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“…… As a matter of fact, in terms of the strategy of developing the western region, the two countries have completely different strategies.

Ugly countries have lax regulations and support 'law of the jungle' and 'brutal expansion', so there are countless gold diggers who have been looted by the Hey Gang.

In contrast, the development policy of the Maple Leaf Nation was relatively soft, with the RCMP confiscating all weapons and staying there to maintain order.

At the end of the 16th century, the Spaniards discovered the world's largest silver mine in Potosí, Peru, producing half of the world's silver.

The influx of Europeans propelled Potosi into the top 10 most populous cities in the world.

At that time, this phenomenon was known as the 'Silver Capital Miracle'.

Coincidentally, Dawson City also rose with the gold rush.

By the end of the 19th century, Dawson City had become the largest city north of Seattle and west of Winnipeg, with a population larger than that of Vancouver, the largest trading post on the West Coast.

Dawson City was an important gathering place for gold prospectors in the Yukon during the Gold Rush

At that time, Dawson City was known as the Paris of the North, and the city not only had two daily newspapers, many luxury hotels, but also gave birth to the first casino in the Maple Leaf Country.

Within two years, the mines had attracted a consortium of commercial companies that bought freshly mined gold from gold miners and sold it to the international market.

In order to increase its business, the consortium bought numerous newspaper pages to place commercial advertisements encouraging West Coast residents to go to Yukon to pan for gold.

About 100,000 gold prospectors visited the Yukon within three years, creating the last gold rush of the 19th century and the world's most remote gold rush.

With the Yukon demographic reversal and the local Indian chiefs had to abandon their territories and move south, the Inuit simply moved to Alaska.

The smoke cleared, and the gold rush officially ended in the first year of the new century, and the whole process lasted less than four years.

But according to our locals, only 2 tons of gold were mined in the end.

In contrast, the Spanish Empire, at its peak, was able to extract 6 tons of gold from Central and South America every year. ”

Rosenthal answered:

"That's right, compared to tens of thousands of gold diggers, 2 tons of mining is obviously more than a monk."

Kang Dongliang nodded:

"Only 4,000 people have actually found gold, and only more than 300 people have made a fortune with gold, and the vast majority of people have lost all their money."

Li Yaoyang quipped:

"I think the vendors who sell daily necessities make a lot of money."

Kang Dongliang looked at him and smiled, everything was silent.

However, although the gold rush reclaimed the northwestern part of the Maple Leaf Country and consolidated territorial sovereignty, it emptied the pockets of the gold diggers.

Once the infrastructure was established, the big conglomerates came in with specialized mining equipment and replaced manual labor with machines, while the gold diggers had to find new veins.

For example, Dawson City's No. 4 Gold Rush Ship is the world's largest wooden gold panning machine, once mined 800 ounces of gold in a single day.

The Gold Rush was put into operation 10 years ago, and in that 10-year period, it has achieved a 20-fold return on investment for the consortium.

Today, Dawson City has long since been replaced, and Whitehorse has become the capital of Yukon.

The Maple Leafs established the Yukon Territory in 1898 in order to gain control of the eastern territories of Alaska.

The gold rush made both the United States and Canada realize that any barren land has the potential to be exploited.

Of course, both countries want to fight for more territory — the ugly country wants to draw Alaska's border inland, and the Maple Leafs wants to draw the border to the sea.

The territorial dispute has caused the biggest setback in U.S.-Canada relations since 1812.

In the end, the suzerainty of the Maple Leaf Country, the United Kingdom, intervened and cut the fuse of the explosives.

Although the war was avoided, the intervention of Britain caused the Maple Leaf Nation to lose all of the Yukon's access to the sea, and the Maple Leaf Nation's trust in Britain was significantly weakened.

The following year, the Maple Leafs rejected the British offer of military cooperation.

After that, the Maple Leaf Kingdom decided to rely on itself for the sake of profit.

When the gold rush had not yet subsided and the United States and Canada were arguing again, a Norwegian named Otto went north alone without a sound.

