The 118th Chapter Agreement with the Big Businessman (1)

Gould took out a pile of gold extremely readily, and Otto was stunned when he saw this scene.

Originally, this businessman was willing to spend more than 4,000 silver coins to buy goods from Rosberg, which was already a big deal that shocked Otto. I never thought that this old guy was unambiguous about taking gold coins.

As everyone knows, Gould lost most of his judgment instantly after drinking the wine. If he was clear-headed, he would not show his most precious treasure chest full of gold to the leaders of the Rus, nor would he be full of gold coins. desktop.

"Rurik, tell me!" Gould said with a trembling mouth. "Tell me the answer, and then the money will be yours."

"Okay! I'll just say it. You!" Rurik's immature hand pointed directly at Gould, "To make pure wine, the raw material is the most common wine. You make a special pottery and pour the common wine into it. , grill it gently with charcoal. The essence of the ordinary wine becomes gas, and it will become pure wine on the lid of the pottery. You make a tube to lead the pure wine into a small cup, and finally you get the whole A glass of pure wine. You... do you understand?"

"I probably understand." Gould scratched his head, and he understood it immediately, but Rurik gave him the example of "boiling sea salt" which brought him deep inspiration.

"Perhaps you don't understand yet." Rurik stomped his feet: "Just like this. When you sell out the soap, go import a lot of ordinary ale. You bring it in, and I'll buy it all. Just use what I just Tell your skills, and I'll try making spirits in the new year."

Having said this, Rurik pondered and said boldly: "This is also part of Odin's wisdom, the heroic spirits of Valhalla, they are drinking the spirits you tasted today. Just now A voice came from my head, maybe it was an oracle, telling me how to turn ordinary wine into flammable spirits. Gould, what you bought for a hundred gold coins is Odin's Wisdom, you have to feel...to feel honored!"

glory? Gould wasn't quite convinced yet, and he saw huge profits with a keen business eye.

"Are you serious?" Gould asked urgently.

"Yes. I want to do a business with you, right now..." Rurik felt more and more dizzy, and simply sat down, "Oops, I'm drunk. Gould, when I'm sober, I'll Discuss with you."

After saying the last word, Rurik lay down lazily.

Gould stretched out his fat head and asked Otto nervously, "Is he all right?"

"Probably drunk. Gould, your wine is amazing. You don't have to worry, he'll get some sleep and drink.

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"Well, about what he said, what do you think? Your son wants to do business with me."

"Me? Don't ask me about my attitude. I have always supported Rurik."

"Okay." Gould nodded in confusion, he had understood everything, and his worries were gone.

A businessman is most afraid of the existence of variables in the transaction, and the larger the transaction amount, the higher the risk.

Rurik was, after all, a child, and a glass of spirits could put him to sleep. When the boy grew up, he obeyed his father. It seems that the father and son of the Ross leader are not ordinary! Otto's firm claim that he will not interfere with Rurik's property!

Gould poured himself another glass of wine and muttered, "I'll pay soon. I'll give him the box with the silver coins directly, along with the gold coins on the table. I'll never break my word, and please the great After the leader waits for Rurik to sober up, he will personally send him to my mansion."

"Business? Yes." Otto nodded.

The dinner came to an awkward end.

Rurik just chewed a little beef, but the spirits forced him to sleep.

Otto came home with his sleeping son, and Rumia followed closely behind.

Two strong warriors were sent by Gould, and together they carried a large wooden box and approached the shabby home of the head of the Ross tribe.

A total of 4200 silver coins, and 100 gold coins, they are all very good money. Both gold and silver coins were minted by Eastern Rome in the amount of one hundred a pound, and their weights did not differ much from each other.

A total of forty-three Roman pounds is equivalent to seventeen kilograms in later generations. And the oak box in which they were carried was not small, it was sixty pounds. Together with the bronze lock and key, the entire box has exceeded forty kilograms.

A strong samurai can carry such a heavy load and carry him for long distances, really only a beef-fed, muscular man can do it. Such wrestlers are also rare in the Viking world.

