Chapter 4 Chapter 3 Pilgrims in the Kingdom of Money

I read a book about the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and it was really thrilling. The spiritual power of religion is the power of a supernatural, unusual god.If we can understand the great gravitational force that religion exerts on believers, then I can't understand for a while the kind of religious madness and hallucinations that appear in front of money and the material world. The first incident happened in Chenxi, Hunan. Old man Ge—actually, he was just over half a century old. One night 20 years ago, he suddenly had a dream: he dreamed that the Jade Emperor told him that there was gold under the mountain at the back door of his house.The old man Ge (who was only in his thirties at the time) jumped up from the bed excitedly, and kept shouting: "God, open your eyes, I, someone Ge, is going to post! Post!"

The mother-in-law dubiously believed, and dug with him night after night-in the daytime, she was afraid that others would find out, but she didn't see anything.The mother-in-law quit, saying that she was too tired to die at night, why would she go to the ground during the day? The old man Ge said: "Where is the land? Wait for the gold to be dug out. There is no time for beauty." The mother-in-law dug with him for half a month.The mounds of soil became hills, and there were no gold stars. "Don't plant the land, dig, dig, dig your piss nest, I won't do it!" The mother-in-law stopped from then on.

Old man Ge didn't stop, and started digging during the day. Neighbors and distant villages all know about this.Others saw him digging like this for a year and a half, thinking that there was real gold buried at the bottom of the mountain. As a result, it was spread to ten, ten to hundreds. Jin, people almost turned the whole mountain bag upside down, but there is still no gold star. Everyone was finally discouraged, threw down their shovels and picks, and withdrew from the mountain, but Old Man Ge remained the same. He dug and dug, and dug for years and years.Been digging for 20 years...

One day, his mother died.Others ran to the cave to tell him the bad news.Unexpectedly, he wiped off his sweat, said "Anyway, I'm getting older", and then picked up the iron chisel to chisel it open. The mother-in-law couldn't stand the crime, so she rolled up her bed, took her son out of the house, and never returned.After hearing this, he flicked the iron drill and said, "What are you afraid of? As long as you dig out the gold, don't you worry about not having a wife or son?" Later, he simply threw away his farm work and pawned his family property in exchange for explosives to open mountains and daily necessities for filling his belly, and he dug in the hole with all his heart.

Last fall, the county officials were shocked when they found out about this incident. They contacted the provincial geological team and hired two engineers to investigate the back mountain of Old Han Ge's house. They found that there was no gold mine at all.The magistrate told Old Man Ge.Unexpectedly, the old man Ge was furious, held up the iron pick, stood at the entrance of the cave and said loudly: "If anyone is unlucky again, I will ask the emperor to kill his eight generations of ancestors!" Since then, no one has stopped this gold fanatic who has never stopped digging mountains.Today, old man Ge has cut through the back mountain.Because he never saw the kind of gold that the Jade Emperor said to him in his dream, he changed his direction and started digging the mountain from the beginning...

The second incident happened in the Xiaoqinling gold mining area in Shaanxi. The date is July 11, 1994.It's an inconsequential day for many.But in the Xiaoqinling Mountains, it is such a frightening death day. No one can tell exactly how many people died on the banks of the Xiyu River in the Xiaoqinling gold mining area that day.Some people say, two or three hundred.Some people say that there are no less than 300 migrant workers living under the dam built with waste ore in the Guangwenyu Gold Mine, and now only more than 80 people are left alive.And there are at least a few thousand people mining gold along the banks of the Xiyu River. In the face of the flood that is more than ten feet high and accompanied by roaring rocks, only God knows where these people have gone...

The "7.11 Incident" in Xiaoqinling is a rare and serious accident since the founding of the People's Republic of China.Its full truth is still or never will be known.Because those who were buried in the flood were all local villagers who had no household registration, no registration, and did not know where they came from.Their families know nothing about this, and they are still waiting day after day and month after month for their relatives who have gone to the remote mountains to send back the money they earned from digging to build new houses, exchange wives and family members. Retirement at the end of the day... What a bleak and fruitless wait!

