In a teahouse in Golden Bay, Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin were drinking tea slowly while listening to the people in the teahouse bragging about running trains.
"Let me tell you, the gold mine I discovered north of Sanhekou has amazing reserves. The entire river surface sparkles with gold under the sunlight and is covered with a thick layer of golden sand."
"Just grab a handful with your hand and it will be filled with almost all gold sand."
The braggart has a big bald head. It is Li Guangtou, a famous explorer of Golden Bay. Now he is bragging almost everywhere that he discovered gold in the cold area north of Sanhekou. But the people who believe it seem to be very few.
few.
"Bald Li, if you really had that much gold, I wouldn't have seen you bring back several bags."
"That's right. If you can grab a handful of gold anywhere, Baldy Li will be willing to come back and die there, right?"
Naturally, some people didn't believe it and started teasing Baldy Li with a smile.
"Hmph!"
"I would lie to you just because you don't believe me."
"Show you where I got the gold sand."
When the big man named Baldy Li heard this, he immediately became anxious. He also took out a cloth bag from his arms, then grabbed a handful of gold sand from the bag, and then carefully let the gold sand flow back into the bag.
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When the golden sand appeared, the eyes of everyone in the teahouse began to shine. Everyone stared at the golden sand in his hand. No color was more charming and intoxicating than this.
"Hey, you, it's really golden sand."
"This bag should weigh at least one or two kilograms. Baldy Li, you've made a fortune."
"Bald Li, do you want to exchange the gold sand for it? If so, I will give you a banknote or silver dollar right away."
Someone said quickly on the spot.
Here in Golden Bay, gold is undoubtedly something everyone likes and everyone wants.
"Go, go~"
"I only have this bag of gold sand in my hand, and no one will exchange it for me."
"This is the evidence I left behind, which will save you all from calling me bragging."
"I'm not bragging here, Baldy Li. If I hadn't found that place last year too late and the weather was too cold, I would have to mine dozens or hundreds of kilograms of gold."
"There is really a lot of gold in that place. It covers the entire river bed. When the sun shines, it sparkles and becomes golden."
"It's just too cold. It's really cold. Even in the middle of summer, it's extremely cold everywhere. There could be a heavy snowfall at any time, covering everything."
"I'm also lucky. I happened to see it that time, otherwise I wouldn't have found that place."
Baldy Li put away his gold and continued to brag.
"Let me tell you, I have traveled all over the country, and I have visited many places in the entire Golden Continent."
"I've been to the North. There are really a lot of ginseng there. You haven't seen it. In that mountain forest, there are large areas full of ginseng, just like weeds."
"Nowadays, ginseng is not sold cheaply. This is entirely because the big families and trading houses that mine ginseng have joined forces to raise the price. They have circled the places where ginseng is produced and do not allow outsiders to enter. They only excavate ginseng of a certain year every year.
, those who are under age don’t dig it at all, and now they even grow their own ginseng.”
"So, ginseng is really not rare. What is really rare is the ginseng from the Changbai Mountains in the Ming Dynasty. The ginseng from there is the best ginseng. It is small in quantity, expensive, and has good medicinal effects."
"When you eat ginseng, you must eat ginseng from the Changbai Mountains in the Ming Dynasty or Korean ginseng. Korean ginseng is also good, but the worst thing is the ginseng from the north. It's like a carrot."
"Bald Li, are you real or fake?"
"I heard someone say that ginseng from the north is now sold all over the world."
When someone heard this, they quickly asked.
"Why did I lie to you? There is no benefit to me. I just told the truth."
"I'll tell you about the Southern Golden Continent Rainforest Adventure."
"This is the expedition I organized the year before last to explore the rainforest. I wanted to see if I could find gold, silver or some precious Chinese medicinal materials."
Baldy Li is very good at talking and is an explorer. He talks about one thing and another. Everyone is also very interested in these things, so everyone listens to them with great interest.
"You must have heard of the Great Rainforest. Many people in the timber business may have gone to the Great Rainforest to sell redwood."
"We all know that the rainforest is almost endless, boundless, vast, inaccessible, and full of crises."
"The reason why I went to the Great Rainforest was because I met an Inca tribal chief when I was exploring the Inca Empire. The tribal chief told me a story about the Golden City in the Great Rainforest."
