Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 242 Gold Rush ([-])
Seven years later

Yuanhe three years
gold mine island

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In the distant sea, a huge whale swam to the surface of the sea, spewed out a tall and thick water column, and then got into the sea water again, making a lot of waves.

"This fish is really big. If I can catch one, it will be enough for me to eat for the rest of my life." A young man looked at the big whale in the distance, and then squatted down to continue panning for gold in the sand.

There is a large open-pit gold mine on this island, but the exposed gold has long been transported away by the royal fleet, and the rest of the gold is buried in the sand and requires repeated gold panning to obtain.

The Wang family didn't want to spend the cost of panning for gold, so after transporting the gold on the surface, they directly opened the gold mine island, allowing everyone to enter the gold mine island to pan for gold freely.

In order to pan for gold on the gold mine island for a long time, these gold diggers who came to the island had to open up wasteland to support themselves, so as not to starve to death in the gold mine.

The boy picked up the sieve and started panning for gold. His body was covered with mud, but he didn't care.

He came to this island a year ago. He was originally a descendant of a homesteader from Wenxiang (formerly Wenxian).

However, after the Liaodong Wang family annexed the entire land of the four townships (originally four counties) of Ta Township, Ping Township, Xi'an Ping Township, and Fanhan Township, they continued to expand Wen Township non-stop. land annexation.

The Wang family has been annexing land in Liaodong for nearly 300 years, and it has never really stopped. At most, it will stop when the court is strict, and then it will continue to annex in a short time.

From the Great Qin Dynasty to the Former Han Dynasty, from the Former Han Dynasty to the Xinmang Dynasty, from the Xinmang Dynasty to the Xuanhan Dynasty, and from the Xuanhan Dynasty to the current Han Dynasty, several dynasties have changed, but what remains unchanged is the land annexation of the Wang family. , Remember the mission!
The speed of the Wang family's annexation of land is now only linked to the speed of overseas land reclamation, not the policy of the imperial court, nor the wishes of the people.

When we can open up 1 overseas wastelands this year, we will merge [-] owner-cultivated fields, as much as we need, and we cannot merge too many at one time.

For example, when only 1 people can open up wasteland this year, if the land of 2 people is annexed, then 1 more people in Liaodong will become refugees, threatening the rule of the Wang family in Liaodong.

A year ago, his father lost a large sum of money in the casino opened by the Wang family. There was no other way, the family had to sell all the land to the Wang family, and used the money from the sale of the land to pay off the gambling debts.

Without their fields, they can only live on the streets and beg, and the only thing waiting for them is starvation to death.

In the end, the family had no choice but to board the Wang family's immigration ship a year ago and go overseas to search for gold, so that at least they still had a chance of survival.

At first they didn't believe in a cloud kingdom full of gold, thinking it was just a teahouse storyteller's bragging.

But the bankruptcy of the family forced them to believe, because if they did not believe, they would starve to death, so they could only choose to believe, and then went overseas to try their luck.

His father, mother and younger sister all went to Queqiao Island (Honshu Island) to open up wasteland, and he chose to come to this gold mine island to open up wasteland and pan for gold to try his luck.

After a day of hard panning for gold, the boy's cloth bag has already contained two taels of unpurified gold. After these two taels of gold are purified into gold, they should be able to be one or two taels.

"One tael of unpurified gold is three hundred yuan, and you can exchange it for six hundred yuan."

The boy came to the [Exchange Office] on Gold Mine Island and exchanged his unpurified gold for five baht coins at the Wang family.

After all, to purify gold, you need professionals and professional tools, otherwise the cost will be higher than the benefit.

"It was a hard day, and I earned six hundred yuan. Today's harvest is good." The young man was very happy, with a happy smile on his face, which was much more profitable than farming in Liaodong before.

But there are pros and cons.

Although you earn a lot, you also spend a lot.

The area of ​​farmland on the island is too small, and food is relatively scarce. It can only guarantee that everyone can hardly starve to death after paying taxes. If you want to eat better, you have to spend money, but the prices on the island are very high.

At this time, it was almost night, the sun had set by half of the body, and the bright moon had just emerged.

Bringing six strings of five baht coins (one gold = 10000 to 15000 coins, one string = 1000 coins, one string = 100 coins), the boy came to the only teahouse on the island.

The shape of this teahouse is no different from those in Liaodong, and it is also run by the Wang family.

"Boss, bring me a bowl of hot noodle soup, and a big bowl of tea, cut a plate of fish slices for me, fresh, not pickled fish, and bring me a small plate of figs, and a spoonful of brown sugar." The boy walked towards the door as soon as he came in. The owner of the teahouse who was settling accounts shouted.

Although this teahouse was opened by the Wang family, the Wang family obviously didn't have the energy to run a teahouse by themselves.

Therefore, after the teahouse is built, it is leased to those guilds who have the idea of ​​running a teahouse.

After these guilds rented out the teahouses, they operated them by themselves. They only had to pay a certain amount of rent every year, and all the income they earned belonged to themselves.

This teahouse was leased and operated by the [Taoyuan Guild] in Busan City. The owner of the teahouse was a new female member of the [Taoyuan Guild] named Tong Xiangyu.

"You are well-developed. You don't eat pickled fish. You only eat fresh ones, and you even order brown sugar." Tong Xiangyu, the owner of the teahouse, smiled at the young man, and then yelled at an errand boy beside him: "Bai Zhantang, hurry up, give us The young hero will clear that position over there."

"Haha~ That's not right, hurry up, my lord, I have plenty of money today." The young man sat on a bench that the teahouse clerk had just cleaned, quietly waiting for the food.

Such long chairs, square tables and the like are also the characteristics of the area ruled by the royal family, and Zhong Yuan still sticks to the ancient kneeling posture.

"Have you heard, what kind of car did the mother-in-law of the Sun family come up with, and was rewarded with 500 million yuan by the Wang family, making her rich overnight!"

At this moment, the young man heard that the people in the teahouse were discussing some interesting things about the Central Plains, so he also moved the bench under his buttocks, and leaned over to listen and chat with them.

"What kind of car? It's so expensive. Could it be the emperor's car?" The young man leaned over and asked.

"It seems to be a water wheel, which can lift the water to the shore." The man just replied.

"Isn't it just a waterwheel? It's not like there is no gold mine island here." Someone said disdainfully: "A waterwheel can be rewarded with 500 million yuan, tsk tsk tsk."

"That's not an ordinary waterwheel. I heard that it's easier to use than the waterwheels we've seen. You can step on it. It seems to be called [keel waterwheel]?"

"Ah, that's right, that's the name. When the Sun family was observing a waterwheel by the waterfall, she suddenly had an inspiration and improved the waterwheel. She invented such a waterwheel that can be stepped on. The traditional waterwheels used in the Central Plains are more than ten times more efficient, so they are very useful.”

"The mother-in-law of the Sun family has now joined the Taoyuan Guild with the 500 million money and has become a member of the Taoyuan Guild."

"Damn, it's better for a mother-in-law to build a waterwheel after working so hard to find gold." Hearing the discussion of the crowd, the young man cursed.

At this time, the food he ordered was ready.

"Here is your fresh sashimi, a large bowl of tea, a spoonful of brown sugar, and the hot noodle soup is still cooking, so wait a minute." The errand man brought the things with a smile on his face.

Among these foods, brown sugar is the most expensive, after all, it is a luxury in the Central Plains.

But the boy made a lot of money panning for gold today, so he just had to eat some candy to enjoy himself.

(End of this chapter)