Chapter 18 Lack of Money

The first rain finally fell, wrapping the whole camp with the cold wind from Siberia. Fortunately, with the participation of a large number of Indians, the camp has been expanded.

The camp was finally divided into two parts, one was Li Mo and others, and the other was the newly arrived natives, separated by a wooden fence in the middle. Four high observation towers were also built on the four corners of the camp, guarded at night to prevent danger.

In order to better control the natives and minimize the crisis, under Li Mo's suggestion, the women and children among the natives were protected. They were usually responsible for logistics and selected golden sands on the river bay in front of the camp, and also provided a large amount of food for free. This policy not only minimized the resistance of the natives, but also greatly accelerated the speed of gold mining, and finally the first batch of Jinsha was successfully shipped back three days ago.

A large increase in population will inevitably lead to increased consumption. Rudolph's original reserves are not enough. Fortunately, this sparsely populated and unreclaimed treasure land has never been short of food. Dozens of pounds of big fish and a large number of wild animals have made the camp full of vitality. For this reason, Li Mo specially set up a hunting. The team.

The core of the camp is next to the room where Li Yunfei is located. Several workers are pulling the bellows hard. As a golden ** was injected into the mold, thumb-thick gold bars suddenly appeared in front of them. Looking at the fruits of months of hard work, almost every worker blushed.

"This is mine, mine, mine, or mine." Li Mo looked at a lot of gold bars in front of him and counted them while stimulating Thomas. In the end, he picked up two and handed them to Thomas, who had already turned black: "This is yours!" |

A whole hundred gold bars, each weighing a kilogram. Looking at Li Mo's shamelessly putting them in his bag, Thomas finally couldn't help it. With the half-baked Chinese he had just learned, he stretched out five fingers and said, "Li, 5%!"

"Haha!"

Seeing that Thomas's forehead was full of black lines and his expression was about to eat the pile of gold in front of him, everyone laughed one after another. In the laughter, Li Mo suddenly raised his middle finger and drew a few times to Thomas.

"?" Thomas, who didn't know why, asked quickly, "What do you mean?"

"Oh, this is Chinese etiquette, which means greeting your mother!" Unexpectedly, this international gesture has not spread yet, Li Mo immediately said shamelessly.

"Greetings to my mother? But I'm an orphan, and my mother has been dead for a long time!" Thomas was confused. At this time, Li Mo pushed three gold bars in front of him, so the guy did not continue to pursue them. He smiled and looked at the gold bars and drooled.

And Chen Pingping next to him was originally ignorant about the meaning of the gesture, but when he heard Master Li's annotation, he understood it one after another and bit his lips bitterly, so he didn't laugh out loud.

"Thomas, how many pounds do you think this gold is worth?" Li Mo, who didn't quite understand the price of gold at this time, immediately asked.

"In the United Kingdom, a pound is about 7.3 grams of pure gold. There are 100 kilograms here, about 13,700 pounds. If it is exchanged in the United States, it is about 68,000 US dollars."

According to Thomas's words, Li Mo quickly calculated that a pound at this time was equivalent to five dollars. Looking at the large pile of gold in front of him, which was only worth so little money, he was a little frustrated and couldn't help sighing, "So little!"

"Less? Oh, no..." Thomas patted his forehead and despised Li Mo's heart. At the same time, he shouted, "Li, do you know? Rudolph's ship is only 10,000 pounds!"

Li Mo ignored Thomas. Since he knew the price of gold at this time, he naturally knew the purchasing power of the currency at this time. It should be said that the current money is still quite valuable. Thinking of the two ships purchased in the Qing Dynasty, it was only about 90,000 pounds per ship, which was still the price after being fooled.

At this moment, the most famous monarch-class battleship in the previous fearless era should have been built, and its total price is only about 500,000 pounds.

13,000 pounds, nearly 70,000 US dollars. If it is exchanged for ordinary people, I'm afraid it will be a great wealth, but for Li Mo, even the minimum expenditure is not enough! According to Thomas, the northwest of Canada is now vast and sparsely populated, and Canada's political axe also very much hopes that someone will develop this land, just like the western United States on that day. Unfortunately, it is too cold here and only three months of farming can be cultivated, so almost no one comes except for the occasional gold digger, so The land price here is very cheap, about two dollars per acre.

