Chapter 16 Lack of People

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Two days later, Thomas, who finally couldn't look at the gold nugget again, with a pair of panda eyes, under the personal protection of Long Guozhang, took a few people to the place where Du Dazhuang found the dog-headed gold. According to his estimation, that place was probably the golden vein.

After Li Mo gave the gold nugget to Li Fu for safekeeping, he began training with the 40 people selected by Zhao Long.

The training is very hard. Zhao Long is training these people in full accordance with the requirements of the German instructors in the new army. When the day's training is over, everyone is almost lying down tired, but when these fishermen and mud legs who only carried the gun for a few days saw that Master Li, who was only 12 years old, actually followed everyone. Come on, the complaints in the mouth also disappeared.

In the next few days, Zhang Shun still took a few flexible guys to look for the nest of natives. Thomas took Long Guozhang and didn't know what he was busy with. His feet did not touch the ground. Naturally, Master Li did not have time to ask. The high-intensity training in the past few days almost made him unable to get up, especially Shooting training almost made him want to be a deserter.

At this moment, he opened his clothes and looked at his black and purple shoulders. Li Mo complained in his heart, which was much harder than the military training he had participated in before. At that time, he was an engineer. The military training was just going through the field and shooting a few shots. As it is now, aiming with a gun for more than half a day, plus the back seat when shooting. Li, at his age, it is very good that his arm has not been dislocated.

"Oh, we went to school together, carried guns together, and so on together! There's nothing we can do..." Thinking about the three iron laws rated by later generations, Master Li smiled bitterly at the corners of his mouth. In order to attract people's hearts, I'm afraid he will have to stick to it for a few days.

Li Mo was just about to lengthen the wick a little longer, looked at his shoulders, and thought of a way to reduce the swelling first. When he saw Xiao Xiao coming in with a basin of water, he hurried to cover his skirt.

But he was fast, but the little girl who had been staring at him. Seeing the young master's clothes to cover up, the little girl quickly put down the basin and ran over. When she saw Li Yunfei's shoulder, she was shocked and exclaimed, "Young master, you..."

"Shh, don't scream, don't let Fubo hear it." Li Mo quickly covered his small mouth, pointed to the outside and whispered, "It's nothing. I've been practicing guns these days, and I'll be fine in a few days."

"Young master, why are you suffering? Aren't there Zhao Long and others?" Looking at the huge and swollen black nest, the little girl couldn't stop crying. She hurriedly found a few pieces of cotton wool and rubbed it for Li Yunfei with some water.

"Hss..." As soon as the cold water touched the skin, Li Mo's forehead sweated and took a breath of cold air. And the little girl was so scared that she didn't dare to do it again. She stood stupidly and didn't know what to do.

"It's okay, go on." Li Mo gritted his teeth and motioned Xiao to continue. Then he said slowly, "You think I don't want to be lazy. I still want to sleep with you in my arms every day, but I have to do these things, otherwise everyone is busy practicing hard, and I am here to enjoy the happiness. What do you think?"

Xiao Xiao nodded. The general had done a lot of this kind of buying people's hearts before, but at that time, he was just doing it. How could the young master hurt his whole body like him now? But even so, the young master still gritted his teeth and got up early in the morning every day to practice with everyone.

Thinking that the young master now takes his own people overseas and comes to this rare place, he has to work hard little by little in order to survive, and the small tears can't help flowing down.

"Okay, don't cry. You don't look good when you cry. At worst, I won't ask you to sleep with me, okay?" Li Mo scolded the small size with a gag, but he thought of Zhang Shun, who had been out for a few days, and asked worriedly, " By the way, has Zhang Shun heard from you?"

"Not yet." Xiao Xiao blushed and shook his head.

"Why haven't you come back yet?" Looking at the starry night sky outside the house, Li Mo frowned and became worried.

Early the next morning, Li Mo, who couldn't sleep with a small sleep with the excuse of serious injury, was awakened by a scream outside. He didn't wait for him to open his sleepy eyes and hear what had happened. He saw that the old housekeeper Li Fu had come to the bedside and said with a smile, "Congratulations to the young master!"

"Congratulations to me?"

"Yes, Thomas has found the location of the gold mine!" He shouted quickly and excitedly.

"What!" Li Mo turned over from then on and was about to run out. Suddenly, he thought of something and turned his head to Li Fu and said, "Fu Bo, we are no longer in the Qing Dynasty. Don't be an old slave in the future. I don't feel well."

"Ah, this can't be done! I have been an old slave since I was a child..." Just wondering why the young master went and returned, Li Fu quickly said that he didn't dare.

"Stop! There's nothing wrong with it. Since you all said that I'm in charge now, this rule can be set! And you, little girl, you are not allowed to be a slave in the future. If you dare to say that, the young master will immediately hug you to sleep!" Li Mo didn't give Li Fu a chance to speak. He looked at the small smile next to him and blushed.

"Oh, I know, young master!" The little girl stuck out her tongue and answered obediently.

Soon, Li Mo met Thomas under the leadership of Li Fu, who was still nagging and unwilling to change his words. This guy was discussing with Long Guozhang about how many people he would take to mine. When he saw Li Yunfei, he hugged him and said excitedly, "My God, dear Li, do you know what I found? God, you should go and see it with your own eyes!"

"Damn it, the young master is not Lala!" Li Mo kicked Thomas away. I don't know how many days this guy hasn't taken a shower. Li Yunfei, who was only under the other party's arm, was almost smoked to death by that smell.

