Edo Traveler

   Chapter 230 57. Eight-meter golden veins are rare in the world

   "Where can there be gold in this Lingkari Mountain?"

Lying on the wooden floor of the village house, Zhongfu Zhongjiao was waiting for his wife and daughter at the land of the village house to make a bed. He couldn't figure out what Chuemon had been busy all day.

   "What do you think?" Chuemon leaned against the pillar, indeed tired.

   "If it's someone else, I just treat him as deceiving me. But you, I won't be able to decide..." Zhongfu Zhongzhi taught him to be a real person, and he understood what he said.

  If an individual bothers him in this way, it’s not unusual to cut you into two pieces with the temper of Samos. But Chuemon is famous, not only for Kanto Hubaoyi, but also a large number of fans in the West, known as the "wisdom Edogawa", how could it be possible to go around such a big circle and joking with him.

  "For me, this mountain is the number one golden mountain in the world. With him, it is enough to raise one hundred thousand soldiers!" Hundreds of tons of gold are enough for a small country to fight a war of annihilation.

   "Ah this..." Shigetomi didn't know how to return to Chuemon.

  Relying on a golden mountain to raise 100,000 soldiers? I am afraid that Sado Jinshan, the richest in Japan now, does not have this ability. Sado Jinshan produces half to one ton of gold per year, and more than 40 tons of silver per year. The output of this scale is barely enough for the shogunate. How can Hyokarya Mountain be compared with Sado Jinshan.

   "If I can find it, how can Yujiro repay me?" Chuemon looked at Shigetomi's appearance, somewhat inexplicably, and simply teased him.

   "If so, but the girl is only three years old..."

  Shigetomi Tadashi murmured such a sentence and almost made Tademon Chuemon drop his chin. Are you still a human being? Your daughter is only three years old, so you think about it? I'm friends with you, and you want to be my father. You can rest.

   "Stop! Just owe me a favor!" Chuemon doesn't want to talk about it anymore, the highest death penalty!

   "If there is such a golden mountain, I owe the favor of paying for it with my life!" Zhongfu Zhongjiao promised very quickly, and the Shimadzu family was really poor.

  In addition, it is now a fierce battle for succession rights within the domain. Whoever can master more wealth will have a stronger voice in the domain. I didn't see that Shima Jin Qibin was the son of the prostitute, and Zhongfu Zhongjiao was the son, but the two can compete equally. Isn't it because Guangxiang, who controls the money bag, prefers Zhongfu Zhongjiao.

   "Okay, then you will recruit 200 civilians tomorrow, and prepare to dig the mountain!" Chuemon is not a god. Although he knows that the hillside has gold veins pushed out by geological activities, but the mountain is so big, it still needs trial and error to find.

"Can!"

  Early the next morning, Shigefu Zhongjiao took his name post and went to Isa County. This county is a person brought out by the Guangsuo Township, and naturally there is nothing wrong with it. Soon, more than 300 people were recruited, and a large number of hoes and shovels were also prepared to facilitate the construction.

  No other nonsense, dig around Hishikari Mountain. As a hill raised by an earthquake, the surface of the floating soil can be as high as two or three meters. As long as the soil is uncovered, the sandstone on the fractured surface can be found, and of course it may not be found. Anyway, there are so many people, so try it.

  Tadaemon did not let them come in vain. Everyone took care of the food. Anyway, Zhongfu Zhongjia paid for it. Even if you eat it, you can eat the rice **** with salt, as long as you can eat it! All the folks who were squeezed by the police in Guangxiang were all delicious. Hearing such good things, they were really happy. One of them stuffed a few rice **** and then started digging around the mountain.

  Because Lingka Mountain is a stone mountain, the trees on the mountain are not very lush, and it is easy to cut down. Even the farmers on the left and right came to help, because Zhongfu Zhong taught that the firewood can be cut down without any money, and can be moved home for free (normally it is to collect land). The elderly and children are here, and they are chopped cleanly.

Along the deep trench that was excavated, Chuemon constantly searched for sandstone that may have gold veins. The strata torn apart by earthquakes have become distorted under geological activities over millions of years, but there are still some other things. shape.

  I returned without success on the first day!

  The next day is still nothing!

  On the third day, I finally found out!

  A sandstone face with a width of about eight meters appeared, which is different from ordinary sandstone because it has a lot of black texture. And the black texture is the silver sulfide formed in a large amount during the volcanic eruption!

  If you have a magnifying glass and look closely at these black textures, you can see that there are a lot of golden particles in it. There is no need to say more about what golden particles are. They are all associated gold.

   "Hurry, hurry, hurry..." It's not that Zhongfu Zhongjiao has never seen a gold mine. There are also gold mines in the southern part of Satsuma.

  But the veins of those gold mines are only one or two meters wide, and some are even only 20 to 30 centimeters. I am afraid that there is no gold vein of eight meters wide in the whole world. This is simply a unique existence in the world, how can it not surprise people.

  The two miners sent by Guangxiang from the survey station were summoned. They were shocked at first sight. They had dug a gold mountain for a lifetime. Have you ever seen a gold vein more than eight meters wide. The volcano here didn't erupt, it was pulled.

  It's still the kind of slumping away!

  Anyway, the two miners were dumbfounded, holding a small iron pick, knocking from this end to the other, from the other end to this end, non-stop. Except for the sound of iron picks hitting stones, only the two of them swallowed.

   "I think you can go and invite the masters of the institute to take a look..." Zhongyou Weimen patted Shigefu Zhongjiao who was staring at the mineral veins~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Ah! "Zhongfu Zhongjiao jumped on the spot, frightening the boss.

   "Yes, yes, I should tell Shazaemon."

  A servant of the rich and loyal church took two horses and drove all the way to Kagoshima Castle. Although it is not yet possible to completely determine the situation of the Jinshan Ryokan, it is an unprecedented huge vein.

  Of course, we must continue to dig here. Chuemon is convinced that the entire Ryokan Mountain is about 800 meters in length, and there are several continuous veins. It is completely possible to dig at the same time, and it is not impossible to produce a few tons of gold and dozens of tons of silver each year.

  As the excavation continued, the sandstone layers with black texture were discovered one after another. Although there is only one vein with a width of more than eight meters, the worst veins found are also two or three meters wide. This is a good vein in other places.

   Seeing that there are more and more mineral veins, the Zhongfu Zhongjiao is finally not calm. In addition to summoning local civilians to continue to expand the scope of exploration, more than two hundred soldiers and horses have also been transferred. He was the head of Shimatsu's Shimatsu clan, and he had dozens of retainers and samurai, plus the guards and handyman, more than two hundred.

  (End of this chapter)