Li Ling nodded, said goodbye to the miner, and walked straight to the south, along the way, Li Ling saw miners setting up stalls, or miners entering the mine to dig ore.

The miners who mine here are divided into three classes: low-class miners, medium-class mine owners, and high-class owners, and the owners are the owners of the mines.

Generally in these mines, there are very few sites, and the supervisors of the miners are all mine heads, one mine head manages about 30 people, etc., and a mine has about 50 mine heads, a mine cave, and there are about 1,000 scattered miners.

And these miners are the cheapest labor, often a hard day, only two or three ink crystals, sometimes, the pay and return are really not equal.

Li Ling saw these asymmetries in his eyes, but he actually deeply understood that this was the reality.

After walking more than ten miles inside, Li Ling saw a huge pile of waste rock, which was indeed the collapse of a mine up to 100 meters, all the stones were piled up together, and you could also see those scattered stones from the outside, as well as some wooden piles used when the mine cave had not collapsed.

Li Ling saw these gravel stones, and he was able to restore the scene in his mind, at that time, those miners may have dug the most central position of this mine, and dug up the mountain spirit, the mountain spirit was brilliant, which caused everyone's surprise, and the news quickly reached the ears of the owner, who saw it with his own eyes, and ordered someone to take out the mountain spirit.

The moment the mountain spirit was taken out, the mine lost the source of the mountain spirit's strength, and collapsed in an instant, killing and injuring the miners who were still in the mine.

"The tragic situation at that time can still be seen clearly from these ruins. Bloodstains, white bones. Li Ling glanced at the collapsed mine, there were still the bodies of those miners who had not been dug up, and it had been more than two months at the moment. Gradually, it became corrupt and turned into Sensen's bones.

Li Ling took a turn around this mine, and faintly felt that the rocks under his feet were very different from the rocks in other mines, and there was no ore in the rocks under his feet, and it was completely a kind of clay, which made Li Ling feel very strange, because. This is a mining area, and even if a mine collapses, the ore should still contain a certain amount of metal elements. However, there is not the slightest metallic element in this ore.

Don't...... Li Ling had a bold idea in his mind, could it be because of the loss of the mountain spirit. Could it be that as soon as the mountain spirit left the mine, he sucked all the metal elements from the mine?

If that's the case. So why the mine collapsed is explained clearly, the mine rocks are relying on a large number of metal elements to support the weight of the entire mountain, once those metal elements are lost, then the mine rocks will be turned into clay in an instant, and the clay does not have the ability to support the weight of a mine, not to mention the hollow mine, then, the mine collapses even faster.

Li Ling threw away the little clay he had just pinched in his hand. After walking a few miles ahead, I saw. Another mine, the ore of this mine is a little golden, Li Ling couldn't help but be curious, stepped forward to ask a mine head who was whipping the miners with a leather whip, and asked: "This brother, is this mine producing gold ore?" ”

Seeing that Li Ling was dressed in fancy clothes and behaved elegantly, the head of the mine thought that he was a wealthy businessman, so he said in a good voice: "This lord, you are really good eyesight, but this mine produces more than just gold mines, but also contains trace amounts of gold essence. ”

"Jin Jing? What is Gold Essence? Li Ling asked the head of the mine.

"This lord, don't you even know the way of the golden essence? Hey, what kind of business do you have, my lord? "The head of the mine said.

Li Ling casually said: "I'm in the fur business. ”

"Oh...... No wonder adults don't know about this aspect of the road, gold essence is simply put, it is a kind of gold with a higher purity than gold, if the average gold is a thousand catties, then the gold essence is three thousand to four thousand catties. "The head of the mine said.

Li Ling was stunned, gold itself is a very dense metal, but he didn't expect that the density of gold essence would be three to four times the density of gold, Li Ling knew that if the density of a metal is greater, the harder it will be.

"What is the yield of this gold essence?" Li Ling asked.

"Hey, the output is very low, we have dug out 5,000 tons of gold ore at present, of which there are only less than five kilograms of gold essence, and those ore that are still relatively scattered will contain a little gold essence, like this kind of gold essence needs to be refined, and the real gold essence is very popular in the market." The head of the mine said.

"What's on the market?" Li Ling said in surprise.

"Yes, but it's not something that the general market will have." As he spoke, the head of the mine picked up a whip and whipped the miners, all of whom went into battle shirtless, and their flesh was covered with blood marks from the bloody whip.

Although Li Ling is extremely unaccustomed to this practice of abusing miners, there is no way, this is the cruel reality, no one can change it, and it is already a rule for the weak to be bullied.

