The first rain finally fell, enveloping the entire camp with a cold wind from Siberia. Thankfully, with the addition of a large number of Native Americans, the camp has been expanded.

The camp was finally divided into two parts, with Li Mo and others on one side and the newly arrived natives on the other side, separated by a wooden fence in the middle. On the four corners of the camp, four tall observation towers were also erected, which were guarded at night to prevent danger.

In order to better control the natives and minimize the crisis, at the suggestion of Li Mo, the women and children among the natives were protected, and they were usually responsible for logistics and sand on the river bend in front of the camp, and also provided a large amount of food for free. This policy not only minimized the resistance of the natives, but also greatly accelerated the speed of gold mining, and finally the first batch of gold was successfully shipped back three days ago.

The large increase in population will inevitably lead to the intensification of consumption, and Rudolph's original reserves are never enough, but fortunately, this sparsely populated, uncultivated treasure land has never lacked food, dozens of pounds of big fish, and a large number of wild animals, all of which make the camp full of life, for which Li Mo also specially set up a hunting team.

The core of the camp is next to the room where Li Yunfei is, several workers are pulling the bellows hard, as a puddle of golden liquid is injected into the mold, a piece of thumb-thick gold bars suddenly appear in front of them, looking at the results of months of hard work, almost every worker is flushed.

"It's mine, mine, mine, or mine." Li Mo looked at a large pile of gold bars in front of him, counted them, stimulated Thomas, and in the end, he picked up two and handed them to Thomas, who had already turned black: "This is yours!" ”|

A whole hundred gold bars, each weighing a kilogram, seeing Li Mo so shamelessly pocket them, Thomas finally couldn't help it, and preached with five fingers in the half-hung Chinese he had just learned; "Lee, five percent!"

"Haha!"

Seeing Thomas's head full of black lines, with an expression of wanting to eat the pile of gold in front of him, everyone burst out laughing. In the midst of laughter, Li Mo suddenly raised his middle finger and gestured at Thomas a few times.

“？” Thomas, who didn't know why, hurriedly asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"Oh, this is Chinese etiquette, which means greeting your mother!" Unexpectedly, this international gesture has not spread yet, Li Mo immediately said shamelessly.

"Greetings to my mother? But I'm an orphan, and my mother is long dead! Thomas was confused, and just at this time, Li Mo pushed three gold bars in front of him, and this guy didn't continue to investigate, and looked at the gold bars with a smile.

And Chen Ping, who was next to him, didn't know what the gesture meant, but when he heard Master Li's annotation, they all understood, and bit their lips bitterly, so they didn't laugh out loud.

"Thomas, how many pounds do you say this gold is worth?" Li Mo, who didn't quite understand the gold price comparison at this time, immediately asked.

"In England, a pound is about 7.3 grams of pure gold, and here a hundred kilograms is about 13,700 pounds, and if you convert it in the United States, it is about 68,000 dollars."

According to Thomas's words, Li Mo quickly calculated that one pound was equivalent to five dollars at this time, and seeing that the large pile of gold in front of him was only worth so much money, he was suddenly a little depressed, and couldn't help sighing: "So little!" ”

"Less? Oh no....... Thomas slapped his forehead, despised Li Mo's lack of heart, and shouted, "Li, do you know? Rudolph's ship was only £10,000! ”

Li Mo didn't pay attention to Thomas, since he knew the gold price comparison at this time, he naturally knew the purchasing power of money at this time, it should be said that the money is still quite valuable now, and the two ships purchased by the Qing Dynasty back then were only about 90,000 pounds each, which was still the price after being fooled.

At this moment, the most famous Sovereign-class battleship of the pre-dreadnought era should be built, and its total price is only about half a million pounds.

13,000 pounds, nearly 70,000 US dollars, if it is exchanged for ordinary people, I am afraid it is a huge fortune, but for Li Mo, it is not enough even the minimum expenses! According to Thomas, the northwest of Canada is now vast and sparsely populated, and the Canadian government is very keen to have someone develop the land, just like the American West was developed that day, but unfortunately it is too cold here, and there are only three months of farming a year, so except for the occasional gold digger, almost no one comes, so the land here is very cheap, about two dollars per acre.

