Chapter 422: Every inch of land is valuable
Without wasting time, Mo Ye and the others left Mohan Town and entered a small road, which led directly to the mining area, but the road into the mountain was guarded by Burmese soldiers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Mo Xie and the others put on their hats, trying not to attract attention, and when they arrived at the pass, Omori went over and handed some money to the Burmese soldiers, and the Burmese soldiers nodded at Omori.
Along this trail, Mo Xie finally entered the jade mining area smoothly.
This season is about to enter the rainy season, so the roads are muddy, and the slope into the hill is large, and Mo Ye was almost thrown off the motorcycle several times.
Walking through the path in the mountains, Mo Xie had completely lost his way, but with the two Omori brothers leading the team, they could be regarded as having a smooth journey.
Looking at the mine mouth in the distance, thinking of the hardships along the way, Mo Xie couldn't help but have mixed feelings, compared to the gem mining area, it is much more difficult to walk here, and it is much more difficult to find.
Entering the various openings of the small field area, as far as the eye can see, temporary huts are densely packed among the mountains, and the land is full of desolation.
The people who mine the jadeite ore on the spot have one word: more!
And this is only a medium-sized mine, but there are hundreds of thousands of people in this medium-sized mine alone!
It was a bit like an ant's nest, under the attack of modern excavators, the mountain was not only dug flat, but also dug to a deep depth.
There is a 10-story mountain, and it has been dug up and bruised all over its body.
At the foot of the mountain, the mud trucks overloaded the raw ore and returned with a full load, and this hot scene was more than a little more powerful than the Three Gorges Project of that year.
Therefore, Mo Ye felt shocked when he looked at it, of course, this kind of place, there is no room for them to get involved, after all, this place is all allocated by people, and they can't mine at will.
Looking at the groups of people, Mo Xie knew that the land under the feet of these people was bought by them at a high price.
Some people can even buy a palm-sized piece of land, where they can only mine rough stones, and they must not celebrate the holidays.
In such a place, Mo Ye naturally did not have the opportunity to collect jade rough stones.
So, under Omori's leadership, they could only continue deep into the mountains until their numbers dwindled sharply, and they did not stop.
At this time, the rainy season has not really arrived, and many pits deep in the mountains have only accumulated a little rainwater, and there is no way to dig it.
Of course, even so, the absentees can only dig the jadeite rough in the waterless places on the high ground.
When they get here, it's not an inch of land, so Mo Xie and they can also find a place where no one is there to dig the rough stone.
Of course, if you are lucky, you can sometimes pick up jadeite in the garbage heap next to the mine.
In the mine, before you get to the field, you never know if you are stepping on a piece of jade with a lot of value under your feet.
Mo Xie looked around and found that there were two main types of ore veins in this small field: accumulation and alluvial.
The piled stones are mainly half-mountain and half-water, embedded in a cement-like hard colloidal layer, some of the upper layer is lighter in color, the bottom is darker, and some are completely disrupted and arbitrarily distributed.
The piles of stones are located on both sides of the ancient riverbed (now a mountain col), and are generally waterlogged, which is in line with the characteristics of the old and new fields.
The alluvial stones are located in the middle of the ancient riverbed, producing water stones and half-mountains and half-waters, and the general material is smaller, and it is better to grow water.
The stones are covered with silt and sand, which is relatively easy to mine and can be sprinkled by rinsing with a high-pressure water gun.
When you get here, you can really say that you have entered Baoshan, so as long as you have the strength, no matter who you are, you want to dig out a few pieces of jade rough.
Mo Xie naturally didn't do it now, he just kept checking and analyzing the situation here, while Lao Mu and Da Sen, regardless of anything else, they kept finding pickaxes from somewhere and were preparing to mine.
This piece is the impact topography of the ancient riverbed, and the accumulation layer of jadeite ore distributed on both sides of the ancient riverbed, but the jadeite is distributed in an unusually hard cemented layer, and it is very laborious to dig it out.
The Kachin people who live here have never been afraid to work, and Omori is the same, he held a pickaxe, and worked abruptly for a long time, and finally got a lot of stones.
After fighting for a long time, there is a piece of jadeite, and it seems that the quality is still very average, so it is quite difficult to dig out a good piece of jadeite.
After being exhausted, Omori and the others completely gave up the idea of digging up ice and glass seeds, and instead walked around the mining area, following Mo Xie to see if they could receive any good goods.
Mo Xie slipped to a nearby water stone mining site, where the workers had already dug down more than ten meters, this is a good lot, and it should be expensive to bid it down.
This is excavated by the pond flushing method, which is washed with a high-pressure water gun, and then the water in the hole is pumped out by a pumping machine, and the sand gold is screened out at the same time.
It is said that the sand gold screened out alone can earn back the capital, and the jade is earned in vain.
