Li Jie's idea is very simple. If you have to pick something, just pick the hardest one, the soft persimmon. There is nothing to pinch.
However, now that he has just arrived, he doesn't know much about the specific situation in the mine, so it is not suitable to take action yet.
Hibernation is the best choice at the moment.
In a blink of an eye, spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and Laojingou is full of spring. The gurgling water passes through the rocks, and there is a splashing sound from time to time.
On this day, Lao Jingou was conducting a special ceremony.
Worship the mountains, worship the water!
Gold diggers all believe that mountains and rivers have spiritual powers. Before starting work every year, they will conduct a worship ceremony to worship the mountains and water devoutly, hoping to have a good harvest this year, just like burning incense and worshiping before the movie starts in later generations.
After some worship, Dana pulled a thin old man to the front of the crowd.
"Big guy, this is the old man I hired from Mohe with a lot of money. He is a good expert at digging for gold and digging ditches. Follow him and you will get rich!"
When everyone heard that the old man came from Mohe, their eyes suddenly lit up.
What’s there in Mohe?
There is Mohe Gold Mine Bureau in Mohe!
The Mohe Gold Mine Bureau is supervised by Mr. Li Hongzhang, and the people who can work there are all capable people.
At this moment, a dark-skinned young man rubbed his hands and smiled attentively at Li Jie.
"Brother, this is good. We will definitely make a lot of money this time."
"You also know?"
Li Jie glanced at him sideways and said calmly.
The young man in front of me is no one else. It is Da Jinli who had a conflict with Zhu Kaishan in the original work. After Li Jie's training, this guy can no longer be arrogant. He keeps wandering around him day by day. The shortest thing is to support him.
Speaking of which, Da Jinli is also a ruthless person. In the original work, in order to transport the gold, he even cut his own calf with a knife, trying to hide the gold in his flesh and take it away.
Unfortunately, he was still too naive.
In the end, this 'ruthless man' died in the hands of the bandits.
To take a step back, even if Da Jinli can successfully escape from Lao Jingou, he is likely to die from wound infection. After all, there are not so many antibiotics nowadays. Most people have suffered trauma. Whether they can survive is a matter of course. By luck.
Fortunately, the wound was not infected and I survived.
Bad luck, the ball died directly.
Dajinli chuckled and scratched his head.
"Hey, aren't I happy?"
Li Jie glanced at this kid indifferently. This little guy was very weird. Nine out of ten sentences that came out of his mouth were false.
Don't look at the fact that this boy is looking after you as his father. If anything happens to Li Jie, or if this boy gains momentum, what's waiting for you is his revenge.
This guy is like a poisonous snake hiding in the shadows. If you can't stand upright, he will definitely bite you hard if you get the chance.
However, in Li Jie's eyes, the big gold grain is just that, and cannot make any big waves.
On the contrary, I have such a person under my command, and many things that are inconvenient for me to do can be left to him.
Da Jinli saw that Li Jie lost interest in talking and immediately shut his mouth with discernment.
"Raise the flag!"
As the sound of "raising the flag" came from the front, Lao Jinqiao also started to move. He was holding a small wooden stick, looking at the mountains and the water, and muttering something from time to time. .
After walking for a while, Lao Jinqiao suddenly stopped.
"Huh? It's nice here."
As soon as these words came out, the scene immediately became excited, and the gold husbands who followed behind asked quickly.
"Is it good here?"
"How is it okay?"
"Old man, tell us about Sa."
On the other side, Li Jie was obviously not very interested in looking for gold. He did not come to Laojingou to dig for gold. In the blink of an eye, he had been coming to Laojingou for more than two months.
After such a long investigation, everything that needs to be clarified has basically been clarified, and it is time to start.
Laojingou is one of the subordinate units of the Mohe Gold Mining Bureau. In the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), the Qing government officially opened a gold mine in Mohe. Today, the Mohe Gold Mining Bureau has been established for 17 years.
In the past seventeen years, the Mohe Gold Mining Bureau has successively served as three actual general offices and one nominal general office.
The person in office now is the nominal general office, Liu Xian, an official appointed by Beiyang Minister Yuan Datou.
Liu Hang is the fourth general manager of the Mohe Gold Mine Bureau. Logically speaking, he should have taken office two years ago, in 1903.
But what a coincidence.
The time when he took office happened to coincide with the Russo-Japanese War. Japan and Russia were fighting in the Northeast. Seeing the chaos in the Northeast, the general manager could not take office even if he wanted to.
As a result, Liu Zhang became the nominal steward.
To sum up, today's Laojingou has become a no-nonsense zone in disguise.
As for the Qing army still stranded here, it has become a private armed force in the actual sense, and the leader of this private armed force is Mr. Liu, who they have met once.
Mr. Liu doesn't live in the mine. After all, the conditions in the mine are too bad, which really doesn't suit his status. On weekdays, he lives in a village dozens of kilometers away.
Generally speaking, Mr. Liu will come to the mine basically once a week.
However, Mr. Liu has recently changed his past habits. He comes to the mine almost every day and barely lives in the mine.
This unusual performance also attracted Li Jie's attention. Li Jie guessed that this guy might have heard some rumors from the outside world and knew that the Japanese had captured Lushun.
Once Port Arthur was lost, Maozi lost control of the sea.
What losing control of the sea means is self-evident.
However, Li Jie still overestimated Mr. Liu's mind. Mr. Liu thought exactly the opposite of Li Jie. He felt that he was also a new-style officer who had attended military school.
After a brief analysis of the current situation, there is still no problem, right?
He believed that in the Russo-Japanese War, if one had to choose a winner, then the winner would definitely be Mao Zi.
The reason is also very simple. Maozi has a larger land area, a larger population, and more advanced equipment. With the little wealth of the Japanese, Maozi will definitely not be able to consume it.
Even though the little Jaap captured Port Arthur, it was just a sneak attack while the tiger was taking a nap. As long as Mao Zi came to his senses and captured the Japs, it wouldn't take much effort.
And once Mao Zi wins, the future of the three eastern provinces will definitely fall into the hands of the other party.
Now that Maozi has gained de facto power, will people just watch the gold mines being mined by others?
Definitely not!
Not to mention the distant ones, let’s just say that a few years ago, in 1900, Maozi captured Aihui, the residence of the deputy governor’s office in Heilongjiang, and Aihui was really the residence of the Mohe Gold Mine General Administration. After Maozi occupied Aihui, he burned and looted the gold farm. Empty.
With the lessons learned from the past, Liu Baotou was only thinking about getting some money and running away before Maozi occupied Laojingou.
