Well, his wealth wasn’t exactly liquid, it was mostly tied up in wilderness land.
Fortunes in those days weren’t in bank accounts, or stocks, or index funds, etc. They tended to be tied up in assets like land, slaves, crops, etc., and cold hard cash/gold, stored in a box somewhere, like under the floor.
Well, his wealth wasn’t exactly liquid, it was mostly tied up in wilderness land.
Fortunes in those days weren’t in bank accounts, or stocks, or index funds, etc. They tended to be tied up in assets like land, slaves, crops, etc., and cold hard cash/gold, stored in a box somewhere, like under the floor.