Joke to joke, Wei Ergou also began to assign business to us, giving me two tasks, one is to transport the customs clearance cabinet and the CAT excavator bought, and the other task is that Wei Ergou said that he will start work immediately, and he also arranged four workers to come over in China, all of whom are his fellow countrymen, who are relatively old, and they all work under him in the Northeast; Wei Ergou and Erijia borrowed Huang Jianjun's bulldozer this week to open up a road that could enter the car on the road that entered the mountain last time, so that the cabinet and excavator could be directly dragged into the mining area when they arrived; Wei Yiyun and Pearl went to buy a hundred planks and a hundred iron tiles and all kinds of trivial materials, and then found four carpenters, and when the road was opened, they would immediately transport these things to the mining area, and let the workers build a wooden shed, similar to Huang Jianjun's.

Wei Ergou drove me to the long-distance bus station, I bought a ticket to get on the bus, sat in the last row by the window with my eyes closed and took a nap, it is estimated that there will be a while to drive, plus the arrival time is estimated to be five or six hours, the mood is a little very happy, first, things are more smooth, although there are a little twists and turns, secondly, I can see Bai Yan again, thinking about Bai Ying, I decided to surprise her, don't call her first, I can't help but be happy when I think of this.

"Hey, Zhang Xiaosheng, what are you smirking again?" I opened my eyes and saw Li Mengmeng standing in front of me looking at me.

"Hey, you're going to ** too?" I asked Li Mengmeng in surprise.

"Huh, huh? **You're not just white in your house, why can't you go? You haven't answered my question yet, what are you laughing at there, smiling so obscenely with your eyes closed! Li Mengmeng sat down next to me and asked me unrelentingly.

"Oh, it's nothing, I just thought I'd see Bai Bai soon." I looked at Li Mengmeng embarrassedly and said.

"Haha, in fact, needless to say, I also guessed, what's wrong with you, you can see it from your face, nerd!" Li Mengmeng smiled happily.

"It's such a coincidence, I thought you were going to stay in Dongbi for a few days, Li Mengmeng, you seem to have only come to Dongbei yesterday" I was anxious to let Li Mengmeng change the topic, if this little girl was aggressive, she could laugh at me all the way and giggle.

"I'll leave when I'm done, I don't have anything to do, it's just that Ah Feng's friend wants to buy 2 excavators and let me come over to meet, and then my boss happens to buy a piece of land to set up a base in Dongluo, so I came over to help him do the translation. Ah Feng had a good chat with my boss over there, saying that he could help me with the rest of the matter, and there happened to be a foreign company from a foreign company who wanted me to buy an excavator on my side, and the boss also asked me to do my best to go back, and here he and Ah Feng implemented the matter of buying land. Li Mengmeng retracted the smile on my face and talked to me about her itinerary, she was still a big grinning rectum.

"Oh, that's good. I'll go back and invite you to dinner!" In fact, after listening to her, I didn't know what to say, so I stopped her with dinner and then went back to the topic I was smirking at just now. "By the way, I don't know if I can ask you a question, Li Mengmeng."

"Please eat, I'm going to think about it, see if I'm in the mood to be you and the white light bulb. If you have any questions, can you ask me directly? Li Mengmeng stared at me with two big eyes and smiled.

"Don't be angry, do you really like that Ah Feng?" At this time, the blacks also came and sat down, and the car was about to start, and the car was not full, and the two of us were in the last row, and I said the question I wanted to ask.

"Ah Feng, I don't know, really, don't believe it. To tell the truth, Ah Feng, I hated him very much at first, but then I came back and forth, and I had more contact, okay, as for whether I like it or not, I can't tell, but you don't tell others, don't tell sù. Li Mengmeng said to me lightly, not like a lie.

"Oh." I didn't know what to say, so I just said one.

