Chapter Ninety-Five: Stories of the Americas V
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Three hundred miles south of the city, Li Chengqian found what he had been looking for, on the edge of a small stream, the stream was very shallow, about a zhang wide, and knee-deep water slowly remained in the direction of the sea.
"Right ahead."
The guide pointed to a very large stone mountain in front of him and said, the mountain is very large, continuous and straight stretching into the distance, everyone looked at the stone mountain with joyful eyes, looking at the mountain and running dead horses, it seems that the distance is not far everyone walked for nearly three or four hours to arrive.
Li Chengqian sat on the edge of the stream and looked at the swimming fish in the water, his husband had already taken someone to explore the ore veins, if it was the dog's head gold found here, then there were ore veins nearby, Lin San was a foodie, and the fish in the water had already become fine, and there were five or six catties of water to catch a tail, and he dug a pit at the water's edge and began to ignite the fire.
Half an hour later, my husband shook his head when he came back, which means that he has not found it yet, after all, the gold mine is not said to be found if it is found, God wants to give it, and it must be with it first, and finding the gold mine is not a matter of one or two days.
Li Tai doesn't care so much, his land is in the east, and it will not be his own in the future, this time he followed Li Chengqian to a waiter because he couldn't stand those people and let himself drop more, on the one hand, he was really tired of the life of Chang'an, and wanted to come out to play, although it was a little harder, but he did benefit a lot, watching Lin San plug in the fish again, he wanted to join in the fun, Lin San of the meat day had already inserted a basket full, took off his robe, took off his shoes, and entered the water almost naked, the water is not hot, but it is not cold, After all, the weather in May is already enough to run around bare-bottomed.
The guard looked at the trunk of an egg with a Tang knife, straight and straight, tied a knife at one end, and peeled off the bark at the other, it is estimated that he is going to camp here, and he needs to live for a while, he entered the water barefoot, and watched the swimming fish move slowly in the water, there are no other natural enemies except for some bears and eagles, and quietly put the harpoon close to the edge of the fish, and thrust it suddenly, looking at the fish that has been penetrated, Li Tai chuckled, and then picked up, a big fish of seven or eight catties was picked up on the shore, The guards cleaned up the fish and roasted it over the fire.
After playing in the water for a while, I felt that it was no longer interesting, and I went ashore barefoot, the shore was soft and sandy and it was very comfortable to step on it, and I took the guard's sapper shovel, and now I am digging a pit by the river to grill fish, and I have been in the Americas for more than half a year, these simple things make Li Tai very fascinated, after all, the things I made are very rewarding to eat.
As soon as the shovel went down, he dug up a large piece of soil, put the soil aside, and then shoveled a spade, it felt like he had shoveled a stone, and with a slight warp, he saw a dark yellow thing, for this thing Li Tai is naturally no stranger, threw the sapper shovel and pulled it with his hand, it was gold, and he wanted to pull it out with his hand, but the gold nugget was motionless.
Picked up the sapper shovel and dug it down little by little, and after a while, a piece of gold the size of a human head was dug out, very heavy, estimated to be more than 100 catties, and it was difficult to move this thing to the river, Lin San owed it and wanted to help, but was glared back by Li Tai, and could only watch Li Tai scrub his spoils from the side.
Li Tai's actions naturally attracted the attention of others, Li Chengqian looked at the value of the gold that Li Tai brushed and smacked, the value of this thing is not in the value of the gold itself, if you sell this thing to, bah, it is dedicated to your father, it will be a great achievement.
Everyone saw that Li Tai's gold was already crazy, digging holes around with sapper shovels, and after a while, a lot of small gold nuggets were dug up, but the biggest was only the size of a fist.
"I thought it was mineral gold, but I didn't expect it to be sand gold, and the gold is in the river."
After speaking, I didn't care about anything else, took a small rice basin into the river and dug a handful of soil, and then slowly washed it in the water, most of the pot soil was left with a small handful, piled up in the basin, mixed with some small things of citrine crystal, seeing this, my husband lost a burst of laughter, good guy, just a handful of soil can produce so much sandsand, a day out of three catties of sands, it is very easy.
"Go back and call people, three thousand craftsmen, three hundred soldiers, tell them that the wages will be tripled, and tell Cen Wenwen to let him send someone to open the road, and open the road from the gold mine to Chang'an as soon as possible, Lin San, leave the matter here to the deputy general, you go and bring another three hundred people, and clean up all the surrounding tribes that are unwilling to surrender to me, and no jackals, tigers and leopards will be left behind."
Li Chengqian instructed the guards and Lin San to the personal guards, the two did not dare to delay, riding a horse is a three-hour journey, and they can rush back to the city before dark, except for some of the guards who are on guard, all the people took their own food guys and started panning for gold, and after a while, there were a lot of big pits on the shore.
"Come on, go upstream, divide the river into three streams, and discuss the specific matters yourself."
The river is constantly changing, and the terrain is flat, except for the mountains on the back, here is a large flat land, with lush trees, all growing very tall, and when leveled, you can build a city.
Li Tai's gold rubbed out, the gold is an irregular circle, pitted, after wiping, it is no longer the dark gold just now, the fineness of the gold is very high, the golden bull head gold shines in the sun, and everyone who sees it is very envious.
handed over the gold to the guards and ordered the guards to take care of it, it was all his own people here, so Li Tai knew that no one was fighting with him, so he took his own wooden basin and entered the river, seeing that many people were by the river, he didn't want to squeeze with this group of killers, so he walked upstream with a wooden basin, followed by more than a dozen guards.
The place where Li Tai went was the edge of a dense forest, one side of the mountain, the other side was a flat ground, took off his shoes, and entered the water, this is the place where the water flows, the place where the mountain is washed deep by the water, the sun shines on the bottom of the water, so that Li Tai can see the situation under the water clearly, when he sees where something flashes, Li Tai's eyes are bright, and he looks at the people more than fifty meters away without looking at this side, Li Tai handed over a few guards and said.
"You change this river and make it straight."
The river where Li Tai is located is a U-shaped stream, it is very simple to change, more than a dozen people took about an hour to get it done, the water was turbid for a while, and when the muddy water was washed away, the appearance of the small puddle was presented in front of Li Tai, and he dug it at the bottom of the water with a wooden basin, it was very heavy, and a part of the soil was washed away with water, and the rest was a large handful of golden sand, Li Tai said to his chief of guard.
"How can this king's luck be so good today, haha~"
Put the gold into a cloth bag, and then go to start panning for gold again, the density of gold is very large, washed down by the water from the upstream, deposited in this place, Li Tai picked up a leak, such a small place did not work much to get a cloth bag slowly, more than 30 catties of gold made Li Taile's teeth and eyes, this is much faster than grabbing money, the previous palace a month's income can not compare to today's half-day harvest, one hundred and forty catties of gold, if it is refined into gold coins, it is estimated that there are more than 120 gold coins, Now the ratio of gold and silver is one gold coin and ten silver coins, that is, more than a thousand taels of silver, 10,000 copper coins, haha.
Li Chengqian looked sadly and angrily at his younger brother panning for gold over there, and then looked at his cloth bag, feeling very unhappy, and ran to Li Tai's location, until his cloth bag was also filled, and his face was better.