Aztec Eternals

Mountain islands stand tall, and rocks sparkle with gold. The golden sun shines in the west, and the bay floats with golden light. The two kingdom priests looked around, looking at the flowing golden stream and the continuous golden mountains in the distance, and they both felt a kind of divinity that shocked people's hearts. This golden divinity is revealed in the mountains and rivers, making people worship it with piety and greed.

"This magnificent gold mine, this vast and vast gold mine belt! It is a real miracle that the Lord God guides us, and it is also the strength that the Lord God gives us to move forward!... Praise the Lord God, praise His blessing, and praise the divinity The mountains and seas!…”

"Praise the Lord God! Praise His protection! Praise the sacred mountains and seas!..."

The two kingdom priests lowered their heads and prayed devoutly for a while. Dozens of warriors around him also bowed their heads in prayer. In front of this vast mountain island gold mine, whether it is the two priests, dozens of warriors, or the more than 200 tribesmen at the port, they all seem very small.

On this desolate and sparsely populated extreme northern coast, the indigenous tribes who have been struggling for survival for generations have never had the ambition and ambition to regard the sacred mountains, seas and land as belonging to a certain tribe. On the contrary, large tribes in various places often claim to be descendants of sacred mountains, sacred lakes, or birds and beasts. The mountains, seas, wind, snow, gods and ancestors are the real masters of this land in people's hearts! …

"Priest Marigold, over the past year, how much placer gold has been mined in your Shenjinxi Port camp?"

"Chief Priest Mickey, all the placer gold we mined is in the altar of the main god... It's just a shallow pool, about three hundred kilograms... Gold mining is too labor-intensive after all! Panning for gold in the river, even the smallest In the rich Jinxi River, a young man has to work for several days to find a pound of gold sand. But if you want to mine gold in this Jinshan Mountain, you must first select the gold stones, then smash them, then sieve them with water like gold panning, and finally sieve them. To smelt scrap gold... It takes a man more than ten days of labor to extract one kilogram of gold from a thousand kilograms of gold and stone! And our Shenjinxi Port only has a total of more than 200 tribesmen and a hundred men. Just strong..."

"God bless you! How can you extract one pound of gold by selecting a thousand pounds of gold stones?... Well, gold mining is time-consuming and labor-intensive... Gold mining is indeed a labor-intensive and hard work!..."

Mickey the Knowledgeable looked at the small and crude port camps around him, and then at the vast and continuous gold mine belt, and sighed sincerely.

In this era, gold mining was an extremely labor-intensive labor and could be roughly divided into two types: gold mining in the water and gold mining in the mountains. Gold panning in water uses the higher density of gold to precipitate and select placer gold hidden in the river bed. To mine gold in the mountains, you need to first select gold concentrate with high gold content, then use manpower to crush and grind the gold ore, and finally wash and screen it using the method of panning for gold in water.

According to the standards of later generations, if 50g of gold can be extracted from one ton of selected gold concentrate, it is already a rich ore. As for what the Jinzhan Priest said, one pound of gold can be mined from one thousand pounds of selected gold stones. If placed in future generations, it would be simply sensational and boastful nonsense! …

However, the shocking Jinshan and Jinxi really shone before their eyes! This mountain island with sparse vegetation is sleeping with gold mines covering a ten-mile radius, containing tens of tons of gold. It is no exaggeration to say that this desolate island on the seaside is the most valuable place on the 25 million square kilometers of North American continent!

In fact, this small island, later known as Douglas Island, is hiding the largest gold mine in the entire Juneau Gold Mine Belt, and also the largest gold mine in North America, the Turad Gold Mine. .

This is where the Alaska Gold Rush began. During the four decades of mining at the end of the 19th century, the Touraid gold mine recorded a production of at least 3 million ounces of gold, or more than 85 tons! …As for illegal mining of gold that is not recorded, it is completely difficult to count. It can be said that this is a real golden mountain, a golden mountain that has never been seen before!

"God bless you! Chief Priest Mickey, the tribes on the far north coast have never valued gold and silver. To them, these golds are just shiny heavy stones. The hundreds of kilograms of gold mined at the port cannot be exchanged for Goods cannot be used to recruit tribes, it is better to catch more boats of fish and cut down more trees..."

"Priest Marigold, I understand what you mean. Whether it is the west coast or the extreme north coast, the value of gold is not great. Only by transporting gold to the other side of the sea and trading with those powerful and rich tribes of the West Sea can we exchange for astonishing wealth, even craftsmen!…”

Having said this, Mickey the Knowledgeable squinted his eyes and took a deep look at the prisoners from the Republic of China and North Korea who were panning for gold. The faces of those captives showed the obsession of being captured by the golden divinity. Whenever they find a bit of shining gold sand, their faces will be full of joy, and they will even shout excitedly and pray devoutly to the Lord God...

