"How far is it?" asked Bai Xiaoming as Li Kang walked along the riverbank.

It had just snowed heavily in the morning, and now that the sun was shining in the sky, it was the time when the snow melted, and the road was the most difficult to walk.

Bai Xiaoming was angry, turned his head to look at the river on the left, and said with a smile: "Look, my lord, you can faintly see a little gold at the bottom of the river now, which means that from now on, we have entered the rich gold area." ”

That's right, they still chose to give up the salvage of the Golden Lake for the time being, because through the interrogation of the natives, they finally came to the conclusion that 'the lake god does really exist'.

And what the lake god looks like, even the people of the Golden Clan who have worshiped the lake god for hundreds of years can't tell, only know that it is very big, with a single horn on its head, and it can spit cold ice in its mouth, and the rough description does sound like a divine beast at first glance.

This kind of monster frightened the four Dian Wei who were in contact with this kind of fantasy side thing for the first time, and they didn't wait for Li Kang's orders, and they all retreated.

In line with the spirit of 'gentlemen do not stand under the dangerous wall', Li Kang also 'humbly admonished', and ordered to return home.

He decided that he would either succeed in his own miracle or the army would be fully weaponized, otherwise he would not come to provoke this big guy. Anyway, the Golden Lake is there, and I can't run away.

In other words, before the 'Golden Lake Dungeon' was opened, the team returned to the gold mining path of the 'Dashan Clan Basin' because of insufficient level and incomplete equipment.

As the group continued upstream, there were more and more golden spots in the river, and the reflected sunlight became more and more dazzling.

"Alright, let's go here!" Suddenly, Li Kang stopped and looked around, and suddenly nodded with satisfaction.

"But my lord... We're not there yet!" Bai Xiaoming kindly reminded.

"Who said you have to go there?" Li Kang said with a reasonable face.

Well, it sounds very reasonable, Bai Xiaoming simply closed his mouth.

If you really want to say that this camping site Li Kang was not chosen randomly, it is backed by mountains in the west - which can effectively withstand the cold northwest wind - and faces the river in the east, and the possibility of being invaded by a large group of men and horses will be greatly reduced.

As for whether someone will block it and catch a turtle in an urn? Hehe, not to mention whether the natives have such a high level of tactics, judging from the number of people in Li Kang and his party, it is very difficult. Li Kang and his entourage are dozens of people instead of hundreds or thousands, and if the situation is really wrong, they can pat their butts and drill into a ravine, or jump into the river to escape, which again highlights the superiority of having few people.

And this position also has the advantage that there are not many indigenous forces around, which can be regarded as a vacuum area, and it does not have to face the threat of the Dashan clan as soon as it comes, as in the planned position. Moreover, there are a lot of golden sands in this section of the river, and the river water is not deep, which is enough for the accumulation of strength in the early stage.

So, to sum up, this is an ideal short-term farming treasure.

As long as you are subjected to Li Kang's riot for a while, then, hehe...

Since Li Kang gave the order, there is nothing to say, the group skillfully began to divide the labor, the sentry sentry, the water fetching, the site selection, the burying pot, the piling, the tenting... After all, we have worked together for more than ten days, and everything is in order and in order.

"Wang Shi, Zhao You, come here!" Li Kangshu relaxed his muscles, stood by the river and looked at the river excitedly, and then turned to shout to the busy crowd.

"Here, here!" The two of them heard Li Kang's greeting, they didn't dare to slack off, trotted to the position behind Li Kang, and bowed down at the same time, "I don't know what the lord has to call the villain?"

Li Kang said: "This is different from the campsite in the previous days, and I plan to stay here for a long time. When the camp is set up, you will lead people to start cutting trees and walk along this corridor..."Li Kang stretched out his hand and swiped back and forth, "Build me an unlimited house!"

"No—" The two looked at each other, and both responded cautiously.

As if seeing what the two were worried about, Li Kang continued: "The more houses are built, the more people will live, and the faster the houses will be built, which is similar to usury, and the profits will only roll over more and more!"

"The Lord is wise..."

"Go get busy!" Li Kang waved his hand to make the two of them retreat, his heart full of infinite pride.

"The villain is leaving!" he waved again, and the two slowly retreated.

Once the camp is set up, it's time for a short break before it gets into gold panning.

