Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1847, The Little Days of the Slaves
"Mr. Zhu, Mr. Liu~"

"This is my thirteenth son~ Tian Yuanshan!"

Tian Erniu introduced his son to Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin, and then said to Tian Yuanshan, "Hurry up and salute Mr. Zhu and Mr. Liu!"

The identity of Emperor Hongzhi needs to be kept secret. Tian Erniu knew it, but he could not reveal it, so he called Emperor Hongzhi Mr. Zhu.

"Meet Mr. Zhu~"

"Meet Mr. Liu!"

When Tian Yuanshan heard this, he looked at his father's respectful attitude, and quickly saluted him respectfully.

"Ok!"

Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin also nodded with a smile.

This Tian Yuanshan is really tall and big, even taller and stronger than Tian Erniu. It is estimated that he is at least two meters tall, and his appearance is also European. If he is not wearing Ming Dynasty clothes, he is talking Fluent in Ming Chinese, you would think he is European.

"Yuanshan, Mr. Zhu and Mr. Liu are both great benefactors of our Tian family, you must keep it in mind."

Tian Erniu looked at Tian Yuanshan's respectful expression, and nodded in satisfaction.

This Tian Yuanshan was born by one of his European concubines, and his appearance is more European, so Tian Erniu has not paid much attention to him, so he was also assigned to this gold mine to be in charge of the gold mining.

But Tian Yuanshan is one of Tian Erniu's many children who loves to learn more. Don't look at him as a tall and tall man, but he follows Tian Erniu in mind and study. He loves to read and read books. He is still a scholar , while guarding the mine, he was also studying hard and preparing for the imperial examination.

In addition, this Tian Yuanshan is also good at riding and archery, no matter horse riding and archery, or sword kung fu, he is good, and he is also good at using muskets. Pity.

For Daming people, this is still very important.

The same is true for Zhao Nan, the mistress of Zhiwei Restaurant, because he doesn’t look like a Daming person, so the family doesn’t pay much attention to it, and can only be a shop mistress. If he looks like a Daming person, he probably has already gone to take care of the family business .

"Emperor!"

Upon hearing this, Tian Yuanshan saluted respectfully again.

"Good, good, good, good!"

Emperor Hongzhi nodded with a smile. This kid is pretty good, polite, like a scholar.

"I heard from your father that you are still a scholar with a reputation?"

Liu Jin looked at Tian Yuanshan. This Tian Yuanshan was already seventeen years old, which reminded Liu Jin that he was at the same age when he just crossed over, and he was also a scholar.

"My benefactor laughed at my lack of talent and learning."

Tian Yuanshan replied modestly,

"Well, study hard, maybe we will have a chance to meet again in the future."

Liu Jin smiled and nodded encouragingly.

"Yes, benefactor!"

Tian Yuanshan hastily replied respectfully again.

Under the leadership of Tian Yuanshan, everyone walked towards the mine.

"Is everything going well in the mine?"

While walking, Tian Erniu also asked about the mine.

"Go back to father, everything is going well!"

Tian Yuanshan hastily replied respectfully.

"Well, that's good, that's good."

Tian Erniu nodded in satisfaction, Tian Erniu felt at ease with his son's work.

Soon, everyone came to the mine. Many children were very happy, eating candy one by one, watching Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jin and Tian Erniu and others.

As for the slaves at the mine, when they saw Tian Erniu coming, they all said hello respectfully: "Master Tian, ​​and Mr. Tian!"

"Ok!"

Tian Erniu smiled and nodded in response.

Liu Jin looked at these slaves carefully, and they could come out. The life of these slaves seemed to be pretty good.

All of them are physically strong, and their mental outlook seems to be very good.

Although they are all Europeans, they still look like people from Daming. They have short hair, shaved beards, and are washing gold hard in shorts.

"Washing around like this is mining gold?"

Emperor Hongzhi looked very curiously at the many slaves busy by the river, which was very different from the gold mining scene he imagined.

Originally, Emperor Hongzhi thought that this gold mine was a big gold mine. Through continuous excavation, the gold was dug out, but who knew that he would wash it back and forth in the river with big iron basins.

"Mr. Zhu, this is indeed washing gold."

"Gold is contained in the soil and sand, and this method needs to be used to continuously wash out the gold."