"Witness the Lord God! Since these tribes in the West Sea value gold so much... Perhaps, we can rely on this amazing large gold mine to recruit people from the large tribes in the West Sea to mine gold... In any case, as long as these tribes are first , recruited with gold..."

Mickey the Knowledgeable's eyes flashed, and he had some long-term thoughts in his heart. He didn't say much, he just had a detailed chat with Priest Jinzhan about the development of the port.

Shenjinxi Port is located on the Great Gold Mine Belt. Although it is rich in mineral deposits, there is not much suitable farmland. Potato yields are very low, and only dozens of acres of potato fields have been developed. The main source of food in the port is the fish caught in this bay. And this rugged bay with many islands is indeed a place where fish gather and seafood is abundant.

"To put it simply, it is not suitable for farming, but suitable for fishing, so you need boats!... To expand the size of the port and support more people, the more boats the better! Especially small fishing boats suitable for offshore..."

The Zheyang ship stayed at Shenjinxi Port for two days, and after replenishing a batch of water, it turned to the southeast under the reluctant eyes of the captives. The next port is Condor Wings Port opposite Haida Island, which is about a thousand miles away and only takes six or seven days to sail.

Shipwright Jin Shanshu put on his fur, and his only linen garment was used to wrap the handful of gold sand he had found. The sailmaker Pu Shunfan was much smarter. He quietly took a small piece from the spare sail, repeatedly wrapped the four ounces of gold sand he found out tightly, and then hid it in the cracks of the bottom cabin. As for the blacksmith Otani, he was still in a daze, thinking about how to make gold mining tools.

"O God! That gold panning plate is too small and too slow! If you can get a big gold panning basket and sieve hundreds of kilograms of sand in one breath... Well, it's better to get a long-mouthed gold sand jar so that you can sift through it... The sand absorbs gold sand..."

"The sky is full of gods and Buddhas! That's really a golden mountain! It's really a golden mountain that the head of the family has only dreamed of..."

"O Lord God, the Great Bodhisattva! Yuechian is more than 300,000 stones high, and Shengshan Jinshan alone has 50,000 stones... And the scale of this Jiaoren Jinshan Mountain is probably at least twice that of Shengshan Jinshan, at least one hundred thousand stones!..."

In the corner of the cabin, Murakami, the captain of the ship, and Watanabe, the translator, sat opposite each other, silent. They all had gold sand hidden in their arms, and the expressions on their faces were somewhat changeable. After seeing the "Golden Mountain" with their own eyes and panning for gold for two days, this large gold mine with astonishing reserves has been deeply engraved in their minds and cannot be removed.

At the end of the 15th century, the Takeda clan, the guardian of Koshu, had just been resurrected in the hands of Takeda Nobimasa, and the Kai gold mine was discovered in the inspection area. Sado Kaneyama is still sleeping and has not been discovered by the shogunate. The largest gold mine currently being mined in Japan is the Katsuyama Gold Mine in Echizen, located in Fukui Prefecture, which is rich in rice. It’s just that the scale of this gold mine cannot be compared with the Tured Gold Mine...

To put it simply, at this time, the amount of gold that could be produced in the country was very limited. In the Ming Dynasty, which lacked gold and silver, the Xianning gold mine discovered in the early Ming Dynasty was also small in scale. Compared with the needs of all classes in the Ming Dynasty, the output of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty was only a drop in the bucket. At this time, the entire East Asia is in a state of extreme shortage of precious metals!

In the Ming Dynasty in the 15th century, the price ratio of gold and silver was at least 1 tael to 15 taels. During the Yongle period, the price of rice was once as low as seven stones per meter and one tael of silver. In the current Chenghua and Hongzhi years, one shi meter was worth two coins of silver, that is, five shi meters were worth one tael of silver... Therefore, the purchasing power of 1 tael of gold was worth 75 shi meters in the Ming Dynasty at this time! And it’s a real purchase, so you don’t have to worry about the hassle of buying grain. And about three or four kilograms of rice can feed an adult man for a year! Therefore, as long as you can find 1 tael of gold, it is enough to support a large family of twenty or thirty people for a year...

"O Huichiropo the Great Buddha! If the Dajin Mountain of this scale were known to others... Even if they were thousands of miles away, there would be tens of thousands of poor people, regardless of life and death, like moths to the flame! …”

This week is quite busy and I don’t have time to update until the weekend. Orz, the progress will be accelerated during the weekend. After combing through the west coast, Columbus has already set sail.