Since the year before last, the Tibetan antelope has been listed as an endangered first-level protected animal. The entire Hoh Xil, Qiangtang, and Altun Mountains have been cracking down on poaching of Tibetan antelopes. It has been 20 years since the beginning, and the highest level has been to replace sheep skins with human skins.
Under the most severe and continuous attack, the number of Tibetan antelopes has continued to increase steadily.
Without the supply of Tibetan antelopes, people in the beautiful countries of Europe and the desert trenches can no longer buy the softest and highest quality scarves and shawls in the world.
Therefore, a scarf originally worth 50,000 dollars was sold for 100,000 dollars, or even 200,000 dollars.
Even so, demand exceeds supply.
Under the temptation of millions and millions of times high profits, there are still countless desperadoes with their heads on their waists, and with the idea of doing one job and eating for a lifetime, they fall into the Hoh Xil and hunt Tibetan antelopes.
After September, the mountains in Hoh Xil will be closed, and now is the best and last time.
With a cigarette in his mouth, he hummed the Buddhist scriptures and searched for places, secretly observing the surroundings.
Since the other party is pretending to be a gold digger, I will go with the flow.
The location was chosen just ten meters downstream of the opponent. The river was first cut in half, and then a diversion channel was dug on the bank. Stones were piled on both sides. The simplest and most primitive gold mining channel was completed.
Seeing that I had completed the gold mining canal in just half an hour, the middle-aged people across from me looked a bit disdainful, but the young guy was full of curiosity.
After observing for a few minutes, I went down to the river to intercept the river twice, and then expanded the gold rush channel.
Soon the water in the gold rush channel slowed down.
Then, I picked up the engineering shovel and started tinkering in the gold rush channel.
In the eyes of the middle-aged man on the other side, these tricks of mine were like a low-grade nine-swordsman. The other man also grabbed his younger brother's hand and kept talking in Shao Minyu, and his words were full of mockery of me.
At this time, I threw away the engineering shovel, reached out with my right hand from the biting river water, and raised a golden lump above my head.
The young man directly opposite suddenly opened his mouth, violently pulled the middle-aged man's arm, pointed at me and screamed.
When the middle-aged man looked back, he immediately covered his eyes.
In the unique sun circle in the sky of the snowy plateau, the bright sunshine shines on my hands. The gold nugget as big as a coin between my fingers emits the most dazzling and pure golden light, blinding the eyes of the middle-aged man.
This piece of gold weighs almost twenty grams, which is nearly three thousand oceans in Chinese currency.
The two brothers opposite were not only dumbfounded by such a cheap thing, but it was also the first time for me to see it.
You know, Hoh Xil, the richest gold mining area, is basically allplace gold.
Golden knots can only be found in the Altyn Mountains.
In the past, when private digging and illegal mining were serious, even if a gold digger worked for ten and a half days, he might not be able to get three thousand gold alluvial gold.
He took his time and pretended to wipe the golden lump, stuffed it into his mouth and took two bites. He nodded with satisfaction, then put the golden lump into a plastic box and threw it next to the Damascus knife.
After turning around and walking to the end of the gold mining canal, the engineers scooped up a pile of sand and poured it into a stainless steel basin.
Most gold pans have an open mouth and a narrow bottom with a sloping surface, but since I am a fake gold digger, a stainless steel pan will make do.
The first pot must definitely fail.
The second pot to the tenth pot will also end in failure.
The middle-aged man opposite me witnessed my countless failures and frustrations, and finally found some balance and confidence.
After yelling at his little brother, the middle-aged man was not to be outdone and started shoveling sand to launder gold.
The young man was only sixteen or seventeen years old. It was probably his first time to illegally mine sand gold, and he was curious about everything.
From time to time, the young man would secretly glance at me and report in a low voice to his elder brother.
Within a few dozen minutes, the middle-aged man began to make money. Three or four basins of river sand in a row have produced alluvial gold, and the amount is quite large.
This made the middle-aged man so happy that he sang ballads in front of me unscrupulously, and he kept swearing at me and insulting me.
I didn't pay attention to the other party's dirty words. I was busy with my own work and listened with my ears.
quiet.
Not long after, I picked up the steel basin again, shook it rapidly, and poured out the river water.
The results for this pot were somewhat surprising.
Looking at the densely packed steel basin with thousands of fine gold sands, I couldn't help but let out a laugh. I deliberately lowered the steel basin and walked back to the bald dog, deliberately drying the water in the steel basin and pouring out the sandy gold in front of him.
The middle-aged man was immediately stunned again.
The amount of sand gold in my pot far exceeds the amount in the other three pots.
At that moment, the middle-aged man's eyes turned red.
However, while his eyes were red, he remained rational and looked at my Damascus knife and the bald dog who had been sleeping on his stomach.
Looking into each other's eyes inadvertently, I called the middle-aged man Tashi Delek, looked around, gave up on laundering gold, and started digging aimlessly in the river.
It has been determined that this is a sand-rich gold mining area, and there is no point in searching for sand gold anymore. I want to conduct an inspection and screening of this area.
Every subsequent screening shocked me.
After continuous inspection, I selected a place and started digging from top to bottom.
This is the most important procedure to confirm the gold content.
After digging down to the sediment layer four feet underground, this screening made my jaw drop even more.
Because this time not only alluvial gold came out, but also a natural gold nugget.
I picked up the golf ball-sized natural gold nugget from the stainless steel and looked down at the densely packed golden sand and gravel at the bottom of the soup pot. I could hardly believe my eyes.
Am I bumping into the legendary Golden Saloon?
Several provinces in the northwest plateau are famous gold mining areas in China.
Going back more than ten years, there were as many as 80,000 registered gold diggers in Altai in the south and Altun Mountain in the north.
Actual gold diggers would have to pay ten to twenty times more.
That's right.
In the 1990s, private gold mining was legal in China. You only need to register and pay money to get a gold mining license, and you can go to the mountains to mine for gold openly. ap.
Does this pattern sound familiar?
In the Altun Mountains, the largest private gold mining boss has tens of thousands of people under his command!
And the guys are very complete!
From guns to artillery, we have it all!
Needless to say, the chaos of those years when the mountain was king can be understood by referring to the gold rush in the beautiful country.
