1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 160 [Apache News Agency]

After more than half a year, in mid-December 1847, the horse post returned to Sleeping Bear City.

Compared with when we left, the scale of Sleeping Bear City has increased a lot. From a rough look, the area has expanded by at least half, and there are obviously more masonry buildings in the city.

There are also some buildings outside the city, such as gun shops on the east and west sides, stables, registration offices, etc.

A team of hunters came back from the south, carrying dozens of freshly hunted bison on the carriage.

Dozens of bison is already a good harvest. After all, the number of bison herds has been decreasing rapidly, especially the bison herd near Sleeping Bear City.

Soldiers were standing guard or patrolling everywhere, and many of them were training in the open space, with the sound of chant one after another, and of course there were golden fist red flags flying.

All kinds of sounds and sights filled the city and the city, both prosperous and chaotic.

Naturally, there was a golden fist red flag in the horse whistle team, which was very eye-catching, so people quickly realized: "The great chief is back!"

Greeted by the soldiers, the horse sentry entered Sleeping Bear City from the west gate.Of course, before entering the city, registration procedures are also essential. Since the epidemic, registration has become a rule that everyone must abide by.

Those players who are not qualified to hold guns, in addition to registering, have to leave their weapons outside the city.They can carry guns for self-defense on the road, but they cannot bring them into the city.

Anyone who brings a weapon into the city without authorization will be punished, and the Apache's weapons control is very strict.

After completing the formalities for entering the city, the horse sentry ordered: "Send all the 'packages' to the chief's hall."

"Yes." Some team members responded, and then unloaded the packages carried by the team and carried them to the chief's hall.

These packages are small in size, but they seem to be quite heavy, and many people have difficulty moving them.

"Li Niu, what's the matter with you, you are so tired after carrying two small packages? You were not like this before." A resident asked a burly soldier.

Li Niu replied, "You should also go to California, it's [-] kilometers!"

"It's not a day, I think you just can't do it... Let me help you." The resident wanted to help Li Niu share a package.

"Go away!" Li Niu didn't appreciate it, and carried two packages, panting, straight into the chief's hall.

Dozens of small packages in the team were all moved into the chief's hall and piled up on the ground, and the team members responsible for carrying them were also gathered here.

"Thank you for your hard work." Ma Shao said to these people, "Go back and have a good rest."

Then he urged: "You must pay attention to the confidentiality agreement. No matter what others tell you, you must not reveal a single word."

"Yes, Warchief!" the people responded.

After everyone had left, Rainy Sky, who was already full of doubts, couldn't help asking, "What's in these packages? Why are they so heavy?"

Ma Shao smiled: "You will know if you open it and have a look."

"This box has been nailed up." Rainy day unwrapped the cloth outside the package, revealing a nailed wooden box.

The horse sentry took the wooden box from him, and after a few times of force with both hands, he directly opened the wooden board nailed by iron nails, and then a touch of golden color appeared in the room.

"This is... gold?" Rainy Tian couldn't help opening his eyes wide, and took a closer look.

"Of course, apart from gold, what else can have such a moving luster." Ma Whistle picked up a gold ingot in the wooden box, and weighed it in his hand.

This full heaviness makes people feel happy.

On a rainy day, I also picked up a gold ingot and looked at it, then remembered something, and pointed to dozens of packages on the ground: "Are these all gold?"

"That's right, gold worth hundreds of thousands of dollars." Ma Shao said with a smile.

It was raining for a while: "Could it be... did you find a gold mine in California? Use that metal detector?"

Ma Shuo nodded: "Yes, but I think it's more of luck. After all, you know, the detection range of metal detectors is very small."

Sitting back in his seat on a rainy day, looking at the gold ingot in front of him, he frowned and fell silent.

Ma Shao continued on his own: "After discovering the gold mine, I directly established a lumber mill there, and in the name of logging, let the people pan for gold, and then built a new city near the lumber mill, called 'East Valley City'. There is also a military base 'Xiquan Fortress'..."

He gave a general overview of the current situation in Sacramento.

On a rainy day, he suddenly asked, "Are there a lot of gold mines there?"

"It seems so." Ma Shao nodded and pointed to the gold on the ground, "At least after so much gold was mined, the output of the gold mine has not decreased at all. I estimate that it may be worth several million or even tens of millions of dollars. gold mine."

Of course not.

The gold mines in California are worth at least hundreds of millions of dollars, which is a huge amount of wealth that is enough to make a country salivate.

The rainy day was silent for a while, until he said: "Why do I feel like you have expected it?"

"Ah?" The horse whistle faltered.

Rainy day: "Why else would you insist on going to California."

"Of course it's for the ocean. The west coast will become the most fertile place in the United States." Horse Whistle concealed his guilty conscience, "We must prepare early, after all, after the end of the Mexican-American War, California will be the territory of the United States, and there will definitely be more and more Americans poured in there."

This is indeed a very important reason.

Rainy day finally said: "Okay, I believe it..."

The horse whistle changed the subject: "Tell me about the situation in Sleeping Bear City in the past half a year. I feel that there have been at least 6000 or [-] people here."

"The population of Sleeping Bear City has exceeded 2, and it is the largest city in the Midwest." Rainy Day nodded and said, "Apache's merger plan is still going on, and with the population of other tribes moving in, each of us It attracts at least 1000 people every month.”

"Most of the immigrants from other tribes heard about our victory in the epidemic prevention. The impact of this victory is greater than I imagined."

"In fact, we have been featured in newspapers in the United States and Mexico." After a pause, Rain continued, "More than one reporter visited me, including one from New York."

"Where are the newspapers, I'll take a look." Ma Whistle was a little surprised.

As the westernmost California, the news is naturally more closed, and he doesn't know a lot of news in the east.

Instead of taking out the newspaper on a rainy day, he took out a manuscript, with many clipped newspaper fragments pasted on it, and some annotations beside it.

"I set up an Apache news agency to collect and organize important news from various newspapers. The important news of the past few months is here." Rainy said.

"Apache News Agency?"

(End of this chapter)