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Kang Dongliang is back, brave the wind and snow, from Yukon.

Also arriving at the same time was Rosenthal, and Li Yaoyang wanted him to do an interview with Kang Dongliang and do a few gold rush topics, which should set off a reading frenzy, after all, people's desire for gold is unprecedented.

After a few old men had chatted, Li Yaoyang invited Kang Dongliang out alone and chatted while eating.

Of course, it was Rosenthal and the reporters he brought with him who were mainly responsible for asking questions, and the whole interview team.

"Mr. Kang, can you tell us about your understanding of the history of gold mining? I'm curious about what kind of serendipity you started this great business. ”

Kang Dongliang thought for a moment and said:

"When it comes to the history of gold rush, we have to start from the last century, in the 40s of the 19th century, Britain was the first to complete industrialization. At this time, the west coast of North America was still only a trading territory for fur traders, maintaining a primitive production model.

At the time, California was under the control of Mexico, northern Alaska was the territory of polar bears, and ownership of the remaining vast western lands, including the Yukon, was still disputed.

The Yukon Territory, located in the northwest, actually officially joined the Canadian Federation in 1898.

At the end of the 19th century, European and North American explorers came here to pan for gold, which led to the gold rush in the entire North American region, and it was once the most important gathering place for gold prospectors.

At that time, the largest trader in the Americas was the 'Hudson's Bay Company'.

The company was the first commercial joint-stock company in North America and still owns a number of commercial complexes in Canada.

Throughout the '40s, George Simpson was at the helm of the Hudson's Bay Company, and he had the foresight to establish a trading post on Vancouver Island, and the company and Britain were able to establish roots on the West Coast.

The Hudson's Bay Company's practice of 'occupying the mountain as king' has aroused the dissatisfaction of the ugly country.

Some people even published articles threatening to occupy all of North America.

This kind of thinking attracts a large number of hot-blooded young people in the United States, and also stimulates the attitude of the upper class.

For a time, the land along the western coast became the fuse of Anglo-American relations.

It was time to speak with their fists, and the British could no longer sit idly by.

The two sides were at loggerheads, and only the spark that detonated the powder keg was missing.

Fortunately, Pandora's box was not opened, and Britain and the United States sat back at the negotiating table.

Britain demanded that the land be divided at 45 degrees north latitude, while the ugly country demanded that the land be demarcated at 50 degrees and 40 minutes north latitude.

In the past two years, the two sides have coerced and enticed, tried everything they could, and tried each other's bottom line back and forth.

At the most critical moment, the ugly country once again bluffed, and the talk of going to war was loud.

The threat worked, and in 1846 the Oregon Accord was signed, which simply set the line at 49 degrees north latitude, regardless of the rivers and mountains, shaping what is now the U.S.-Canada border.

At the same time, the 49th parallel became the legal scope of Hudson's Bay Company, and it was only allowed to expand to the north and not to the south.

As a result, the company had to go all the way north in search of a way to make a fortune.

The company traced the river up to the Yukon, creating two trade routes and establishing cargo hubs along the way.

While Hudson's Bay Company built the necessary infrastructure for the Yukon's growth, the company's direction proved to be a huge mistake.

First of all, unlike Quebec and the Great Lakes, the Yukon does not have a large number of Indian tribes, and it is difficult to find fur trading partners;

Secondly, the timber business has high capacity requirements, two trade routes pass through the ice field, and the northern seaports are frozen for most of the year, which is not conducive to the transportation of goods.

Due to a lack of commercial potential, the 500,000-square-kilometre Yukon remained untouched in the first half of the nineteenth century.

In addition, the Yukon had a harsh climate and barren land, which did not attract colonists.

The intervention of the European trading company angered the indigenous tribes with a strong sense of territory, and it was very unlucky to go to settle down and buy a home.

The Métis are a half-race ethnic group of Maple Leaf.

However, they were not mestizos born of European marriage, nor were they the result of the integration of indigenous peoples, but mestizo of European men and Indian women.

This group of mestizos can be found all over the maple leaf, and their language and living habits are different from those of Europeans and orthodox Indians.

After seven years of the Anglo-French War, Quebec was completely ceded to the British.

Prior to this, the Hudson's Bay Company controlled the Mid-South region of Ontario, while the French 'Northwest Company' was active in the West all year round, leaving behind this group of half-breeds.

In fact, most of the Métis are of 'Franco-Indian' mixed blood, with a small number of 'Irish-Indian' and 'English-Indian' mixed-blood.

However, the differences between the mixed-race populations did not make them hostile to each other, but rather increased their sense of identity, and they gradually merged into an integrated ethnic group.

