The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

There is no need to climb to the top. The mine is not like a volcanic crater, but it will reach a height of 4,556. Although most of them are driven by car and car, don’t eat and go up. .

Riding an off-road vehicle up the simple and winding mountain road. At the request of the President and the distinguished guests, local officials chose a location halfway up the mountain, and now there are mines being mined by cooperatives.

While in the car, President De Losada said: "The mine arranged this time is the safest in the entire Rico Mountain. If you are interested, you can go down to the mine to have a look."

In response, Zhang Nan shook his head slightly and said, "I will satisfy a wish. There is an old saying in China, "A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall..."

Delosada could not understand a classic Chinese sentence.

Agentleman does not stand under the wall of danger. After Zhang Nan explained it in English that was the closest to the actual meaning, President De Losada agreed: "A gentleman does not stand under the wall of danger, it makes sense!"

Mr. President understands the voice-over that Zhang Nan is about to say: Neither of them should go down to the mine. No matter how curious they are, there is no need and no risk!

Halfway through the road, you can see a mine on the side of the road. The large ones are not small and operate mechanized, but the equipment and workshops are like those that have been abandoned for decades.

Local officials did not choose such a "big mine", probably because of not only safety considerations, but also image issues.

It looks so bad, it's so bad to describe it! What visitors want to see is the original, not the tattered.

On the road, I also saw extremely simple mines, not even a mine cart pushed by people. I saw the miners wrapped up in ore powder from head to toe coming out with their backpacks. The ore should be inside.

Purely artificial mining is like the cannibalistic coal mine described in the text when I was reading!

If you can't think of the text for elementary school or junior high school, people in the mine can't stand up, crawling and transporting the coal in the basket to the ground, it is a cruel exploitation by the capitalist.

Mr. President also saw the situation of the small mines on the roadside and said to Zhang Nan: “There are still about 8,000 miners living on this mountain. Many places are not the original original rock formations at all, but are formed after multiple collapses and squeezing. Loose rock mass.

The taste of these ore is incomparable to that of the 16th century. Those super-rich minerals with 40% silver content were mined 400 years ago.

But the danger is dangerous, and the income of these miners is basically pretty good.

The miners here are joking themselves, saying that this woman is best to marry a miner. She has a good income and is often away from home. Apart from some cheap tobacco and cou/co leaves, she has no extra expenses. "

Upon hearing this, Zhang Nan answered: "My friend, you should finish the last sentence."

Mr. President did not think that Zhang Nan also knew that the miner used a mocking joke, so he smiled, but did not continue.

Everyone knows it in their hearts, it is too vulgar to say it, and he, the President of Bolivia, will lose face by then.

The last sentence is: The money is at home, and you may inherit your husband's property at any time. Even if you don't die in a mine disaster, you will die of lung disease at the age of 40!

Silicosis!

Yesterday at my mine, the aboriginal miners who went down all had simple protective masks or industrial dust masks. The miners here did not have any labor protection.

Even at this time, the men of Mount Rico rarely live to be 40 years old, and there is a Widow’s Association in Potosí!

As for the fact that the income of miners is pretty good, Zhang Nan thinks it's normal.

Except for black coal kilns.

In the last life around 2010, a friend went to Shanxi Province to do the Hangzhou/Zhou Xiaolongbao business. In fact, it was "Sheng/Zhou Xiaolongbao". Who made the local brand not enough at that time, and Hangzhou was famous.

The Xiaolong Baozi shop is located next to a coal mine. It costs five to six yuan per cage, and the regular price.

As soon as the miners come in, regardless of breakfast or lunch, no matter what they are, those who eat three cages with beer have no appetite, and those who come to five cages by one person are common.

The average meal is 30 yuan, and the miners can afford it!

That friend and Zhang Nan said that according to the division of labor, the working hours, and the difference between the morning shift and the evening shift, the monthly income of the miners is at least 7,000 or 8,000, and the monthly income ranges from more than 10,000.

About 10,000 manual workers in 2010 are really high incomes!

In one year, it was a bit higher than the average annual salary of civil servants in Jiangnan Province at that time, plus the total income of various miscellaneous subsidies.

Of course, coal mine workers are high-income workers with dangerous and terrible working conditions. They earn high incomes with hard work, and most people cannot afford to make that money. This is similar to the situation of working high-income jobs on offshore fishing boats.