Two dollars seemed to be very cheap, but when Li Mo took out the map he had drawn, everyone was dumbfounded, not only because the map was much larger, but also because it was spent a few big red circles.

With Li Mo's explanation, everyone soon understood that the red circle was where Li Mo's major gold mines were located, and there were some other mineral deposits that were found out of interest, looking at this almost all over the Yukon River Basin, not only Thomas, but even Chen Ping and others began to drool over the map.

When the saliva ran out, everyone began to worry again, because according to estimates, even if the area where the major gold mines are located, there are about 10,000 square kilometers, or nearly 3 million acres in acres, which will require a full six million dollars, about 1.2 million pounds, plus the machinery, personnel and materials required to mine these gold mines.

"A ton!" Li Mo stretched out a finger and shook it, snorting heavily.

"A ton!"

The person who had just learned the metric system couldn't react, and counted it directly on his fingers, but Matos, who reacted quickly, had already opened his mouth wide, although he also knew that Li Mo's plan needed a lot of money, but he didn't expect it to be so much.

It took three full months for everyone to get a hundred kilograms of gold, which still depends on the big ore veins, not to mention that with the arrival of winter, the work of panning for gold on the river is about to stop, and only the underground gold mine can be started for the time being, but considering the climate here, it is basically difficult to mine again after entering November, and it must wait until May next year to continue, so that I am afraid that I will not be able to make up less than a ton of gold next year.

"I'll go to the gold mines!" Thomas didn't know what to think, gritted his teeth, and ran out as fast as he could. Thomas's sudden departure made Li Yunfei confused, and only said after a long time: "This guy is not going to open a mine by himself!" ”

But before Li Mo heard the reply, he heard Long Guozhang muttering with a sluggish face: "Five years, one ton, ironclad ship!" After muttering to himself, Thomas suddenly rushed out of the room.

"Say, what are these guys doing? Got the wrong medicine? Li Mo had no choice but to turn his gaze for help to Chen Ping, who was quite normal, who smiled helplessly and spread his hands: "I guess young master, your plan is to stimulate them, and it is estimated that they will probably have already taken people down the mine." ”

Li Mo's forehead suddenly fell a few black lines, who are they, didn't they just mention that the money was not enough, as for it? If you want to make money, the young master has a lot of ideas, and I will let you see it when I go to the United States next month!

Seeing that everyone was walking and stupid, Li Mo had no choice but to roll up the map helplessly and asked, "By the way, is Li Qiang back?" ”

"It's been almost ten days since I came back, and I led a team to the gold mine a few days ago, and it is estimated that I will not be able to come back in three days." Chen Ping knew what Li Mo wanted to ask, so he continued: "The young master estimated correctly, it really attracted a lot of gold diggers and adventurers to check, and there were still people who came to investigate until half a month later, but the young master can rest assured, everyone was killed by Li Qiang, and he guarded for five days and no one appeared, so he came back." ”

After listening to Chen Ping's words, Li Mo nodded, he had already estimated that his attack on the Indian tribe would attract snoopers, but fortunately, he kept a hand and let Li Qiang lead people to stay behind, so the location of the camp was not exposed.

However, this is not the way to go on, as the population here grows larger, the camp will be exposed sooner or later, and the only thing you can do is to buy this place openly before it is exposed, so that it is safest.

"Let Zhao Long and Li Qiang have time to come to me, I have something to explain to them." Li Mo thought for a while and said: "In addition, the water is already very cold now, why don't you stop panning for gold on the river beach, and go to the mine to help, and try to mine as much gold as possible before it snows." As for those who are okay for the time being, they immediately arranged to go to logging and hunting, and stockpiled wintering supplies. ”

"Yes." Chen Ping nodded, turned around and walked out of the house, when the cold wind came to his face, he realized that his temporary chief manager actually had nothing to do, as if everything had been arranged by the young master's words just now.

In fact, he had found out about this situation more than once, especially when he got along with Li Mo recently, he would always forget the real age of this eldest young master, and he couldn't believe that Li Mo was only twelve years old when he thought about it so far.

"Maybe that's the talent of those who are born on top." Chen Ping looked up at the dark clouds in the sky, and suddenly thought.

Of course, no one noticed that a moment after they left, Young Master Li's brows tightened again, looking at the pile of gold bars, and only sighed faintly after half a ring.

"Lack of money......