Two dollars seemed to be very cheap, but when Li Mo took out the map he drew, everyone was stunned, not only because the map was much larger, but also spent a few big red circles.

With Li Mo's explanation, everyone soon understood that the red circle was the location of several major gold mines set by Li Mo, and some of them found other mineral deposits with interest. Looking at this one, which was almost covered the entire Yukon River basin, not only Thomas, but also Chen Ping began to drool at the map. Yes.

When the saliva ran out, everyone began to worry again, because it is estimated that even the area where several major gold mines are located is about 10,000 square kilometers. In terms of acres, it costs nearly 3 million acres, which requires a full 6 million dollars, about 1.2 million pounds, plus the need for mining of these gold mines. The machinery, personnel and a large amount of materials are consumed. God, how much gold do you want?

"One ton!" Li Mo stretched out a finger and shook it and hummed heavily.

"One ton!"

The person who had just learned the metric system could not react and counted it directly with his fingers, while Matos, who reacted quickly, had already opened his mouth wide. Although he also knew that Li Mo's plan needed a lot of money, he didn't expect it to cost so much.

It took everyone three months to get 100 kilograms of gold, which still relies on large veins. What's more, with the arrival of winter, the gold panning on the river is about to stop, leaving only the underground gold mine to start construction for the time being. However, considering the climate here, it is basically difficult to mine again after November. It must It won't continue until May next year. In this way, I'm afraid it will be less than a ton of gold next year.

"I'll go to the gold mine!" Thomas didn't know what he thought of, gritted his teeth and ran out quickly. Thomas's sudden departure made Li Yunfei confused. After a long time, he said, "This guy is not going to mine by himself!"

But before Li Mo heard the reply, he heard Long Guozhang's dull face: "Five years..., one ton..., iron armored ship...!" After muttering to himself for a while, he suddenly rushed out of the room like Thomas.

"What are these guys doing? Did you take the wrong medicine? Li Mo had to turn his eyes to the normal Chen Ping for help. The latter smiled helplessly and spread out his hands: "I guess the young master, your plan has stimulated them. I guess they have probably taken people to the mine at this time."

"..." Li Mo suddenly dropped a few black lines on his forehead. Who are they? Didn't he just mention that he didn't have enough money? To make money, the young master has a lot of ideas. I'll let you see it when I go to the United States next month!

Seeing everyone walking, stupid, Li Mo had to roll up the map helplessly and asked, " By the way, is Li Qiang back?"

"It's been almost ten days since I came back. I led the team to the gold mine a few days ago. It is estimated that I won't be back until three days later." Chen Ping knew what Li Mo wanted to ask, so he continued, "The young master guessed that it was right. It really attracted a lot of gold diggers and adventurers to check it. It was not until half a month later that someone came to investigate, but the young master was relieved that the people were killed by Li Qiang. He guarded for five days and no one appeared again, and then he came back."

After listening to Chen Ping's words, Li Mo nodded. He had long expected that his attack on the Indian tribe would attract snoopers. Fortunately, he left a hand and asked Li Qiang to take people to stay, so that the location of the camp was not exposed.

But there is no way to go on like this. With more and more people here, the camp will be exposed sooner or later, and the only thing I can do is to buy it openly before exposure, which is the safest.

"Let Zhao Long and Li Qiang come to me when they are free. I have something to tell them." Li Mo thought for a moment and said, "In addition, the water is very cold now. Why don't you stop panning for gold on the beach and go to the mine to help, and try to mine as much gold as possible before it snows. As for those who are free for the time being, immediately arrange to go logging and hunting to reserve wintering materials.

"Yes." Chen Ping nodded and turned out of the room. When the cold wind came, he found that his temporary manager had nothing to do, as if everything had been arranged by the young master just now.

In fact, he has found this situation more than once, especially when he has been with Li Mo recently. He always forgets the young master's real age. He can't believe that Li Mo is only twelve years old.

"Maybe this is the talent of those who are born with superiors." Chen Ping looked up at the dark clouds in the sky and suddenly thought of it.

Of course, no one noticed that a moment after they left, Master Li's eyebrows were locked again, looking at the pile of gold bars, and sighed after half an hour.

"I'm short of money..."