1840Indian rebirth

"Is this gold?!"

People quickly recognized that this small piece of gold, which shone with golden light and was no bigger than a finger, was gold. It was so heavy and bright.

“It’s gold!”

"Great Chief, come and see, it's gold!"

"Gold, there is gold in the river!" The crowd got excited and gathered around shouting loudly.

Some people even groped directly in the water, trying to find gold.

The horse whistle came over, took the gold nugget from the soldier's hand, looked at it, and then said: "Everyone, please be quiet first."

The soldiers fell silent for the first time, and others soon fell silent as well.

After everyone calmed down, Ma Shao took the metal detector from the soldier and checked it in the river himself.

In nature, most metallic elements exist in the form of compounds, and detectors cannot react to them.

Only a very few metals can exist in nature in the form of simple substances, and these metals are basically not cheap. The most typical one is gold.

Ma Shao already knew that there was a gold mine nearby, and the newly discovered gold convinced him that this was where the gold mine was.

Sure enough, as he probed, the speed of the indicator fan was sometimes fast and sometimes slow. It was obvious that there were a lot of metals distributed in the river water here.

These metals are apparently gold.

At the locations where the indicator fan reacted most intensely, Ma Shao stretched out his hand to fumble in the water, and soon found some gold visible to the naked eye. The smallest one was as big as a grain of rice, and the largest one was about the size of a finger.

The continuous discovery of gold has made people excited again.

"This is a gold mine!" Du Wang couldn't help but say.

The horse whistle found another grain of gold in the river, and then said: "That's right - we found a gold mine."

"Gold mine, gold mine, oh my God, we found gold!"

"Wuhu!"

"Great Chief, you shouldn't have expected that there would be a gold mine here, right?"

"At first I thought I shouldn't come to California, but looking back now...it's still the chief's foresight!"

The horse whistle turned around and looked at the excited westward marching team: "Calm down, my tribesmen and students."

"Remember what I said? If you want to master extraordinary fighting skills, you must first overcome the instinct of closing your eyes; if you want to master extraordinary wealth, you must first overcome the instinct of greed and showing off."

People calmed down again.

Ma Shao continued: "A gold mine may bring us wealth or disaster. I think it is not difficult to understand."

In fact, in its original history, California gold almost exclusively brought disaster to its discoverers.

He had watched a related documentary in his previous life, and probably still remembered that the first few people who discovered gold in California seemed to have a bad ending.

Greed and the greed of others put them in a difficult situation.

Most of the gold diggers who came after hearing the news did not end well. The lucky ones worked in vain, the unlucky ones lost their lives, and the even worse ones died without anyone knowing.

Only a handful of lucky people made a fortune during the gold rush and returned home in glory.

Of course, there is another biggest beneficiary - the U.S. economy.

The gold rush triggered the climax of the westward expansion movement, allowing the west to develop rapidly. At the same time, a large amount of gold flowed into the U.S. market, giving the already sluggish U.S. economy a shot in the arm.

The original gold diggers in history were just a group of ragtag people, and gold plunged them into extreme involution and chaos.

But the westward marching team led by Ma Shao was a tight-knit group with a professional army as its core. Everyone had been vetted to a certain extent in advance and was sufficiently united and loyal. It was at least very different from those gold diggers in history.

Moreover, Ma Shao himself, as a physics teacher of later generations, also knew how to detect and mine gold mines efficiently.

So he is confident that he can take advantage of this wealth.

No matter what happens, even if the news is leaked and triggers an upsurge of Americans' westward expansion, he can still make a fortune before the influx of white people.

"Who do you think the gold mine here belongs to?" Ma Shao asked.

"Belongs to the great chief!" many people said.

Even in traditional situations, many people hold concepts like "the great chief owns everything."

Besides, this is clearly not a traditional situation in any sense.

It was Ma Shao who made the decision to come to California, and it was Ma Shao who invented the magical metal detector.

In addition, people worship the horse whistle very much, so in their view, it is completely reasonable and even natural for the gold mine to belong to the chief.

But Ma Shao said: "Maybe. But strictly speaking, it really belongs to Apache - because I also belong to Apache."

This sentence actually has an element of showmanship.

But it is indeed very effective. Some tribesmen with low tears were immediately broken by this sentence and cried in emotion: "Great Chief..."

For example, looking alone, some tears could not stop flowing from his one eye.

He actually burst into tears, but his strong personal worship of Ma Shao and the increasingly pervasive "Apacheism" in the tribe made it difficult for him to stay rational.

The so-called Apacheism refers to collectivism and Apache assimilationism.

It is true that seeking common ground while reserving differences and harmony without difference exist, but that is only relatively speaking, and this can only be true if there is not much difference between them.

If there is a fundamental conflict in concepts, if costs allow, there are naturally only two options: destruction or assimilation.

On this issue, Westerners are obviously much more awake than Easterners and can actively preach and even wage wars for missionary work...

Among the two options of destruction and assimilation, Mashao chose the latter, or made the latter the default option.

"The wealth of a gold mine can allow Apache to develop faster. We can absorb more people, hire more skilled workers, and build more housing, hospitals, and classrooms..."

Ma Shao said slowly.

"We must be clearly aware of the significance of this wealth. It is not something we use to squander or show off, but something we use to build Apache."

"So we must not be complacent or get carried away with this, but we must always be vigilant."

"If we accidentally leak the news and let the white people know about the existence of the gold mine, endless chaos will cause the Apache to lose it, and even bring disaster to the Apache itself."

After a pause, he added: "Concealing information is our first priority. For this reason, I plan to build a logging camp here."

"Lumberyard?"

The horse whistle nodded: "Yes, we need wood to build the new city, and this is also suitable for building a lumberyard. In addition to producing wood, this lumberyard will also play a role in concealing the public. We will act as lumberjacks or hunters.

Activities here.”

In original history, Americans discovered gold mines when they were building lumber camps.

Building a lumberyard here is a perfect choice.

Ma Shao thought for a moment: "The name of the lumberyard is... Donggu Lumberyard."