"Then what kind of market do you have to go to to buy the gold essence you are talking about?" Li Ling wanted to inquire, if he could buy gold essence, he would naturally use gold essence to refine a Dan plate, after all, the density of gold essence was three to four times that of gold, and Li Ling's Dan plate was made of a mixture of gold and silver, according to the theory, the hardness of the Dan plate made of gold essence would be four to five times that of Li Ling's current Dan plate, which was enough to support Li Ling to refine a medium-grade Tiandan.

"I don't know, but I haven't seen a market that sells gold essence." The mine head explained.

From the words of the head of the mine, it is not difficult for Li Ling to analyze that this gold essence should have been acquired, and it was purchased in a centralized manner, since the general market will not sell, then only the ruling class has the ability to monopolize the gold essence and prevent the rare mineral element of gold essence from flowing into the general market.

"Do you sell the gold essence here to ordinary people?" Li Ling asked.

"I'm sorry my lord, our gold essence is all booked, and as long as a thousand catties of gold essence are sold each time, they will all be bought, and they will be purchased in batches." Mine Head Road.

"It seems that it is indeed the 'government' that has given it a monopoly." Li Ling thought in his heart.

"Can you sell me some gold essence?" Li Ling asked tentatively.

"No, the owner once strictly ordered that the gold essence should not be sold out, and if you sell it for a gram, we mine heads, don't want to stay in Baiyun County anymore, maybe we will be pulled out of the county and buried alive." The head of the mine said in horror.

"The rules are so strict." Li Ling exhaled slightly, and said knowingly, sometimes good things have already been monopolized, it seems that it doesn't matter, it is indeed difficult to take the first step, after all, in this world, except for the good herbs, no one cares, and everything else, what minerals, rare and exotic beasts have been ruled by the so-called rulers.

"Yes, the gold essence itself is an extremely rare thing, except for those who are powerful and can use it, where can ordinary people have the opportunity to get it." The head of the mine even sighed, but the leather whip in his hand was mercilessly hit on those miners who were lower than him, as everyone knows, this sentence can also be used on him.

Li Ling knew that he couldn't get any valuable information if he asked further, so he gave up the idea of buying gold essence, and instead asked the nearby miners: "Hello uncle, may I ask, what is the price of the gold ore produced by your mine?" ”

The miner, who was about fifty years old, glanced at Li Ling, and said with a smile: "Little brother, the purity of the gold ore we produce here is higher than that of other places, so I bought fifty ink crystals a catty." ”

"It's so expensive, can it be cheaper, I can buy more." Li Ling knew that even if the gold content in the ore of Ludao Road was high, a pound of ore would contain at most three or four taels.

The old miner shook his finger and said, "It can't be cheap, it can't be cheap, my gold mine here is already the cheapest." ”

Li Ling didn't believe it, so he walked over to another miner, it was a young and strong miner, the miner had already marked the price clearly, and it was written that it was sixty ink crystals a catty, the old man just now really didn't lie, his mine was already very cheap.

Li Ling returned to the old miner before that and asked, "I buy ten catties of gold mines, can you give me a seven-fold discount." ”

"Seven percent off is too hard, at most nine percent off." The old miner waved his hand again and again.

Li Ling sighed slightly, knowing that he couldn't cut the price anymore, so he had to agree: "Okay, I'll buy ten catties of gold mines, and you will give me a nine-percent discount." ”

The old miner smiled and said, "Little brother, why are you buying so much gold ore back?" Very few people buy gold for private use, but some big merchants buy it back for smelting, and then make it into gold utensils and sell them at a higher price. ”

"I ...... I bought it back and did use it myself. Li Ling didn't say much to the old miner, so he took out four hundred and fifty ink crystals and handed them to the old miner, and the old miner put the gold ore on the scale one by one and weighed it.

"Just ten pounds, well, I'll give you another piece of silver mine." So saying, the old miner placed a piece of silver ore on the scale.

"Thank you, uncle." Although it is useless for Li Ling to ask for silver mines, why don't you send it, people, you can eat anything, just don't suffer losses.

After wrapping the gold mine and the silver mine, Li Ling weighed it in his hand, smiled at the old miner and said, "It's good to use, I'll come to buy it next time." ”

"Ha Luha, okay, come and patronize." The old miner smiled heartily.

Li Ling put the package containing the ore into the space magic weapon, and prepared to go home, but, unfortunately, the gold essence is not sold to the outside world, which is a bit of a pity for Li Ling, but it is enough to have these gold mines for the time being, after all, Li Ling's Danpan has been cracked, and he needs a little gold ore to repair it, or simply refine a pure gold Danpan. (To be continued......)