Magadan!

Perhaps this place is a desolate place, but like Alaska in the United States, this area is buried with fascinating gold. Many tributaries in the Korema River Basin have rich reserves and rich grades of sand gold and native gold mines. Since the 1930s of the former Soviet Union, in nearly 70 years, the Russians have mined more than 3,500 tons of gold and tens of thousands of tons of silver here. Even so, Russian experts predict that there are still more than 4,000 tons of gold and tens of thousands of tons of silver in the local area...

This is also the reason why Stalin drove hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag labor camp to build the "death road" because of gold and silver!

Gold is enough to make anyone crazy! Even for a great man with steel will. And he will make more cruel decisions for gold.

Of course, after the captain, Zhao Laoqin and others saw the piece of gold, the entire "Sky Rich" was in a state of madness. They forgot that their whaling hands were whaling, and forgot everything, and only gold was left in their eyes!

"Let them take us to find gold!"

"But it has cooled down now, and the sea will soon freeze!"

"Hurry up and see it in person no matter what!"

There were more than 30 sailors on the whaling ship "Sky Rich" in total. After there was a gold mine on the shore of consciousness, the captain immediately organized an expedition of 25 people to search for gold under the leadership of the natives. The place where the natives wanted to take them to was the source of the Kolema River, which drove Stalin to build the "death road" at any cost.

After leaving the coast, they walked inland for five days. Then this whaling-level expedition team finally encountered a second native settlement, and there were not many natives here. Unlike the fishing tribes on the coast, they made a living by raising deer. Although there were less than a thousand people, they raised tens of thousands of reindeer. The deer breeders lived in a deer skin garden, with wooden poles, and were covered with deer skin around and on the top. There were 3-4 curtains made of deer skin in the garden.

If it were in the past, they would definitely be interested in these deer skins, but now they are coming for gold.

The relationship between the two settlements is very good. Although they are very close, they can complement each other. The main food of deer farmers is venison. They also eat the meat and oil of sea beasts, which are exchanged for venison from coastal fishermen. They often exchange their own foods with each other, and their relationship is naturally very close.

In the upper reaches of the Kolema River, there are larger tribes, even more, only a few hundred more people. However, even so, such "big tribes" are already extremely rare in this area. After all, this place is not a place for living. Not to mention the resources are not rich, and the climate is extremely harsh. There are only more than 10,000 natives living here.

This is even the peak of local natives. According to Russian records, in the 17th century, there were more than 12,000 Koriaks living here. Later, due to the epidemic of smallpox, syphilis and other diseases, the population was halved! Even their population did not return to this peak until the 21st century.

After the two indigenous leaders exchanged, the deer-raising tribe immediately ordered the collection of gold from the tribe. Now, these natives far away from civilization have not yet come into contact with the Russian expedition team, and they have not yet realized the preciousness of gold. Of course, some people have always discovered that there is a large amount of gold in the river here, because it is too remote.

Soon, they found some gold, not much, only a few dozen kilograms. After finding these gold, the natives exchanged some iron tools and more than a dozen pieces of cloth with the expedition team on the spot, as well as two barrels of "sugarcane wine". Compared with cloth and iron tools, the liquor immediately conquered these natives. After being drunk, they naturally sang and danced to celebrate.

In order to exchange more spirits, the local people, under the order of the head people, went out and took the expedition team to the Kolema River.

There is no essential difference between the Kolema River in the 17th century and later generations. Because it is rare here, and no one has even been here throughout the 19th century. It was not until the 19th century that Soviet expeditions discovered gold in native tribes, thus discovering gold in the Kolema River. Since then, the entire Kolema River basin has become the gold river of the Soviet Union!

Although the weather was already very cold, the rapid Kolema River had not frozen yet, which was undoubtedly the luckiest thing. When Liang Min and others came to the river, they just looked into the river and everyone's eyes suddenly became straight.

Through the clear river water, under the sunlight, there were golden light flashing among the pebbles in the shallow water.

Is it a dazzling look?

At least for a moment, they all had this illusion, how could gold just come together like this?

In fact, this is the biggest difference between the Kolema River gold and other places. Under the impact of the ice water of the mountains, countless stones turned into pebbles. The golden sand that was impacted into sand accumulated over time and accumulated between the gaps of pebbles, and finally formed this golden river...

"Golden Sands, my god, they are all golden sands!"

Someone shouted, and in an instant, everyone rushed over.

Like others, Li Si jumped into the water and held a handful of sand in both hands. It was sand there, and it was clearly the sand mixed with golden sand.

He swallowed and said:

"My God, this is a river, it is clearly the Golden River!"

"That's right, this handful of people are all gold, they are holding gold!"

They didn't know that in another world, the Soviet expedition members had fallen into madness, and even Stalin was shocked by the golden river. In order to keep it secret, he did not even dare to mine the gold mine here through more convenient sea routes. Instead, he used hundreds of thousands of reformed prisoners to build a road, and then distributed tens of thousands of reformed prisoners to mine the gold here, and the gold output here even exceeded one hundred tons at one time!

The entire Kolema River Basin is full of golden rivers, but the problem is that there is more or less golden sand. Some rivers do not have much gold, but in this area, the amount of gold can make people crazy. Looking around, you can actually see golden sand everywhere.

Therefore, the "Kolema River" mentioned by the local people immediately had a Chinese name - called Jinhe!

Golden River!

This is a golden river flowing with gold!

At this time, they don’t even need to investigate anything, but instead make gold here, not gold digging, but "digging gold"!

Because sand has a high gold content, they just need to put the sand mixed with gold into a wooden basket. A basket of gold-sand mixture weighing hundreds of kilograms can be exchanged for a bucket of strong wine.

If you are looking for a piece of dog-head gold, you can also exchange it for a bucket of strong liquor for a piece of dog-head gold the size of a fist.

"I feel so sorry for them!"

Liang Min pointed to the native man who was looking for gold on the dog head and said:

"We can exchange so much gold with a barrel of wine..."

"Hey, there's nothing we can do. Who made this thing look like sand in their eyes?"

Indeed, for the natives, these golden sands are just ordinary sands, while the spirits are treasures brought by guests from afar.

That night, all the natives who had dozens of barrels of strong wine were drunk without exception. These deer-raising people were like the tribes on the coast. They all happily invited these guests from afar to their homes and let their wives sleep with them.

For Liang Min and others, they just felt that they were in heaven, as if they were dreaming.

Gold, beauty...

All of this is so incredible.

In the days they received, they searched for gold during the day and fell asleep at night by other people's wives.

But soon, such a good day ended with the arrival of heavy snow, and the Korema River freezes!

Looking at the frozen river surface, although they were full of reluctance, they knew that it was time to leave. If they didn't leave, the sea surface would freeze, and then they would have to stay here.

When the river was frozen and the snow was flying, the "Sky Rich" whaling ship finally left the coast and headed south, leaving the north before the coast was frozen.

When they left, they took away more than a hundred baskets of golden sand mixture, and the "Rich Rich" really got rich...
Chapter completed!