The twelfth year of Chongzhen, December.

Daming, in Henan, in an ordinary village called Liujiazhuang.

Liu Ergou, an eighteen-year-old villager this year, decisively went to the county this morning, found the overseas gold panning application registration point set up by Xujiazhuang, and then submitted a registration, planning to go overseas to develop, become a gold digger or miner, and want to realize his dream of making a fortune and change his extremely ordinary life.

As a matter of fact.

For Liu Ergou, staying in the territory of Daming, the opportunity is not less, in the past two years, Daming has opened a lot of large-scale infrastructure projects, factories have also opened a lot, need to use tens of millions of workers, it is not difficult to find a job, income, because human resources are more valuable, the general minimum wage, is not less than 100 Wen, if there is a little technology and craftsmanship, the daily income of 200 ~ 300 Wen is very easy, and then show a little more diligent, work more overtime, get ten silver dollars per month, not can not do, There are more than a dozen craftsmen in Liujiazhuang, who are high-paid people who earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.

If Liu Ergou shows hard work and masters a certain craft, he can also earn a lot through part-time work.

But he is relatively lazy, not the kind of person who likes involution, often works two days and one day off, and is willing to do odd jobs and short-term jobs, but does not want to do long-term jobs.

In terms of craftsmanship, it is also rough, and if you don't learn much skill, you naturally can't get too high a salary.

After working outside for a year and returning home for the New Year, I can only bring back a dozen silver dollars, only a fraction of others.

So the main reason for Liu Ergou's poverty is himself.

Even so, he still has an advantage, that is, he is more handsome, his skin is whiter, and his mouth is very good at talking, and he is very good at coaxing women to be happy, so his popularity as a woman is still good.

And today's Daming, in terms of the ratio of men and women, is slightly more male than female, rich Xujiazhuang, and absorbed a large number of female resources, so the surrounding Henan, Shandong and other places, there are young women, a large number of outflows, local young men, if you want to find a partner, it is still a little difficult, will face greater competition.

But because the external conditions are very good, there are still quite a lot of women who are willing to marry Liu Ergou, there may be seven or eight of them, and their looks are quite good, they are all desirable beautiful girls, but Liu Ergou just failed to take one as his mother-in-law, and was repeatedly blocked by the woman's parents.

The main reason is that the woman's parents dislike him for being too lazy, his income is too low, he is idle and lazy, and he is afraid that women will suffer when they marry him.

And this requirement, in fact, is not high, as long as a little self-motivated, and hard-working men, at most a year or two, can be achieved, not the so-called difficult, it can be said that the standard is very low, Liu Ergou wants to marry his mother-in-law, it is enough to change himself slightly.

It's just that...... It's so tiring.

Liu Ergou feels that he is not the material for a part-time job, he can do it if he works hard, but at most he will hold on for two or three days, and it will be impossible to survive any longer, he still wants to live comfortably, if he is too tired, it is better to live alone and chic.

Because of this, Liu Ergou, who has a good relationship with women, can only be single until now.

In fact, he also moved the idea of being a door-to-door son-in-law, or finding a rich mother-in-law, and then coaxing her to be happy every day, but his advantage is just that he is a little handsome and his mouth will coax people, and he doesn't really learn much, and the daughters of rich families generally have a relatively high vision, and they pay great attention to the connotation, and they don't catch a cold when they hear the vulgar name of Liu Ergou, and it is impossible to give him the opportunity to approach and perform.

Unwilling.

Liu Ergou is unwilling, his life has always been like this, and he is unwilling to become a complete loser.

In order to change his fate, he set his sights on overseas gold panning, and planned to take a free ride from Xujiazhuang and go overseas to see if he could make a fortune and become an enviable rich man.

And the other millions of young people who applied for registration, most of them have a similar mentality to him, and they are also relatively lazy, like to sneak and play tricks and are not very down-to-earth, and their minds are easy to float, and they are willing to take certain risks, and go overseas to adventure and gold panning, which is a good choice.

So Liu Ergou signed up and became a gold digger.

And he's ready to do both.

