Chapter 81 (2/2)

Now beaver skin is a very popular high-grade fur in Europe. A complete beaver skin is worth two shillings. If a bottle of whisky worth four pounds can really be exchanged for 100 beaver skins, it can be sold at a high price of 200 shillings after it is transported to the UK.

Now a pound is worth twenty shillings, and a shilling is worth twelve pence. That is to say, the two hundred shillings are worth ten pounds! Five bottles of wine is fifty pounds, and Jones can make a net profit of thirty pounds!

Thirty pounds is a huge sum of money in these days. Now Britain has not implemented the gold standard, and the pound has not been linked to gold. At this time, the pound is far more valuable than the pound of later generations. Now a pound is a pound of silver, and thirty pounds is thirty pounds of silver!

But at this time, silver is not very popular, and the krona silver coin made of silver is gradually withdrawing from the market.

However, according to the current regulations of the Bank of England, the exchange ratio of gold and silver is 1:15.2, that is to say, if the 30 pounds are converted into gold, it can be converted into two pounds of gold, that is, almost 0.9 kg of gold! In modern times, the gold is almost worth 300000 yuan!

Major hank doesn't like paper money or silver money. His favorite is gold! He came to the new world for gold.

According to the soldiers who came back from the new world, the new world is full of wealth. Those stupid barbarians have many good things in their hands. Unfortunately, those barbarians are very stupid. They can exchange more than ten precious beaver skins with one iron pot. And a bottle of high whisky can be exchanged for dozens or even hundreds of beaver skins!

If major hank knew something about later generations, he would describe the new world like this: people are stupid, money comes quickly!

As a result, major hank, who was a lieutenant three years ago, followed the Royal Navy warships to the new world. Because he had to fight not only with the barbarians, but also with the damned franceans, before he set out, Lieutenant hank was promoted to captain hank.

Then in recent years, he fought bravely and command well, and was promoted to major, which was regarded as one of the middle-level officers in the Royal Army.

Of course, in recent years, he also made a lot of gold by trading with the barbarians.

But what he didn't expect was that Captain Jones, the top commander of the Royal Army in Jamestown, sent him to such a place to make a deal, which really made major hank angry.

Originally, major hank regarded Colonel Jones as the best leader, but this time, the image of Colonel Jones in his eyes all collapsed.

So major hank is going to take revenge on that damned Colonel Jones.

Of course, there is no way for him to retaliate against Colonel Jones in Jamestown. As the top military officer there, if major hank dares to do anything out of line without the help of Colonel Jones, the guards around him will shoot major hank.

That's why major hank is here to spoil Colonel Jones' goods.

After another gulp, major hank felt a little dizzy, so he decided not to drink today. But it's really delicious. It's worth four pounds!

As soon as the cork was plugged back into the bottle, a voice rang out: ”major, is it convenient for you now? The people of gaoshu tribe want to have a talk with you... ”