Chapter 1,118 The value of Jinshan, from the Warring States to the Ming Dynasty
The mountain island stands tall, and the mountains and rocks sparkle with gold. The golden sun shines in the west, and the bay floats with golden light. The two kingdom priests looked around, looking at the flowing golden stream and the continuous golden mountains in the distance, and they both felt a kind of divinity that shocked people's hearts. This kind of divinity was shocking.
The golden divinity is revealed in the mountains and rivers, making people worship it with piety and greed.
“This magnificent gold mine, this vast and vast gold mine belt! It is a real miracle that the Lord God guides us, and it is also the strength that the Lord God gives us to move forward!… Praise the Lord God, praise His blessing, and praise the divinity.
The mountains and seas!…”
“Praise the Lord God! Praise His protection! Praise the sacred mountains and seas!…”
The two kingdom priests lowered their heads and prayed devoutly for a while. Dozens of warriors around them also bowed their heads and prayed. In front of this vast mountain island gold mine, both the two priests and the dozens of warriors
, or the more than 200 tribal people at the port, all seemed very small.
On this desolate and cold, sparsely populated extreme northern coast, the indigenous tribes who have been struggling for survival for generations have never had the ambition and ambition to regard the sacred mountains, seas and land as belonging to a certain tribe. Instead, various places
Large tribes often claim to be descendants of sacred mountains, sacred lakes, or birds and beasts. The mountains, seas, wind, snow, gods and ancestors are the real masters of this land in people’s hearts!…
"Priest Jinzhan, over the past year or so, how much placer gold has been mined in your Shenjinxi Port camp?"
"Chief Priest Mickey, all the placer gold we mined is in the altar of the main god... It's just a shallow pool, about three hundred kilograms... Gold mining is too labor-intensive after all! Panning for gold in the river, even the smallest amount
In the rich Jinxi River, a young man has to work for several days to find a pound of gold sand. But if you want to mine gold in this Jinshan Mountain, you must first select the gold stones, then smash them, then sieve them with water like gold mining, and finally sieve them.
To smelt scrap gold... It takes a man more than ten days of labor to extract one kilogram of gold from one thousand kilograms of gold and stone! As for our Shenjinxi Port, there are only more than 200 tribesmen and a hundred men in total.
Just strong..."
"God bless you! How can you extract one pound of gold by selecting a thousand pounds of gold stones?... Well, gold mining is time-consuming and labor-intensive... Gold mining is indeed a labor-intensive and hard work!..."
Mickey the Knowledgeable looked at the small and crude port camps around him, and then at the vast and continuous gold mining belt, and sighed sincerely.
In this era, gold mining is an extremely labor-intensive labor. It can be roughly divided into two types: gold mining in the water and gold mining in the mountains. Gold mining in the water uses the higher density of gold to precipitate and select it hidden in the river bed.
Placer gold. To mine gold in the mountains, you need to first select gold concentrate with high gold content, then use manpower to crush and grind the gold ore, and finally wash and screen it using the gold panning method in water.
According to the standards of later generations, if 50g of gold can be extracted from one ton of selected gold concentrate, it is already a rich ore. As for what the Jinzhan Priest said, one kilogram of gold can be mined from one thousand kilograms of selected gold stones.
, if placed in future generations, it would be simply sensational and nonsense to brag about God!…
However, the shocking Jinshan Mountain and Jinxi River really shone before their eyes! This mountain island with sparse vegetation is sleeping with gold mines with a radius of ten miles, and is rich in tens of tons of gold. It can be said that there is no need to worry about it.
It is an exaggeration to say that this desolate island on the seaside in front of you is the most valuable place on the 25 million square kilometers of North American continent!
In fact, this small island, later known as Douglas Island, buries the largest gold mine in the entire Juneau Gold Mine Belt, and is also the largest gold mine in North America, the Turad Gold Mine.
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This is where the Alaska gold rush began in later generations. During the forty years of mining at the end of the 19th century, the Turad Gold Mine recorded a gold output of at least 3 million ounces, or more than 85 tons! ... As for private mining that is not recorded
Gold is completely difficult to count. It can be said that this is a real golden mountain, a big golden mountain that has never been seen before!
"God bless you! Priest Miji, the tribes on the far north coast have never valued gold and silver. To them, these golds are just shiny heavy stones. The hundreds of kilograms of gold mined in the port cannot be exchanged for
Goods cannot be used to recruit tribes, it is better to catch more boats of fish and cut down more trees..."