If you go overseas to pan for gold and fail to make a fortune, then you won't go back to your hometown and die overseas, because you have no face to come back.

If you make a fortune and realize your dream of getting rich, then return to your hometown, let alone marry a wife, it's no problem to marry two or three, in this era, money is everything, as long as there is more money, women are just a type of commodity, a commodity that can be bought at a price.

With such a mentality.

In mid-December, Liu Ergou packed his bags and arrived in Xujiazhuang's Harbour City, where he underwent a month-long professional training.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, in mid-January.

End of training.

Liu Ergou followed a group of outstanding students, got on a transport plane, as the first batch of elite people, arrived at the location of a gold mine in Australia, and brought a lot of professional gold panning equipment, and it is advanced technology and high efficiency equipment, compared with the most traditional gold panning methods, the efficiency can be increased by hundreds of times, and it can also significantly save manpower.

At this time, Liu Ergou also became flexible in his thinking, recruited ten people, and formed a small team, planning to use teamwork to pan for gold together, and then distribute benefits.

In late January, after arriving at the goldfields.

Liu Ergou and others found a place where there was a lot of sand at the bend of a river and began the work of panning for gold.

They used the most advanced washing tank method.

The distinction is also very clear.

The sand dredging is specifically responsible for sand dredging.

The one who handles is specifically responsible for handling.

The one who washes is responsible for the washing.

Like a precision assembly line gold panning machine.

On the first day, 1,324 grams of sand gold were dug out, which was equivalent to 35 taels of gold, and at the exchange ratio of one to forty, it was equivalent to 1,400 silver dollars, divided by ten equal points, and in just one day, each person earned 140 silver dollars, which is equivalent to the income of many workers for a year.

Lose your marbles.

This harvest is simply exciting to the point of madness, and it makes people very happy and excited.

The next day, continuing to pan for gold, everyone was full of energy, busy until the sun went down, and found that a total of 1,645 grams of sand gold was obtained, more than 300 grams more than on the first day.

Wait until the tenth day.

Liu Ergou's team got a total of 18,123 grams of sand gold, equivalent to 483 taels of gold, and then multiplied by a ratio of forty, which is equivalent to more than 19,300 silver dollars, with an average of more than 1,930 silver dollars per person, close to two thousand.

And that's just the income they earn from working hard for ten days, and they earn money that many people can't necessarily earn if they work for ten years.

Refreshing.

It's so cool to pan for gold.

The mentality of Liu Ergou and the others suddenly changed a lot, and there was something called greed and ambition in their eyes.

The total gold reserves of Australian Gold Mountain are said to exceed 10,000 tons, and the amount that can be mined will not be less than 5,000 tons.

A small part is in the rivers.

Most of it is stored in the mountains, and blasting and excavation are used to obtain more gold.

The efficiency will also drop significantly, and the efficiency per unit of time is getting lower and lower - because the sand gold in the river will soon be almost wiped out, and by the eleventh day, the harvest will only be 800 grams, and it will only get less and less.

Including Liu Ergou, all the team members saw this trend.

They also realize that if they put in more effort in the future, they will not necessarily get the same return, but only less and less, and the benefits will decrease every day.

However, Liu Ergou thought of a good way to increase the production of sand gold: increase manpower.

As long as the number of people is increased from ten to hundred, three hundred, five hundred, thousand, or even ten thousand, and so many gold diggers work for them together, even if they only take away fifty percent of their profits, Liu Ergou and others will be able to get rich.

But here's the problem, Australia is vast and sparsely populated, and the number of Daming gold diggers who have come over these days is only more than 10,000 people, these people themselves are too busy, and they are all eager to make a fortune, how can they work for Liu Ergou and them? If you can't meet their treatment, you have to put down your head and work hard for them who are also gold diggers, this is impossible, Liu Ergou's plan has huge loopholes at the beginning, and it is not realistic at all.

However, the target group targeted by Liu Ergou is the indigenous Maori tribe near Jinshan.

I also thought of ways to successfully convince them.