Brave warriors often have strong upper body muscles, because everyone spends a lot of time on the boat every year, and because people in various places have not yet reached the level of subtlety in the use of wind, boats in various places use paddle-sail hybrid power, even if it is Otto also had to be involved in paddling himself.

Therefore, most people are born unstable, which is also a weakness of Viking warriors.

He slept all night until the sky was about to light up, and Rurik woke up after a long slumber due to hunger.

"I'm asleep?"

He got up slowly, and was so startled that his early mother, Nia, hurried over.

"My son, you finally woke up. You shouldn't drink that damn wine. It's crazy, it's actually flammable wine." Niya's words were filled with pity and reproach.

Otto, who was nibbling on the beef he had packed from Gould last night, was deeply displeased. "What do you know? Nia. Your son says he can make that flammable wine, and if he does it, we'll be richer."

When it comes to Chania, I am elated.

As rich as Otto, he has been the leader for so many years, and his money box only has a thousand gold coins in it. As the "key holder" of the family money box, Nia is very aware of her own savings.

After the winter, my son actually started to make money! Last night, Nia smelled the alcohol on her sleeping son and criticized her husband. But when she saw the big wooden box that was brought in, and wanted to see the amazing amount of gold and silver coins inside, the feeling of happiness was a blood punch, and Niya fainted in an instant.

When her son woke up this time, she jumped up and kissed his face several times.

Rumia, who acts as a servant, can see clearly, and a burst of envy and sadness suddenly rises in her heart.

Now Otto is very accustomed to commanding his son's servants, such as leading her to cut meat, and she complies with it.

After chewing a piece of meat, Otto's face turned to his sleepy son, "Rurik, do you remember your agreement with Gould?"

"Deal? I remember."

"Well then, come and eat some meat. Nia, make some oatmeal for your son, he's starving. And Rurik, I'll take you to Gould's again after dawn. Make a deal. I hope you get richer because of your actions."

Rurik nodded and moved closer to his father.

Toasting bread in a clay oven is a hassle, and for a quick bite to cooked pasta, it's a pancake.

In fact, the so-called baked wheat biscuit is a kind of whole wheat biscuit, or the oldest kind of cookie. All Viking tribes made such wheat cakes, they invaded and settled in the colonies, and the food culture of their tribes was also integrated with the local. The art of making graham crackers was passed down and refined, eventually evolving into modern biscuit culture.

In a burlap sack, Nya grabbed a handful of the Novgorods' tribute, the whole-wheat flour they milled. She put flour into a stone mortar, poured water and sprinkled salt, kneaded it into a rough dough, patted it briefly into a cake, and spread it out on a rock heated by a campfire.

In no time, the dough was baked.

Eat hard and rough dead flour cakes, nibble cooked beef that has no salty taste, and drink a salty soup made of wild vegetables (and even sun-dried pine needles).

It is indeed a luxury for the chief family to eat breakfast like this. Many clansmen eat twice a day, and eat some dried fish and dried vegetable soup on ordinary days to solve the problem.

The day is getting brighter, and I ate a full stomach of rough food. This kind of diet can be called a diet meal. People in later generations will think this kind of diet is healthy, but people in this time and space will always crave bread.

A big businessman like Gould has a large family and a lot of wealth, so he has the opportunity to eat himself into a fat pig. Not only did he eat himself into a fat head, but his son and daughter had no possibility of losing weight at all.

Precisely because of his bloated stature, he always took advantage of the trade of the tribal alliance. Will everyone be willing to believe that a rare fat boy must have huge wealth, and there is no need to worry about his rhetoric and empty-handed white wolf when dealing with such a person.

The time is approaching the vernal equinox, and the daytime is already very long, but the climate is still cold.

The sea ice in the central part of the Gulf of Bothnia has already begun to melt, and many sealers have also noticed significant changes in the ice through the cut holes. In the foreseeable future, standing on the ice to catch seals has become a very dangerous job.

Otto took Rurik's hand, and the two walked towards Gould's "mansion".

The two didn't come in time, or because of yesterday's strong drink, Gould slept deeply last night, the sun has risen and he is still soundly asleep, the servant explained this to Otto.

"Okay, go and wake up your master, and I'll personally wait for him to come out to see me!"

