Poor family mother and son

Chapter 646 Farmer, Farmer Soul

On the tenth day of March in the 12th year of Daxuan Qingde, Ge Jingtai was reluctantly dragged away by Chu Qing again to draw a boundary for the jade mine on Yujing Mountain.

Yujing Mountain is very high, it is said that it is as high as [-] zhang. Chu Qing doesn't know how terrifying the figure is if calculated according to the altitude.

The mountain is covered with snow all the year round, and when they enter Yujing Mountain to pick jade, the people of Voss usually start to open or repair some trails along the way in March and April, so that they can enter the mountain to camp and mine after the snow basically melts at the end of May.

Chu Qing has not left Voss until now, just to force the fourth prince to plan the specific location.

Because this operation is conducive to Chuqing’s further progress, for example, which slope can be completely used by Chuqing to go up and down the mountain, and others are not allowed to go;

Another reason is that Chu Qing wants to see for himself how many traces of artificial mining there are on the mountain. If the area is too bad, he has to ask to change it.

What Chu Qing didn't know was that all the jade was owned by Voss, and as the prince, Kailidi supervised the best area and owned [-]% of the profits.

The people of Voss call the jade on the river bank "seed jade" and the one produced on the mountain "mountain jade". The transit warehouse is [-] miles away, and nearly half of it is mountain road.

This trip took four days just to get to the foot of the mountain.

Climbing up from the foot of the mountain is an uneven slope, covered with snow, and there is no way to see. Ge Jingtai also relies on the steward he brought to discern the direction.

Seeing that Ge Jingtai was so unfamiliar with the business, Chu Qing simply passed him and followed the steward, letting him be his guide.

As the terrain got higher, the steward pointed to the surroundings, signaling them to look clearly. It could be seen through the depression in the snow layer that there should have been a road less than a foot wide here.

Upwards, there are towering ridges, and downwards, there are tens of feet of deep streams.

Chu Qing was somewhat afraid of heights, so he didn't dare to look down. He just pretended to lean down and retracted his figure, but Ge Jingtai said in surprise, "Is that a bone?"

There is a pile of bones below that cannot be covered by snow, and they are not all human bones.

The steward replied: "Yes, there are often people and donkeys falling together!"

Chu Qing broke out in a cold sweat, and then silently retreated behind Ge Jingtai - the back was still left for Zhuo Yao's safety.

If Ge Jingtai pushed her, she would have to turn into a bone, right?

Marks were made along the way, and the route was registered under the witness of Ge Jingtai and two other tribal witnesses. When all the routes were completed, the enclosed area would not be open to the Voss.

The mountain road was steep and difficult, covered with snow and ice. In the process of entering the deep mountain, Chu Qing was physically exhausted several times after trekking long distances, and suffered from altitude sickness.

Chu Qing climbed with four hands and four feet with the people of Voss. Seeing that he was not far from the excavated traces, he slipped and fell on the path of the cliff. This slip was a real cliff fall.

Fortunately, the potential exploded during the crisis, and after falling a few meters, he grabbed a protruding rock corner, used the force of his fingers to support the weight of the whole body, and climbed up again.

Yujing Mountain is a rocky mountain, with no trees and no shelter, whether it is the fourth prince's jade mine or other mountains, so it does not involve the issue of changing places.

What's more, if you want to change places, you need someone who knows how to look for a new jade mine. It will be more difficult and the delay will be longer.

On the mountain, I couldn't even cook a single noodle. Chu Qing knew that it was due to the lack of air pressure. This trip was really hard and hard.

Ge Jingtai vowed countless times in his heart: he will change his surname if he climbs the mountain again in this life!
Having walked, seen, and experienced it in person, Chu Qing drew a detailed topographic map after returning, communicated with everyone about the difficulty of climbing, formulated a strategy for opening the route, and the "infrastructure team" set off.

Mountain jade is not easy to mine, and there are only three months of opportunity every year, usually between July and October.

Every summer, July and August is the hottest season here. The snow on the mountain melts quickly, and the sediment and stones will flow down with the snow, turning into a bad "mudslide". Therefore, before the mudslide comes, jade mining workers We must stop picking jade and go down the mountain to avoid danger.

It can still be mined for one month until September. If it is not out of the mountain by mid-October, it will face the danger of being trapped in Yujing Mountain by heavy snow. Therefore, the time for real jade mining will not be satisfied for four months at most.

And because of the rugged and treacherous mountain roads, some people lost their way in mining and lost their way, and some people stumbled and fell to their deaths while walking on the steep cliffs with jade on their backs.

It is impossible for the "infrastructure team" to dig out a road on a mountain full of granite, but they can knock thick iron nails along the way to fix the rope, so that climbers have a place to grasp.

Chu Qing originally thought that his team would encounter the miners under the fourth prince, and he also presupposed many ways to resolve the conflict.

But in fact, the Yujing mountain range is too big, and people are like ants in front of the mountain range. Thousands of people are scattered in it, and there are almost no people. Chuqing's mine is at the farthest position, so there is no need to worry about conflicting with people.

The first thousand youths from the beggar gang played a leading role as a model and showed their spirit of enduring hardships and hard work; while the youths from the salt gang who had been impoverished used their climbing skills to smuggle salt across the mountains and became technical guides for rock climbing. Leading everyone to avoid danger countless times.

In comparison, the brothers of the Chuan Gang have become a vulnerable group. The difference between the north and the south is too great. Those who can get down to the water may not be able to go up the mountain.

The infrastructure team chose locations at different heights to set up tents as bases to facilitate subsequent transportation, and those who fell ill or fell were also arranged to recuperate here.

But the brothers of the Chuan Gang are stubborn, and they can't bear to be regarded as weak. Anyone who can move can't open the way, and they also dig the soil near the base.

They didn't believe it, there were bushes growing around here, but no vegetables, just wait, when Xiaomu and the others came to deliver food again, let him bring the vegetables along with him!

A farming nation has the soul of farming in its bones.

Unlike other ores, jade mines are intermittently hidden in rock interlayers, which can be said to be erratic and erratic like smoke and mist.

Occasionally exposed veins are covered by thick rock layers. Every time a piece of jade is taken out, a large amount of hard rock must be removed, so the hardships of the jade miners are often unimaginable.

With the current level of productivity, it basically depends on manpower to carry tools and materials on the back. At this time, we can see the advantage of having more people.

The half-grown children like Xiaomu were unwilling to stop doing any work and just spend rations, so they also joined the food delivery team.

But the deep mountains are not easy to enter, and it is spring time, and wild animals are also hungry. Once they met a leopard on the way into the mountain. The horses were frightened, neighing and jumping wildly, and Xiaomu was thrown from his back, and he fell into a coma for more than half a day.

(End of this chapter)