Such a horrific tragedy did not shake the gold diggers who flocked from all directions.I came here to interview when the bodies of those innocent victims in the "7.11" incident were still floating or exposed to the sun in the river valley or on the river surface.I saw batch after batch of new recruiters walking towards Jinshan mightily, still walking so calmly, so persistently, so unwaveringly, without any sense of fear on their faces. "...I can't remember when, I can't remember where. Only when I hug you, the soul is sublimated, and life is resurrected. Ah, you are like an omnipotent god, who makes the dead live and the living die. People I would like to die generously for you, and would like to live bravely for you. You are the seat of God, you are the cornerstone of God, and you are in the kingdom of heaven with God..." This is a passage in a "Golden Manifesto" written by a certain gentleman .

Ah, money and wealth, you, the king of heaven, have made many crazy followers bow their heads for you, and dance the "swing dance" of life; shed blood and died for you, and their souls perish in heaven! In the 1940s, when the United States, as a victorious country in World War II, experienced an unprecedented economic leap, there was a wave of western development that once carried the history of the United States.Who would have thought that in China 40 years later, when the economic development momentum of the coastal areas crossed the borders and rushed towards the tide of the world, a hurricane surged in the western part of China that had been silent for many years? development fever.The "Western Fever" that spread to Xinjiang, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and even the entire land of China was caused by a metal element code-named Au.

Gold, your fame is too great, and your charismatic power exceeds any kind of divine power created by philosophers and religious figures! Those herdsmen who have lived on a piece of yellow sheepskin for so many lives are too poor. They need nutrition to nourish their thin bodies, and they need to have a TV set and a watch that can watch the moon set and the sun rise, just like the people in coastal areas and cities. .I don’t want to live life after life in poverty and hardship in this sea of ​​sand where there is no sweet spring and no wind. The times have given such an opportunity! Westerners began to rediscover and discover their own land.

There is no need to listen to such legends - in 1972, when US President Nixon visited China, the first generous gift he presented to Premier Zhou Enlai was "Our resource satellite of the United States of America has detected a large gold mine in western China". There is no need to listen to such news——In 1985, an official from the China National Gold Corporation visited Australia, and the person in charge of the Australian mining department told him: "If there is a gold mine in western China that announces its reserves, it will cause an explosion in the price of gold all over the world." Volatility and global financial shocks!" Ah, people used to underestimate and underestimate Kunlun, the 800-mile vast Kunlun that emerged from the sky, and Qilian, the majestic Qilian that dived into the sea of ​​clouds. .The fact of the matter is that these two Western "Optimus Primes" wear thick real gold armor and yellow robes.The high-precision American satellites and the Australians, the originator of gold hunting, are referring to these two big vaults.This is by no means sensational.After surveying, Chinese geologists quickly confirmed that the embrace of Kunlun and Qilian Mountains is rich in gold veins and rich in alluvial gold.In Hongjintai, where gold is the richest, a shovel of sand is scattered on the ground with a splash, and gold grains the size of sesame seeds are easy to pick up.It is not uncommon for local herdsmen to pick up gold nuggets weighing 10 or 20 catties while riding camels to graze. How many years have people not understood the value of gold?Do you not understand that gold can be exchanged for wealth and heavenly life?no.That's because the herdsmen on Jintan and Jinshan are piously obeying the instructions of the gods: the herdsmen take herding as a profession, and all unexpected things will be a source of evil.They protect the golden mountains and golden beaches devoutly, just like protecting their own pastures and fields. Even if they pick up a priceless gold nugget, at most it is used to cast it into a small spoon for feeding children and a pair of exquisite reins. Buckle... "What, there is gold everywhere? Herdsmen use it to make spoons and clasps? Haha, fool! Idiot!" One day, when those "smart" people heard about such things, they couldn't restrain their greedy eyes any longer. Heart, so gang up, out of caves, out of huts, out of high-rise buildings - what are high-rise buildings compared to gold? ——With the entrustment of the wife, the hope of the child, the "conditions" of the fiancée and lover, from the depths of the Tianshan Mountains, the land of the Qinhuai