Shanglin County is located in the north of Nanning, Guangxi, in the 80s of the last century, the private gold mining was active, in the 90s there was a scene of "10,000 gold farmers in the northeast", and then cooled down due to the national policy gold mining boom.

According to the old gold miners in Shanglin, the first batch of gold miners in Shanglin came to Ghana in June 2006, when there was only one group of placer gold mining equipment with an investment of 850,000 yuan.

After the Spring Festival in 2009, Huang Jianjun, an old gold miner in Shanglin County, and others went to Ghana with funds and equipment. At that time, Ghana's Chinese gold mining crew "could count on five fingers." “

A set of placer gold mining equipment, including excavators and sand pumping machines, priced at about 2 million yuan, was loaded in Mingliang Town, Shanglin County, and then shipped to Ghana by sea.

The monthly salary of grassroots gold miners in Ghana is more than double that of China, about 5,000 yuan. Plus a bonus of 2% of gold production per day. Generally, a three-year contract is signed.

In the early days of gold mining in Ghana, due to the small number of people in the area and the large amount of gold received, Shang Linpan, a businessman from Nanning, tasted the sweetness earlier. Shang's father-in-law was a native of Shanglin County and had gone to the northeast to mine gold. In 2009, his father-in-law invested 200,000 yuan in Ghana Gold Mine as a minority shareholder, and the principal was repaid in three months.

Initially, Shanlim Pan had suspected that Ghana Gold Mining was a pyramid scheme. It wasn't until he flew to Ghana that he saw four gold collectors in his father-in-law's shed, shaking out "golden gold" from a plate and "the largest amount of gold like a grain of rice was 210 grams".

"At that time, the international gold price was 250 yuan per gram, 210 grams was 50,000 yuan, and the cost was three or four thousand yuan a day. Shang Linpan decided to return to China that night to purchase equipment.

In 2010, Shang Linpan invested 2.3 million yuan to set up a gold mining line. At that time, the international gold price soared, from 140 yuan per gram in 2009 to 300 yuan per gram. In less than 3 months, he recouped his investment.

At its peak, Shang Linpan said, his construction site collected more than 600 grams of gold a day.

Two years later, the first group of gold miners who went to Ghana returned to Shanglin County. They brought back wealth, "100 grams of gold for gifts", and the legend of "digging a kilogram of gold a day".

The joke that "Ghana is full of gold" then spread exaggeratedly in the gold mining circle in Shanglin County.

Go to Ghana!

"Those who sell clothes, open factories, and engage in logistics, whether they are in the gold mining industry or not, all join the gold mining team." Latecomers have a "gambler" mentality

Like Shang Lingpan, more and more Chinese gold miners are getting their first pot of gold in Ghana.

In the second half of 2010, spurred on by overnight riches, some gold miners decided to go it alone. At the same time, the first batch of small shareholders have set up their own doors: "make money and divide the family", Guangxi gold miners in Ghana "everywhere".

According to the calculations of the gold mining boss, the town of Mingliang Town, Shanglin County, has a population of more than 30,000, and only a few dozen people went to Ghana in 2009, but by September 2010, it was close to 1,000.

The house next door to the house that Bai Yi rented to me is also a Guangxi gold digging boss, whose name is Shang Linpan, because he does not understand gold digging technology, and is not from Shanglin County, and he can't stand the hardships of the deep mountain mining area, so basically he lives in the villa of **, up to now, Shang Linpan has opened four mines, which are managed by his Shanglin distant nephew and Shanglin minority shareholders in the mining area. When he saw his new neighbor, he was more curious about me, because he saw Bai Yan from the balcony who sent me over, and there was basically no one in Guangxi who didn't know Bai Yan. He invited me to his villa to talk about the past, it turned out that he was in the building materials business in Nanning, the business was not good or bad, and he could barely maintain, his wife was from Shanglin, and his father-in-law came to Ghana to invest in gold mines of 200,000 yuan and 100,000 yuan was lent to him. Unexpectedly, 200,000 yuan became more than 2 million in a year, and under the recommendation of his father-in-law, he also started to invest at the beginning of this year, and returned to his capital in three months. Now these four mines bring him nearly 100,000 yuan a day. Shang Linpan told me unabashedly, as if he was showing off.

Shang Linpan also raised a female college student named Xiaoyin. Of course, he didn't tell sù about this relationship, I also learned later, he introduced Xiao Yin as his English translator, Xiao Yin looks very young, estimated to be in her early twenties, when I was talking and chatting with Shang Linpan, Shang Linpan asked Xiao Yin to make tea and pour tea for us, Xiao Yin's words on posture and color are not comparable to Bai Ying or Li Mengmeng, but she looks clean, her skin is white and tender, Shang Lin Pan introduced that she is a recent graduate college student recruited by their normal university, and she has just come to Ghana for less than four months. That is, Xiaoyin and I graduated from the same generation. Xiao Yin didn't smile, repeating that she would make tea and pour tea, and Shang Linpan would do whatever she was told.

Shang Linpan asked me about my relationship with Bai Ying, I unabashedly showed the relationship between boyfriend and girlfriend, through Bai Ying's light, he was very polite to me, and asked me if I was interested in doing things for him, saying that his nephew was not sensible and often gambled money in Kumasi, and several shareholders had opinions, and his four mines needed a reliable person to coordinate and manage, and his nephew's English translation was very general, and he could only deal with simple things, and asked me if I was interested.

I politely rejected Shang Linpan's suggestion, explaining the employment relationship between me and Wei Ergou, he also appreciated Huang Jianjun, saying that Huang Jianjun was authentic in everything he wanted, originally he wanted to open two more mines with Huang Jianjun, but Huang Jianjun didn't want to take too big a step, just wanted to guard his old mine, and because he knew Huang Jianjun, so Shang Linpan also saw Wei Ergou, his impression of Wei Ergou was not very good, and he didn't hide it in front of me that Ergou "played smart, treacherous!" I just smiled and didn't answer.

Shang Linpan said that I have a better future with him than with Wei Ergou, his four mines are in a stable period, but they are only coordinated and managed, and they do not require me to live in the mining area, and they can give me twice the salary, plus 2% of the gold mine income. I politely declined his idea, and my answer was very simple: "I came to Ghana because of Wei Ergou, I can't come and leave him, right?" Otherwise, Boss Shang, will you rest assured that a traitor will manage so many gold mines for you? ”

"I'm really right, Bai Ying is the most capable of the young people in Ghana I know, but it's a pity that it's inconvenient for a woman to be in the gold mining area, otherwise I would have to ask her to work for me in the thatched house, I met you today, I think the young man you are the same as Bai Ying, you may be better than him!" Shang Linpan did not hesitate to praise me in person, and when he was praising me, Xiao Yin deliberately glanced at me from the corner of her eye, originally she looked down at the teapot and tea set that made tea.

"Boss Shang, you're joking, I've just graduated from less than four months like Xiao Yin, what's so powerful, I'm just a little translator, Boss Shang, you are what our juniors want to learn, you see that you have opened four mines, and your family is big!" I also complimented Shang Linpan.

"The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and it will still be the world of you young people in the future! Do you know Su Zhenyu? Isn't it also a small translator, and now he cooperates in more than a dozen mines, and he is making money every day, which is amazing! I don't think you'll be worse than him in the future! "Su Zhenyu mentioned by Shang Linpan is also a popular figure, so to speak, without Su Zhenyu, there would be no gold panning in Lingana.

Su Zhenyu turned out to be an English translator, a trade boss of a private individual in Yiwu, and his daily job was to carry a schoolbag, put samples and sell clothes and shoes in the capital wholesale market every day, with a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan