Two days later, it was already the eighth day after the war, and the Shanhaiguan camp was officially completed.

It was a lively day, although the windows of the camp had not yet been installed with glass, more than 100 people belonging to the armed horse team of the Datang Society still moved in happily.

Here, from now on, it will be the nest of the Datang Society.

After the excitement

Logistics supervisor Gai Wangshan found Richard with a sad face, and at this time Richard was in the tall and spacious living room, carefully maintaining the revolver musket with gun oil, and polishing it shiny.

The muskets of this era were all black powder, and gunpowder residues would remain after each fire, which must be carefully maintained in order not to go wrong at critical times.

"President, are you busy?"

"Oh...... If there is something, just say it. ”

"That's the president, the task you gave me is to prepare a batch of weapons and equipment, the little incompetence, this matter has not been done, and I will accuse you."

"What's going on?"

"That's right, the Agreement Hall is talking everywhere in the new town, which store sells guns to our Datang Society, it is openly against the Agreement Hall, and they will never let it go."

"Hehehe...... With the small size of the agreement hall, I am afraid that he will not be able to do a word in the new town, can those white shopkeepers listen to him? Richard laughed as he listened.

Not to mention the Hall of Agreement, even John Sartre didn't dare to say that he completely controlled the business of the new town, and there were many people who didn't sell the face of this land snake.

Guns and ammunition are not a problem at all in San Francisco, they are almost like ordinary daily necessities, they are sold in various grocery stores and specialized weapons stores, at least twenty or thirty, how can they not be bought?

Gai Wangshan bowed humbly, and replied with a flattering smile;

"That's right, but there are some white shopkeepers who feel they can't afford to mess with them, and they bluntly refuse the business, they don't want to do much.

There are also some shopkeepers who saw the signs and directly shouted out several times the high price, a Type 9 smoothbore rifle was priced at $130, and they were neither responsible for the delivery nor the gift of bullets, and they loved to buy it or not, and they couldn't even pay the price.

The small one went for three days in a row, and did not even buy a gun, and the grain and oil stores in the new town generally increased the price of the materials purchased in our lobby, and the price was ridiculously high.

If you are incompetent, please punish the president. ”

"Oh......"

Richard stopped what he was doing, took the cloth on one side and wiped his hands, stood up and walked a few steps back and forth in the room, a sneering smile slowly appearing at the corners of his mouth; "It's fun, it's really interesting, I'm getting more and more interested in the new town now. Do you calculate, how many days will the supplies at home be enough to eat? ”

"I used to have some stock, plus cattle and sheep grazing in the valley and fruits and vegetables planted, and it was no problem to hold on for a month. Even if the vegetable oil and kerosene are gone, it is really not possible to kill a few fat pigs, and it is okay to boil some fat. ”

"Okay, then you don't need to go to the new town to buy for the time being, and stick to it until the weather gets warmer."

"The little one understands, and there is another one, that is, we don't have much money. The last time you waved your hand at the inauguration ceremony of Shanhaiguan, you waived the monthly payment for this month, and you only had less than $300 left in your account. ”

Between the words, Gai Wangshan revealed a hint of disappointment.

There are more than 1,400 overseas Chinese living in the Grape Valley, and several more than 10 people have recently moved in, paying a monthly interest of $5 a month, which is more than $7,000, which is not a small amount of money with the abundant purchasing power of today's dollars.

In other states in the United States, the average worker earns $20~$25 a year, with an average of less than $2 a month.

From this point of view, the monthly income of $5 per month is too high.

Not really

Here is San Francisco, where gold was discovered, and it is normal for ordinary gold prospectors to dig for more than a dozen ounces of gold a month.

If you are lucky, you can buy so much in one day.

The large population and the shortage of goods, as well as the abundance of gold, have resulted in unusually high prices in San Francisco, far from being comparable to other regions.

The frying pans commonly used by gold diggers cost 7 cents in other areas, 30 cents here, and in less than two or three years, as the news of the discovery of gold in San Francisco spread all over the world, gold prospectors from all over the world poured in, and a pan sold for up to 8 dollars, which is 110 times the profit!

Same situation

A pair of boots, which sells for 65 cents in the rest of North America, sells for $2.5 here and can sell for $7 at the peak of the gold rush three years later.

A shovel sells for 50 cents in other parts of North America, and here it sells for eight dollars, which is 16 times the price in other parts of the world, and peaks at $36 three years later.

What kind of windfall profit is this?

To put it mildly, selling opium can't compare.

If history hadn't changed, three years later, at the height of the San Francisco Gold Rush, an egg would have been sold for $3, a pound of rice for $8, and a beer for $10.

In 1849, Lawrence, a reporter for the Denver Chronicle, followed the gold rush to conduct in-depth interviews and came to the San Francisco Bay Area.

In the report

He described having breakfast with a friend in San Francisco, which included bread, cheese, butter and sardines, as well as two beers.

This ordinary breakfast cost him a full $43, and then he decisively gave up his job as a newspaper reporter and became a gold digger.

Now, unbeknownst to the outside world, the discovery of gold in San Francisco has become a secret that the real gold rush is yet to come.

Knowing all this, Richard planned to join forces with Parkview Green to officially enter the new town after removing the block of the Agreement Hall, and opening a grocery store was almost the only way to go.

Where is this grocery store!

It is clearly a mint that is making money every day, accumulating huge amounts of wealth in a steady stream, who is not greedy?

Wealth is an indispensable material foundation for the development of a party's forces, and if you want to make the Tang Club bigger and stronger, abundant funds are the premise.

Under the pressure of prestige tasks, Richard must do everything possible to expand his power and raise the banner of the Tang Society, and his eyes have long been on San Francisco's business.

The reason why there is no action is just accumulating strength.

Under the rigorous military training of French instructor Mike Rabiot, the current Datang Club gunner queue has gone in shape, shooting training is also underway, and can take on basic defense tasks.

In time, pulling it out will be a good military force.

Hearing Gai Wangshan tell about the difficulty, Richard couldn't help but grin, revealing a mouthful of snow-white and neat teeth, and said warmly; "Lao Gai, don't complain, first tighten the money in hand and arrange the logistics, so that the brothers can eat and drink enough every day and have the energy to train, the matter of money ...... Can that still be called a problem? ”

"Ah......h

Gai Wangshan was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he swallowed back what he wanted to say, so he could only shake his head and leave.