River, the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the capital of the Haihe River... a team, line by line, with excitement, excitement and "excitement" The strong determination and fighting spirit of "fighting with your life" rushed towards Kunlun like a turbulent wave.Qilian, head west! How many gold diggers are there in the west?We can get a general idea from these "official cards", although this is an extremely incomplete and accurate data: in 1982, ten of the six Jinshan Mountains, namely Kunlun, Qilian, Tianshan, Altai, Bogda, and Altun, The number of gold miners at several passes is 43,500; in 1983, 64,800; in 1984, 139,000; in 1985, 175,000; in 1986, 187,000; In 1987, there were 193,000 people; in 1988, there were 204,000 people... From 1990 to 1994, the average number was more than 250,000 to 300,000 people per year. What a huge team this is!The huge wave of unswerving determination, courage, and never giving up until the goal is reached, formed by the human nature of this team, swept the lonely west unstoppably, turning the western part of China into another noisy city overnight. Boiling world, a truly wild world. Let us make some inquiries to the public in a natural way of realism—— Naked Male World: A ridge of the Kunlun Mountains at an altitude of more than 4,500 meters, a ridge made of gold.Don't think that there are tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people. This first mighty team can fill Kunlun, which stretches for 800 miles.Naive writers are always deceived in front of the picture scroll of real life.With its huge body, Kunlun does not allow us to feel that its body is being ravaged by people with limited vision. Hey, there seems to be someone there!Someone discovered through the telescope that there are several small spots wriggling beside a mountain in the front left. The jeep traveled again for half an hour for this purpose. We were pleasantly surprised to find that it turned out to be a huge open-pit gold mine!The wriggling dots in the telescope lens are the busy gold diggers. The golden land, the golden sky, the golden crowd... This is our strongest first impression.What surprised us is that in this world that is almost isolated from the outside world, thousands of gold miners are also golden yellow, a golden yellow that is very harmonious with nature.Yes, dear reader, it is difficult for you to have such a blessing. Here, we found that all the gold diggers were naked, and none of them had the slightest bit of shame on their faces.In contrast, those of us who have covered up that god-given thing feel very uncomfortable.This is a male world, there is no female.Those big heads, broad shoulders, rough voices, together with the erect penis that symbolizes men, show a kind of majestic strength and unconquerable spirit. Most of them are very young, but they all have their heads bald. Under the refraction of the setting sun and the sand sea, they are like yellow light bulbs, shining brightly.Naturally, that face, that sweaty back, and those feet deeply planted in the sand all glowed with a shiny yellow light. The attraction of gold is ten times, a hundred times stronger than that of magnets.They didn't even bother to glance at our well-dressed visitors.Almost all of them are so concentrated, holding the shaking dustpan, wooden plate, and shovel in their hands, staring at the gold particles that float and appear in the water with their eyes, and kicking their feet to prevent them from slipping. Those scattered grains of sand in other lands... hello boy how old are youIn front of a young man's gold pan, we want to make a few words. The other party gave him a blank look, but didn't speak. How long have you been here?How much gold can be panned in a day? The other party cast a second look, obviously there was one more thing - hostility. Why are you all bald and naked?How indecent! Probably seeing that our son Ling is an unrepentant talker, he finally stopped what he was doing. A few of us showed triumphant smiles, but immediately we were all furious, scolding these people for being rude at all! Because the other party used those sand-stained hands to pick up the hard work on his lower body, and said: It's not at your house, can you control it?I'd like to ask you guys why are you wrapping up that stuff so tightly?Is it a short piece of wicker or a wicker that can't penetrate the hole? Hahaha... The entire gold rush field suddenly erupted with frightening and wanton laughter. The laughter reverberated like the earth was shaking... Indeed, in this world of naked males, some of us well-dressed civilized people are like monkeys wrapped in red shirts who are ridiculed in the zoo. Simply, we stripped off our clothes, so neat and happy !Said the brother of the poet temperament.But after all, no one has that kind of courage, including himself. You ask this?Finally, we had the chance to know everything we wanted to know, an elderly gold miner resting on the construction site with a tumor on his foot told us, well, who wouldn't want to