Border town. Haizhen!
When Zhou Yang and others arrived here, it was already the afternoon of July 24.
Although the whole journey from Qingcheng to this small town on the border of China and Mongolia was less than 500 kilometers, it took Zhou Yang and others more than two days.
The main reason is that the road is too difficult to walk, especially the more than 300 kilometers after passing Lucheng. Normally it can be completed in four or five hours, but Zhou Yang and others had to walk for a day and a half.
It’s difficult to walk, but the most speechless thing is the bumps along the way.
The young warriors were a little better. Their physical fitness was there, and the endurance was over. At most, they had some backache when they went to bed at night.
But Professor Wu Lianghan Taogethu, who was invited by the provincial capital, was almost sixty years old. How could he withstand such a bumpy situation? He collapsed from exhaustion as soon as he arrived in Haizhen.
Fortunately, the old professor has been running around in the wild looking for minerals all year round, and his physical fitness is still good. He only feels a little tired and has no other discomforts. If it had been anyone else, he would have been disabled.
Haizhen. Government guest house!
In the simple room, Zhou Yang was lying on the long table studying the map.
On the bed next to the small table, the tired Professor Tao was drinking the Mongolian milk tea provided by the guest house while looking at Zhou Yang curiously.
Some time ago, he had been prospecting in Wucheng with his students. After working hard for more than a month, he finally returned to Qingcheng and was preparing to take a good rest for a few days.
As a result, as soon as he returned to the Geological Bureau and his butt was still hot, a call from the province came directly to his office and asked him to accompany a senior military leader on a trip to the northwest.
Professor Tao did not dare to neglect, and immediately summoned the students again, preparing to follow the mysterious leader.
But what they never expected was that the big leader mentioned by the province would be such a young man.
And in the subsequent chat, he learned that the other party's destination this time was actually the border town of Wuzhong Banner, and the reason for calling them over was to help find minerals, and it was a gold mine!
Seeing that Zhou Yang had been lying there for more than an hour, Professor Tao couldn't help but ask: "Comrade Xiao Zhou, haven't you found him yet?"
Zhou Yang shook his head and said, "No, I've looked through the map twice and I haven't seen that place yet. It's really strange!"
Professor Lao Tao immediately said: "It's not surprising that I can't find it. This may be a problem with the map. You must know that many of the maps we use now are actually not very accurate, and some of them were even mapped before the founding of the People's Republic of China!"
"Some uninhabited places or places that are not very famous will not be displayed on the map. There are also some places that will be hidden from the map for special reasons. Check to see if this situation also exists in the place you are looking for. !”
Zhou Yang thought for a while and said: "The place I am looking for is indeed an uninhabited no man's land!"
"That's right, this kind of place is probably not included in the map. It's normal that you can't find it on the map!"
"Then... what should we do?" Zhou Yang frowned.
"There are generally two solutions to this situation. The first is to find the local government and ask them to help find some old local maps. There may be some new clues."
Then Professor Tao said again: "The second way is to ask the local elders. Many of them have lived in the local area since childhood. They are the living map of the local area. They may know the place you are looking for!"
"Well, you are still experienced!" Zhou Yang said with a smile.
Professor Lao Tao smiled and said: "Comrade Xiao Zhou, I have been to Wuzhong Banner five or six times. I have traveled almost all over the mountains and rivers here in search of minerals. There is coal, iron and copper here, but only How could you even think of looking for gold mines here when there are no geological conditions to produce gold?"
Zhou Yang immediately raised his head and said: "That's it. A friend of mine gave me some different stones before, which he picked up when he went out to play and investigate. When I was sorting out these stones some time ago, I found that one of them turned out to be Gold ore with a high gold content!”
"After learning the details of this ore, I thought there should be a large gold mine near the origin of the ore, and it might be a shallow gold mine or an open-pit gold mine, so I planned to come over and try my luck! "
Professor Tao didn't know that Zhou Yang was "making friends out of nothing." Seeing his sincerity, he became interested and asked hurriedly: "Where is that piece of gold ore? Do you have it with you?"
