Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1867, Gold and Exploration
In a teahouse in Golden Bay, Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin drank tea slowly while listening to the people in the teahouse bragging about running the train.

"Let me tell you that the gold mine I discovered in the north of Sanhekou has amazing reserves. The entire river surface is shining golden under the sunlight, and it is covered with a thick layer of golden sand."

"This hand grabs it casually, almost all of it is full of gold dust."

The braggart has a big bald head. It is Li Bald, a well-known explorer in Golden Bay. Now almost everyone is bragging that he discovered gold in the cold area north of Sanhekou, but those who believe it seem to be very few.

"Baldy Li, if you really have so much gold, I never saw you bring back a few bags."

"That's right, a place where you can grab a handful of gold casually, you, Baldy Li, will be willing to come back, where will the dead die?"

Some people naturally didn't believe it, and laughed and teased Baldy Li.

"Humph!"

"I will lie to you, just know you don't believe me."

"Show you where I got the gold dust."

When the bald man named Li heard this, he immediately became anxious. He also took out a cloth bag from his arms, then grabbed a handful of gold sand from the cloth bag, and then gently let the sand flow back into the bag. .

When the golden sand appeared, the eyes of the people in the whole teahouse began to shine. Everyone stared at the golden sand in his hand. There is no color that is more charming and intoxicating than this.

"Oh, it really is Jinsha."

"This bag must weigh at least one or two catties, Baldy Li, you've made a fortune."

"Baldy Li, do you want to exchange this gold sand? If you want to exchange it, I will give you a silver ticket or silver dollars right away."

Someone said hastily on the spot.

Here in Golden Bay, gold is undoubtedly everyone's favorite thing, everyone wants it.

"Go, go~"

"I only have this bag of gold dust in my hand, and no one will exchange it."

"This is the evidence I left behind, so you can all say I'm bragging."

"It's not that I, Baldy Li, are bragging here. If it wasn't too late when I found that place last year, and the weather was too cold, I would have to mine dozens or hundreds of catties of gold back."

"There is really a lot of gold in that place, covering the entire riverbed, and when the sun shines, the gold is shining and golden."

"It's just too cold, it's really cold, even in the summer, it's freezing everywhere, and there may be a heavy snow at any time that will cover everything."

"I was also lucky, I just saw it that time, otherwise I would not have found that place."

Baldy Li put away his gold and continued to brag.

"Let me tell you, I have traveled far and wide, and I have traveled to many places in the entire land of the Golden Isle."

"I've been to the northern border. There are really a lot of ginseng there. You haven't seen it. In that mountain forest, there are a large area full of ginseng, just like weeds."

"Now ginseng is still not cheap, it's all because the big families and commercial firms that mine ginseng have jointly raised the price. They have surrounded those ginseng producing areas and prevented outsiders from entering. They only excavate ginseng of a certain year every year. , those under the age do not dig at all, and now they grow their own ginseng.”

"So, ginseng is really not rare. What is really rare is the ginseng from Changbai Mountain in the Ming Dynasty. The ginseng there is the best ginseng. It is small in quantity, expensive, and has good medicinal effects."

"When you eat ginseng, you must eat ginseng from Changbai Mountain in the Ming Dynasty or Korean ginseng. Korean ginseng is also good. Anyway, the worst thing is the ginseng from the north. It looks like a radish."

"Baldy Li, is it true or not?"

"I've heard people say that ginseng from the northern region is now sold all over the world."

When someone heard it, they also hurriedly asked.

"Why am I lying to you? I don't do any good. I just tell the truth."

"I'll tell you about the South Golden Continent Rainforest Expedition."

"This is the expedition team I organized the year before last to go to the rainforest to see if I can find gold, silver, or some precious Chinese medicinal materials."

Baldy Li is very good at talking about things, and he is also an explorer. When he talks about things, he talks one way after another. The big guys are also very interested in these things, so everyone listens with gusto.

"You must have heard of the Great Rainforest. Many people in the timber business may have been to the Great Rainforest to sell mahogany."

"We all know that the Great Rainforest is almost endless, boundless, vast, inaccessible, and full of dangers."

"The reason why I went to the Great Rainforest was because I met a tribal chief of the Inca Empire when I was exploring the Inca Empire. This tribal chief told me a story about the Golden City of the Great Rainforest."

