100,000 dollars in 1888 was not a small amount.

In this era of $30 a month, this money can at least swell 80 to 100 times in 2018, 130 years later, which is equivalent to $8 million, or even 10 million dollars.

It is not easy to accumulate such a fortune in ten years.

After all, the predecessor was not the rich second generation, although Lin Yao had foresight, he couldn't do anything without capital.

Soros once said that when you have a million, it will be easy to make ten million.

Abundant funds will smooth most of the thresholds for you, and it will also become a barrier to the prying eyes of the poor.

Lin Yao is a poor man who is blocked from the barrier, and after thinking about it, he does not have a good means of accumulating raw funds.

Where will the first pot of gold come from?

Lin Yao fell into deep thought.

He is just an apprentice with a monthly salary of 30 yuan, and he has not yet received a commission.

Commission?

Thinking of this word, he thought of fur hunters again.

Armed with old-fashioned rifles, these hunters hunted wild beasts through the mountains and forests, and not only had a monthly salary of $80, nearly three times more than his salary, but also enjoyed a commission on cherished furs.

Indian Reserve, Montana.

The most prey are wild deer, rabbits, foxes, wild boars, bison, and there is no commission for hunting this animal.

However, if you hunt wolves, bears, leopards, and lions and bring back their fur intact, the boss will pay you an extra bonus on top of your salary to encourage the hunter to hunt the ferocious beast.

A full wolf skin awards two dollars, and a special snow wolf skin awards five dollars.

Leopard skins are rewarded with five dollars, and snow leopards are rewarded with ten dollars.

Bearskins are rewarded with twenty dollars and lionskins are awarded at twenty dollars.

The fur of these ferocious beasts was a favorite of the wealthy class, especially the intact black bear skin, and no nobleman could refuse a bear fur coat.

Even the middle class was willing to spend a fortune to decorate their wooden houses with wolf heads, which represented martial arts in the fierce west.

"What are you thinking?"

While Lin Yao was thinking, William walked over from behind.

"How can I join the hunting party?" Lin Yao replied nonchalantly.

"Join the hunting party?"

William was taken aback, although he was not very old, he had followed the camp out to hunt for the second time.

He was well aware that the most dangerous profession in the entire camp was that of a fur hunter.

They travel through the mountains and into the forest, hunting within a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and no one knows what they will encounter.

Wild beast attacks, blizzards, disorientation, Indian traps, and even the malice of fellow travelers can cause fur hunters to go and never return.

Basically, after a quarter, more than two dozen fur hunters come out, and it would be good to be able to go back two-thirds of them.

Disappearances are common, and even if you do, no one in the camp will look for you, and with the exception of a lucky few, disappearances often represent death.

Compared to fur hunters, the work inside the camp is simple and safe.

There was no need to go anywhere, dozens of people gathered together to work, drinking hot broth, and there was no fear for their lives unless they were discovered by the Indians in the reserve.

"You're crazy, fur hunters are in pairs, you're only one person, and no one will help you in trouble."

"Besides, the camp is so safe, I heard from Uncle Taylor that last year there was a hunter who was hunting in the mountains, and because he stepped on one foot in the air, he rolled down the mountain, and when he was found, there was only a pool of blood."

"There are even more people who are attacked by wild beasts, and if we encounter a black bear that comes out to feed, it will be difficult for our weapons to deal with it, and there is basically no return when encountered."

"I've also heard of people who have been surrounded by wolves, and a pack of wolves has gnawed him to the bone."

William introduced it matter-of-factly, hoping to dispel Lin Yao's thoughts.

But Lin Yao's attitude was very resolute, he calculated that an ordinary fur hunter, with a basic salary plus bonuses, would have an income of at least $300 in three months.

Good hunters, such as Geshuus, who specializes in tracking wild beasts, can make $500 a trip.

Lin Yao is not greedy, if he has $500, he can buy himself a good rifle, an ordinary mobility horse, plus a Colt M1873 revolver, to become a more promising cowboy.

Once he became a cowboy, he was able to pick up some wanted warrants in the town and accumulate his first pot of gold as a bounty hunter.

If he didn't work as a fur hunter, he would have been paid $30 as an apprentice.

Three months later, when the owner Henry returned with someone, he could only get a maximum of $120, not to mention the expensive rifles and horses, and the revolver alone would cost him seventy-seven or eighty-eight.

Don't look at some westerns, cowboys are very majestic with a revolver.

In fact, a classic model like the Colt M1873 has an effective firing range of only 25 meters.

It is more suitable for street encounters than premeditated pursuits.

To be a bounty hunter, you need at least a horse, a Type 71 Mauser bolt gun, and a revolver that can't make the climate.

"You won't succeed, I've never heard of an apprentice cobbler turning into a hunter in a camp, and the hunters look down on the cobbler, and they won't agree to your unreasonable demands." Seeing that Lin Yao's attitude was very stubborn, William changed his words again.

Lin Yao shook his head lightly and said, "It's very difficult, if you want to change from an apprentice to a hunter, you need at least two people to nod, one is your uncle Mr. Taylor, and the other is Hunter Captain Gerald, plus a suitable opportunity." ”

He was an apprentice cobbler under the management of Taylor, the foreman, who did not want to let him out, so there was no way to become a fur hunter.

Gerald is just as important, it's not enough for Taylor to release him, he has to have the consent of the captain of the hunters.

The captain disagrees, how do you join the hunter team, you must know that the guns in the camp are under Gerald's management.

If you don't give you a gun, you can't use stones for what you go out hunting, right?

"William, what do you think of our relationship?"

Lin Yao looked at William, he believed that the hope of letting Taylor release him lie in his nephew William.

"If I'm not mistaken, we just met today!"

William shrugged his shoulders as if you were making me laugh.

Lin Yao was noncommittal about this, and replied peacefully: "Some people have known each other for a lifetime, but they are not even friends, and some people have just met, but they can be like brothers, time will tell." ”

"Maybe." William didn't say much.

Speaking of which, he was the youngest man in the camp because his uncle was Taylor, the cobbler foreman, and he had a special position among the cobblers.

Everyone didn't dare to offend him, but they also felt that he relied on his uncle to find himself the easiest job, and he was a little excluded.

William wouldn't mind having multiple friends in the camp if he could, provided they got along.

A week has passed in the blink of an eye.

Lin Yao became an honorable apprentice cotner.

At work, he is silent and hardworking.

Outside of work, he gets along very well with William, and even gets up half an hour earlier than others every morning to help William in the kitchen.

Helping William is not only for William's gratitude, but also for another purpose.

The meals in the camp are distributed by the cooks.

A spoonful of broth, a piece of bread in the morning, is a breakfast.

When the food is distributed, whether there is more soup or more meat depends on the person who cooks for you.

Lin Yao took the opportunity to help, and would always put more meat on the hunter captain Gerald, not asking him to look at him differently, at least to make a familiar face in front of him.

When people talk about him, he has the impression that "Oh, it's that kid, he seems to be pretty good." ”

Time passed slowly, and Lin Yao was also waiting for an opportunity.

One day, half a month later, the opportunity he had been waiting for came.

Glass's son, caught a trap left by the Indians, and was caught in a trap and wounded his right leg.

He was destined to no longer be able to hunt, so Glass asked the hunting team to rearrange him with a partner.

Gerald, the captain of the hunting party, doesn't have a good relationship with Glass.

He thinks that Glass does not respect him, and he is also angry that he can always hunt cherished furs, and he is a little obsessed with this matter.

Lin Yao felt that this was his chance to break out of the tanner's organization and become a wilderness hunter.