Chapter 17

aid that the condition was not very good, and the purity was only about 80%." Josie pointed to the gold in the box and said, "Just go to the bank and exchange the gold for this gold. In dollars, I can pay for this house."

"What? Bank? No, no, can't go to the bank to exchange." Hearing Josie's words, Margot said immediately.

"Why?" Josh asked, pretending not to know.

"It's not worth it. The exchange price of the bank is just a means of collecting money for the government. It fools ordinary people. If it is a regular transaction, according to the current market, it will be at least fifty dollars per ounce." Margot explained.

Although she is a rich family daughter and is not good at business, Margot is not the kind of silly white sweet who doesn't know anything, and she still knows some basic economic common sense.

"Then where should I go?" Josh asked.

"It's simple, leave it to me. Uncle John just needs a lot of gold. You can easily eat it." Margot took this matter to himself very confidently.

"Uncle John?" Josh was puzzled.

"The person who took over my father's jewelry company was also my father's partner. He had a good relationship with my father. After my father died, because I was not good at business, I sold most of the shares to him, and only kept very little," Margot explained.

"That's great, just won't it bother you too much," Josh thanked.

"No trouble, this is a matter of mutual benefit. You don't think that the price of gold collected by the bank is 35 ounces, but when it is sold to companies that need it, although the price remains the same, it actually counts various handling fees and approvals. The cost is not much lower than buying from the black market at a high price, and it is limited, Uncle John's business in the past few years is not easy to do." Margot shook his head and said.

Hearing Margot's words, Josh nodded.

He is also clear about this.

The U.S. government is an expert in harvesting the wealth of the people and the world.

Despite the fact that Roosevelt's New Deal seemed to have saved the American economy ten years ago, the government was actually heavily indebted and had no money to implement the New Deal.

But the result was that the New Deal was successfully implemented... The question is, where did the money come from?

The answer is to cut the leeks of the people.

The first act of Roosevelt's New Deal, the Emergency Banking Act, devalued the dollar against gold and banned the export of gold.

Then he forced the public to hand over gold at a price of 20.67 US dollars per ounce, and ordered the gold miners in the United States to sell gold to the Treasury Department at the same price.

Then in just one year, the exchange price of gold was raised to $35 per ounce, depreciating the dollar by 40% in disguise.

In this way, it also represents the wealth in the hands of the people, which has shrunk by 40%.

The country is rich and the people are poor.

The ability to cut leeks is simply amazing.

Think about the future when the United States will depreciate the dollar at every turn, and send money to the people when something happens.

So cutting leeks is already a traditional art of the US government.

"I've done you another favor, shouldn't you thank me?" Margot joked after the matter was settled.

"That's natural, so I'm going to cook and invite you to dinner." Josh smiled slightly.

"Oh? You actually know how to cook?" Margot was very surprised when she heard Josie's words.

"Sure, you can see, but we have to go get some ingredients first," Josh said.

"Oh, I've already begun to look forward to it." Margot said with a smile on his face.

So the two went out again and drove to the nearest farmers market.

In fact, there were supermarkets in the United States in the 1940s, but the supermarkets of this era basically only sold some national brand products, and there were no fresh products.

Because supermarkets are mostly built in distant suburbs, in the early 1940s, refrigerators were not very popular, and conventional food lacked means of preservation, so supermarkets far away did not meet the shopping needs of residents in this era.

Therefore, the purchase of fresh food during this period is still dominated by small retail stores, roadside stalls or farmers' markets similar to vegetable markets.

Basically, the nearby farmers will sell the fruits, vegetables, honey and other agricultural and sideline products from their own farms.

The two walked around the farmer's market, and Josie quickly bought some beef, a chicken, a salmon, lettuce, onions, potatoes, mushrooms, carrots and other ingredients.

He didn't plan to cook authentic Chinese food, it's not that he won't, but he has no conditions.

Because here, you can't buy the seasonings that must be used in Chinese food such as onion, ginger, and garlic, and there is no soy sauce vinegar cooking wine. Some are just rosemary, cinnamon, ketchup, pepper and other Western seasonings.

There are peppers, after all, America is the home of peppers.

In addition to ingredients, kitchen utensils are also an issue.

There are no frying pans at home, just ovens and pans and grills.

So he can only prepare some half Chinese and half western dishes according to local conditions.

For example, beef can be stewed with tomatoes and potatoes.

Chicken can be made with tomato sauce and starch to make a future famous in the United States, but General Tso's chicken is inexplicable to the people of Xiaguo - this thing is actually a sweet and sour pork loin to make a tomato-sweet chicken. It's simple. Very, it was made by the famous chef of Wanwan in the 1950s to deal with the commander of the US Seventh Fleet at that time.

Salmon is a standard western-style roast, with a splash of lemon juice, a sprinkle of salt and pepper, and rosemary.

Finally, the vegetables are shredded lettuce carrots and mushrooms, which are fried at will in a frying pan.

As for the main food...of course it is bread, two baguettes just out of the oven, solve all problems.

It can only be said that people in Xia will definitely dislike this dish.

But fooling foreigners is enough.

If you really want to do authentic Chinese food, you can only wait until you have time to go to Chinatown to buy seasonings and kitchen utensils.

"Wow, it's so hearty, this chicken is really delicious, is it an Austrian speciality? What's it called?" Although in Josie's eyes, this is a very coping dinner, but it's basically a little sour. The sweet dishes were obviously to Margot's taste, and there was a lot to say about them, especially the nondescript General Tso's chicken.

"Well, yes, this is Austrian food, it's called Ferdinand's chicken!" Taking a deep look at General Tso's chicken, Josie said that he would never admit that it was Chinese food.

And it is completely unreasonable to cook Chinese food by myself as an Austrian.

So, it's Austrian, Chicken Ferdinand, no problem.

As for why it was called Ferdinand, it was mainly for a while, except for the art student who fell off the list, Josie also remembered the fuse of this World War I.

As a result, under the inexplicable circumstances of the whole Austria, an Austrian famous dish that will be popular in the United States in the future, Ferdinand Chicken was born.

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