Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1104, Golden Continent Explorer

In Beijing Town, the northernmost stronghold on the east coast of Gold Island, the winter cold in the northern hemisphere began to ravage here. With the gusts of cold wind, snowflakes kept falling.

This made the gold diggers living in Beijing Town couldn't help shaking their heads, and they all gathered here at the only restaurant in the town, drinking tea and sighing helplessly.

Gold panning, this is the most popular thing in the Golden Continent, and it is also the driving force for countless people to migrate to the Golden Continent.

A large number of people spontaneously migrated to the Golden Isle, what they are looking for is the shiny golden things.

There are too many, many things about gold in this land.

A certain poor man who couldn't even eat enough in Daming came to the Golden Continent, accidentally discovered a gold mine, and the story of getting rich overnight continued to inspire more people to work tirelessly. Find gold in this vast land.

The location of Beijing Town is roughly located near New York of the later generations of Bald Eagles. It is the place where some gold diggers who came here to pan for gold stayed, and gradually formed a small town.

The small town is small, but it has all kinds of internal organs. There are restaurants, teahouses, inns, shops and the like. Some people go to pan for gold, and some people focus on these gold diggers to do business.

"It's snowing, winter is here, it seems that it will be difficult to go out in the back."

Inside the restaurant, Chen Feng couldn't help but take a sip of the warm wine, and said helplessly to his fellow countrymen beside him.

It has been almost two years since he came to Huangjinzhou. From the west coast at the beginning, he slowly came to the east coast. He dreamed of finding a gold mine and getting rich overnight. Go back to Daming.

However, the reality is cruel. Although the Golden Continent is known as the Golden Continent, it is not really full of gold. If you want to find gold, you need luck.

"Brother Feng, why don't we go back to the west coast. There is more gold in the Golden Bay area. It will definitely be easier for us to find it wherever we go."

Beside Chen Feng, fellow villager and younger brother Peng Chao said weakly.

Chen Feng's expedition team has a total of more than [-] people, with Chen Feng as the leader, they are all Chen Feng's fellow villagers, relatives, clansmen and so on.

"Golden Bay?"

"Every inch of the land there has been dug up. If you still expect to find gold there, go ahead and dream."

When Chen Feng heard it, he couldn't help but said.

To say that the Golden Continent really deserves the name of the Golden Continent, there are gold mines discovered almost everywhere.

Especially on the west coast, from the northernmost city of Qianhe to the southernmost tip of the Golden Continent, almost hundreds of strongholds and towns, large and small, gradually prospered and developed because of the discovery of gold and silver. up.

Thousands of gold mines were discovered in the area around Golden Bay alone, attracting hundreds of business houses, large and small, and hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the area around Golden Bay to mine gold mines.

However, the largest gold and silver production area in the Golden Continent is controlled by the Daming Ocean Trading Company. Both the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire were conquered by the Daming Ocean Trading Company. These two areas have the most gold and silver, and the output is the largest. The biggest one is monopolized by Daming Ocean Trading Co.

The Daming Ocean Trading Company does not mine gold and silver themselves. They mainly use the descendants of local merchants from the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire to mine gold and silver for them. Every year, these two empires use gold and silver to pile up gold and silver Pyramid to atone for his sins to the sun god.

Relying on such means, Daming Ocean Trading Co., Ltd. can obtain tens of millions of taels of gold and silver every year, which is something that other commercial firms cannot envy.

Large commercial firms eat the big ones, and small ones eat the small ones. As for expedition teams like Chen Feng, they generally have two modes. One is to spontaneously go out to find gold and silver mines, and then mine them by themselves, or they can use this Gold mines and silver mines are roughly estimated at a price and sold to commercial banks.

The other is to be hired by a commercial firm or an individual to explore certain areas, looking for gold, silver, etc. This way, you don’t need to pay for it yourself, and someone will pay for all the expenses. If gold and silver mines are found , they can get corresponding rewards and rewards, and some generous firms and owners will also give certain shares.

Both models are very popular in Gold Island.

Generally, people who have just come to the Golden Continent and have no basic foundation will do things for others first, either helping them dig mines or helping them explore. After accumulating a certain amount of experience and funds, they can bring their fellow villagers and clansmen to do it alone.

Gold Island is relatively very loose and free. Anyone has the right to explore and mine. If you discover gold or silver mines, you only need to report to the local government first, and spend a sum of money to buy the land in the mining area. It can be yours forever.