dig more gold here?However, gold mining requires strong strength, and people are prone to fatigue. Working for a day is like changing the skeleton.There are no women here, so everyone simply took off all their clothes to work so as not to get in the way.Besides, no one wants to spend even half a catty of effort on top of panning for gold. What are you talking about? Ricoh head?This is also forced out.There's nowhere to wash your face or take a shower here, and what a hindrance it is to have hair!Is it still full of lice over time?Come on again, bare, go to hell with bugs and lice! It's been a long time.Everyone felt very comfortable naked.After being exposed to the sun and sand, the skin becomes hard and slippery.At night, everyone drilled and rolled in the sand, hey, it was ten or eight times more comfortable than taking a bath in the bathtub.Do not believe you can try! When the old man said this, he was very boastful.In the struggle against nature, the gold diggers in the west showed astonishing tolerance and ability.However, when they deal with their own lives, they are pitiful and unsightly. On the back of a mountain 100 meters away from the gold field, there is a hut, which the gold diggers jokingly call their golden city.Most of the huts are supported by transparent plastic sheets in a square shape, and only rarely are canvas tents used.The furnishings in the house are simple: a sleeping mat, two bags of food are placed on the top of the head and the heels respectively, which are used as pillows and footrests.Human beings are so highly intelligent, and even the simplest invention can achieve huge benefits. However, these Adams are too accommodating to their own requirements, as dirty as they are.Here, there is no water. Although there is a stream in the gold panning field, the water there is used for panning for gold. Anyone who uses it for washing without authorization will be expelled from the gold field, so it is impossible to wash his face and bathe.After finishing work and returning to the city, I drilled in the sand, rolled a few times, wiped off the sweat and dirt on my body, and then wiped it with a piece of cloth, and the work was done.Why bother, I don't have a wife or Simmons by my side.Save a catty of effort, maybe hold an extra golden baby tomorrow!They have their reasons. Eating is easier than sleeping.People in the south bring fried noodles, people in Shaanxi bring deep-fried sanzi, which looks like noodles, and people in Sichuan bring dried sweet potatoes.Grab a handful, take a sip of water, and you're done.After a long time, the food grew green hairs, and they ate it well.Then, inevitably appear food poisoner. In Jincheng, we found an intolerable phenomenon, that is, feces everywhere.They didn't build toilets, didn't dig cesspit, and they didn't even want to walk a few more steps, so they defecated around the hut.Between the huts, there is no place that is not a continuous piece of feces, except for a line of footprints at the door. What's this?Alpine lack of oxygen, you have to pant after walking a few more steps, so let's not take that stupidity!No one answered otherwise. Apart from eating, pulling, and panning for gold, they still have a lot of spare time, but they don’t have much more content. They read martial arts books, play poker, drink old wine, talk about women, fight... the unique expertise of men can be used here superior. Here, everything is determined by winning or losing.Compare drinking until you drink to death; compare fighting until your head is stuck in your shoulders; compare playing poker until the gold you dug up is mortgaged with your wife at home... Ah, woman!Women are one of the most talked about and hardest things to get in the male world.So it started with two men sleeping together... Homosexuality, very common among gold diggers. They are not ashamed of it. When these vigorous men suddenly leave their wives and lovers and live a long period of abstinence, they naturally feel extreme pain.It is reported that lovers are often a good partner during the day and a good couple at night.Nothing, we both agreed and had a great time!A gay couple say this, and we can tell you that once the gold rush is over, we'll part amicably and go back to our respective wives' beds... This type of staged same-sex couple is widely admired by Adams in the gold rush.The Garden of Eden in the desert is so bizarre and unique! In the world of men, women sometimes appear, although they are very rare.But once it appears, it is a blatant storm or earthquake. A gold mine.A new group of young people from Henan.They come in groups.The first task on the first day is to shave your head.In this regard, the new residents did not have a single anomaly, and it was true.The next day, among all the naked men, there was a young man who refused to take off his clothes and pants. he is sick!The people together answered like this. Two days, three days, ten days, twenty days... He had been wearing his clothes all the time, and his hands and feet were completely free from any discomfort caused by illness.People began to doubt.One to ten, ten to a hundred, a hundred to a thousand... This is a tomboy!Don't believe me, look at his bulging chest!Yes, we are all tanned and yellow, but we are still tender and tender after being tanned like him!Hey, tonight we... a few bad boys got together and made an idea: visit Cao Ying at night to see what happened! Under the moonlight, Jincheng was full of grunts.At this time, a dozen young men tiptoed around the hut of the young man who did not want to take off his clothes.Damn, I can't see inside!It was discovered that the hut was made of opaque canvas. Give!Someone passed a knife to the person in front.Thus, a gap appeared in the tight canvas... what!what is that? ...The two white thighs, looking up, is a jade-like crisp breast, in the center of the crisp breast, rise two high and released snow mountains...God!The lad in front nailed it like a wish board.The air froze, and the eyeballs went straight... What's going on?Let me see!The people in the back are tense like it's about to fight World War III.So, you squeeze me, I squeeze you, the hut is like a sampan bumping on the waves. Hey - get up and see! What are you looking at? woman!Here we have a naked woman! What, there are women here!Where? The entire Jincheng woke up!The men came out of their huts like crazy, and even the fake couples who were enjoying themselves rushed over... Do not go forward!Do not go forward!The canvas hut had long been crushed to the ground, and a crowd of people stood around it.They howled, laughed wildly, and even kept rubbing their naked bodies... But they still couldn't get closer to take a closer look.The tomboy's true face was surrounded by a dozen fellow Henan villagers who came together... This night, the noise continued until dawn. From the second day on, the tomboy never showed up at the construction site: she was always guarded by her fellow villagers.However, those men who didn't get a chance to have a good time were not willing to let it go.They took turns attacking.Until the dozen or so fellow Henan villagers threw away their dustpans and formed a protective circle again. Who can get this hard! The protective circle of a dozen people bears the blows of several and a thousand people in turn.As a result, the villagers in Henan couldn't sleep at night and couldn't go to work during the day, and they might be trampled to death by the gangsters at any time. No, I have to see it today!On the third day, those wild men who did not get the blessing of the eye made a fuss.Just as a bloody fight was about to take place at the gold pan, suddenly, a naked woman emerged from under the collapsed canvas.Her whole body is as white as jade, standing like a goddess in front of these wild men.Her voice was hoarse, and she burst into tears: ...Look!See enough... I, I don't blame you 3 She lowered her head slightly in shame.Suddenly, she raised her head, her voice became so trembling: I, my man is also a gold digger, he is just like you...Chu came out the year before.But his life is not good, no: he got wind and cold within three months... We have only been married for three months, but he left, leaving behind two old people paralyzed on the bedside and one of his seeds... The important person bears three people.A few acres of land cannot support the whole family.A few boys in the village said that it is possible to pan for gold here, and it is no problem to earn ten or eight yuan a day.So I just... I disguised myself as a man and followed them here secretly... I didn't want you... She covered her face and wept.I... I don't blame you guys.Who let me walk into your men's world!Me, I'm leaving tomorrow... No, sister, don't go!I don't know who suddenly knelt down and shouted.As a result, hundreds of male citizens also knelt down together as if they had heard an order. Miss, don't go!don't go!We feed you!Feed your whole family——! Ah, the vast desert, echoing this heart-shattering voice for a long time! Ah, ancient Gobi, are you calling for the recovery of humanity? Yes, they—these gold diggers heard the voice and fate of their wives and mothers from this woman, and they began to feel ashamed and miserable!Feel human again, not just male! They kept her and gave her the best food every day, and quietly sent spoonfuls of sweat and affectionate gold dust!The gleaming sands are piled high with a little canvas hut... There is more than brutality and crime in the world of wild naked men.There are the ugliest things in the world, and sometimes the best things in the world! This is a world that is never harmonious. The Secret of Women's Country: In the gold mining army in the west, are there any gold diggers?I asked several departments and people who have been to the western gold mines, and they all said yes.So, what is it like?I insist on exploring the land of women in this golden world. It's a pity that in the huge western China, it takes a few days to go around a few places by plane, let alone interviewing all the gold rush fields.However, the