1840Indian rebirth

After more than half a year, in mid-December 1847, Mashao returned to Mianxiong City.

Compared with when we left, the size of Mianxiong City has grown a lot. At a rough look, the area has been expanded by at least half, and there are obviously more masonry buildings in the city.

There are also some buildings outside the city, such as gun shops, stables, registration offices, etc. on the east and west sides.

A group of hunters came back from the south. The carriage carried many buffalo that had just been hunted. It seemed that the harvest was good.

Soldiers were standing guard or patrolling everywhere, and many were training in the open space. There were chants and of course, there were flying golden fists and red flags.

The city and beyond are filled with all kinds of sounds and sights, both prosperous and somewhat chaotic.

Naturally, there was a golden fist red flag in the horse whistle team, which was very eye-catching, so people quickly realized: "The chief is back!"

Welcomed by the soldiers, the horse sentry entered Mianxiong City through the west gate. Of course, registration procedures were also necessary before entering the city.

Especially those team members who are not qualified to hold guns. They can carry guns for self-defense on the road, but they cannot bring guns into the city.

Anyone who brings weapons into the city without permission will be punished, and Apache weapons control is very strict.

After completing the formalities for entering the city, the horse whistle ordered: "Send all the 'packages' to the chief's hall."

"Yes." Some team members responded, and then they unloaded the packages carried by the team and carried them to the chief's hall.

These packages are not large in size, but they seem to be quite heavy, and it is not easy for many people to move them.

"Li Niu, what's wrong with you? You're so tired from carrying two small packages?" a resident asked a burly soldier.

Li Niu replied: "You should try to go to California, it's thousands of miles away!"

"It's not like we have to walk in one day. I think you just can't make it anymore... Let me help you." The resident wanted to help Li Niu share a package.

"Go away!" Li Niu didn't appreciate it, panting and carrying the two packages straight into the chief's hall.

All the dozens of small packages in the team were moved into the chief's hall and piled on the ground, where the team members responsible for transporting them were also gathered.

"Thank you for your hard work." Ma Shao said to these people, "Go back and have a good rest."

Then he warned: "Be sure to pay attention to the confidentiality agreement. No matter what others say to you, you cannot reveal a word."

"Yes, Chief!" the people responded.

After everyone left, Yu Tian, ​​who had already been full of doubts, couldn't help but said: "What are these packages? Why are they so heavy?"

Ma Shao smiled: "You will know if you open it and take a look."

"This is all nailed." On a rainy day, the cloth outside the package was untied, revealing a wooden box that was nailed.

The horse whistle immediately picked up the wooden box, used both hands to force it several times, and directly opened the wooden board that was nailed by iron nails, and then a touch of golden color appeared in the room.

"Is this...gold?" On a rainy day, I couldn't help but open my eyes and take a closer look.

"Of course, besides gold, what else can have such an attractive luster?" Ma Shao picked up a gold ingot in the wooden box and weighed it in his hand.

This full and heavy feeling makes you feel happy.

On a rainy day, I picked up a gold ingot and looked at it. Then I remembered something and pointed to dozens of packages on the ground: "Are these all gold?"

"Yes, gold worth hundreds of thousands of dollars." Ma Shao said with a smile.

Rainy Day was stunned for a while: "Could it be...did you discover a gold mine in California? Use that metal detector?"

Ma Shao nodded: "Yes, but I think it's more of a blessing from fate. After all, you know, the detection range of metal detectors is very small."

Sitting there for a while on a rainy day, I frowned and fell into silence.

Mashao continued minding his own business: "After discovering the gold mine, I directly built a lumberyard there, allowing the tribesmen to pan for gold in the name of logging, and then built a new city near the lumberyard, called 'Donggu City'.

There is also a military base 'Xiquan Fortress'..."

He gave an overview of the current situation in Sacramento.

On a rainy day, he suddenly asked: "Are there many gold mines there?"

"It seems so." Mashao nodded and pointed to the gold on the ground, "At least after mining so much gold, the output of the gold mine has not decreased at all. I estimate that there may be millions or even tens of millions of dollars there.

of gold mines.”

Of course this is not the case.

The gold mines in California are worth at least hundreds of millions of dollars.

Rainy Day was silent for a while, until he said: "Why do I feel like you have expected it?"

"Ah?" The horse whistle hesitated.

Rainy Day: "Why else do you insist on going to California?"

"Of course it's for the ocean. The West Coast will become the most fertile place in the United States." Mashao concealed his guilty conscience, "We must prepare early. After all, after the U.S.-Mexican War, California will become the territory of the United States. There will definitely be more and more people.

Americans flocked there."

This is indeed a very important reason.

Rainy Day finally said: "Okay, I believe it..."

Ma Shao changed the subject: "Tell me about the situation in Mianxiong City in the past six months. I feel that there have been at least five to six thousand people here."

"The population of Mianxiong City has exceeded 20,000, and it is the largest city in the Midwest." Rainy Day nodded and said, "The Apache merger plan is still going on, plus the migration of people from other tribes, each of us

It will attract at least a thousand people every month."

"Most of the immigrants from other tribes came because they heard about our victory in epidemic prevention. This victory was greater than I imagined."

"In fact, we have been in the newspaper." After a pause, Yutian continued, "More than one reporter visited me, including a reporter from New York."

"Where's the newspaper? Let me take a look." Ma Shao was a little surprised.

Instead of taking out the newspaper on a rainy day, I took out a stack of paper with many cut newspaper fragments on it: "I set up an Apache News Agency to collect and organize important news, important news in the past few months.

It’s all here.”

"Apache News Agency?"