"Priest Marigold, I understand what you mean. Whether it is the west coast or the extreme north coast, the value of gold is not great. Only by transporting gold to the other side of the sea and trading with those powerful and rich tribes of the West Sea can we exchange for astonishing amounts of gold."
wealth, even craftsmen!…”
Having said this, Mickey the Knowledgeable squinted his eyes and took a deep look at the prisoners from the Republic of China and North Korea who were panning for gold. On their faces, there was an obsession with being captured by the divinity of gold. Whenever they found something
A bit of shining gold sand will make their faces full of joy, and they will even shout excitedly and pray devoutly to the Lord God...
"Witness the Lord God! Since these tribes in the West Sea value gold so much... Perhaps, we can rely on this amazing large gold mine to recruit people from the large tribes in the West Sea to mine gold... In any case, as long as these tribes are removed first
, recruited with gold..."
The knowledgeable man Mickey's eyes flashed, and he had a few long-term thoughts in his heart. He didn't say much, but he and Priest Jinzhan had a detailed chat about the development of the port.
Shenjinxi Port is located in the large gold mining belt. Although it is rich in mineral deposits, there is not much suitable farmland. Potato yield is very low, and the potato fields developed are only dozens of acres. The main food source of the port is still in this bay.
Catch. And this rugged bay with many islands is indeed a place where fish gather and the seafood is rich.
"To put it simply, it is not suitable for farming, but suitable for fishing, so you need boats!... To expand the size of the port and support more people, the more boats the better! Especially small fishing boats suitable for offshore..."
The Zheyang ship stayed at Shenjinxi Port for two days. After replenishing a batch of water, it turned to the southeast under the reluctant eyes of the captives. The next port was the Condor Wings opposite Haida Island.
The port is about a thousand miles away and only takes six or seven days to sail.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The shipwright Jin Shanshu put on his fur, and his only linen garment was used to wrap the handful of found gold sand. The sailmaker Pu Shunfan was much smarter
, he quietly took a small piece from the spare sail, repeatedly wrapped the four ounces of gold sand he found, and then hid it in the cracks of the cabin at the bottom. As for the blacksmith Otani, he was still in a daze, thinking about what to do.
Build tools for gold mining.
"O God! That gold panning plate is too small and too slow! If you can get a big gold panning basket and sieve hundreds of kilograms of sand in one breath... Well, it's better to get a long-mouthed gold sand jar so that you can sift through it...
The sand absorbs gold sand..."
"The sky is full of gods and Buddhas! That's really a golden mountain! It's really a golden mountain that the head of the family has only dreamed of..."
"O Lord God, the Great Bodhisattva! Echizen is more than 300,000 stones high, and Shengshan Jinshan alone has 50,000 stones... And the size of this Jiaoren Jinshan Mountain is probably at least twice as large as Shengshan Jinshan, at least one hundred thousand stones!..."
In the corner of the cabin, the captain Murakami and the translator Watanabe sat opposite each other, silent. They both had gold sand hidden in their arms, and the expressions on their faces were a little changeable. After seeing the "gold mountain" with their own eyes and panning for two
After Tianjin, this large gold mine with astonishing reserves has been deeply engraved in their minds and cannot be removed.
At the end of the 15th century, the Takeda clan, the guardian of Koshu, had just been resurrected in the hands of Takeda Nobimasa, and the Kai gold mine was discovered in the inspection area. The Sado Gold Mountain was still sleeping and had not yet been discovered by the shogunate. And the largest mine in Japan was being mined.
The largest gold mine is the Katsuyama Gold Mine in Echizen, located in Fukui Prefecture, which is rich in rice. However, the scale of this gold mine cannot be compared with the Tured Gold Mine...
To put it simply, the gold that could be produced in Heguo at this time was very limited. In the Ming Dynasty, which lacked gold and silver, the Xianning gold mine discovered in the early Ming Dynasty was also small in scale. Compared with the needs of all classes in the Ming Dynasty, the gold and silver of the Ming Dynasty
The output is only a drop in the bucket. At this time, the entire East Asia is in a state of extreme shortage of precious metals!
In the Ming Dynasty in the 15th century, the price ratio of gold and silver was at least 1 tael to 15 taels. During the Yongle period, the price of rice was once as low as seven shi meters and one tael of silver. Now in Chenghua, during the Hongzhi period, the price is two taels of silver per one stone meter, which is also
That's five shi meters and one tael of silver... Therefore, the purchasing power of 1 tael of gold was worth 75 shi meters in the Ming Dynasty at this time! And it was a real purchase, so there was no need to worry about the fire cost of buying grain. And about three or four shi meters,
It can support an adult male for a year! Therefore, as long as you can find 1 tael of gold, it is enough to support a large family of twenty or thirty people for a year...
"Oh Huichiropo the Great Buddha! If the Dajin Mountain of this scale were known to others...even if it was thousands of miles away, there would be tens of thousands of poor people, regardless of life and death, like moths to a flame!