Seeing that everyone was very interested, Baldy Li looked at him in unison, and immediately became more energetic, and immediately began to speak vividly.

"It is said that a long time ago, a powerful country rose up in the big rainforest. This country is called the country of gold, because they have too much gold, and they directly use gold in the big rain forest. A huge golden city was built in the rainforest."

"The history of the Golden Kingdom and the Golden City lasted for 800 years. They mined gold in the rainforest and built magnificent pyramids to worship the great sun god."

"But one day, the king of this golden country blasphemed the gods and the sun god, so the gods sent down terrible plagues and diseases, which completely destroyed this huge country overnight."

"People are scrambling to escape from this city and kingdom built with gold, from curses, plagues, and diseases. However, God's punishment is extremely terrible, and you can't escape if you want to."

"In the end, the entire Golden Kingdom and the Golden City disappeared in the rainforest, and no one was able to find its existence anymore, but the legend about the Golden City has been handed down, and there are constant rumors among the descendants of the Shang Dynasty around the rainforest." It has been passed down to the present day.”

Baldy Li is very good at telling stories, and he doesn't know whether the Golden Kingdom and the Golden City are real, but after hearing his story, many people present couldn't help being moved.

The kingdom of gold, the city built with gold, what an attractive place this is.

Moreover, the story Baldy Li told fits many of the circumstances here.

Like the Mayan Empire, it is now being gradually discovered by the Ming people.

There are many legends about the Mayan Empire. It used to be extremely glorious, and it was a huge empire as famous as the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire.

But it seems that overnight, the Mayan Empire quietly disappeared, disappeared in the dense rainforest of the Central Golden Continent area, and now some explorers have discovered huge city ruins in these rainforests, and brought out Lots of gold, gems, silver, and more.

To be honest, some people still believe a thing or two about the Golden Kingdom and Golden City in the rainforest that Baldy Li said, because such things are not uncommon here.

"Baldy Li, have you found the Golden City and the Golden Kingdom?"

Someone couldn't help but ask.

"Nonsense, I must have not found it. If I found it, why am I still bragging with you here? I would have posted it long ago."

Upon hearing this, Baldy Li quickly said, "Do you know how many big rainforests there are?"

"It is almost boundless and endless, and the Great Rainforest is completely different from other places. Inside the Great Rainforest is the original tropical rainforest, which is full of crises and there are countless kinds of poisons."

"It is more difficult to find the Golden Kingdom and the Golden City in such a place, even if you want to survive in it for a few days, it is not easy."

"To be honest, that kind of place is really not for people. After going there once, I don't want to go there for the second time. It doesn't matter whether it has the Golden City or the Golden Pyramid. I won't go, my life is at stake."

"In that kind of place, there are so many kinds of plants, animals, and fish that you have never seen before, such as poisonous frogs, giant snakes as big as buckets, and groups of piranhas. , the terrifying electric eel, even a small beetle bite may kill you."

"It's not a place for people to stay at all. It can't even start a fire. It's too wet. I advise everyone not to go, otherwise they don't know how they died. I organized more than 100 people to go on an expedition, and only the ones who came back Half of it is just as scary as hell."

When he said this, Baldy Li still seemed to be in a lingering fear, shaking his head while speaking.

"Baldy Li, there is something you are afraid of too."

Someone said with a smile.

"I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid, you'll be afraid even if you've been there once."

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about. We explorers are looking for gold outside, not to die. Even if there is a golden city in that kind of place, I will never go there again."

"There are many places with gold here, so why bother to seek death in that kind of place."

Baldy Li smiled and said, "It's like the place where I found gold last year. Although it's freezing cold there, at least you don't have to worry about all kinds of poisons. As long as the summer passes, you can still find a lot of gold." of."

"A place like the big rainforest is really scary. It's best not to go there."

"You may just walk around this North Golden Continent, and you haven't seen the horror of that kind of place. As long as you go there once, you don't want to go there again."

"Let me tell you, when I went that time, I met a big snake somewhere. This kind of snake is very big, thicker than a bucket, with horns on its head and claws under its belly. It's about to become a dragon."

(End of this chapter)