Avoiding everyone's gaze, he spent four years exploring the Yukon Arctic and stumbled upon some unknown islands.

Subsequently, Otto named the islands after his patron and declared that the islands belonged to Norway.

Alto's expedition record caused a great sensation in the Maple Leaf Country.

Twenty years ago, Britain promised to hand over jurisdiction over all the islands in the Arctic to the Maple Leaf Nation, and an expedition once again sparked territorial disputes.

The Maple Leaf Kingdom immediately sent three expeditions to determine the territorial extent of the Arctic Circle.

Before the expedition was over, Quebec captain Bernier couldn't bear it.

He privately landed on Baffin Island, which is also the largest island in the current Maple Leaf Country, located in the Arctic Circle, and the main inhabitants of the Inuit planted a national flag on it and declared the sovereignty of Baffin Island.

The captain excitedly handed the gun to the Inuit on the island, and after he had filied a few shots, the captain granted all the Inuit on the island the status of citizens of the Maple Leaf Country.

While the Maple Leaf civil society was in full swing to explore the Arctic, Otto was urging Norway to declare sovereignty over the Arctic islands.

Unfortunately, Norway seems to have shown little interest in this 'frozen land with no economic value', which has avoided a dispute between the Maple Leaf Kingdom and Norway.

In order to calm things down, Maple Leaf spent more than $60,000 to buy out Otto's inspection records.

You know, that's the equivalent of two months of gold mining in the Yukon.

Even so, the concept of territory north of the Yukon is still very vague, as no one has actually surveyed the entire Northland.

Of course, none of this matters, the key is that people's exploration of gold has never stopped! ”

Rosenthal went on to ask:

"There have been several gold rushes in history, and in fact, in this era, people's yearning for gold has never stopped."

"That's right, and the ugly country is the beginning of the gold rush.

In 1848, carpenter James Marshall discovered a little golden sand in the flow of water at Suter's Mill.

Soon, he and other employees of John Suter began panning for gold in the rivers of California.

But it wasn't until the fall of 1848 that rumors of the discovery of gold in California became known to the East Coast.

In mid-November, the rumors were confirmed when a team of messengers returned to Washington with a tea caddy full of gold nuggets and sands.

The excitement and adventurous spirit that had just been sparked by the Mexican-American War now turned to the new 'El Dorado' California.

Thousands of people left their farms and jobs behind to travel west by land or sea in search of wealth.

These people come from all corners of the Ugly Country, even from all over the world, and are known as the '49 Gold Diggers.

They hunt for treasure in California's rivers and streams, transforming what was once a tranquil ranching paradise into a noisy and chaotic community.

While the California Gold Rush was a revolutionary event, people have been panning for gold in the western part of the Altai Mountains since ancient times.

In the 18th century, the profits from the gold rush were still significant, and in the almost 100 years of the 18th century, a total of 22 tons of gold were mined.

In the early thirties of the 19th century, when the Tsars made a compromise on private gold mining, there was a small gold rush in southern Siberia.

The gold they mined from the Ural Mountains and the Altai Mountains rose to a staggering 28 tons in 1848, almost half of the world's production at the time and more than double the largest amount mined in Brazil. ”

After Rosenthal recorded, he continued:

"As far as I know, you said earlier that at the beginning of the Gold Rush, California was home to a number of semi-nomadic Indian tribes, numbering about 50,000 people.

There are also about 7,000 'Californians,' descendants of Spaniards and Mexicans who began settling here in 1769.

For the few ugly people living in this remote frontier, even the annexation of California by the ugly country after the Mexican-American war had little impact on their lives.

But the gold rush that began in 1849 changed the place forever. ”

Rosenthal pushed down his glasses and affirmed:

"That's right, the three typical phases of the gold rush.

The first stage – the first gold seekers do have a chance to make a small fortune if they find gold.

As the number of gold seekers increased, they spontaneously organized into small alliances and cooperated to dig gold veins;

The second stage is to introduce various gold panning techniques to find gold, such as the introduction of hydraulic pumps, which can wash the entire slope with the help of water pressure, and the slope will be visible along the channel, where it should be easier for people to find more important gold.