The friend in the previous life was talking about the situation in the formal coal mines of China. These silver mines in Potos seem to be not very formal, but in fact, there are certain rules to guarantee the cooperative system.

In this poor land, those miners who look like mud monkeys, as long as they don’t have too much luck, will get paid much higher than the men who do other physical work and basic work in the city.

Rich people in poor places, "rich people" who are struggling.

Before long, the car drove to a flat ground formed by dumping waste ore, and there were two simple and old small railroad tracks above it.

There are a few dirty single-story brick and stone houses on the side. There are rusty, broken and abandoned small mine carts beside the houses, and a black-lacquered hole is exposed in the front rock mass.

That was the entrance of the mine. A dirty miner was pushing a minecart out, and with the help of another miner nearby, he poured the ore in the car into the stockyard at the end of the rails.

The **** at the side told Zhang Nan that these should be waste ore, and watching that the ore with a good silver content would not be dumped like this, it would be put into the house on the side first.

The **** made an introduction and called several nearby miners.

Zhang Nan asked: "Do you have Gu/Ke Ye?"

The miners don’t understand English, and they can’t even speak Spanish. The translator speaks the aboriginal language.

The short, old-looking miners didn’t recognize who the president was beside them. He grinned at the translation, said something, and took out a handful of them from the pockets of the uniforms they could not hide. , And handed it to Zhang Nan in a friendly manner.

Bargain, this foreign big guy wants it, you're welcome!

Seeing this person is a mouthful of black teeth. As mentioned in the book, the miners in Rico Mountain are all black teeth, chewed by ancient/cole leaves.

Zhang Nan took a piece of it, and it looked quite fresh. The person on the other side signaled that it could be chewed, and stuffed a piece into his mouth, chewing very vigorously, and the green juice oozes out.

Zhang Nan didn't know how to put this kind of devil's leaves in his mouth, so he smelled the scent, returned the leaves to the other party, and said, "Thank you!"

When I walked to the entrance of the mine, I drew it out of my jacket pocket, and I was carrying a flashlight today.

The rough mine walls, without even a bit of cement, still smelled a pungent sulphur.

This is a volcano, at such a high altitude, the air in the belly of the mountain is much worse than outside.

When I came, I heard that the miners who were in charge of digging went down to work for more than four hours each trip, and then came out to get some gas, and then went down to the mine.

With two shifts a day, these people really have to rely on Gu/Keye to make a living!

For a while, Zhang Nan had seen enough and was about to leave.

After a trip like this, the result was enough time for a while. It is not surprising that Mr. President, a gentleman would not stand under a dangerous wall.

But since we are here in Potosi, we must let the guests see something special.

"We will return to La Paz tomorrow. If you are interested in the afternoon, you can visit the former Royal Mint, which is now a museum.

Mr. Mayor said that he would give you a small souvenir on behalf of Potosí. "

Upon hearing this, Zhang Nan said: "Okay. By the way, what souvenir?"

"A colonial eight liel cross silver coin is a very rare old silver coin, an early product of the Royal Mint.

There are some deposits in the museum here, which are specially used to present visitors with special identities. "The president didn't keep it secret.

Zhang Nan couldn't smile when he heard it.

Alyosha in the co-pilot also heard it, and there was an expression of "how weird time, hillbilly" on his face.

Of course, this expression is invisible to others, and even the presidential guard who drives the car will not notice ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The old silver coins sent to the boss Spaniard are still mass-produced goods. This is probably the most failed gift in the world. action!

After spending so many years with the boss, Alyosha is almost becoming a collection expert.

Mr. President said it should be the Kappa silver coin that was made. Huaxia is used to call it Benyang, which is still the oldest one. It was there in the Ming Dynasty.

This is relatively scarce in the market, but for others, it’s only a hundred dollars apiece.

The value is second. This Kappa silver coin era is a bit early, and there are not too many hoards that have been circulated or discovered by archaeology, but the owner can at least have a few hundred kilograms!

There are too many, subdivided and small varieties are even more comprehensive than those in the Spanish museum.

In the Philippines, thousands of tons of silver dollars are counted, so someone would actually want to give the boss silver dollars...

Alyosha thought "Haha...hahaha!"