"Oh, you're big, keep it secret, pull the hook, come, don't change for a hundred years." Li Mengmeng looks like a professional woman, aggressive in her rectum, but she is still an innocent girl at heart, she insists on hooking me, and says to me, "Ah Feng, in fact, I don't like him either, but he has been chasing me, and he also introduced a lot of people who buy excavators, I am an excavator sales, and I don't want to refuse him, and many Guangxi bosses hit my attention, there is a Ah Feng, I can also use A Feng to push off a lot of embarrassing entertainment, a woman is sometimes very difficult to do in the workplace, especially in Africa, there are too many disgusting men, If you have a little money, I have to ask you to eat or something, and I have a lot of dirty things. Of course, don't talk about this idea of mine, otherwise Ah Feng will be angry, and I will have a lot fewer excavator customers. Why are you looking at me like this, do you think I'm a scheming? ”

"No, no, I think you are very reasonable, I promise I won't say it, and I won't say it, I don't say it, lie to you as a puppy!" I said that I amused myself, and Li Mengmeng also smiled slightly.

"By the way, Li Mengmeng, why did you choose to work in Africa in the first place?" I asked this question when I saw Bai Xi, and this time I asked Li Mengmeng.

"Well, hey, when I was in high school, I thought that my family said that girls learn a language, and it is easy to find a job, and then I want to learn the language, and I think French is nice and noble, so I learn French, and after graduating from college, I find that it is difficult to find a job in French. In the end, there was a lot of need for French translators in Africa, so I had to come to Africa and apply for our company's French sales in Africa. Li Mengmeng looked at me and said, "What about you?" ”

"I, it's hard to find a job, I want to come here to develop, Wei Yiyun introduced me, he is a classmate of mine in college." I replied.

"Which one is Wei Yiyun, the black one or the white one?" Li Mengmeng used black to represent Wei Ergou, and white to represent Wei Yiyun.

"Oh, the black one is our boss, Wei Ergou, and the white one is Wei Yiyun." I said with a smile.

"Oh, by the way, you told Bai Yan that you would be there tonight?" Li Mengmeng also changed the topic and asked me.

"No, I want to surprise her!" I giggled.

"Let's give her a call, I know Bai Ying better than you, she is usually very busy, the time is arranged in advance, if you don't tell her early, she won't have time to pick you up at that time, and you can't live in her villa this time, her foreign colleague has come back from vacation, you should call Bai Ying now." Li Mengmeng built yì I called Bai Xuan.

I took out my mobile phone, dialed Bai Yan's phone, rang several times, Bai Ying picked up, I told her that I was going to reply to ** tonight, Bai Ying said that it was too unfortunate, tonight she and her white boss were going to the French consulate to attend a government party, and they might not be able to pick me up. I just said it's okay, I'll take a taxi to the ** hotel by myself, and tomorrow I can pretend to be a customer and go to the yard to find her. I knew that Bai Ying must be telling the truth, but I was still a little disappointed in my heart.

"What's wrong? Don't you have time? Li Mengmeng heard my phone call and asked me.

"WELL, SHE HAS AN IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT PARTY TONIGHT." I replied.

"That's it, my driver will pick me up later, and I'll take you to the hotel!" Li Mengmeng looked at me and smiled.

"Yes, thank you, that's great!" I am grateful for Li Mengmeng's enthusiasm, recalling that at that time, I consulted Ghana in the domestic QQ group about the gold rush, and only Li Mengmeng was the most patient and enthusiastic to answer my questions, in fact, Li Mengmeng is not only beautiful, but also kind-hearted.

As we chatted along the way, Li Mengmeng talked to me about the history of gold mining in the United States, saying that the history of gold mining in the United States has led to the rapid development of the whole United States, so we gold diggers may be engaged in the cause of rewriting history. James Marshall (James W. Marshall) may not be known by many people, and certainly not Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Kennedy, Martin? Luther? Jin and others are well-known and well-known. However, when it comes to the impact on American history, Marshall is definitely worth mentioning and cannot be ignored.