country of gold digging women is in the hinterland of the Altai Mountains.Unless, you are preparing for three months.Someone said to me. "You really want to know about the gold diggers? Luckily for you, I just came back from the Altai Mountains!" At a mineral resource management conference in Beijing, a female engineer from the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources heard that I was interviewing materials on this topic , So she took the initiative to tell me her personal experience: a group of six of us went to Xinjiang to investigate the mining work of the masses.Because I am a lesbian, someone introduced to me that there is a country of gold-digging women in the Altai Mountains.This aroused my interest, so I asked Xiao Zhang, the driver of the District Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, to take me there. The way into the mountains is difficult because strictly speaking there is no way at all.We were in an old jeep.The car was advancing on what was called a road—actually a dry river bed.I don't know how many mountains and rivers we have passed, and we finally saw the gold rush field in the hinterland of the Altai Mountains. There is a saying in Altai that "there are seventy-two ditches, and there is gold in the ditches".In fact, our geological survey results show that there are at least 100 ditches and rivers flowing with enriched placer gold.The Altai Mountain embraces gold miners from all directions with a selfless heart. Some people estimate that there are no less than 10,000 female gold diggers in the Altai Mountains. Women need a special natural environment, which is the endless dry desert, where it is difficult for them to survive.Women cannot do without water.They have to wash their faces, and women who are not particular about it also have to wipe their faces; they have to take a bath, which is a habit handed down by Eve. Their white bodies are not allowed to be stained with dirt and sand, and their bodies are their capital; but more importantly, They experience what they call "bad luck" once a month. The men have already entered another golden ditch in the deep mountain, but they are still squatting hopefully on both sides of this long-flowing ditch. Women are not as focused as men.When I saw someone passing by, I started chirping.However, the work in hand was not affected at all.It was noon, it was hot, and the gold diggers were lightly dressed.Of course no one wears skirts at Chiho.However, the trousers they wear are very special: they have trouser legs, but they don't reach the knee.Some of the lower parts were obviously frayed and dropped, others were not. "Long trouser legs are inconvenient, how nice!" A young girl was cutting off the bottom half of her new work clothes with scissors.People wearing turbans are very common, but there are also some pretty girls with fluffy long hair. The black waterfall sways with rhythmic movements, showing an intoxicating beauty.Because of too much sweat, the clothes on their upper bodies were soaked, exposing all the unique characteristics of women to everyone.They don't care, and for convenience, few people wear bras, so a pair of plump breasts are clearly visible in front of your eyes.Too many stimuli made some men embarrassed, and the driver Xiao Zhang did not dare to look at our female compatriots.It’s no wonder that some of our female compatriots, especially some middle-aged women, seem a little too bold and presumptuous, maybe because of the hot relationship, some of them let go of the second and third buttons on their chests, and their white breasts Almost all exposed... Almost all gold diggers embark on the adventurous road of gold panning, most of which are based on the most basic and primitive pursuit of human beings to survive and get rid of difficulties. Unlike male gold diggers, many of them are born The psychology of worshiping money.Therefore, in contrast, female gold diggers have greater illusions and attachments to gold.They are so important.However, things tend to be like this, the greater the hope, the easier it is to put yourself in a desperate situation.I learned that, with a few exceptions, every gold digger has a life story oozing blood and tears. Like the golden ditch I went to, it was about 2 miles long, and there were nearly 10,000 people, you and I, all of them seemed to be strangers to each other, neither saying hello nor walking around each other.A group of people has a fixed gang.There are big and small gangs, most of them form alliances with fellow villagers, and some voluntarily get together to form alliances.The boss is called the boss.The boss is usually recommended by everyone, or has prestige, or is the first person here, or is a gold digger.Newcomers often don't see any hierarchy in the gang.In fact, a gang is like a country within a country, the gold rush is a "big country", and the gang is a "small country". There is a monarch in a "small country", and the monarch is the leader, that is, the boss.The bottom of the boss is classified