In the winter, and there is a lack of large-scale equipment, we can only rely on pure manpower to scoop sand from the river one by one, so in addition to the sentry and tree cutting, there must also be some personnel who keep boiling water and boiling ginger soup, always ready to dispel the cold for the gold diggers who brave the cold and go into the water.

Fortunately, Li Kang has a systematic recovery of gold, which reduces the tedious process of screening gold, greatly improving efficiency, and even surpassing the speed of modern gold panning.

It's a pity that it's okay in a short time, Li Kang can't do nothing all day, just collect the gold here, right? You must know that Li Kang doesn't just wave his hand and say "receive" to collect gold, he must have physical contact with the target. So in the end, you have to rely on normal manual screening.

Of course, this is a later story, and now Li Kang is thinking about the present.

......

In the end, only ten people participated in the gold panning, only to see that they poured a bowl of ginger soup before going into the water, and after the heat was steaming, they quickly removed their shoes and socks, rolled up their trouser legs, exhaled the number, and took the tin basin "Puff Puff Pass" to go down to the river one after another, and then quickly scooped up a basin of river sand, turned around and returned to the shore, and poured the river sand into a wooden barrel with a hula la, and started a new round of work again.

Every three round-trips, they will be given a chance to rest and warm themselves to avoid frostbite - it can be seen that Li Kang is not a qualified capitalist, and if he does not cross, maybe becoming a loser will be his ultimate destination.

The whole 'gold panning' process, it should be said that the sand digging action is right, simple and clear, no need for gold diggers to look carefully, just close your eyes and scoop a basin of river sand, the whole process is a fool's operation.

And Li Kang, as the protagonist, is not idle to watch the play, whenever a bucket is filled with river sand, he immediately takes the bucket aside, and then starts concentratingly... Grabbing the sand, he would pause for a second or two with each handful, and then unceremoniously toss aside the river sand that was missing a circle in his hand.

【Found gold0 . 07 o'clock, is it recycled?]

【Found gold0 . 21 o'clock, is it recycled?】

【Found gold0 . 88 points, is it recycled?]

【Found gold0 . 16 o'clock, is it recycled?】

......

【Recycling!】

【Recycling!】

【Recycling!】

......

Li Kang looked excited, "watching" that the golden points on the control panel continued to rise, and his heartbeat continued to accelerate. Although the number of points added each time is small, it can't stand up to the high frequency!

Li Kang felt that as the gold point increased, his own blood pressure also increased, just like a shareholder in a bull market, which made him have to slow down his rhythm and calm his violently beating heart.

Soon a bucket of forty catties of sand was grabbed by Li Kang, and a total of 6 . 82 points of gold.

The withdrawal rate is more than 1‰, the quality is far higher than that of the gold-bearing limonite discovered in the early days, and the difficulty of mining is not the same, how can Li Kang not be overjoyed.

Time passed minute by minute, everyone's enthusiasm for work did not decrease, still full of excitement, gold diggers laughed at each other, and finally I don't know who started to sing Li Kang's "invented" military song, which caused many followers, and for a while the gold rush scene became a song competition, pushing the atmosphere to a peak, promoting everyone's enthusiasm for work, and it was also a joy in suffering.

And it is precisely by virtue of this enthusiasm that they scooped a total of 84 barrels of river sand in half a day and eight hours in the cold climate, and Li Kang harvested a total of 551. 94 points of gold, this is still because the gold diggers have to waste half of the time to warm up, and most of the rest of the time is spent kneeling back and forth, and the time really used to scoop the sand is less than an hour and a half, which can be described as extremely inefficient, no way, who let it be winter now, and Li Kang is so benevolent and righteous.

In addition, Li Kang himself has to spend a lot of time resting - Rao is Li Kang is an innate martial artist, and he has not practiced the Qilin Arm!

......

With gold, Li Kang's first thought was to spend it.

He divided the gold he mined into three, half for supplies (food, clothing, weapons, etc.), a quarter for summoning outcasts, and a quarter for summoning armies.

He plans to run it on a trial basis for a few days according to this ratio, and then revise it according to the actual situation.

As a result, on the first day of gold mining, Li Kang's team of 38 people had 12 civilians and 5 soldiers.

And the expansion of the team has only just begun...