Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 133 0132: Mining for gold; dramatic changes in the mountains!

"Are you guys okay?"

Cheng Zongyang came up to Zhang Guangwen and the other man and looked at them.

"Young Patriarch, it's not a big deal. Just go back and apply some medicine." Zhang Guangwen said excitedly, looking at his calf.

"No problem, no problem." Zhang Changjiang also said repeatedly.

"What about the other one?" Cheng Zongyang nodded and asked about the situation. He remembered that the person who escaped back said that there were three people surrounded.

"Dead." Zhang Changjiang looked to the left and not far in front of him, pointed and said, "He was bitten and dragged away by a wolf. We can't save him."

Cheng Zongyang followed Zhang Changjiang's gaze and saw a person covered in blood, with his throat bitten to death.

Cheng Zongyang sighed and asked, "What's the situation at his home?"

Zhang Guangwen said: "Young Patriarch, I heard that he has a wife and son."

Cheng Zongyang nodded: "Take his body back. The people in the clan will take care of it later."

At this time, Zhang Guangwen handed the thing he had been holding in his hand to Cheng Zongyang: "Young Patriarch, I found what you wanted!"

Upon hearing this, Cheng Zongyang suddenly turned his head to look at Zhang Guangwen, and saw the golden particle in Zhang Guangwen's palm!
Suddenly, his eyes burst into a gleam of light.

"Where did you find it?" Cheng Zongyang took the gold particles from his hand and suppressed his excitement!
While people were looking for salt mines, they were naturally also asked to look for minerals such as gold, silver, copper and iron.

But the reward for gold and silver is the highest.

The gold mine and silver mine each offer a reward of 2000 contribution points, and can also provide an opportunity to enter the martial arts hall to practice martial arts.

This is exactly why Zhang Guangwen and Zhang Changjiang worked so hard. They both accepted the task of finding gold and silver mines, as well as copper and iron mines.

The people in this team all had the same mission, but only the two of them found gold particles in a depression near a water source, but they did not tell the others.

Without power, their families died in front of them due to various man-made disasters. Therefore, Zhang Guangwen was unwilling to give up the gold particles he found by accident even if he died! Because this would be their chance to turn things around!

Only the person who discovers it can obtain the qualification to practice martial arts!

"In a depression below our water source. Not far away."

Hearing this, although Cheng Zongyang was happy, he also felt that this kind of gold particles should be river gold, washed out from the ground. It should not be a land gold mine or something like that.

However, we will have to wait and see whether this is true.

But in any case, as long as there is a discovery, it means there will be gains. And judging from the size, there should be a lot of stock!
"Okay! You will get a reward." Cheng Zongyang said with a smile.

"And him. We discovered him together." Zhang Guangwen immediately pulled his brother over.

Zhang Changjiang nodded repeatedly, fearing that he would be left out: "Yes, yes, and me too. We discovered it together."

Cheng Zongyang said: "Don't worry."

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, Cheng Guanghai and others arrived with their men.

Their speed was far slower than Cheng Zongyang's, but when they saw the dead wolf corpses and the dead people, they were also silent.

This is the first time a death has occurred in the garrison.

Cheng Guanghai did not waste any time and immediately had all the wolf corpses taken back, as well as the bodies of the people.

Cheng Guanghai came to his son's side and asked, "Is there anything else?"

Cheng Zongyang nodded: "No more. But I'll take them to see something. Dad, you take the others back first."

As he spoke, he placed the green bean-sized gold particle into his father's palm.

Cheng Guanghai looked down and his eyes suddenly widened!

"this!"

"That's right." Cheng Zongyang smiled and said, "Don't make it public yet. I'll go take a look first."

"Okay, okay!" Cheng Guanghai also suppressed his excitement.

If we can find a gold mine, we will really become rich.

So Cheng Guanghai took his men back first.

When a person died, he, as the clan leader, also came out to comfort them and let others know that even if they died, they died for the development of the settlement. Then their families would also receive compensation and work arrangements.

This will win their hearts and allow them to contribute to the development of the Cheng family without any worries!
Cheng Zongyang looked at Zhang Guangwen and the other man and said, "Take me there."

Although both of them were slightly injured, it was not a big deal compared to the upcoming mission rewards.

Soon, under the guidance of the two of them, they walked about four or five hundred meters downstream along the water source and found a shallow depression.

After inspection, Cheng Zongyang found that this was just a place left after the former water source river channel was diverted.

Overgrown.

Zhang Guangwen didn't waste any time and started searching here immediately with Zhang Changjiang.

Cheng Zongyang looked around. This was a downstream location. The river flowed down here, carrying golden sand along with the water flow, or being washed out from underground.

Often, the places in the mountains that are rich in gold sand are where the water sources are, even if they are dried-up rivers.

That is to say, there is also gold sand in the long-dried river channel at Neishankou. It's just a matter of how easy it is to find and how much there is.

"Young Clan Leader!" Soon, Zhang Guangwen excitedly sifted out another gold particle the size of a green bean from the weed depression.

Seeing this, Cheng Zongyang nodded.

That's for sure!
This place is rich in gold sand. As long as you use water screening, you can get a lot of gold!
"Go back first." Cheng Zongyang said immediately: "I will arrange the rest for you."

"Yes! Thank you, Young Clan Leader!" Zhang Guangwen said excitedly.

"Thank you, Young Clan Leader!" Zhang Changjiang was also very happy.

After returning to the base, Cheng Zongyang took them to the warehouse and each of them received 2000 contribution points. Although the others did not notice it, they also gave each of them 50 points as compensation.

As for the deceased family members, they will be given contribution points as compensation according to the established rules.

"As for martial arts training, I will ask the clan leader to arrange it for you. It should be around these three days."

The two were so excited that they agreed immediately.

Cheng Zongyang notified several clan leaders and elders and discussed the situation in the ancestral hall.

When everyone heard about the discovery of golden sand, they all showed the same excitement.

Having money means they can buy more supplies.

But for Cheng Zongyang, these are not a problem. The most important function is to expand the inventory in the wilderness world.

Now that items are refreshed only once every three days, we need to maximize the usefulness of this inventory, so we have no choice but to expand its quantity.

However, the amount of gold required for subsequent expansion is too much, and it is estimated that it will only be like this after expanding two or three more grids.

The fifth grid holds 10 taels, the sixth grid holds 100 taels, and the seventh grid holds 1000 taels.

It would be a great fortune if one could gather a hundred taels of gold in that small place.

As for the grids further back, the amount can no longer be obtained in a short period of time.

There will be too many places to spend money in the future. Silver and gold are his long-term goals, so he needs to create more commodities to trade with the outside world.

At the same time, more armed forces are needed to protect their own property, and more ordinary people are needed to increase manpower to assist in the development of the territory.

This all requires a development process, and the biggest problem is food.

As long as the food problem is solved, we can continue to recruit refugees. So the constraint on development is still food.

After everyone discussed it, they came to a conclusion. Cheng Zongyang asked Zhang Guangwen and Zhang Changjiang, who discovered the situation, to make some bamboo sieves with different hole sizes for sifting mud and sand, and finally pottery basins, etc. He also called five or six more honest people to sift the gold.

This thing can only be screened by hand bit by bit. It also needs the protection of warriors.

The prerequisite is to make those who do the work keep their mouths shut.

At the same time, Cheng Zongyang also told his father about the two men's martial arts practice.

His second uncle Cheng Guangshan has already figured out a method for this. Although medicinal baths are also possible, the medicines will be halved, which means that the medicinal effects will be diluted.

The medicinal bath that could have been completed within ten days was delayed to twenty days or even a month.

This was also a great surprise for those people. We couldn't let the outsiders suppress the insiders.

When those people became ninth-grade warriors, they, who were originally ninth-grade warriors, were almost promoted to the eighth-grade.

Only by continuously taking the lead in the use of force to suppress them can we control these foreigners.

Cheng Zongyang himself is his biggest support, and he is not worried at all that outsiders can turn the tables. Now he is about to be promoted to the seventh rank!
This level of cultivation is among the best even in Yufeng County.

After everyone had discussed it, they handed it over to their father to handle. After the gold was harvested, it would be stored in the warehouse and eventually used by Cheng Zongyang. After all, he was in charge of the purchase of materials outside, and he had the final say on where the money went.

This is also what Cheng Zongyang meant.

There is so much food in the wilderness world, and gold is a good way to deal with it.

Even the existence of wild rice, martial arts techniques, recipes, etc. in the future can be "washed" with gold in this way!

Therefore, Cheng Zongyang is very concerned about the matter of gold.

After his father arranged some things, he was the one who followed up.

The five people who were going to work were screened and selected personally, and they all had wives and children.

Only people like this have no worries.