Because the production and living standards of the Maori people are too backward, and now they are the era of Ru Mao drinking blood, every day to hunt for a living, farming technology is not available, all aspects are in a particularly primitive state, materials and tools, but also fur clothes + stone weapons, and a special weapon to kill people with blow arrows, in addition, there is not much threat, in the face of gold diggers these outsiders, several small-scale conflicts broke out, failed to take advantage, but suffered a big loss, can only move to a place farther away from Jinshan, Don't dare to make contact, let alone provoke the gold diggers.

And now, Liu Ergou, who is eyeing these Maori savages, has actually made a crazy decision - to recruit these Maori.

And you have to go over in person, bring some prepared gifts, and take the initiative to visit to see if you can attract success.

Although there is a risk of being killed by the Maori, Liu Ergou is more than fifty or sixty percent sure that he can succeed, and the main reason is that the Maori are too backward and the productivity is extremely backward, so there is a possibility of recruitment.

For example, the Maori people are still using backward drills to make fires and make fires for cooking, if you give them a lighter, can you win their friendship?

For example, if the Maori wear clothes made of animal skins or leaves, if you give them two lightweight, comfortable, fashionable and beautiful cotton clothes, will you be moved by them and consider themselves as their best friends?

And the food to eat, if the Maori who eat fruit and game meat as their staple food, eat fragrant white rice, will they never forget it, eager to eat it again next time, in addition to salt, chili, soy sauce and other seasonings, can the various delicacies made can conquer the taste buds and stomach of the Maori people?

There are also safer and more comfortable houses, better means of transportation, and advanced lifestyles and cultural traditions, after these influences, Maori people will not have the idea of surrendering, willing to come to Jinshan to work, become hired workers, Liu Ergou will give them a high salary of 100 wen a day, and then receive gold panning tools, participate in the gold panning work, even if each Maori can only help take out half a tael of gold every day, can also be exchanged for 20 silver dollars, take out one-tenth as cost and remuneration, and the remaining ninety percent, all are profitsIt is an extra profiteering, an exciting profiteering.

The more workers you hire, the more terrible the total profit.

In order to get these benefits.

Liu Ergou is out! After making some preparations, he left the mine and boldly headed for a Maori tribe of thousands of people, with a lot of prepared gifts in his hands.

Seven days later.

Liu Ergou came back and returned to the mining area, with more than 20 Maori young people with him.

It worked.

This trip to the initiative to visit, Liu Ergou successfully achieved his goal, recruited a group of Maori to come over - this is only the first batch, see how the effect is, if you do a good job here, the harvest is good, then there will be a second batch, a third batch, a steady stream.

And Liu Ergou's life in the indigenous tribe in these seven days is indescribable, like a roller coaster, although the purpose of the initial cooperation has been achieved, but it has also paid a certain price.

For example, there is one more woman by his side, a Maori woman, the daughter of the patriarch, Liu Ergou originally followed the daughter of the patriarch, where did she learn the Maori language in order to communicate, and in the process of learning the indigenous language, Liu Ergou gave a gift today and a gift tomorrow, and also showed amazing language talent, and soon mastered the indigenous language, reflecting his ability, and showed his handsome side many times.

Then he was liked by the patriarch's daughter, on the fourth night, he took the initiative to invite Liu Ergou to play in her tent, and after a night, Liu Ergou refused, although the patriarch's daughter looked very beautiful, definitely not ugly, and had a wild temperament, but Liu Ergou felt that this was not his own dish, he still preferred a Ming woman with a gentle temperament and delicate and fair skin, and just wanted to marry a Ming woman as a wife, and was not interested in female savages.

But this female savage, after being rejected by Liu Ergou, immediately exposed her rude side, and actually wanted to use force on Liu Ergou, Liu Ergou was stunned at that time, this female savage is too strong, and she is so shameless, fortunately, Liu Ergou also has a lot of strength, and she was not held down by the other party, so she kept her reputation.

It's just that when Liu Ergou was about to turn away, the back of his head suddenly hit him heavily, and he immediately fell into the dark, and the next morning, he found himself naked, lying in the arms of the female savage, and his chastity was obviously gone, and at that moment Liu Ergou was aggrieved and wanted to cry.