"It's ...... Gold?! ”

It was quickly recognized that the small piece that shimmered with gold and was no bigger than a finger was gold, so heavy and bright.

"It's gold!"

"Great Chief, come and see, it's gold!"

"Gold, there's gold in the river!" The crowd became agitated and gathered around and shouted loudly.

Some even bend over and grope in the water, trying to find the gold as well.

The sentry came over, took the gold nugget from the soldier's hand, looked at it, and then said, "Be quiet for a while." ”

The soldiers were silent for the first time, and the others quickly quieted down.

When the people were quiet, the horse sentry took the metal detector from the soldier and probed the river himself.

In nature, the vast majority of metallic elements exist in the form of compounds, to which detectors cannot react.

There are only a few metals that can exist in nature in elemental form, and these metals are basically not cheap, the most typical is gold.

Ma Whistle already knew that there was a gold mine nearby, and the gold he had just discovered convinced him that this was the gold mine.

Sure enough, as he probed, the speed of the fan was sometimes fast and slow, and it was clear that there was a lot of metal in the river here.

These metals are obviously gold.

In the locations where the fan reacted most violently, Ma Whistle reached out and groped in the water, and soon found some visible gold, the smallest being the size of a grain of rice, and the largest being about the size of a finger.

The continuous discovery of gold has made people excited again.

"This is a gold mine!" Duyan couldn't help but say.

The sentry found another grain of gold in the river and said, "It should be so—we've found a gold mine." ”

"Gold mines, gold mines, oh my God, we've found gold mines!"

"Wuhu!"

"Great Chief, you didn't expect a gold mine here, did you?"

"I didn't think I should come to California, but now I look at it...... Or the Great Chief's foresight! ”

Ma Whistle turned around and looked at the excited westward marching team: "Calm down, my people, students. ”

"Remember what I said? If you want to master the art of excelling in martial arts, you must first overcome the instinct of closing your eyes; If you want to master extraordinary wealth, you must first overcome greed and the instinct to show off. ”

People are calming down again.

Ma Whistle continued: "I think it's understandable that a gold mine can bring us both wealth and disaster. ”

In fact, in its original history, California's gold has brought disaster almost exclusively to its discoverers.

He had watched a documentary about it in his previous life, and probably remembered that the first few people who discovered gold in California seemed to end well.

Greed, and the greed of others, put them in a difficult situation.

Most of the gold diggers who came to hear the news did not end well, and the lucky ones worked in vain, the unlucky ones lost their lives, and the unlucky ones died without anyone knowing.

Only a handful of lucky people made a fortune during the gold rush and returned home.

And, of course, there is another biggest beneficiary – the US economy.

The gold rush ignited the climax of the westward expansion movement, which led to the rapid development of the west, and at the same time a large amount of gold flowed into the American market, which gave a shot in the arm to the already poor American economy.

Originally, the gold diggers in history were just a group of rabble, and gold caused them to fall into extreme involution and chaos.

But the westward march led by Ma Whistle was a tight group with a professional army as the core, all of whom had been vetted in advance, and were united and loyal enough, at least very different from those gold diggers in history.

Moreover, as a physics teacher in later generations, Ma Whistle himself also knew how to efficiently detect and mine gold.

So he has the confidence to grasp this wealth.

No matter how bad it is, even if the news leaks and triggers an upsurge in the westward expansion of Americans, he will be able to make a fortune before the influx of whites.

"Who do you think the gold mines belong to?" Ma Whistle asked.

"Belong to the Great Chief!" Many people say so.

Even in the traditional context, many people hold ideas like "the big chief has everything".

Moreover, it is clearly not a traditional situation in any sense of the word.

It was the Horse Whistle that decided to come to California, and it was the Horse Whistle who invented the magical metal detector.

In addition, people worship horse whistles very much, so in their opinion, the gold mine belongs to the big chief, which is completely reasonable and even natural.

But the whistle said, "Perhaps." But strictly speaking, it really belongs to Apache – because I belong to Apache too. ”

This sentence actually has an element of showmanship.

But it is really very effective, and some clansmen with low tears were directly broken by this sentence, and cried with emotion: "Great Chief, ......"

For example, some tears can't stop spilling out of his one eye.

He actually had a lot of tears, but his strong personality cult of horse whistles and the growing "Apacheism" in the tribe made it difficult for him to keep his sanity.

The so-called Apache doctrine is collectivism and Apache assimilationism.

It is true that there is common ground while reserving differences, harmony and difference, but that is only relative to each other, and there is little difference between each other.

If there is a fundamental conflict of ideas, there are only two options: destruction or assimilation, if the cost allows.

On this issue, Westerners are noticeably much more sober than Easterners, and can actively proselytize, and even wage war for it......

Of the two options, Destruction and Assimilation, Horse Whistle chooses the latter, or the latter as the default.

"The wealth of a gold mine can allow Apache to grow faster, we can absorb more people, hire more skilled workers, build more housing, hospitals, classrooms, ......"

Ma Whistle said slowly.

"We need to be soberly aware of the significance of this wealth. It's not something we splurge and flaunt, it's something we use to build an Apache. ”

"So we must not be complacent and complacent about this, but we must always be vigilant."

"If we accidentally leak the news and let the white people know about the existence of the gold mines, the endless chaos will cause Apache to lose it, and even bring disaster to Apache itself."

After a pause, he added, "Concealing information is our top priority. For this reason, I plan to build a logging yard here. ”

"Lumberyard?"

Ma Whistle nodded: "Yes, we need wood to build a new city, and this is also suitable for building a lumber yard." In addition to producing timber, the lumberyard will also play a role of concealment, and we will act here as lumberjacks or hunters. ”

Historically, the Americans discovered gold during the construction of lumberyards.

Building a lumber yard here is a fitting choice.

Ma Whistle thought for a moment: "The name of the lumberyard is ...... East Valley Lumber Yard. ”