1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 146 [East Valley Logging Field]

"Is this gold?!"

People quickly recognized that this small piece of shimmering golden light, no bigger than a finger's size, was gold, it was so heavy and bright.

"It's really gold!"

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

"Gold, there is gold in the river!" The crowd became excited and shouted loudly around.

Some even bent over and groped in the water, trying to find the gold too.

The horse whistle came over, took the gold nugget from the soldier, looked it over, and said, "Be quiet first."

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

After the people were quiet, the horse sentry took over the metal detector from the soldier and made a detection in the river himself.

In nature, most metal elements exist in the form of compounds, and detectors cannot respond to them.

Only a very small number of metals can exist in nature in the form of simple substances, and these metals are basically not cheap, the most typical one is gold.

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

Sure enough, following his detection, he indicated that the speed of the fan fluctuated from time to time, and it was obvious that there was a lot of metal distributed in the river water here.

These metals are obviously gold.

At the positions where the fan's reaction was the most intense, the horse whistle reached out and groped in the water, and soon found some gold visible to the naked eye, the smallest was the size of a grain of rice, and the largest was about the size of a finger.

The continuous discovery of gold has made people excited again.

"This is a gold mine!" Du Tiao couldn't help but say something.

The horse sentry found another grain of gold from the river, and said, "It should be so—we found a gold mine."

"Gold mine, gold mine, my God, we found a gold mine!"

"Wuhu!"

"Great Chief, you shouldn't have expected that there is a gold mine here?"

"At the beginning, I thought I shouldn't have come to California, but looking at it now...it's still the Great Chief who has far-sighted plans!"

The horse whistle turned around and looked at the excited Xijin team: "Calm down, my people, students."

"Remember what I said? If you want to master superior fighting skills, you must first overcome the instinct of closing your eyes; if you want to master superior wealth, you must first overcome the instinct of greed and showing off."

People calm down again.

Ma Shao continued: "A gold mine may bring us wealth or disaster. I think it is not difficult to understand."

In fact, in its original history, California gold almost exclusively spelled disaster for its discoverers.

He had seen a related documentary in his previous life, and he probably still remembered that the first few people who discovered gold in California seemed to have no good end.

Greed, and the greed of others, made them struggle.

Most of the gold diggers who heard the news did not end well. The lucky ones worked for nothing, the unlucky ones lost their lives, and the unlucky ones died without anyone knowing.

Only a very few lucky ones made a fortune in the gold rush and returned home clothed in gold.

Of course, there is another biggest beneficiary - the US economy.

The gold rush ignited the climax of the westward movement, allowing the west to develop rapidly. At the same time, a large amount of gold flowed into the US market, giving the US economy a shot in the arm.

The gold diggers in the original history were just a group of rabble, and gold made them fall into extreme involution and chaos.

But the Westward Expedition team led by Ma Shuo is a strict group with a professional army at its core. All of them have passed a certain review in advance, and they are united and loyal enough. At least they are very different from those gold diggers in history.

Moreover, Ma Shao himself, as a physics teacher of later generations, also knows how to efficiently detect and mine gold mines.

So he is confident to grasp the wealth.

No matter how bad it was, even if the news leaked out and triggered the westward climax of Americans, he could still make a fortune before the influx of white people.

"Who do you think the gold mine here belongs to?" Ma Shao asked.

"Belongs to the Warchief!" many said.

Even in traditional situations, a lot of people have a notion like "the warchief has it all" or something.

Not to mention that now is clearly not a traditional situation in any sense.

It was Horse Whistle who made the decision to come to California, and it was Horse Whistle who invented the magic metal detector.

In addition, people worshiped the horse whistle very much, so in their view, it was completely reasonable and even a matter of course for the gold mine to belong to the great chief.

But the Whistle said, "Maybe. But strictly speaking, it really belongs to the Apache—because I belong to the Apache."

This sentence actually has elements of show.

But it was really useful. Some tribesmen with low teardrops were immediately overwhelmed by this sentence, and were moved to cry: "The great chief..."

For example Du Wang, some tears could not stop overflowing from his single eye.

In fact, he had a lot of tears, but his strong personality cult towards the horse post and the increasingly "Apacheism" in the tribe made it difficult for him to maintain his sanity.

The so-called Apacheism is collectivism and Apache assimilationism.

It is true that seeking common ground while reserving differences, and harmony without differences exist, but that is only relatively speaking, and it can only be so if there is not much difference between each other.

If there is a fundamental conflict of ideas, as far as the cost allows, there are naturally only two choices: destruction or assimilation.

On this issue, Westerners are obviously more adaptable than Easterners, and they can actively preach, and even wage wars for preaching...

Among the two choices of destruction and assimilation, the horse sentry chooses the latter, or takes the latter as the default option.

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

The horse whistle said slowly.

"We must be soberly aware of the significance of this wealth. It is not something we use to squander and show off, but something we use to build Apache."

"So you must not be complacent and get carried away with this, but be vigilant at all times."

"If we accidentally let the white people know that the gold mine exists, the endless chaos will cause the Apache to lose it, and even bring disaster to the Apache itself."

After a pause, he said again: "Concealing the news is our top priority. For this reason, I plan to build a lumber mill here."

"Sawmill?"

Ma Shao nodded: "Yes, we need wood to build a new city, and this is also suitable for building a lumber mill. In addition to producing wood, this lumber mill will also play a role in deceiving people. We will be lumberjacks or hunters. activity here."

In the original history, Americans discovered gold mines when they built logging camps.

Building a logging camp here is a perfect choice.

Ma Shuo thought for a moment: "The name of the logging camp is... Donggu Logging Camp."

(End of this chapter)