The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

For lunch, Tom didn't let Tom deliver the food to the small dining room of his shipowner's suite, but went into the ship's dining room with the temporarily off-duty person.

The food provided for lunch is similar to that on the "Searcher", except for the vegetables at noon today, that is, chicken, duck, fish, and duck.

The chicken is grilled chicken, the meat is fried steak, the fish is grilled sea bream, and there are small portions or small portions of sashimi you can choose.

Yesterday, at least one hundred pounds of fresh tuna meat was delivered to the ship. There are enough ice cubes and a cold storage room on the "Deep Diver". These fish meat does not need to be frozen. If ice cubes are placed on the bottom, it can be refrigerated below three degrees. Keep fresh for several days.

Of course, for those who love sashimi, the fresher the fish, the better, so as long as you finish it, today is open for sashimi, so you can eat it in two or three days at most.

Tom came in with a small food bag, glanced at the dining table where the food was placed, and saw that it was another "warm-fire meal" buffet, and walked to Zhang Nan's side.

"Sir, I brought some mustard, would you like a bowl of mustard pork and egg soup?"

As a competent butler, Tom knows that this has been out for several days. In the past few days, almost all meals have been buffet. The employer's Chinese stomach is estimated to be close to the threshold of protest.

Employers can overcome it by themselves, but they will never continue to have a good appetite.

As a good housekeeper, Tom has to consider some things and details that employers will ignore: eat well and drink well, and try to do the best for the employer.

The employer can not care, overcome, but the housekeeper must care!

Sure enough, Zhang Nan, who was about to sandwich two pieces of roast chicken, brightened his eyes when he heard this, and said, "You really know how to hide!"

What are you hiding?

Mustard!

I don't usually feel it, but at this critical moment, this mustard is delicious on earth.

"You wait, ten minutes at most."

With that, Tom walked towards the kitchen, and the employer had already given an answer.

Before long, a large pot of hot, traditional Chinese flavor of mustard pork and egg soup was brought up, and Zhang Nan's appetite was greatly appetized when he looked at it.

It's just a little bit of a fly in the ointment, and a little green onion is missing. No way, Charleston couldn't buy that stuff.

...

After the meal, the second batch of salvaged items began to rise. This time it was a mess and everything, except for the small amount of scattered gold and silver coins caught in the salvage basket by some of the submersibles, what cups, wine bottles, pots, copper bars... .

There is even a pale deep sea starfish!

You are welcome, the starfish was thrown back to the Atlantic Ocean by the sailor. We are a deep-sea salvage ship, not a deep-sea biological research ship. I don’t know if the deep-sea starfish can adapt to the huge pressure difference of more than 2,000 meters of sea water, and whether the internal cells have exploded. .

Kunkka saw a dark suitcase in the half-cleaned basket, and moved forward to move it out.

"Oh, it's a bit heavy!"

The shape is basically complete, the bottom is rectangular, the top is arc-shaped, and there are small holes in the top half. It is estimated that if it stays on the bottom of the sea for several decades, this thing will be completely finished.

The belt buckle is still there, and you have to slowly figure out a way to open it. The people on the boat are all civilized, and you can't cut it open with a sailor's knife directly.

But it doesn’t need to be like a regular underwater archeology team, if you encounter this type of container, you have to move it back to deal with it slowly-we don’t have that patience!

Zhang Nan also noticed this suitcase, which had become a little ugly because of time and sea water, and went to look at it.

After a while, it was finally opened, and the leather surface cracked a few petals because of these actions. There was no way. It has been 138 years on the bottom of the sea, and the organic matter can be preserved in this state even if it has been treated with antiseptic treatment.

The suitcase should have been divided into compartments, which of course would be a mess. Kunka wore gloves and carefully took things out of it.

"what is this?

Saw? Well, it's a saw. "The first thing that was taken out was the short saw with the handle almost rotten.

Set aside, continue, and...

A thing that looks like a big clip, a few knives that are almost rotten, a few glass bottles...

"Boss, this seems to be a consultation box." At this point, Kunkka knew it.