By the beginning of the 19th century, the Métis had a growing sense of nationhood.

Together, they ventured to the northwest in an attempt to break away from colonial rule in order to carve out their homeland.

The Métis lived in fishing and hunting, and moved westward with the French trading power.

Soon after, the British forced the Métis to cut off trade with the French companies, allowing them to sell their goods only to local British merchants.

In the past, the pricing power was completely in the hands of the British, and the fundamental interests of the Métis were threatened.

At the instigation of the French Northwest Company, the Métis began to confront the British colonists.

The militia groups of the Métis began to consciously organize underground anti-colonial activities.

Surprisingly, a few years later, the French Northwest Company, the initiator of this farce, was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company.

The Métis had no choice but to sit down with the British to negotiate the terms of trade, and the tension gradually eased.

For the next half-century, most of the Métis settled in the Prairie in the middle of the Maple Leaf to do business with the Hudson's Bay Company.

The good times did not last long, and the Hudson's Bay Company sold a large amount of land to the newly formed Maple Leaf Dominion.

The transfer of land property rights instantly made the Métis lose their sense of security.

They were faced with two choices: either join the resistance or abandon their homeland and continue their migration westward.

Louis Lear, the tribal leader who did not want to die in silence, led the militia to occupy the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company and set up a provisional governing body to force peace talks in the Maple Leaf Kingdom.

Negotiations resulted in a commitment to preserve 1.4 million hectares of land, bilingual institutions, Catholic schools, and eventually the creation of Manitoba.

Who would have thought that the Maple Leaf Country had only made a temporary compromise and did not intend to settle the matter.

At the beginning of the summer of the following year, the Maple Leafs army marched into Manitoba and reversed the previous decline in one fell swoop.

A group of national leaders were liquidated for treason, and the Métis had to seek new shelter.

Interestingly, the Métis have never admitted to being Canadians, so how can there be treason?

The white settlers did not stay in Manitoba, but approached westward.

The Métis and other Indian tribes also continued to suffer from the oppression of the colonizers.

Despite being rectified by the authorities, Lille was not discouraged and still wanted to seek national autonomy.

In order to achieve his demands, Lille launched a second uprising.

Far from fulfilling their wishes, the Métis lost a number of leaders, including Lille himself, who was hanged.

Several humiliated tribes of the Méti migrated along the mountains to the Yukon Territory.

In this way, three ethnic groups are active in the Yukon: the First Nation, the Maple Leaf Nation's name for the Indians; Inuit; The Métis people.

Among them, the Métis are well-equipped, have advanced production models, and are armed with advanced European weapons, and are the most combative.

For a time, Yukon became the most intricate area in the Maple Leaf Country, with occasional scuffles and terrorist attacks.

After the Second Uprising, the Métis became an 'invisible people'.

They remain incognito, afraid to admit their identity, or even to appear in public.

Under the threat of force from the 'invisible nation', the Yukon branch of the Hudson's Bay Company, which was isolated and helpless, became the hardest hit area by attack.

Not only are trade lanes insecure, but even production bases are often subjected to retaliatory attacks, strangling operations.

The company had to hire a small number of troops to keep it running.

The high cost of security made the company's top brass plan to abandon the Yukon.

As a result, it was even more difficult for colonists to move in.

However, 20 years after the Métis moved in, a startling discovery revolutionized the desolate Yukon.

In August 1896, a gold prospector named George Carmack discovered the largest natural gold nugget ever made in a creek in the Yukon.

In Carmack's words – the gold gets stuck in the slate and looks like the sandwich of a sandwich.

After the incident was exposed, the entire western part of the Maple Leaf Country exploded.

In the 16th century, the explorer Cartier mistakenly brought brass and quartz back to France as gold and diamonds.

This oolong incident also left a proverb in French: it is as fake as the Maple Leaf National Diamond, which can also be translated as 'outrageously wrong'.

Who would have thought that in addition to the famous 'Maple Leaf Diamond' and 'Maple Leaf Gold', there are indeed a large number of gold mines near the Arctic Circle of the Maple Leaf Country.

The following spring, by the time Seattle and San Francisco residents learned about the situation, the Yukon was already overcrowded, and the Maple Leafs set up border checks for that purpose.

Most gold prospectors from the West Coast chose to take a boat to the southern Alaska port, then over Mount White and down the Yukon River to the Klondike River.

Local regulations stipulate that every gold prospector entering the country must bring a year's worth of supplies, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter the country.

The authorities did this in order to prevent the vicious incidents caused by starvation, as looting and starvation caused by food shortages were common on the gold panning roads......"

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.