"What a bad man. She pursed her lips and continued, "Then should I promise to let you snap tonight?"

"That's a very pleasant thing, I'm more happy with you, isn't it?" Zheng Fei unceremoniously took her hand, and then stroked her waist.

A crimson appeared on her cheeks, she raised her eyes to look ahead, and changed the subject: "Okay, let's talk about it in the evening, it's time to get there!"

With that, she rolled over and ran forward with her whip, her heart beating faster as he provoked her.

Santiago ran to Zheng Fei's side, staring at her beautiful back that was gradually moving away, and said enviously, "I said, how did you do it?"

Zheng Fei unhurriedly unscrewed the lid of the wine jug, tilted his neck and found that he had finished drinking, so he reluctantly evened out the big wine jug, and said with a smile: "If you want to pick up a girl, don't pretend to be a gentleman." ”

"There aren't many bad men like you. ”

"The bad point is good, the heartless and the lungless will not hurt. Zheng Fei looked straight ahead and said meaningfully, with a faint sadness in his eyes.

Soon, they saw Scarlett halting at the edge of the highlands, smiling and waiting for them in the sea breeze.

"Hallelujah, Hallelujah!"

The dull and sonorous slogans came from below the high ground and resounded in the air, which made people's hearts stir, and the strength in their hands seemed to increase a lot.

With doubts, Zheng Fei came to the edge of the high ground and looked down, and what appeared in front of him was a wide river, more than a dozen wooden houses, and hundreds of laborers who were busy like ants.

The laborers shouted slogans in unison and pushed the truckloads of sand towards the shore with great difficulty, due to the terrain.

"Hallelujah, Hallelujah!" was their heartfelt roar.

Faith is the greatest driving force to support their progress.

They were barefoot, wading through knee-high mud, their muscles tense, the corners of their eyes bruised, their eyes full of obsession, and more of an endless desire.

A person like this has a sense of vicissitudes.

Hundreds of people are like this, and they can only be described in two words - shocking!

Zheng Fei had never seen the scene in front of him, his eyebrows were frowning, he looked at it for a while, and asked, "What are they doing?"

Scarlett put her long hair back in her rope and said, "Didn't the king tell you before he came? ”

Gold panning, people salvage the silt in the river or lake, and wash the silt in the pan in order to find the natural golden sand in the silt.

For a long time, it was an important means of enrichment for many navigator adventurers, and there have been several major gold rushes in history, most notably the westward expansion of the United States.

Before the discovery of gold, Americans almost exclusively lived in the east, because the geographical location of the east was convenient for merchants to cross the Atlantic to Europe or Africa to trade, and the economy was developed.

As for the west, it is a vast wasteland.

And when the news of the discovery of gold in California was confirmed, the United States was boiling, and the world was shaken! San Francisco, which was close at hand, was the first to feel the impact of the gold rush, almost all the businesses closed down, the seafarers with gold rush dreams abandoned their ships in San Francisco Bay, the soldiers fled their barracks, and the servants left their masters, like hungry wolves that had seen meat, frantically flocked to the gold mining sites.

Farmers pawned their fields, pioneers abandoned their fields, workers threw away their tools, civil servants left their desks, and even missionaries left their missions, leaving behind the so-called God-given tasks for them and heading to California!

By June 1846, half of San Francisco's house was empty, two newspapers had to cease publication due to the departure of typesetters and the dispersal of subscribers, and only six sailors remained on the USS Anita.

The craze then swept through Oregon north of San Francisco and Mexico in the south. In Oregon in the summer of 1848 alone, half of the adult men left their soon-to-be-harvested grains south to California, while thousands of Mexicans traveled thousands of miles north to California.

Because of this gold rush that swept the world, many years later, the place where the gold mine was discovered, San Francisco, was given a name that was known all over the world - San Francisco.

The whole world seemed to be playing a song: "Oh, Susanna, Oh, California, that's the place for me, I'm going to Sacramento, basin on my lap!"

Gold Rush Song!

Before the Third Industrial Revolution, no production industry could match the speed of development and the value of value created.

And now, at Zheng Fei's feet, there is a huge gold mine.

Scarlett stuck to Zheng Fei's side, grabbed his arm, and said softly: "The average monthly output of gold is two hundred kilograms, and it is processed into gold coins, 6,000 gold coins per month. ”

6000 coins!

Hearing this astronomical figure, the sailors' eyes instantly straightened.

They didn't know what that number meant, only that one gold coin could be exchanged for a dozen silver coins, enough to cover the family's living expenses for several months.

The sigh spread among them.

Only Zheng Fei knows that 6,000 gold coins per month is 60,000 yuan a year, and his annual income can exceed that of the richest man in a large port (such as Alonso in Barcelona)

As for huge ports like Lisbon, Antwerp, Tripoli, two years.

Seeing the greedy eyes of the sailors, Scarlett smiled and twisted down the high ground, motioning for them to follow.

"Captain, they've got enough gold for them to buy all of Lisbon, right?" Ares' heart raced, and he couldn't help but want to take it for himself.

"You're half right. Zheng Fei replied, looking at the laborers who had made the difficult trek.

"Hmm, half of Lisbon?"

"No, it's not them but me, this gold mine, it's mine!"

If you want to become a One Piece, you must have a strong military force, you must have a strong financial support, in the turbulent era of the Middle Ages, whoever has a hard fist is the boss!

Gold mines have an alias, the banknote making machine.

A gold mine is worth more than dozens or even more plantations, how could Zheng Fei let go of such a cash cow?

If you rob hard, you will become a bandit, and he decides to start with Scarlett, a seductive blonde beauty who always seems to want to hide something deliberately.

He guessed that Scarlett was from a noble background, and the Portuguese royal family appointed her to manage the island, and she did not hand over all the minerals and other resources mined on the island to the royal family, but swallowed some of them herself.

Since she is not absolutely loyal to the royal family, she must not mind changing masters.