Chapter 184 (1/2)
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. ”