At this moment, Thomas didn't mind Li Mo kicking him at all. Instead, he continued to look at him excitedly and shouted, "Li, let your people do it quickly. I'm too late."

"Well, then you can change hundreds of people out!" Li Mo spread out his hands and said.

"Do you want to change to hundreds of people?" Thomas quickly realized that there were only more than 200 people in the camp now, and Li Mo transferred another 40 people as guards. Coupled with the necessary logistics personnel and gold miners on the bay, there were probably less than 30 people who could be pulled out to mine. When he thought of the huge vein containing unimaginable gold, he couldn't help but be most excited. Pouted his mouth.

You should know that it is a super large vein, and it is conservatively estimated that there are at least hundreds of tons of gold. If the large veins need to be developed, in addition to the necessary machinery, at least thousands of people are needed. What's more, on Li Mo's map, there are several similar veins, and the population needed is more than 10,000.

"Otherwise, let me go back and find some people!" Long Guozhang listened to the conversation between the two and interrupted.

"This is a way, but long-distance water can't quench thirst. If you want to dig out the mine before winter comes, it will take at least 500 people!" Chen Ping calculated and said immediately.

"Five hundred people?" Li Mo has a headache. Where can he find so many people? At the beginning, I just wanted to find a big mine, but now I have found it, but I don't have enough personnel to develop it. Do I want to go to a nearby place to recruit people?

Li Mo shook his head. Before he didn't have enough strength, he didn't want to deal with foreign devils. At least he had to gather enough money to buy all the mineral land before he could recruit workers. Otherwise, it would be a disaster to find that the news of the big gold mine leaked out!

Li Mozheng had a headache about how to solve the personnel problem. He finally understood a few people's foreign language for a while. After a while, Zhao Long, who was in Chinese, suddenly interrupted: "It's not that there's nothing he can do, it's just..."

"What's the way?" As soon as Li Mo heard that Zhao Long had a door, he quickly asked.

"Has the young master forgotten that Zhang Shun has been out for four or five days? I estimate that there will be news in the next two days. As long as those natives are caught, the manpower will be enough!"

"Yes!" Long Guozhang patted his thigh and sighed, "Why didn't I think of it? Anyway, it's a waste to kill these guys for revenge. It's better to be a pig!"

said, despise these guys. As soon as they got out of the fate of the pigs, they considered treating them as pigs. However, this method is also good. Li Mo has no good impression on those Indians. Not to mention that they killed their own people, even if there is no such thing, as more and more people come to search for gold, there will be conflicts sooner or later. As for whether it is humane or not, please, if he doesn't do this kind of thing, someone will always do it. Compared with being slaughtered by others in the future, it is already very kind to just let them be laborers.

Thinking of this, Li Mo quickly said, "Zhao Long, you still need to strengthen your training! As soon as Zhang Shun comes back, he will leave immediately.

"Yes." Zhao Long nodded, gritted his teeth and went to practice the eggs of the recruits.

"Guo Zhang, Yuan Xiao, you two discuss whether you can go back to find some people. After all, there are too few of us. If we rely on catching the locals to make up the number, once the locals gather, I'm afraid it's easy to be variable!"

"What the young master said!" Long Guozhang and Chen Ping nodded quickly.

"Well, everyone is too worried. Let's go to see Mr. Thomas's big discovery first!" Li Mo smiled and dragged his words out. Thomas, who hid aside and didn't know what to think, set off.

Half an hour later, Li Yunfei came to the vein found by Thomas. As several guards opened the temporarily excavated mine, Li Mo took the lead in drilling in.

The channel of the mine is very narrow. Because it was dug temporarily and there were not enough manpower, it was only more than ten meters long, but when Li Mo came to the mine wall, he was still stunned. Under the temporarily supported high kerosene lamp, on the wall of the mine, a wonderful thin line with golden light gradually extended, until the thin line at the end was suddenly enlarged and turned into a whole golden sand ball, which plunged into the mine wall.

"Thomas said, there are at least 300 tons!" Under the signal of Li Yunfei, Chen Ping, who had begun to use the metric calculation method, quickly added.

"Three hundred tons?!" Li Mo would like to tell everyone that more than a hundred years later, after more than 500 tons of gold have been mined here, it is still increasing production. However, he still resisted, because he knew that in this era of insufficient surveying and mapping methods, saying that would only make people think that he was crazy!

The most important thing now is not to estimate the output, but to extract enough gold as soon as possible, exchange it for cash, and then Thomas will come forward to legally buy the land.

What's more, this land is not only gold, oil, tungsten, copper, iron, coal, sulfur, etc., but also an inexhaustible treasure mountain! For Li Mo, controlling here is the beginning of his real take-off.

As long as he controls the resources here, he will have the possibility to seize food in the mouth of the powerful. Of course, this is Canada, and next to him is the United States. He will not be stupid enough to build a power base here. In that case, I'm afraid that the army will come in the next day. What Li Mo wants is only the resources here, and If you get it without being noticed by others, the best way is undoubtedly to find a spokesperson. Thomas is just a coincidence. Even without him, I'm afraid there will be a second and the third will be supported.

The most critical issue in front of us now is the population, a large population. Only in this way can we mine the first bucket of gold as soon as possible, buy the land here, and build a huge mining empire

"Damn the population! Where are those Indians hiding?