according to the working procedures of gold panning.Those who have just joined the team, inexperienced, or those with clumsy hands and feet belong to the lowest class. They can only do some heavy and tiring work of planing or picking sand, and they are paid the least money. They often work for a month without seeing anything. .The second is people squatting in the water, holding a shovel, and carrying a dustpan or bamboo basket. Their task is to wash the sand.Sand scouring is a technical job. Baskets of yellow sand are sieved in dustpans or baskets, leaving a little black and yellow sand in the end.These sand grains are commonly known as alluvial gold, and they can be faintly reflected in the sun.The action of washing the sand is simple, but you have to learn how to control the heat. If the sand is heavy, it will all run away, and if it is light, the sand will not get out.Some people search for a day and nothing is left in the dustpan or basket. Such people will be degraded, that is, they have to do the heavy work of planing and picking sand.Sand scourers earn more than sand pickers and planers.The alluvial gold that is panned out is sent to a hut in a centralized manner. This process is called sand selection.The sand picker puts the sand grains on a sloping stone slab, and the slate has fine lines that are not deep.Sand grains with clear water pass through the stone slabs, and those alluvial gold falls into the fine lines.Sand pickers are generally veteran gold diggers with rich experience, high rank and high income.The last process is generally done by the boss himself, or the boss brings a few reliable and experienced people to do it together.This process is called blowing sand.That is, put the yellow alluvial gold sent by the sand picker into an iron vessel like a dustpan, throw the alluvial gold up, and blow on the thrown alluvial gold at the same time, so that the sand in the alluvial gold is blown to the ground, and the real alluvial gold is blown to the ground. Gold fell into iron.Sand blowing is a high-tech technique. If the mouth is heavy, the gold will be blown away, and the gold that falls on the ground cannot be picked up.The mouth is light, and what falls into the iron is still alluvial gold.There are four processes and four levels in gold panning.Those who plan and pick sand usually only get two or three hundred yuan a month.Taosha people are double that.There are twice as many sand pickers as there are sand washers.And the boss and those who dry blow sand are higher.This level concept has a strong feudal color.But it is a matter of course in the gold rush field, whoever violates the "law" will be severely punished.It is said that a sand scourer found a piece of dog's head gold weighing several taels in her process, and hid it without anyone noticing.After being discovered by members of the gang, the boss not only confiscated the dog's head gold, but also expelled him from the gang.It is said that this kind of person will not be wanted in other gangs.It seems that the gang rules are still very strict.But how much gold those bosses have been greedy for alone, who knows? In addition to the ranks in the gang, there is also the supreme ruler of the gold field in the gold panning field, who is the big boss.The big boss ruled the entire gold field where he was located, quite like the monarch in a country.What is implemented is "centralization".In the hands of the big bosses are the "army"-thugs hired by the gang; there are "prisons"-digging holes in the earth, which are black, dirty and full of maggots.Any boss or gold digger who disobeys the rules has the right to be punished if he is headed, ranging from fines to substitutes, severe punishments to corporal punishment, or expulsion from the audience.Those who steal gold are found to be severely punished if the amount is large and the circumstances are serious.The main income of Datou comes from the gold panned by new buddies, which is called head fee.The other is the monthly offerings made by the bosses of each gang.These two incomes alone are enough to make Da Datou the richest person in the entire gold rush. I found that among the gold mining crowd, many men can also be found.But these people are all hired by their big gold digger.Some of them are the concubines of the big boss, and some are thugs who are specially designed to help the big boss rule the gold field.These men are doing evil in this woman's country, doing all kinds of bad things.Whichever woman they want to sleep with, you can't escape the night.Some gold diggers refused, and they not only punished them physically, but also confiscated their money.Everyone came here to pan for gold and make money, and money is the lifeline, so those who didn't follow at first had to be at the mercy of these beasts. The country of women in the western gold rush is such a world where hope and destruction, pursuit and fantasy, fragrant flowers and green plums coexist! A world full of mysteries! In the rubber forest and Chongling Mountains in Hainan, in the Shiwanda