Marshall was originally a skilled carpenter, and his boss John Brown was his boss north of Sacramento, the capital of present-day California. Johan Sutter, who built a sawmill, discovered the first gold flakes on the American River on January 24, 1848, and sparked a gold rush that changed the face of the American West and the entire social fabric of the United States.

Marshall discovered the gold by accident, and according to his own recollection, on the morning of the discovery of the gold, while inspecting the sawmill waterways, he saw some shining spots in the riverbed, so he ran over to look at them, and found them to be some yellow pieces of metal, and he picked up one or two pieces, and after repeated investigations, and struck them on the rocks, these glowing golden shards could be reshaped, but they were very strong and would not break. Marshall, based on his own experience, judged that this was gold. When he showed it back to a worker, who was making the zuò waterwheel, he didn't believe it was gold, and Marshall said afterwards, "My heart was pounding because I knew it was gold." ”

When Marshall found the gold, he showed a few more pieces to his employer, Sartre, who was sure that it was gold and that it was of high purity, at least 23 carats. Shocked, Sartre instructed Marshall not to reveal the news, fearing that if the news was revealed, a large number of people would join the search for gold, which would affect not only his own gold mining operations, but also his plans to build factories and build an agricultural empire in Northern California.

However, the news of Marshall's discovery of gold was soon leaked, and first the local people who worked for Sartre knew the "secret" of gold nearby, and they left their jobs and ran to find gold, so anxious that Marshall and Sartre jumped on both feet; Soon the news reached nearby San Francisco, where residents were initially incredulous until a newspaper reported in mid-March and a shop owner marched through town to show people gold found from Sutter's site, sparking a craze for San Francisco's residents. By mid-June, three-quarters of San Francisco's residents had left their homes, leaving the town virtually empty. Since then, news of the discovery of gold in Northern California has spread not only throughout the United States, but also around the world.

Coincidentally, shortly after the discovery of gold in Marshall, the war between the United States and Mexico ended, and the "Treaty of GuadalupeHidalgo" was signed between the United States and Mexico, and California became a territory of the United States, which created extremely favorable conditions for the gold rush in California, and Americans could freely come to California from the east, center, and south to pan for gold. The flow of people from all over the United States to the west was like a thousand streams flowing into the sea, which was very impressive, and greatly promoted the scale of the westward flow of immigrants as part of the westward movement.

Many of the gold diggers who came to California took out their life savings or used their houses as collateral to borrow money for travel expenses, and went through a lot of hardships to pursue wealth in California. Leaving their families and hometowns behind to take care of their children as women, most of these gold diggers who dreamed of getting rich overnight came to California in 1849, hence the nicknames "Forty-niners."

As the number of gold miners from all over the world grew, so did the number of Californians, and in March 1848 there were only about 800 outsiders, and by August there were about 4,000 people coming to pan for gold. By the end of 1848, the number of foreigners had reached 20,000; By the end of 1849, the number of immigrants had reached about 100,000. Between 50,000 and 60,000 of them come from all over the United States, while others come from all over the world, including from Europe, South America and even China. Most of the Chinese gold prospectors came from Taishan, Guangdong, where they came to pan for gold, so they called it "Jinshan", and later changed its name to "San Francisco".

After the gold rush in early 1848, the gold rush reached its peak in 1852, after which the probability of finding gold on the ground became less and less, and after that, it was mined, and with the advancement of mining technology, more and more gold mines buried in the ground were discovered. California's gold rush spurred the development of the entire mining industry, attracting a large number of workers and skilled workers to devote themselves to the development of the west, and the mining industry developed rapidly not only in California, but also in the surrounding states. According to incomplete statistics, about 118 million ounces (3,670 tons) of gold have been obtained in California to date. The acquisition of large amounts of gold has made California, especially San Francisco, a bustling place and a development of the surrounding area. Many historians believe that the gold rush changed the face of American society on a par with the Civil War.

The Gold Rush and the demographic changes it brought accelerated California's accession to the United States, and in September 1850 California became the 31st state of the United States, and is currently the most populous state in the United States, with 38 million people, almost one in eight Americans being Californians; California's economy is also the largest of all states, and in the final analysis, this qiē is closely related to the gold rush.

