There is no shortage of lucky and interesting things about the gold rush.

One day in 1639, a young man of 16 came to a small mine, his feet aching, he was tired, hungry, and penniless.

He sat on the embankment and watched as there were thirty or so stout and cheerful men at work in the valley, and the young man watched silently for a while, his facial expression showing his bitterness.

At last a sturdy miner spoke to the men, and he said, "Fellows, if they are all willing, I will give this lad an hour's work!" ”

"Great!" Everyone agreed.

An hour had passed, and the placer gold worth a hundred silver dollars was placed in a deerskin bag and handed to the lad, who had given him a list for the purchase of tools and necessities.

They said, "Go, buy these things, and come back, and we'll lay you a stake and mark a good plot, and then it's up to you!" ”

The young man went to buy something and came back, and the people gave him a plot, and probably the people helped him, washed away his bad luck, and he was lucky enough to get rich.

Later, this young man named Wang Zeshan became a famous entrepreneur and philanthropist, and he kept the deerskin bag given to him by everyone as a family heirloom, and the family motto was "helpful"!

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Due to the low barrier to entry, young lads who should have gone through a long period of time to accumulate wealth tend to make a fortune quickly.

Once, a young man with long hair and Ming-style clothes, who seemed to be uninvolved in the matter, walked into the camp with difficulty and walked into the camp with a pair of luggage racks for Ming Dynasty scholars rushing to take the exam.

After sweeping away the few strands of wet hair that hung down on his eyes, the first thing he asked the people was: "Hello folks, is this a gold mining camp?" ”

A miner sitting at the entrance replied, "Of course yes, where are you from?" ”

The young man said with a very broad chest: "Ah, I am from Quanzhou, really, come to dig gold, I told my mother, I must dig gold to become a rich man, Mazu is above, bless me!" Then I brought the gold back to her, so that she could ask for a daughter-in-law for me, and which of the villagers told me where they were digging for gold. ”

Among them, there was a man from Zhangzhou who wanted to play tricks on this young man---- there had always been a discord between the people of Zhangquan, and now although the river crab was gone, it was harmless to joke, he said: "Follow me, I'll find something for you!" ”

He found an abandoned dilapidated gold panning trough, a leaky bucket, and told him to go to the back of the camp, go up the steep slope, about 100 meters, start under a certain big pine tree, set up a boundary post, mark your territory, and then go to the camp registration office to register a silver dollar, and this land is yours! ”

Those old gold diggers knew that this Zhangzhou brother wanted to find happiness from the young man in Quanzhou, and they all looked at it with a smile, and some of them also instructed the young man to act according to the words of the Zhangzhou people, arrived at the ground, marked the boundary post and registered.

Early the next morning, before the people in the camp had risen, the young Quanzhou man came out, and he was digging, scraping, and scraping the soil beside the old pine trees. He rolled buckets of sand into the sinks by the stream, and poured the water into the troughs with leaky buckets, which drained about half of the water from each bucket.

He was busy all morning, rocking the rocking basket, pouring water, picking up stones, carrying sand, shaking and washing, and picking out large stones.

The others looked at him busy, and they all laughed secretly, the young man was begging for fish, wasting his energy ---- the stream to bring gold gravel, and there was no gold on the hillside.

After several hours of exhausting labor, he turned the contents of the trough into a layer of fine mud that sank at the bottom of the trough, and he squatted down on the edge of the trough to observe this layer of fine mud carefully, and he shouted and jumped up: "Mazu is on top!" He cried out, "I have mined, I have mined gold!" ”

The miners, who lined up along the stream, couldn't believe it, and they approached the young man's shaker to see what was going on.

It is true, there are many thick and fine gold grains in the trough, and there is no doubt that this young Quanzhou man has made a windfall!

Everyone was excited, and the suspicious guy thought, could it be that the Zhangzhou brother joked with the Quanzhou boy and "planted" the gold grain under the pine tree?

"Sowing" gold means deliberately putting some gold grains in places where there is no gold to deceive.

Coincidentally, the Zhangzhou man was not there, so everyone asked the young man to collect soil from different parts of his mine, and each barrel mined one to five Spanish silver dollars of gold!

That night, the young man slept in his gold mining as everyone taught!

He had a harvest every day, about a few dozen silver dollars, and on the fifth day, he sold his mine to the Zhangzhou man for two thousand silver dollars, or almost one thousand two hundred taels of silver, and he was especially grateful for his guidance!

The entire hillside was suddenly covered with boundary pillars, and it was divided.

No one had thought of leaving the stream and going to the hillside in search of gold.

The lad became rich, and immediately returned home by boat, and after a few months he came again, this time with his beautiful new wife!

He found another piece of land, and this time he made a decent fortune and was not considered a nouveau riche.

However, his clever wife raised chickens to provide food for the miners.

The chickens are free-range in the wild, and the young man's wife never sells live chickens to people, she works tirelessly to kill them.

In the end, it was for people to discover her way to make a fortune----- chickens were tireless collectors of small grains of gold, and when a woman killed chickens, she always had to search for chicken gizzards, so that she earned more gold grains than her husband!

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Accidents are inevitable in life, a gold digger is happy because he has made a fortune, he drinks rum wildly, comes and goes to pan for gold at night, and drowns in a small river.

Due to his incomplete registration information, he could not find his family, so other gold diggers pooled money to bury him first.

When he died in a foreign country, everyone mourned him and attended his funeral.

Among them, there was an old miner named Liao Xianghe, who grabbed a handful of dirt thrown up from the new grave, but because of habit and nature, he looked at the handful of dirt carefully, and he suddenly stood up and set up boundary pillars to enclose the territory!

And the person who temporarily made a cameo appearance as the priest of Mazu was Liao Xianghe's old buddy, and when he saw this scene, he ended his prayer like this: "Old Liao, set up a stake for me to mark a piece of land, for the sake of Mazu, I want a piece of land---- Mazu is on it!" ”

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The gold rush frenzy has risen, and everyone is inevitably involved, among them, the arrival of a Ming celebrity has greatly boosted the reputation of the Southeast Mansion, which can be called a divine assist!

The right attendant of the former military department of the Ming Dynasty, equivalent to Bi Maokang, the deputy minister of national defense, drove to West Borneo!