When Baldy Li saw that everyone was very interested, they all looked at him, he immediately became more energetic, and then he began to talk vividly.
"Legend has it that a long time ago, a powerful country arose in the rainforest. This country was called the Kingdom of Gold, because they had too much gold, too much, and they directly used the gold to grow in the great rainforest.
A huge golden city was built in the rainforest."
"The history of the Kingdom of Gold and the City of Gold lasted for 800 years. They mined gold in the rainforest and built magnificent pyramids to worship the great Sun God."
"But one day, the king of this golden kingdom blasphemed the gods and the sun god, so the gods sent down terrible plagues and diseases, which completely destroyed this huge country overnight."
"People are rushing to escape from this city and country built with gold, to escape curses, plagues, and diseases. However, God's punishment is extremely terrible, and you cannot escape if you want to."
"In the end, the entire Golden Kingdom and Golden City disappeared into the rainforest, and no one could find its existence anymore. However, the legend about the Golden City has been passed down, and it continues to spread among the descendants of the Yin Shang tribes around the rainforest.
It was spread and has been spread to this day.”
Baldy Li was very good at telling stories, and he didn't know if the Golden Country and Golden City were real. However, after hearing his stories, many people present couldn't help but feel moved.
The Golden Kingdom, the city built with gold, what an attractive place this is.
Moreover, the story told by Baldy Li is consistent with many situations here.
Like the Mayan Empire, it was gradually discovered by the Ming Dynasty.
There are many legends about the Mayan Empire. It was once extremely glorious and was a huge empire as famous as the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire.
But as if overnight, the Mayan Empire quietly disappeared into the dense rainforests of the Central Golden Continent. Now some explorers have discovered huge urban ruins in these rainforests and brought out the A lot of gold, gems, silver, etc.
To be honest, some people still believe a thing or two about the golden kingdom and golden city in the rain forest that Baldy Li said, because this kind of thing is not uncommon here.
"Bald Li, have you found the Golden City and the Golden Kingdom?"
Someone couldn't help but ask.
"Nonsense, I must have not found it. If I had found it, why would I be bragging to you here? I would have posted it long ago."
When Baldy Li heard this, he quickly said, "Do you know how many rainforests there are?"
"It's almost boundless and endless, and the Great Rainforest is completely different from other places. The Great Rainforest is full of primitive tropical rainforests, full of crises, and countless poisons of all kinds."
"It's harder to find a golden country and a golden city in a place like this than to reach the sky. Even if you want to survive there for a few days, it's not easy."
"To be honest, that kind of place is really not meant for people. After going there once, I don't want to go there a second time. No matter whether it has a golden city or a golden pyramid, I won't go there. My life is at stake."
"In that kind of place, there are many kinds of plants, animals, and fishes, all of which you have never seen before, including poisonous frogs, giant snakes as big as buckets, and groups of piranhas. , the terrifying electric eel, if even a small beetle bites you, you may die."
"It's not a place for people to stay at all. We can't even light a fire. It's too wet. I advise everyone not to go, otherwise we don't know how they died. I organized more than 100 people to go on an expedition, but only the ones who came back came back. Half of it is just as scary as hell."
When he said this, Baldy Li still seemed to be worried, and he shook his head as he spoke.
"Bald Li, there are things you are afraid of."
Someone said with a smile.
"Afraid, of course I am. You will be afraid even if you have been there once."
"There's nothing to be embarrassed about. We explorers are out there looking for gold, not to die. Even if there is a golden city in that kind of place, I will never go there again."
"There are so many places with gold here, why go to a place like that to seek death."
Baldy Li smiled and said, "It's like the place where I discovered gold last year. Although it's extremely cold, at least you don't have to worry about all kinds of poisons. As long as summer passes, you can still dig out a lot of gold." of."
"A place like the rainforest is really scary. It's best not to go there."
"You may have just walked around in this Northern Golden Continent and haven't seen the horror of that kind of place. As long as you go there once, you won't want to go there again."
"Let me tell you, when I went that time, I encountered a big snake somewhere. This kind of snake was very big, thicker than a bucket, with horns on its head and claws on its belly. It was almost like a dragon... ..”