Although the gold rush brought a lot of wealth to California and the United States, and created a large number of wealthy people, the vast majority of gold diggers did not make a fortune in the process, and many even lost their families. Before the influx of immigrants to California, California was home to many Native Americans, whose peaceful lives were shattered by the influx of gold prospectors, and many were forced to leave their homes and move to other countries. Due to the large amount of mining, it also causes a lot of damage to the environment.

Neither Marshall nor Sartre, the most discoverable of gold, made a fortune in the gold rush that shook the United States, and Marshall later died penniless in a small humble house. After Marshall's death, a number of organizations commemorated his historic discovery of gold by encouraging the state to fund the construction of his monument and cemetery, which was the first monument in California.

Oh, Susanna! Susanna is a lively, lively, slightly sad country song that was popular throughout the United States in the eighteen-forties and was sung by gold prospectors as they traveled westward in search of their dreams.

There is a Peruvian immigrant in Tennessee, USA, who owns 6 hectares of mountain forest in his place of residence. When the western gold rush was set off in the United States, he sold his property and moved his family westward, buying 90 hectares of land in the west to drill, hoping to find gold or iron ore

He worked for 5 years in a row, not only did he not find anything, but in the end he lost all his money and had to return to Tennessee.

Later, when he returned to his hometown in the west, he found that there were roaring machines and many sheds. It turned out that the mountain forest he sold was a gold mine, and the new owner was digging the mountain to refine gold. Today, this gold mine is still mined, and it is the famous Monroe Gold Mine in the United States.

Sometimes, when a person loses what belongs to him, he or she risks losing a gold mine. In this world, everyone has a unique talent lurking in it, and this talent is buried like a gold mine in our ordinary lives.

Whether a person is fortunate enough to dig this gold mine depends on whether he can give full play to his strengths and manage his own life in a down-to-earth manner.

The kind of people who envy people's ways of living all day long and learn from Handan, the kind of people who always think that treasures buried in other people's homes will not be able to dig gold.

The Californian newspaper described the atmosphere: "From San Francisco to Los Angeles, from the coast to the foothills of Nevada, the whole region was filled with shouts: 'Gold! Gold!' Originally, because the golden sand was on the surface, gold could be washed out of the sand with a regular washbasin. At that time, the average person earned twenty dollars a day, which was twenty times the daily wage of workers in the eastern United States. In a bonanza area, the per capita daily income is $2,000. In 1853, the gold rush reached its peak, and California's gold output increased from $5 million in 1848 to $65 million in 1853. Between 1851 and 1855, the United States produced almost 45 percent of the world's gold. The United States soon became the world's largest gold producer, and the washed gold sand filled San Francisco's warehouses. According to contemporary accounts, Myers and Howard's comptoir was "surrounded by piles of sand," and the firm "received a great deal of rent from the sands that arrived here," which amounted to $400,000 to $500,000. From May 1 to July 10, 1848, Branner's treasury received $36,000 worth of sands to pay the rent for the treasury. Between 1848 and 1851, the minting of gold coins in the United States increased twenty-fold.

Li Mengmeng told me all the way, and then she also mentioned all kinds of things when she came to Africa, just like what I encountered, the police collected tips or something, and all kinds of strange things, such as government departments buying excavators without paying for them, anyway, when she talked about Africa, she also sighed. She told me that she wanted to work in Africa for three years to accumulate work experience, and then return to China to find a French-funded company in China, after all, the environment in Africa is still more complicated and difficult for girls, such as wanting to buy some cosmetics. Li Mengmeng said all the way, and I had to deal with it all the way. Bai Yan called me again and said that she called a driver to pick me up to the hotel, and her colleague came back, it was inconvenient to live in the villa, and she had already booked a room for me. I didn't tell her that I came back with Li Mengmeng, and I didn't want her to think about it too much, after all, women are still sensitive.