The fact that they have stayed together all the way during their escape is enough to prove how much they value their family.

Zhang Guangwen and Zhang Changjiang were also appointed as supervisors. In addition to doing the work, they also supervised.

The place was not too far away, so they usually set out in the early morning and returned in the evening, so they didn't have to spend the night in the mountains.

Although there are several warriors in the clan, his uncle and second cousin Zhou Zhendong are in charge of the salt workshop, while his father and uncle handle clan affairs. The eldest cousin's ability is still immature and his temperament needs to be tempered. So whether it is fighting or handling affairs, he is still learning.

The protection of the gold mining can only be carried out by him and his older cousin Zhou Zhenyuan, also in order to continue training his abilities.

Two days later, Cheng Zongyang brought everyone to the excavation site.

Zhou Zhenyuan was left behind to lead people to cut wood and build a wooden house for use in work, so as to avoid working in the open air.

Cheng Zongyang took the seven-herb powder to drive away the snakes, insects, rats and ants around him, and also checked the surrounding environment. This could increase the safety of everyone.

With the joint efforts of everyone, a small shed of more than 20 square meters was built, and then the next steps were weeding, marking the location, and diverting water.

Although Cheng Zongyang had never done the panning method, he had seen the gold panning video in his previous life.

He tried it himself, shoveling the soil into a wooden basin to wash it, putting it into a sieve, etc. Although it was not so accurate, the purpose was to sift the gold, and the purpose was achieved.

After a busy period, when they finally saw the bright and fine gold sand and two or three gold grains slightly larger than sesame seeds at the bottom of the ceramic bowl, everyone's eyes lit up so brightly that they almost trembled.

"Wow, there are so many with just one shovel!" Zhang Changjiang was shocked!

The others' eyes also lit up.

Although only the bottom layer is thin, it is still a shovel of soil.

This depression is at least six mu of land!

How much can you dig out! ?

Cheng Zongyang stood up, poured the one-gram gold sand into a clean ceramic bowl, handed it to Zhou Zhenyuan, and said, "Brother, I'll leave this gold sand to you for safekeeping."

Zhou Zhenyuan heard this, took the pottery bowl and nodded heavily: "Don't worry, I will take good care of it."

Cheng Zongyang nodded slightly and looked at Zhang Guangwen and others: "Just follow what I did just now, and finally pour the cleaned gold sand into the pottery bowl. Let Manager Zhou keep it. Work hard, and I guarantee that your contribution points will be much higher than others. When the time comes, you can use the contribution points to buy land, send your children to school, or practice martial arts."

"Yes, Young Clan Leader!" Everyone was extremely excited.

Next, Cheng Zongyang began to instruct them. Zhou Zhenyuan not only took charge of the work, but also supervised them, making sure they didn't hide anything after work every day. Zhang Guangwen also cooked and was responsible for lunch.

After they got the hang of it, Cheng Zongyang began to check the number of depressions above and below the river.

The bends in the river are places that are impacted by the river water, so they are where river sand and gold gather, and are also the reason for the change of river course.

He checked up and down and found that the water source was relatively straight, but there were some bends in the downstream, and there were traces of diversion in four places, including the place where the gold sand was washed. These four places were also areas with relatively soft geology.

Cheng Zongyang noted down the other three locations.

After everyone was familiar with it, Cheng Zongyang continued to train Zhou Zhenyuan in basic knife skills while protecting the washing staff.

The day passed by uneventfully.

Because of the gold issue, Cheng Zongyang had no time to enter the wilderness world, and he also needed to instruct people to make more convenient tools to improve the efficiency of gold panning.

Although there are no machines, some wooden tools can be made through carpentry skills.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

In addition to the increasingly hot and humid weather, the hall system and contribution point system of Uchiyamaguchi are also gradually being improved amidst various problems that have arisen.

At Cheng Zongyang's request, a simple wooden rocking panning cart was made to make gold panning tools, which could greatly speed up the panning and screening process.

The salt-making workshops and gold-mining workshops were incorporated into the Gongbutang, and their outputs were deposited into the warehouse.

Cheng Zongyang was not in a hurry to take the gold sand that had been washed out. He was just waiting to find an excuse to "go into the city" to take it away tomorrow.

Afterwards, Gongbudang integrated the carpentry workshop and the house building workshop.

The former is used to make various furniture, wood, etc. The latter public house has been built, but it is still responsible for the construction of houses in new ethnic areas in Hanoi, as well as the business of applying for the construction of their own houses for those who spend contribution points in the future.