The basket contains the ore that has been screened, and there are ordinary stones, foam and jadeite, which will be transported later to be carefully screened by professionals.
Since there is a high chance of good stones in the alluvium, this is a good opportunity to make a fortune.
There are a few simple shops in the open area, where locals use their motorcycles and camels to get their necessities and sell them at high prices.
The days of exposure are boring and boring, in short, not a place for people.
For the Chinese who come here, the best thing to eat is instant noodles, which is the only instant noodles that can still be swallowed, and it is actually creamy, which makes Mo Xie really speechless.
After wandering around here for three days, after a long time of familiarity, there will be jade diggers who will send all kinds of stones for Mo Ye to see.
The prices are completely irregular, some are ridiculously high, some are very low, it all depends on everyone's vision and preferences.
And the most expensive material was sent by an old man, and this piece of material made Mo Ye look at it, and it cost 100 million kyats.
Mo Xie looked at it, this is a stone, and later someone told Mo Xie that this old man has gone crazy, and he has been hanging in the open all these years, and everyone will call him when they see him pitiful and eat.
The story of the gambling stone behind the old man is so sad that people can't bear to mention it again, of course, the poor person must have something to hate, so Mo Xie just gave away a bag of bread.
There are so many poor people in this world that he can't raise them all.
On this day, Mo Xie finally completed his investigation here, and was ready to go directly through the mountain in front of him and walk out of this mining area.
Only when they get out of this mining area will no one continue to stare at them.
However, it is not easy to get through the mountains here, 99% of the mountains here are dirt mountains, and there have been several rains in the past few days, so the very steep mountains that have been excavated around it have become very dangerous, and even if the mountains do not collapse, it is easy to form mudslides.
Of course, the valley below the mountain is also very dangerous, because you don't know when a canyon will turn into a big river, because it is likely that there will be heavy rains upstream, forming flash floods.
The environment here is very badly damaged, because of uncontrolled mining, the land is covered in scales, so natural disasters are prone to occur.
On the way down the mountain, Mo Xie's motorcycle had a puncture, because there was no way to change the motorcycle, so in this barren mountains and mountains where there was no village and no shop, they had to push the motorcycle for more than a dozen kilometers.
Fortunately, I finally found a post house, which can actually repair motorcycles, and it seems that there are often flat tires here.
Taking advantage of the gap in repairing the car, Mo Xie visited the village, and the hostess told Mo Xie that the village was already empty of ten rooms and nine empty, and the rest were all old, young, sick and disabled.
Some of the adult men died on the battlefield, some were buried in other places, and the rest were also traveling in other places, so it is the people who always suffer in the war.
The master slaughtered the only old hen in her house and entertained Mo Ye and them, so that Mo Ye felt the warmth from a foreign country in this wilderness.
The folk customs here are very simple, and it only costs 2,000 kyats to repair the car and change the inner and outer tires, and when he left, Mo Xie stuffed all the remaining kyats in his wallet into the family.
When he was about to reach a small town under the mountain, Omori met some people, and at this time, Mo Xie knew that they could only flee separately.
According to reliable sources, the proprietress of the hotel where they stayed was the wife of a local Burmese army officer.
She had already reported Mo Ye's actions during this period of time to the troops, and the reason why she didn't do it was that when they had collected all the materials, they would come and get the stolen goods.
Now there are a few Burmese soldiers, just on the road ahead, waiting for Mo Ye and them to throw themselves into the net.
At this time, Da Sen's role was revealed, and he continued to move forward, while Mo Ye and Chen Erlei went to take another safe path.
Acting separately, Mo Ye was relaxed, he took Chen Erlei and walked faster, and as for the person who blocked him, he was directly left behind.
And at this time, Mo Xie believed in the professional ethics of the two Omori brothers.
The two of them did not betray Mo Ye and Chen Erlei, so the two of them returned to Mandalay smoothly.
After staying in one of the largest hotels in Mandalay, taking a shower and repairing for a day, Mo Xie climbed to the top of the hotel.
Chen Erlei stood guard at the entrance of the top floor, while Mo Ye began to take out some machinery and assemble it.
In just ten minutes, Mo Ye assembled a glider with a set of batteries on it, so that this modified powered glider could fly at a low altitude.
"Wait here, I'll be back here when I'm done!" Mo Xie said hello to Chen Erlei and jumped off the building, and the glider quickly disappeared into the sky.
Eighty kilometers of mountain road, it doesn't take an hour to fly in the sky, and the glider with a flying altitude of only more than 100 meters has no restrictions at all for Mo Ye.
Others will lose their way in the dark night, but for Mo Ye, there is no hindrance.
The 1,000-meter detection range of the super bioprobe allows him to accurately grasp the direction and prevent him from getting lost in the mountains.
Therefore, it took forty-eight minutes for Mo Xie to return to the sky above the medium-sized mine.