"No, I asked someone to send that piece of ore to the capital for further testing!" Zhou Yang said.
"Pity..."
Then Professor Tao said again: "If it is really high-quality gold ore, then there is indeed a high probability that there is a gold vein nearby. If it is found, it will indeed be a good thing!"
"It's a pity that I couldn't find that place on the map!" Zhou Yang said helplessly.
"Do you know the general location of that place? Does it have a name?" Professor Tao asked.
"It should be in the northeast of Haizhen. I heard it's called Changshanhao. There are mountains nearby, but they're not very high!"
"Changshanhao?"
Then Professor Tao frowned and thought for a long time, and then said: "I know that there are Wulan Hao, Wushan Hao, Baishan Hao, Wula Hao and Zhangsan Hao here, but I didn't know that there is such a long mountain trench. !”
"Maybe this place is too remote, so it's normal that you don't know about it!" Zhou Yang said.
"Well, Comrade Xiao Zhou, are you sure that place is called Changshan Hao?"
Then Professor Lao Tao said again: "I don't mean anything else. The main reason is that the place names of these places are very similar, and many of them are based on Mongolian transliterations, so it is easy to confuse them!"
Zhou Yang nodded and said, "Professor Tao, I'm pretty sure that place is called Changshan Hao!"
Although Zhou Yang had never been to this Changshan trench, he knew about the gold mine there.
In his previous life, when he was in charge of the Sky Eye Project, he planned to build a radar monitoring station in the border area. After internal research and evaluation, he decided to build the monitoring station in the uninhabited land in the northeast of Wuzhong Banner (county-level administrative region). .
But I didn't expect that after the report was submitted, it was rejected by the superiors. The reason was that there was a large open-pit gold mine there and it was not suitable for building a radar monitoring station.
After learning the news, Zhou Yang asked someone to find out about the gold mine, and then he learned about the existence of the Changshanhao Gold Mine.
Of course, there are so many gold mines in the country. This Changshanhao Gold Mine is neither the largest in reserves nor the closest to Babao Liang. The reason why Zhou Yang thought of this was to let him leave the intense work of the research institute and personally There is a reason for bringing people here to search.
Because Changshanhao Gold Mine is very special, it is an extremely rare open-pit gold mine.
That’s right, it’s the open air as everyone understands it!
It's just that what's exposed in the wilderness is not gold, but gold ore.
And as far as Zhou Yang knows, the gold reserves of this gold mine are astonishing. The proven ore reserves exceed 70 million tons, ranking among the top ten gold mines in the country.
Open pit means that the mineral deposits are easy to exploit, while reserves mean potential and sustainability.
Once this gold mine, which is easy to mine and has potential, is found, the military's capabilities will inevitably send people to mine it quickly. The gold extracted by then will be able to make up for the lack of military spending.
Hearing Zhou Yang's affirmative answer, Professor Tao thought for a moment, and then said: "Comrade Xiao Zhou, I have an old friend who lives in the grassland below. He has been a herdsman all his life and knows most of the places in Wuzhong Banner. Understood, if you don’t send someone to invite my friend here, he might know where you are looking for!”
Zhou Yang's eyes suddenly lit up and he said hurriedly: "Okay, please tell me your friend's name and address, and I will send someone to invite him right now!"
"My friend's name is Harigui, and he lives in Gandu Maoqiba Yinnuoer Gacha. My student Jirimutu and I have been to his home. You can take him with you when you go!" Lao Tao The professor said.
"OK!"
Then Zhou Yang immediately called Platoon Leader Zhang from the security platoon and asked him to immediately take Professor Tao's students to Gandu Maoqi to recruit people.
And he didn't wait any longer. After arranging for Professor Tao to stay at the guest house to rest, he went straight to the banner government of Wuzhong Banner, accompanied by Chen Beixuan and others.
He planned to talk to the local government here to see if he could find some old maps or local chronicles to see if there were any clues.
He can't put all his hopes on Professor Tao's friend...
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PS: At five o'clock this afternoon, Lao Cang's grandfather passed away at the age of 79.