"Be confident, this is just a visit box, and see what else is underneath."

"Immediately." As he said, Kunkka said to the sailor behind: "Get the water pipe."

The inside of the out-patient box is very dirty, so I flushed it slightly.

"There are gold coins underneath, no wonder they are so heavy!"

After cleaning up, 230 gold coins and a rectangular silver box were taken out from inside.

Most of the three-year double eagle coin and golden eagle, there are also twelve octagonal fifty-dollar substitute gold coins, and several five-pound Queen Victoria gold coins that appear to be minted by the British East India Company.

Forget it, the face value has almost reached 4,000 US dollars, and the weight is more than six kilograms. No wonder Kunkka just said that the box is heavy.

More than six kilograms of gold is now a large sum of money on the market, which is not an exaggeration for ordinary people.

Put it 138 years ago...

Still a huge sum of money!

At that time, the salary of an ordinary soldier was less than US$160 a year, and it was estimated that it was only US$300 or US$400 for the middle and lower-level officers. This amount of money was absolutely equivalent to the sum of the military payments of the current battalion and company-level officers for more than ten years, even More than that.

You know that an untrained horse is worth about 5 dollars that year, and a trained horse is worth 12-15 dollars.

In other words: if a cowboy trains a horse well, and the labor and feed money spent by one plus one, it is worth up to 10 dollars!

Training a batch of horses can't be done in ten and a half days. It takes time.

At that time, I bought a wooden house in a small western town in the United States. The smaller one hundred dollars was enough, and the three to five hundred dollars was very good and very big.

If a family can have twenty trained riding horses, it is definitely not a poor person, and it is worth less than $300.

As long as you don’t think about the more than 3,000 gold coins that you fished out of the water before, the 230 gold coins found in the outpatient box will be placed in the water basin. It looks really dazzling.

Nikolai Valuyev and Tom who brought the juice again said with emotion: "The doctors were really rich at that time!"

"It's not that doctors at that time were rich, Nicholas, but doctors at any time were rich.

Of course, now it’s only after getting a certain level, any inpatient, or even a small attending doctor, is not considered high income. "

Hearing the conversation between the two, Zhang Nan looked at them and said: "This is a surgeon, or at least can perform surgical operations. These 230 gold coins are estimated to be only a small part of his personal property.

In San Francisco back then, gold coins were not as valuable as we thought, but doctors could definitely make money!

Do you know the prices of those gold mining areas near San Francisco back then..."

Zhang Nanxian said a few words. At that time, the gold mining area in California was basically between high mountains and mountains, with very poor traffic and no agricultural or industrial facilities around.

Almost all materials in the mining area rely on external transportation. Most of the corned beef comes from Sydney, Australia, the salt comes from Boston, and the wine comes from Bordeaux, France...

As for daily necessities, they have to traverse the entire United States, from the east coast to the west coast.

"In 1850, and a few years later, California 1 pound of potatoes was $1 ~ www.wuxiaspot.com~ pound of dried apples was $2, while in New York at that time, a pound of potatoes only cost half a cent, and apples only cost 1. Cents, 200 times the difference.

Note that New York in that year was already a metropolis, and prices were much more expensive than ordinary small cities and agricultural areas. Materials in large cities also had to be transported in, adding transportation and operating costs. "

Drinking a mouthful of juice, he continued: "But the doctors in the west, as long as they are regular, in San Francisco, an ordinary outpatient service costs at least $30.

The cost of a night emergency is 100 US dollars, and the general surgical operation fee can be as high as thousands of US dollars.

Crazy, but that's it. In that year, gold in the San Francisco area was relatively depreciated, materials were tight, and prices were much higher than anywhere else in the world.

US$4,000 is nothing more than the income of a regular doctor in San Francisco for more than 100 outpatient visits, or 40 night emergency visits, and three or four amputations.

In Western movies, the doctor amputees the wounded, but he is completely bloodied. It doesn't matter if the white shirt is not washed and thrown away, because even if the clothes are expensive in the western region, the amputation is more expensive! "

The doctors of that year are really rich!