bear also lit his pipe, while smoking a very easy answer, "I said William, how much is your greedy boss going to sell this kind of salt? Did he mention it to you? "

"Of course, where else would he get so much salt?" Major Hank's happy reply showed that the appearance of this kind of salt made this guy's position in the eyes of Colonel Jones rise sharply.

"But the captain is greedy. He wants to set the price of this salt at sixpence a pound in the country!" With that, major hank banged the seeds like a toothache and made a "tut tut" sound, "the price is six times higher than the domestic price of salt! Jones really dares to set such a high price

"Sixpence?" Stone bear also slightly shook his head, the price exceeded his estimate, "such a high price can sell out?"

"It's easy! Guardian, you may not know that the last ten thousand pounds of salt was bought by the powerful guys in Jamestown alone. The price was sixpence. This kind of salt you produce has gone crazy in Jamestown, Philadelphia, New York and even Boston. It is said that the price of a pound in Boston has reached eight pence. So if this kind of salt is transported back to China, the price of sixpence will soon be robbed by the noble housekeepers. "

Stone bear nodded thoughtfully, "that is to say, once the salt is transported to your country, then the price is beyond your control?"

Hank nodded. "There's no way. We don't have transportation channels. We can't compete with Jones in China, so we have to leave these things to him. Even if he sells salt to 10p at home, we can only do it. "

Even in later generations, transportation channels and sales channels are stuck in other people's hands. As the lowest level manufacturer, you can only watch those channels make a lot of money.

It's hard to feel controlled by people!

"Can you guarantee your profits?" After a short silence, Shi Xiong asked.

"Not bad. After all, the price I quoted Jones was four pence a pound, including three pence for Ferguson and me. That's all Ferguson and I can eat. But it's also very profitable. "

"Good! Since Colonel Jones values our salt so much, you can go back and tell him that I can supply him salt at this price for a long time, but he must get me what I need, otherwise I don't mind destroying this business that can make him a lot of money. "

Major hank nodded with a smile and said, "guardian, don't worry about it. Now that Jones is more nervous about it than me..."

Major hank brought a lot of things this time. He brought almost all the things on the list that stone bear gave him when he left last time.

Of course, the most is grain.

Now that the British have completely established themselves in the new world, they have even defeated the powerful French. With the continuous expansion of the territory and more immigrants coming to the new world from Europe across the ocean, the British power in the new world is becoming more and more powerful.

And with the rapid increase in strength, is the bumper harvest of food.

Although tobacco is the most important cash crop the British grow in the new world, they can grow more corn, sweet potato, potato, barley and wheat in the new world. After all, food is the foundation of everything. In addition, in the past two years, the new world has been in good weather, and the land here has not been cultivated for many years. It is very fertile, so the food in the new world is not worrying.

In fact, it would have been very difficult for the British to defeat the French in the seven-year war if it had not been for the back feeding of the thirteen colonies in North America.

Therefore, Jamestown has no shortage of food.

The last time major hank left the gaoshu tribe, the sentinel snake of the letidge tribe had not colluded with major Armand of okron fortress to invade the gaoshu tribe, so the food of the gaoshu tribe was not very abundant at that time, and the stone bear planned to use the food to collude with some small tribes that had previously separated from the gaoshu tribe, So on that list, what stone bear wants most is food.

Although grain is the most popular thing in circulation at present, thanks to the continuous high yield of grain in the new world, the price of grain has dropped a lot. In addition, the price of food itself is not as high as salt, so major hank easily raised 50000 pounds of food for the stone bear this time.

Last time, the stone bear still owed major hank 20000 pounds of salt, and this time Colonel Jones needed another 60000 pounds of salt, so this time major hank needed to pull a whole 80000 pounds of salt from the high tree tribe.

So this time major hank brought a huge convoy of nearly a hundred wagons that could pull about a thousand pounds, and the soldiers protecting the convoy alone were as many as a whole company, more than a hundred people!

The huge motorcade pulled heavy supplies from Jamestown hundreds of miles away to the high tree tribe. It took nearly a month to walk.

Fortunately, the strength of the British people is more and more powerful, and there is no large-scale Indian attack on the way. These materials arrived at the gaoshu tribe safely.

Looking at these grains, the stone bear's face is also happy. Although a lot of grain was seized from Constantine's fleet, and later a total of 30000 pounds of grain was extorted from Fort okron, no one would think too much of it.

Together with the 50000 pounds of grain that major hank brought, the whole gaoshu tribe is now hoarding nearly 100000 pounds of grain.

If an adult eats 0.5 kg of grain a day, this is close to 100000 pounds of grain, which is enough for 1000 people to eat 80 days. If combined with the hunting in the wilderness, the food would be enough for a thousand people for three or four months.

There are so many grains that when there is no harvest in April and may, we can use them to attract more people to join the gaoshu tribe.

In this era, population is the most important, and the basis of increasing population is food!

Shi Xiong knew this very well, so he tried his best to collect food, and at the same time, he also made great efforts to open up wasteland for farming, in order to make the grain yield of gaoshu tribe more and more, so as to support more people. Only when there are more people can gaoshu tribe stand on the top.

"William, I'll accept the food." Stone Bear looked at the busy people carrying food with a smile on their faces, and said to major hank with a smile, "well, don't worry, there is enough salt. I promise you can take 80000 pounds of food when you leave."

This time, major Hank's food was mainly corn, supplemented by wheat and barley, and about 5000 pounds of rice. Today's corn is not classified as coarse grain like later generations. Today's corn is fine grain in the new world and Europe.

As for wheat, barley and rice, not to mention.

In addition to grain, major hank also brought in a lot of seeds from various crops. Compared with grain, the value of these seeds is much higher.

Originally, Colonel Jones didn't want to provide so many grain and cash crop seeds for the stone bear, but he couldn't resist major Hank's persuasion. Finally, Colonel Jones agreed to bring a large number of seeds together for trading.

"I told Jones at the time that if we didn't provide the seeds listed in this list, people would cut off the salt trade with us. Jones lost his temper and said he would send troops to attack your tribe. I immediately told him that your tribe is more than 400 miles away from Jamestown. Moreover, your tribe is easy to defend and hard to attack, and it is deep in the hinterland of the Cherokee people. Your tribe is also the tribe of the Cherokee high priest kabulu. If we really attack your tribe, one is that it is very difficult to fight there, The other is that it will definitely cause the anger of the whole Cherokee people. " Major hank stood beside the stone bear and said, "of course, Jones didn't dare to attack you at the risk of having a bad relationship with your Cherokee people, so in the end he had no choice but to provide so many seeds."

Stone bear said with a smile: "whether it's grain or these seeds, in fact, they are not precious things for you now. These things are of very low value to you. Jones dare not do it to us because of this."

"The most important thing is that even if you come, you will never defeat our tribe."

Stone Bear looked at the disbelieving major hank, pointed to the east of the tribe and said, "see those two rooms? There are two 12 pound Wallace cannons in those two wooden houses. In addition, we have 24 4 pound Wallace cannons, and our tribe has more than 100 muskets now. How many of you do you think can break our defense? "

Major hank already knew what Shi Xiong said, so he shrugged his shoulders and said, "anyway, I won't attack you. We don't have guns. To attack you is to die."

Stone bear said with a smile: "yes, the facts are here. In fact, even if we didn't have these guns and muskets, Jones didn't dare to fight us. What he wants is to make money, not to do evil with us Cherokees. He doesn't dare to do evil with us Cherokees, and he doesn't have the ability to beat us. So the only way he can make a lot of profits is to deal with us honestly. "

Hank said with a smile: "guardian, what you said is too accurate!"