Tian Erniu also quickly explained.

"It turns out that gold mines are opened like this. I always thought that gold mines are similar to iron mines. They have to be dug out continuously and then smelted. They actually open gold mines like this."

"This washes and washes, how much gold can be washed out in a day?"

Emperor Hongzhi was very curious, so he came in to take a closer look at how busy the slaves were.

Watching the slaves pour a large amount of silt into the iron basin, wash the ore back and forth, and wash away the dirt, sand, etc., and finally leave a little bit of stuff. Small golden highlights.

The slaves carefully and carefully selected the gold and put it into a bag. At the end of each day, they handed over the bag to Tian Yuanshan, who was in charge of the gold farm.

Tian Yuanshan will smelt these sands into gold nuggets in a unified way, and wait for Tian Erniu to come to collect them at regular intervals.

It can be said that there is not much technical content in mining gold mines. It is purely physical work and requires manual washing.

"This gold mine is very different from iron ore. Gold will not be mixed with other metals, and they all exist in the form of separate gold dust or small gold nuggets."

"So gold washing is a very cumbersome process, and it needs to be washed repeatedly before the gold can be washed out."

Tian Erniu explained.

"It turns out that it is an eye-opener and a long-term experience."

"In this way, this gold mine is actually a gold mine if it is found that there is gold in the soil in a place?"

Emperor Hongzhi finally understood, and said hastily.

"Yes~"

"When I first arrived in the Golden Island, there were gold mines everywhere in the Golden Island. Many riverbeds and lakes were often covered with a thick layer of golden sand. Under the sunshine, the entire river or lake was full of gold. A piece of gold."

"That kind of gold mine is a super large gold mine, and a lot of gold sand can be easily washed out."

"But now it has been mined by people in sevens and eighties."

"Now it's good to be able to find gold sand, and the natural mining value of high content is high."

Tian Erniu nodded and said.

"Master Tian~"

"My wife gave birth to a son for me, and asked the master to help me name it."

When Emperor Hongzhi was chatting with Tian Erniu and others, a slave came over with his wife and a child in his arms, and said to Tian Erniu with a happy face.

"Yeah~"

"Congratulations, you have given birth to a son."

When Tian Erniu heard this, he laughed immediately, and looked at the little guy he brought over. He was fat, with blond hair and blue eyes, very cute.

"Let's call it Tian Qin, which means you have to be diligent in being a person and doing things."

Tian Erniu thought for a while and said.

"Thank you sir, thank you sir!"

After being named by Tian Erniu, the slave and his wife were also very happy to express their gratitude.

He was originally a Slav in Eastern Europe and a serf. He lived a very hard life. He was captured by the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate and sold as a slave to the Ming people. Finally, he was bought by Tian Erniu. Come back and become a slave to work here.

Because of his good performance, Tian Erniu also bought a slave girl, married him into a slave family, and now has a child.

His daily job is to go to the mine to launder gold, while the woman is responsible for farming, washing clothes, etc., has his own house, and some of his own property.

This little life is much more comfortable than being a serf before, at least here you can eat well, wear warm clothes, and have women to warm your bed and give birth to children.

Even though he was a slave of the Tian family, the slave's life was quite good.

Many slaves have already given birth to several children, and everyone does not think there is anything wrong with being a slave. Being a serf in your hometown is not the same as being a slave. You are also a slave, but you can’t get enough to eat, and it’s still cold in winter. to die for.

It’s better to stay here, work at sunrise and rest at sunset every day, simple and fulfilling, don’t think too much about other things, it’s very important to position yourself and recognize your own situation.

Master Tian treats them very well. He rarely beats and scolds the slaves. He has guaranteed food and often has meat to eat.

These slaves can be slaves and work here with peace of mind, largely because life here is much better than when they were in Europe.

Eat well and dress warmly, work hard and get rewarded by female slaves, you can still have children, and you don't have to worry about work after having children, just continue to work for Master Tian's family.

"Well, go, go!"

Tian Erniu waved his hands in satisfaction, then looked at the many slaves working and said, "I'll give you extra meals today, everyone will eat mutton!"

"Thank you sir, thank you sir!

When the many slaves heard this, they also hurriedly said.

(End of this chapter)