There is a saying that people have to bow their heads under the eaves, the person who comes is the big leader of the Ross tribe, and this trip is still to negotiate about trade.

Although it was very vulgar, a warrior who wore armor all day still broke into Gould's bedroom, woke up the big businessman who was served by two Breton maids, and bluntly explained that the leader was here again.

"It's... it's Otto. About the trade? And Rurik? Ah! Why are they in such a hurry?" Gould patted his face vigorously, and tried to wrap his robe as quickly as possible, pretending to be spirited. Get out of the bedroom.

Gould's mind was still a little confused, he put on a smile, opened his arms, and said a compliment to Otto.

"Don't say any more compliments, let's continue yesterday. You see, I have brought Rurik, and then you will discuss the specifics."

"Ah? What's the matter?" Gould purred for a while.

"Are you pretending to be confused? It's about trade, of course, Gould! Don't you want to make a bigger deal with us? Or are you still dipping your head in those flammable spirits?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm really drunk." Seeing that he had attracted the anger of the leader, Gould slapped himself a few times as if in apology, and made himself sober.

When Gould drank another glass of sweet wine and nibbled on a small piece of sour rye bread, the whole person's spirit really recovered.

Everything was very similar to yesterday, and the three were sitting in the hall of Gould's mansion. In front of Rurik was another low table, on which was served a little dried meat and fruit, and a glass of wine. It was clear that Gould at this moment didn't think of Rurik as a child at all.

Gould cleared his throat: "Rurik, I remembered what happened yesterday. You claimed that you have the ability to extract the essence from ordinary wine and finally turn it into a flammable spirit, for which I also paid you a hundred gold coins. To listen to the production method. I'm sorry, I forgot the technique you described now. But it doesn't matter, if you can make it, be sure to sell it to me specially, and I will pay a big price to buy it."

"It seems that you are very concerned about wine."

"Of course! I have already paid a hundred gold coins for this. Rurik, I will not regret the money I have spent, I only hope that my great effort will bring good returns. As far as I know, you have taught Make soap for priests, teach blacksmiths to make steel swords, and now that you can make a lot of money by brewing wine, I'd love to be your seller."

Rurik nodded, the matter of purification was to be put on the agenda. But wine itself is a luxury consumer product. The original purpose of brewing it is for drinking. As for the purification and use as a medical treatment or even as a weapon, that is another story.

Alcohol can't bring people heat, on the contrary it can take away people's heat.

People in northern Europe love to drink. The reason is very simple. When a small amount enters the body, the blood flow of the whole body is accelerated, and the warm blood warms the whole body. In a cold place, this kind of warmth is happiness.

Rurik estimated that the alcohol content of ordinary ale is only three or five degrees. If the alcohol content can be raised to fifty degrees and the impurities are removed, it is a combustible spirit.

A large urn filled with cloudy, frothy ale cost two or three silver coins at most. If the alcohol in it is concentrated into a small bottle of spirits, not to mention ten gold coins, five gold coins may be no problem, right? In this way, as long as Gould can provide a large amount of ale and make a distillation and purification system by himself, he can earn at least twenty times the price difference!

Of course, it is a good thing to have a lot of money. Simply hoarding gold and silver is not Rurik's purpose.

A trade market, if there is no currency in circulation, the entire market will tend to shrink. Today's currency is all precious metal, because it is very scarce, has a special color, is small enough and extremely difficult to destroy, and people all believe that it has natural value.

If it is only used as a material for making jewelry, the beauty of gold and silver is naturally worthless. The Aztecs, who can't even make bronze weapons, have spontaneously smelted gold to create ornaments.

Rurik never wanted to be a miser. Pure silver and gold coins could not be eaten. Only by exchanging them for food, wine, and other necessities of life, coins were meaningful.

Now that there is a huge sum of money on hand, it must flow! Make full use of them, let a large number of silver coins continue to circulate in the Ross tribe and even further afield, in exchange for what you want, it is also to bring vitality to the entire tribe.

This is the charm of money. It can mobilize everyone's desire for wealth, and sufficient circulation can promote the development of productive forces.

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