This is also one of the policies that the imperial court came up with to stimulate the development of Huang Jinzhou.

The land of the Golden Continent is too vast, and there are too few people in the Golden Continent.

Many people have immigrated over the past few years, but the total number of Daming people in the entire Golden Continent is still less than five million, including those mixed-race children who are still wearing crotch pants.

Many people who came to the Golden Continent would basically marry local aboriginal women, at least three or four, as many as seven or eight, and these local aboriginals were also happy to marry Daming people.

Because of the propaganda of the Daming Ocean Trading Company, the Daming people and the local aboriginal ancestors are one family, and there is not much difference in appearance, and it is also because of religious propaganda.

Everyone believes that everyone is a citizen of the Sun God. The ancestors of the local aborigines made a mistake, so they were exiled here. They must atone for their sins before they can become Daming people.

In addition, marrying a Daming is also a way to redeem one's sins, and the child born will be a noble Ming.

This is one aspect of the reason, and another aspect of the reason is that marrying a Daming person will indeed lead to a better life.

Daming people know how to manage, produce, wear beautiful clothes, have enough food, warm clothes, and beautiful houses. They are far better than the locals in terms of basic necessities of life, food, housing, and transportation.

Marrying a Daming person is something that the local natives of the Golden Continent couldn't wish for.

As a result, a large number of mixed-race offspring were produced, and almost every stronghold and town had a large number of children.

The Golden Continent is vast and sparsely populated. To develop the Golden Continent, it is necessary to come up with some special policies. Therefore, from the very beginning, the imperial court has formulated policies to attract immigrants based on gold.

In Huangjinzhou, if you find gold and silver mines, you can buy them for a small sum of money and become private gold or silver mines. In addition, in the vast Golden Continent, as long as you reclaim the land, the government will You can be issued a title deed as your private land.

In addition, in order to ensure the safety of immigrants, immigrants here in Golden Continent can legally own weapons, armor, bows and arrows, muskets and the like.

Under these policies, the gold rush lasted forever, and a large number of people devoted themselves to the craze of exploring gold.

Because you don't have to worry about the gold you found being robbed.

First of all, the imperial court recognizes that this gold mine is yours, and you are legally tenable. Secondly, if someone dares to rob your gold mine, you can take up the weapon in your hand and teach the other party severely.

Those who dare to come to Huangjinzhou to pan for gold are basically courageous people, and most of them will gather with their clansmen and fellow villagers.

This also formed a unique feature of the Golden Continent, that is, after the originally docile Daming people came to the Golden Continent, they would naturally become tough.

Because in this land, the law is very important, but when the land is sparsely populated, and there are still many local indigenous tribes that are more hostile to outsiders, they always use knives, bows and arrows, and use each other. The musket pointing thing was very common.

If you don't want to be tougher, then you should honestly reclaim the land. Planting corn and wheat is also a good livelihood. The land here in Huangjinzhou is fertile and vast, so you can plant it as you like.

Farming is also a good choice. After all, expeditions and the like also need to eat and drink, and providing them with logistics services can also make money.

"Brother Feng, what you said makes sense."

"But we have been in this northern town for almost half a year. I have never heard of anyone discovering gold or silver here. There have been eight hundred expeditions here, but no one has found gold. .”

"This suggests that there may be no gold in this area at all."

Chen Qi, Chen Feng's younger brother, thought for a while and said, "Everyone, look at this map. The places where gold and silver have been found so far are mainly concentrated on the west coast of the Golden Island."

"On the east coast, the land is fertile, open, flat, and abundant in rainfall, which is very suitable for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry. As for gold and silver, only a few places have been found, far less than those found on the west coast."

"So I think we may be going in the wrong direction and we should still go back to the west coast."

Hearing Chen Qi's words, everyone around him also nodded.

Gold and silver are not available everywhere, some places are densely packed, and where there is no place, you may be exhausted and can't find a place.

"But we have come here, and we have already spent thousands of taels of silver. If we go back empty-handed like this, we are really unwilling."

"This northern town is a new colonial stronghold, and the surrounding land has not been explored. If we can find something valuable, then we will send it."

"I also know that the probability of finding gold and silver is higher on the west coast, but the competition there is also fierce, and there are even horse bandits who specialize in looting gold and silver mines."

"Hmm~"

"Why don't we continue to stay here for another month, and if we really can't find any way to make money, we can go south."

(End of this chapter)