Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 560, Gold Rush

fish creek.

The Jinsha River is only a few miles away from the Fish Creek colonial stronghold.

Looking at the glittering Jinsha River, Zhang Fu had an unconcealable smile on his face.

Taiping Hou Du Mingen did not lie.

There are really gold mines here, and the output of gold mines is very high. This Jinsha River is covered with a thick layer of gold sand.

A lot of gold sand can be washed out by washing casually in the river with gold panning tools.

Such a rich gold mine is absolutely unprecedented.

"Hurry up, hurry up~"

"Everyone, work hard and build our camp as soon as possible. After that, we can start panning for gold."

"Let me put the ugly words first. The gold here is not only the gold of the master, but also the gold of the current emperor and the imperial court."

"Everyone is working here, panning for gold according to their duty. Your wages are absolutely not bad, and your meals are absolutely full, and there is meat every time. I guarantee that each of you will be fat and strong."

"But if it's not your own, don't have any wrong thoughts, or don't blame me for being ruthless."

Zhang Fu was walking in the camp next to the Jinsha River, holding a loudspeaker and yelling continuously.

I have just arrived here without everyone, and I have already found a lot of dog head gold here on the riverbed.

There are a few ounces of these dog-head golds, and the heavy ones even weigh several kilograms. Some people dug up dog-head gold when they went to the river to dig sand to build houses, which shows how rich the gold mines here are.

So Zhang Fu also focused on explaining here.

"Yes~"

Hearing Zhang Fu's words, many working guys quickly replied in unison.

When they came here to pan for gold, the boss gave each of them a sky-high price of 10 taels of silver per month, and the boss also promised that they would buy some women from Japan and North Korea at that time, so that everyone could solve their problems.

With such conditions, the only requirement is that everyone come here to work in their own way, which can be said to be very good for them.

"Let's work, try to mine the first batch of gold in the next few days and bring it back to Daming on which ships to show the owner."

Only then did Zhang Fu nodded in satisfaction, and said loudly.

Because the interests of many parties were involved, the Emperor Ming sent a young eunuch, and the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty also sent a sixth-rank official. In addition, the crew who went to the Golden Continent last year also set up a business firm. There are also guys sent over.

These people who were sent here came here specially to monitor, to see if the miners like Zhang Fu and the others had concealed or wanted to steal gold.

Zhang Fu is also cautious in doing things, trying to be open and fair, so that everyone has nothing to say.

Judging from the current situation, the reserves of gold mines here are astonishing, far more than any gold mine in Daming, and it can even be said that the gold mines currently being mined in the entire Ming Dynasty are less than this gold mine. One of the output.

There is no way, the gold and silver output of Ming Dynasty is very small, and since ancient times, it has often relied on external input.

Following Zhang Fu's words, everyone became busy again.

This time, there were a lot of people coming to mine the gold mines. Sangong Trading Co., Ltd. also united with several powerful trading firms to win the mining rights here, and organized a dozen large ships to come here, bringing nearly [-] people here.

In addition to bringing enough manpower, there are also a lot of materials brought over.

Tian Erniu is organizing people to build the Yuxi base, and Zhang Fu is also organizing thousands of people to build the Yuxi gold mine here.

Because gold mines will be mined here for a long time, many things must be prepared.

The latitude here is high, and the summer time is very short. When autumn comes, it will become cold here, and the gold mines here may not be able to be mined.

In winter, the river here will be frozen, coupled with the severe cold weather, all people here must be evacuated.

Calculated, the time here to collect gold mines may only be about five short months.

Time is very tight.

Fortunately, the gold mines here are very rich. Just grabbing a handful of sand can yield dozens of grains of gold sand. Even in a few months, enough gold can be mined.

Seeing that everyone was busy, Zhang Fu nodded in satisfaction.

Looking at the Jinsha River, it sparkles under the sunlight, shining with charming golden light.

There is too much gold in the riverbed, so there is such a golden color.

"It's so beautiful~"

A smile appeared on Zhang Fu's face.

Looking at the snow-capped mountains farther away, the snow-capped mountains range from high to low, with a snow-covered area on the top, dense grass in the middle, and tall virgin forests at the foot of the mountain.

