1840Indian rebirth

To others, this is an ordinary name.

After all, this is the eastern part of a valley, so it makes sense to name the logging camp "East Valley".

However, the reason why Ma Shao took this name was mainly because of the game he often played in later generations, Yamaguchi Mountain.

Looking back, he still feels a little regretful about this game. After all, his last life ended on a Monday night, or maybe in the early morning of a Tuesday. Anyway, he didn't last until seven in the morning.

And in Shankou Mountain, he happened to have thirty-nine chicken leg stick fragments, one short of reaching perfection.

"Here, in addition to your salary, you will also receive a 'secrecy subsidy.'" Mashao said, "to subsidize your efforts in keeping the secrets of the gold mine."

Don't do it for nothing, this is a basic principle of his work.

If a leader asks employees to do extra work without paying extra salary, it either means that the work is meaningless or that the profits go into other people's pockets.

Both of these are definitely not good phenomena no matter what the situation is.

So all along, for the tribesmen, the horse whistle will pay extra salary for the extra value.

This can also encourage him to be more rational at work and less likely to waste labor or assign problematic tasks.

Gold mines mean crazy wealth. Prostitution for free or purely relying on moral restraint obviously cannot keep the workers secret, at least far from reassuring them.

Therefore, the tribesmen working here will receive a high salary in the name of confidentiality subsidies.

"Of course, every right corresponds to an obligation." Mashao added, "Since you receive confidentiality subsidies, you must do a good job in confidentiality, otherwise there will be additional penalties."

"Always be vigilant and supervise each other... in short, we must keep it secret, do you understand?"

"Understood!" people responded loudly.

The horse whistle nodded: "Okay, let's start building the lumber camp now and choose a good place along the river."

The people divided into two teams and continued their inspection along the river. Finally, they chose an open space by the river and decided to build a lumber camp here.

Of course, it is also a place of residence.

However, Ma Shao does not plan to build a formal town here. After all, it is surrounded by dense forests and is not suitable for long-term living.

The place that is really suitable for building a new city is undoubtedly the future city of Sacramento, which is dozens of kilometers southwest.

There is a better place, a little further away in San Francisco.

In the original history, although the gold mine was in Sacramento, the city that really grew up because of it was San Francisco, or San Francisco.

The reason is that San Francisco is close to the ocean and has very convenient transportation.

When the news of the discovery of gold mines spreads, not only Americans, but gold prospectors from all over the world will flock here.

The first choice for gold prospectors who came from afar by sea was San Francisco, which caused the population of San Francisco to expand rapidly like an explosion, and eventually developed into a leading city.

As for whether to build a city in San Francisco, Mashao is still considering it for now.

Although San Francisco is a good place, the risks are also high and can easily attract criticism.

At the same time, it is not easy to control. After all, San Francisco's innate conditions determine that it will inevitably develop rapidly and will inevitably have an influx of immigrants.

If San Francisco continues to develop as it did in history, it will soon become a large-scale city with a complex population, and it will be difficult to control it.

Therefore, Mashao will not go to San Francisco in the short term. At most, it will build a new town in Sacramento.

After choosing a place, the westward marching team of 300 people stationed here, set up tents, and conducted their first hunt.

As a forest, the conditions here are quite good. Not only is the scenery pleasant, the air is fresh, but there are also many wild animals, such as hares, pheasants, wild deer and so on.

Coupled with the fish and shrimp in the river, it is more than enough to support three hundred people.

After setting up the tents, people began to use local materials to build buildings.

Mainly lumberyards, then wooden houses, and fences.

Walls must also be built, firstly to protect against wild animals, and secondly to protect against outsiders.

While the buildings were being built, gold mining also began.

As the earliest metal mastered by mankind, gold is not difficult to mine, and the Indians also know how to mine it.

Gold mining.

However, Ma Shao does not want to use pure manual gold mining, as this is too inefficient.

According to his worst plan, even if the news was leaked and the white people knew about the existence of the gold mine, he would still make a fortune before the white people arrived in large numbers.

To achieve this, pure manual gold panning is obviously a bit difficult.

But he can't make a machine that's too advanced, or he doesn't have the conditions.

So Mashao decided to make a washing tank out of wood.

"Ore washing tank, what is that?" People obviously don't know anything about it.

Ma Shao: "It's a tool used to pan for gold. It works on the same principle as a shallow pan."