Chapter 322 The Handed Down Gem Mine 【Thanks: Ako Wan
After everyone walked on the mountain road for this period of time, Chen Zhi and others did not feel very tired, but the injured Humeng and Lao Jidou were obviously exhausted. They opened the doors of the wooden houses and wanted to go in and rest for a while.
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These wooden houses all have the same specifications, with simple triangular roofs. Each one is about fifty square meters. The environment inside is pretty good. The floors, walls, and ceilings are all made of teak, which is very durable and warm in winter and cool in summer.
But probably for fear of causing a fire, there was no stove in the middle of the house, only some benches and sofas for resting. In the surrounding cabinets, they also found a large number of canned water...
"We can only rest here for a while..." Hu Meng said as he took out the jugs and pointed out the window.
"After passing here, there is a gem mine base ahead, and there is no place to rest there..."
Fat Wei found some cups in the partition next to him, then poured water into them and took a sip.
"I asked you, boy, are you right in what you say?
I just said that I had only been here once, more than ten years ago~~~, how do you know there is no resting place inside?"
"You don't know this..." Hu Meng said to Fat Wei seriously,
"Our colored gemstone mine has been passed down to countless generations since ancient times. Is it thousands of years or longer? We ourselves don't know~~~~
But this gem mine still uses the most primitive mining technology. The miners work very hard. You will know when you go in later~~~"
After Humeng finished speaking, he invited everyone to come and drink water. He also specially handed a cup to Lao Kutu and asked him to come and rest with everyone.
They drank some water in the wooden house, paused for a while, and then moved on...
In front of the wooden house, there was a small slope. After climbing a slope, they finally saw the legendary Mongolian colored gem mining area!
However, the scene in this mining area is now in a mess, with wet loess and muddy water everywhere. Next to the muddy water, there are some lunch boxes used by miners, with tableware on them~~~
It seems like what Hu Meng said just now, the workers in this gem mine are very hardworking and have always been in a closed state without contact with the outside world. All mining techniques use the most primitive methods.
They didn't stop for much and continued walking forward. Every once in a while, they could see a ditch full of muddy water, with dustpans wrapped with gauze in it. It seemed that there should have been many workers here sifting stones.
It's a bit like the gold mining scene in old movies, but now these workers are gone.
But there are still a lot of small rubbles sifted out from those dustpans, most of which are transparent rubble, not many with color.
"It's not that easy to mine a good colored gemstone...",
Hu Meng walked along the road and said to them:
"You may think that we, the children of aristocratic families, have not learned anything since we were young, we only know how to eat, drink and have fun~~~
In fact, we have been learning mining techniques since we were very young, but the techniques we learned are very traditional and more suitable for our family~~~
For example, if we want to mine gems in this mountain range, we need to use a plow to loosen the mountain first, and then use floods to wash away the soil and stones. After the mountains are washed into concrete rocks by floods, we can then
It is manually sucked into such a large trough, and staff are there to sweep away the large rocks in a timely manner.
The remaining muddy water will be mixed with gem-containing ores, which will settle under the muddy water. After double precipitation, only muddy water and small gemstones will flow out.
In the past, those dustpans wrapped with gauze were used to dig out small scraps of treasure in muddy water.
This set of processes must be done manually, and no machines can be used. This kind of hardship is beyond the reach of ordinary people.
You may have discovered that there is no electricity in this land, nor any machinery in modern society...
Colored gems are gifts left to us by our ancestors and gods. Machines and gasoline will pollute this sacred land. Our ancestors will blame us, so we can only use our hands to mine the treasures left to us by the gods from generation to generation~~~
I once saw my uncle, whose feet were soaked to death, but he was still standing in the muddy water washing sand. The villagers in this village are all related to each other. Although they are very rich, their work is also extremely hard!"
"Hey, I said Humeng~~~, if you really don't use any machines in this mine, how did you find the veins?",
Fat Wei said with some confusion:
"Is it possible that your ancestors left you some treasure maps or something? Tell you where there are gem mines?"
"How can such a good thing happen?",
Humeng shook his head and said with a bitter smile:
"Finding these gemstone veins is another complicated process...
As I just told you, we cannot use any modern instruments and equipment here, we all rely on primitive labor and simple tools~~~~
Mineral veins will always be exhausted, and we need to find new mineral veins~~~
When we are looking for new mineral veins, we first dig an earthen well from the top of the mountain, usually dozens of meters deep, and then use wood to build a ladder downwards. People can go down to see the changes in the soil, and then dig deeper and deeper~~~
Ore veins are distributed in strips, so as long as you find the veins passing by, you can roughly know how deep to dig down.
The strange thing is that the deeper the veins of colored gemstones go, the more brilliant the colors of the gemstones.
Therefore, some of our high-end products are mined in extremely deep underground mines.
An eight-kilogram piece of material was once dug here, and a huge colored gemstone was produced. The gemstone was as big as a baby's head. It released 77 brilliant colors, each of which cannot be painted with current paints. It is simply
More beautiful than angel eyes.
The huge gem was later split into two and made into two Easter eggs. One was given to an important figure in Russia, and the other was given to an American noblewoman!
And it was also from that time that Mongolia got rid of that meaningless second war and gained peace, so that our small country with a sparse population can maintain itself until now."
"So that's it..." After listening to Hu Meng's introduction, Fatty was a little moved.
"Brother, I really misunderstood you before. I thought you were a golden second generation who only knew how to eat, drink, whore and gamble. It turns out that you are so concerned about the fate of the nation. I admire you~~~, you are really a role model for us..."
"But there are pros and cons to this kind of thing...",
Hu Meng continued:
"The higher the quality of the gems, the deeper they have to be dug into the ground~~~, which can easily arouse people's greed~~~
I heard that when my uncle was alive, he also tried to use high-tech instruments to detect the underground situation and wanted to dig deeper~~~~
But I was slapped twice by my grandfather and was not allowed to eat for a week!!!
My grandfather said that my uncle was too greedy and the family could not be left in his hands in the future.
He also told me that after I take over this mine in the future, I will never violate the rules set by my ancestors like my uncle did.
Once you dig to a certain depth, you have to stop. No matter how tempting the gems in the ground are, you can no longer detect what’s underneath..."