Chapter 107: Discovery of the Mine
"Little Pony! I found it! Got it!! Just as Ma Qiang continued to distinguish the treasure house of Yue Liang and others, he looked up and saw a person rushing towards him like Ma Qiang while shouting.
Ma Qiang looked at the man, he was dirty, carrying a big bag with all kinds of dirt on it, and he didn't know how many days he hadn't taken a bath, and Ma Qiang even saw two flies chasing him all the way.
Looking at that face again, although it was a little thinner and darker, it was still recognizable, who it was not Yue Yang.
"Don't come here!!" Ma Qiang saw Yue Yang stretching out his two hands, he wanted to hug himself, and hurriedly jumped to the side, Yue Yang only felt that there was a flower in front of him, and the person was gone.
Yan Rou, who came over with Yue Liang, couldn't help but sigh deeply when she saw Ma Qiang jumping as agile as an ape, and his height exceeded the limit of ordinary people.
Such good martial arts training materials, but he is not even willing to take a horse step, which is really unreasonable.
Ma Qiang actually fantasized at the beginning that he could kill a few people in and out of the army like Zhao Zilong or something, and he was also interested in teaching him martial arts with Xian Yufu and Yan Rou.
But after only a few days of practice, Ma Qiang surrendered.
This martial arts training and physical exercise are completely different things, just holding a big wooden stick and standing motionless, Ma Qiang felt that he was about to die.
What's even more terrifying is the life-and-death struggle.
There was no Shaolin in the Han Dynasty, and martial arts factions such as Wudang only had killing skills that had been honed on the battlefield.
That's really any trick, Ma Qiang saw Yan Rou and Xian Yufu fighting with their bare hands, standing and fighting for less than thirty seconds, lying down and fighting each other for three minutes.
Ahem, it's not that kind of grappling... I want to go to the crooked wall!
All in all, the martial arts of the Han Dynasty and Ma Qiang imagined that they were completely different... Forget it, anyway, I don't plan to be a general who charges into battle, but really faces the enemy, and the pistol is much more reliable than martial arts.
As long as there are bullets, Lu Bu will also kill you!
"What did you find? So excited! Ma Qiang asked as he stepped aside.
"Little Pony... Why are you dodging, it hurts.. Look, isn't this the quartz you are talking about? ”
Yue Yang asked Ma Qiang with a shiny and transparent stone, and Ma Qiang looked at it and immediately grabbed it.
"That's it, you found the mine?"
"That's right! Just a half-day walk to the north of Niuti Ridge, I took people to climb the mountain to find stones, and when I urinated, I found a cave, and the cave was full of this thing, by the way, and this! ”
As he spoke, Yue Yang took out another stone from his bag.
"It's so beautiful... Is this jade.." Lu Qingcheng looked at it curiously and said.
What appeared in Yue Yang's hand was a white jade-like stone, white and moist, like mutton fat.
"This is Jing Baiyu, dead fatty, you have found the baby!" Ma Qiang recognized this stone at a glance is the very famous Jingbai jade in later generations, Jingbai jade is actually a kind of quartz stone, but because of the small quartz particles, it has ornamental, although it is not as good as mutton fat jade, but it is also one of the most popular jade in later generations.
Yue Yang was able to find such a cave, which surprised Ma Qiang.
"Good! It's best to send this thing to a big city for money, Uncle Yueyang, Yue Yang should remember a lot of credit! ”
If you find quartz, then the glass is more than half successful.
"Stinky boy, have you found the iron mine?"
Yue Liang was most concerned about iron ore, and Ma Qiang also looked at him expectantly.
Yue Yang scratched his head, and when he grabbed it, there was too much dirt in his hair, and a cloud of dust was raised.
"I didn't find this... By the way, I also found this, and it's beautiful too. ”
As he spoke, Yue Yang took out a pink gem, and Lu Qingcheng's eyes immediately lit up.
It's a very dreamy shade of pink, just like the strawberry jelly of later generations.
"Look for this uselessness!" Yue Liang has no interest in such gems at all, he can't eat or wear, what can he do.
"Wait, where did you find this?"
Ma Qiang took the pink gem and saw that the pink gem was diamond-shaped, so he couldn't help asking.
"It's in that cave, and there's still a little bit in there, but it's beautiful."
"This is rhodochrosite..."
Rhodochrosite has also been heard of by Ma Qiang because of its fantastic pink color.
"There's rhodochroscope, there's quartz..."Ma Qiang touched his chin and thought for a moment and said, "Let's go, where do you take me, I suspect that there is iron ore there." ”
"No, I've looked for it, there is no hematite or black iron at all, even the yellow stone I paid attention to whether it was pyrite."
"What about the white iron?" Ma Qiang asked with a smile.
"White iron? Is there still such an ore? Yue Yang looked at Yue Liang, and Yue Liang also shook his head and said he didn't know.
"It's normal that you don't know, this kind of ore is generally in the southwest or northwest, he is associated with this rhodochrosite, where there is rhodochrosite, there is a high chance of him!"
"Then why are you still stunned! Lead the way! ”
Hearing that there might be an iron mine, Yue Liang was the most excited, urging his son to lead the way quickly.
Ma Qiang asked Qingcheng and the others to follow, and asked Xian Yufu to bring a team of warriors, and the group walked hundreds of miles before they arrived at the place that Yue Yang said.
"There is no one here, and there is no name, we see that there are a lot of poplars here, so we call him Poplar Ditch."
Yue Yang introduced as he led everyone into the cave.
After entering the cave, Ma Qiang discovered that this cave was actually a karst cave, and all kinds of strange rocks sparkled under the light of torches, which was because the stone contained a large amount of quartz.
"I found it right here." Yue Yang pointed to a patch of pink in the depths and said.
Ma Qiang asked Lu Qingcheng to take a torch to help him shine it, and then carefully inspected the rock.
There is a large amount of pink rhodochrosite on this rock wall, such a high-purity rhodochrosite is simply incredible, and I don't know why later generations have not found this place, but when you think about the vicissitudes of the sea for two thousand years, this place may have disappeared in later generations.
"Found it," Ma Qiang pointed to one place and said, "Look! If I'm not mistaken, this is iron ore! ”
Everyone looked for a sound, only to see a stone like a long-standing bun pointed by Ma Qiang, this stone has many holes, and it looks more like limestone.
"This is iron ore? Isn't it limestone? Yue Yang found that he had seen this stone before, but he thought it was limestone, so he glanced at it and went over.
"Of course not, this is called sidestone, but you are not wrong, he is indeed very similar to limestone, the composition of limestone is called calcium carbonate in our school, and he is iron carbonate, which can be said to be related, and the rhodochrosite you just took is manganese carbonate, by the way, the thing that looks like salt over there is magnesium carbonate, this is a treasure trove!"
Ma Qiang took a deep breath, this cave is really amazing, such a rich variety of ores can allow him to do too many things.
These materials could be used for almost all of the next industrial manufacturing developments in the Red Star Battalion, whether it was glass quartz or iron ore or limestone for alkali production, there really was everything here.
"Buy everything you can near here now, and this will be the source of our ore in the future!"
After determining that there is iron ore here, everyone cheered, no one did not know the meaning of iron ore, it can be said that with here, the Red Star Camp has a cornucopia!
After all, the benefits of salt and iron are the best in the world!