The third stage was the industrialization of gold mining, which reached its peak after 1852 and then declined.

Since then, the social fabric of California has changed, and a large number of failed gold diggers have remained to face up to the problem of survival. ”

After a pause, Kang Dongliang recalled:

"I remember the writer Mark Twain depicting such a scene in "Asceticism"-

[Soon after, an old friend of mine, a miner, came to me from a decaying mine in Tulonne, California, and I went back with him.

We lived in a small wooden hut on a verdant mountainside, and in that vast hillside and forest, there were no five wooden sheds in sight.

Yet, during the prosperous times of twelve or fifteen years ago, there was a thriving city of two or three thousand people in this weedy wasteland.

The place where our cabin was located was originally the heart of the crowded beehive, the heart of the city.

As soon as the mine was finished, the city declined, and after a few years it was completely gone – streets, houses, shops, everything – leaving no trace.

The grassy slopes were verdant, flat, and uninhabited, as if no one had ever been there.

The few miners who remained had seen the city rise, develop, grow, and reach its heights.

They also saw it sick, die, and fade away like a dream, taking away their hope and zest for life.

They have long since submitted to this exile, and will no longer correspond with distant friends, nor will they look far away at their homeland.

They accepted this punishment and forgot about the world, and they were forgotten by the world.

Far from the telegraph and the railroad, they stand in living graves, ignoring the events that shake the world, and are not concerned about the common interests of men, and are lonely and desolate from their kind.

It's the most bizarre, almost the saddest and most pathetic banishment imaginable.

One of my companions who I've been working with here for two or three months is a college student.

But now, little by little, he had been there for eighteen years, a scruffy, ragged, mud-covered miner.

Sometimes, in his sighs and self-talk, he would subconsciously intersperse a vague Latin or Greek sentence or two—the language of death and decay, but the most appropriate means of expressing the thoughts of a man whose dreams have become a thing of the past and whose life has failed.

He is a tired man, a man who is overwhelmed by reality and does not care about the future;

A carefree person, who has lost hope and interest, waiting for rest and the end of the world. 】

As depicted in the Asceticism, most of the miners' camps flourished almost overnight.

But unlike San Francisco, they will be empty again in a few years, and they will become a ghost town.

Although some of the famous camps have glossy names – Poker Flat, Angel Camp, Whiskey Bar, Fun City, and Butterfly Town – they are usually filthy and desolate places.

Most gold prospectors lived in tents or modest houses, and were reluctant to waste their time panning for gold to build decent shelters for themselves.

Their food is monotonous beans, bread, and bacon.

If they had the money, they would also go to expensive restaurants and inns to eat, but the table there might just be a wooden plank on two flour buckets.

They live depressed, uncomfortable, and unhealthy lives.

Especially during the long, rainy winter months, there is little pastime other than the salon, the casino, and the bed of the female branch.

Something similar is happening on the other side of the globe.

When word of the discovery of the mineral deposits in South Africa spread, thousands of gold diggers were once again attracted in a short period of time.

Soon, a tented city was built, full of temporary shelters made of wooden planks.

Two representatives were sent to establish rules and regulations and set requirements; They called the area where the stone was strewn Johannesburg.

In the shortest possible time, there were bars, women's branches, a bank, a school, a police station, and an elephant cricket club.

This is a good indication that most of the new immigrants here are from the UK.

A year after the city was founded, a football club, a brewery, and even a Methodist church were built.

The city also had a telegraph network that allowed it to send telegrams to the outside world.

Just two years later, a stock exchange was established in Johannesburg;

The number of residents has grown to 166,000 in 12 years.

For Winston Churchill, however, Johannesburg has always been a 'Monte Carlo built on the roots of sin'. ”

Rosenthal was deeply impressed:

"Mr. Kang, your research on the history of gold mining is very profound."

Kang Dongliang joked:

"When you live in an icefield area where birds don't poop all year round, and you're really bored, you can only rely on reading books to pass the time."