Groups of deer can be seen everywhere, as well as snow-white and snow-white foxes. Eagles can be seen soaring in the sky, and occasionally a huge bear with its cubs is desperately eating. , seems to be preparing for the arrival of winter.

The scenery here is indeed beautiful, the uncanny workmanship of nature, the beauty of nature, makes people feel relaxed and happy, and can't help but want to sing a song.

"Zhang Fu~"

At this time, Tian Erniu's voice sounded not far away.

Zhang Fu quickly looked over.

"Captain Tian~"

Zhang Fu said with a smile.

"Haha, how is it?"

"I didn't lie to you, right? The gold mines here are very rich. Back then, I just scoured here for two days and got a small bag of gold dust."

Tian Erniu looked at the glittering Jinsha River in front of him, and said with a smile.

"No, no~"

Zhang Fu suddenly shook his head in embarrassment.

"You have to hurry up. In a few months, it will be very cold here. By then, the water will be too cold, and there will be no way to pan for gold."

Tian Erniu smiled, and then gave instructions.

"I know~"

Zhang Fu nodded and said.

In fact, he could already clearly feel that it was June, which was the height of summer, but it wasn't hot here, and the climate was very cool. He knew that it would be very cold here in autumn and winter.

"Well, I'm going to leave for the Golden Continent again tomorrow, and you can help take care of the Yuxi stronghold at that time."

Tian Erniu thought for a while and then said: "Maybe there is not enough cement. Later, someone from your side will write a letter to Yinshan County, and ask Tong Yuan, the county magistrate of Yinshan County, to ask him to send more cement."

"In addition, although there are not many people here, I personally think that we should build a fort here at the mouth of Yuxi River and put a few cannons, just in case."

While Tian Erniu said, Zhang Fu also silently wrote it down.

"Okay, in a few days, those ships will return to Yinshan County, and I will ask someone to bring a letter back."

Zhang Fu nodded in agreement.

Then he thought for a while and asked: "The gold mine in Yuxi is really good. I wonder if the gold mine in Huangjinzhou is similar to the one here?"

"Haha, Gold Isle is full of gold. There are a lot of gold mines like Yuxi in the Isle of Gold. If you are free in the future, you might as well go to the Isle of Gold to have a look, and you will know."

When Tian Erniu heard this, he immediately laughed.

His words also made Zhang Fu dubious. Could it be that this Golden Continent is really full of gold?

Soon, two days flew by.

The fleet on Tian Erniu's side set sail again, and continued to head northeastward, towards the Golden Continent.

There are still more than [-] large ships left here in Yuxi.

These big ships are big ships of the major trading houses that mine gold mines, and they also have many tasks.

In the next few months, these ships will continue to travel back and forth between Yinshan County and Yuxi to deliver more supplies to Yuxi.

At the same time, it is also to transport the gold mine mined here to Daming.

The mining camp was built more casually, because these people who mined would choose to return to the Fish Creek stronghold at night.

There are bears here, which means it is still very dangerous.

After two days of construction, the Fish Creek stronghold already looks like a small town.

Even on the flat land not far away, the industrious Ming people once again displayed the excellent genes they inherited from their ancestors.

They actually reclaimed a piece of land, ridged a vegetable field on top of the black soil, and sowed the seeds of vegetables. After a while, they might be able to eat fresh vegetables.

If it weren't for the time, it is estimated that wheat would be planted here.

With the departure of the large troops, Yuxi suddenly became much quieter.

Originally, there were more than [-] people on thousands of large ships (Khan, I made a mistake in the previous calculation, and it was counted as tens of thousands of people. In fact, there should be [-] people. Thank you book friends for supporting this error. I admit that my mathematics is a sports The teacher taught), the whole Yuxi was very lively.

This is why it was possible to build Yuxi into a decent shape in just two days.

With enough manpower, sufficient materials, and cement, it is still very easy to build a colonial stronghold within two days.

Once the big troops left, it became much quieter.

However, there are still thousands of people here, more than a thousand Japanese people, a thousand gold digger absentees, and more than a thousand people who came to build the Yuxi stronghold.

There are more than [-] people in this small Yuxi, so it still seems relatively lively.

　Thank you book friends for pointing out that a thousand big ships, each with a hundred people, is indeed one hundred thousand~~~
　　
　
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