In addition, there are kiln workshops, farming workshops, breeding workshops, etc.

This is to subdivide various duties to facilitate the "business handling" of future matters.

Although there is a shortage of staff, the total workload is not too much. Once he recruits the second batch of people, the gaps will be filled to a great extent.

Entering early autumn, the next morning, the inner mountain pass presents a peaceful and beautiful picture.

The sun was rising, shining through the layers of mountains and onto the small place of Neishankou. The wooden roofs of different sizes and in an orderly manner were shining with a little golden light.

The mountain breeze blew through the forest, bringing with it waves of increasingly sultry air.

However, early in the morning of this day, when everyone was laughing and preparing to start a new day's work, suddenly, an unusually piercing cry came from nowhere and spread throughout the Tianduan Mountains.

Outside the Neishankou River, Cheng Zongyang and others held the children who were awakened by the shock, covered their ears, and looked up at the sky with a drastic change of expression. The others were all horrified, and also covered their children's ears, enduring their own discomfort and looking up at the sky. For a moment, they all forgot the discomfort brought by the harsh sound.

I saw that in the west of the sky, a dense mass of huge objects like fireballs rose into the sky. Then, they exploded in the sky and turned into meteors that hit areas in all directions.

This scene made everyone look pale!
Cheng Zongyang's strong aura suddenly burst out, and he shouted: "Everyone enter the cellar! Quickly!!!"

This roar, which almost covered up the shrill screams, instantly brought everyone back to their senses.

Amid the roars of Cheng Guanghai and others, everyone rushed to the three cellars used to store supplies and avoid disasters.

"Dad, Mom! Hurry! Take the children in! We will arrange for the others!" Cheng Zongyang shouted quickly.

Cheng Zongyang asked his parents to take his family members into the cave behind the ancestral hall, and then took his two cousins ​​to arrange for the rest of the people to enter the cellar.

There are three cellars and a cave in the inner mountain pass.

The cave is used by the tribe members to build their foundation and take medicinal baths, and it is also a place to store the family’s valuables.

The only way to the cave is through the ancestral hall, there is no other way.

The three cellars were used to store supplies and also for outsiders to take refuge in. Because there was no guarantee that the alien beasts would come outside, it was better to have a place to hide than to have no place to hide.

I just never thought that it would be used for such a weird thing today!
"boom!!"

Suddenly, a fireball hit a mountain not far from the inner mountain pass. A shock wave instantly destroyed the surrounding trees, splashed countless dust, and flames instantly ignited the surroundings.

Cheng Zongyang forced some people to lie on the ground, and as the air wave dissipated, he continued to arrange people to enter the cellar!

But the continuous falling fireballs also caused large areas of forest fires!
Now, Cheng Zongyang's expression turned extremely ugly.

He looked around and was thankful that the trees in the area where the inner mountain pass was located had been basically cleared. Even if the fire spread, it would not burn this side.

"Oh no! My dad!!"

Zhou Zhendong thought of his father and other workers in the salt-making workshop, and immediately turned around to leave, but the next moment he was stopped by Cheng Zongyang: "Where are you going?"

"I'll go find my dad!" Zhou Zhendong was extremely anxious.

He had transported four 100-kg bags of salt back last night and rested for the night. He was thinking of going there again this morning, but he never expected such a horrible thing to happen so early in the morning!

"I understand. You follow Big Brother to arrange the rest of the people! I'll take care of Uncle!"

Cheng Zongyang said quickly, he looked at Zhou Zhenyuan and shouted: "Brother! After you arrange for people to enter the cellar, hide in the cave!!"

"Okay!" Anxious Zhou Zhendong could only follow the arrangement, because he knew that his cousin was much better than him and had more security.

Zhou Zhenyuan did not hesitate and immediately agreed, turning around and shouting to the crowd: "Speed ​​up! Don't bring anything! Quick! "

Seeing this, Cheng Zongyang used the Wind Step and quickly went to the salt-making workshop!

He was thinking of finding an excuse to take the gold sand and "go to the city" early this morning. His purpose was to try the practice room.

But I never expected that there would be another incident where plans could not keep up with the changes!
　Today is Sunday, and I wrote one more chapter. There is another chapter to come. The two chapters together are just over 9,000 words. The main point is not to save drafts, to give myself motivation to write.

　　
　
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