Mountains in Guangxi, and in the primeval forests of Guizhou, I heard more than once that those mountain people who were originally very poor suddenly found that the black or dazzling stones under their feet were "baby" one day. After that, they desperately plundered and occupied the mountain, and then used their own strength to occupy the mountain as the king. After that, they built houses, abandoned their wives and took concubines, raised and protected them, spent money like dirt, domineering, and became kings. It even gradually becomes reclusive, and ordinary people don't see each other easily. Even when parents, relatives and friends come, they have to ask for instructions and go through customs before they are seen.Feudal royal life and the way of governing people seem to be the same as human sexual instinct in Chinese people, which is innate and does not need to be taught. Under the night, among the Baili Mountains at the junction of Ziyuan and Xing'an in Guangxi, the mountains are covered with lights like stars, stones are cut and cannons are fired, people scream and horses neigh, and there is a messy sound.This situation makes people seem to see the era of steelmaking in 1958.However, I heard from my fathers that although there were such lights and such noises in the vast mountains and fields at that time, it was for the prosperity of the whole country (although the method was not appropriate), and the loud singing of "socialism is good" sounded everywhere .But now, there are also such lights and such noises, who are people for? This is a little tune that came to my ears from the mountains and the wild.I can't help feeling a lot. Thirty years have passed, from when people united to build socialism to today when they sing "I can buy a concubine if I have money", the development of human history is sometimes really confusing. "Brother Lin is here!...Hey, what does he do?" Just as I followed my "cousin" - a "uncle" whom I just met, to the depths of a small street full of tents and thatched shacks, and when I came to the gate of a rather elegant stone courtyard, the two hands asked the young man with the iron spear, blocking me. For the convenience of the interview, I got to know Lin, a foreign trade buyer in City A who specializes in reselling tungsten, antimony and other precious metals. "Thinking of interviewing those cottage kings in the mountains? That's not an easy task. If you don't do it, your life will be put in it! The first time we met, Lin said to me in such a tone. Count me Lin Be an enthusiastic person again. However, I have to say something first: first, you must promise not to offend the God of Wealth in the mountains; second, you are not allowed to tell the people in my unit about my business. You have to I swear!" I swear to God.We got married like this, and embarked on a journey that was both mysterious and new to me. "Pretend to be serious, Ah Fu, Ergui, go on!" "Cousin" opened the purse in a hurry, took out two Marlboro cigarettes, threw them to the two guards, and then said: "This is my cousin, my own , take him to meet the king! He has a way in Beijing and can help us ship the goods!" This is the first clip.Followed by the second and third. I asked my "cousin": "Do you spend like this every time you come?" I think he threw at least six Marlboros. He smiled contemptuously: "Small, it's easy to come and go after feeding these watchdogs, or it's hard to see Nan Batian, not to mention doing business here!" "Who is Nan Batian?" "If all goes well, you'll see him after a while." We first sat in the stone courtyard for a while. "Cousin" said that this place is dedicated to discussing business, called "Juyitang".I looked up at the big wooden sign on the edge of the door. There were really three big characters written on it, and it turned out to be the ink marks of a well-known calligrapher! "In this area, from the county and provincial capitals to the common people, who doesn't know that there is a rich man on Niutou Mountain, Guo Quanlu, who is known as Nanbatian! These three words, Guo Quanlu paid 3,000 yuan, I invited that calligrapher to write it." Really "a word is worth a thousand gold"! "What's this?" "Cousin" saw that many people in the living room were discussing business and didn't pay attention to the two of us, so he quietly told me: "Guess how much this stone courtyard was built?" I looked around the stone courtyard built with large blue stones, about the size of three basketball courts, and said, "It's probably 3,000, right?" "What? 3,000 can build such a good castle in the air? Not to mention anything else, look at the passage below the stone courtyard, which is the stone road we just came up. There are 10 steps in total, all from the back of the mountain. It is said that each piece of bluestone costs more than 10 yuan, and it costs 20,000 yuan including labor, road construction, and post-setting fees. Look at this stone courtyard again, where the blue sky and clouds are connected. , there are cliffs on the left and right, how much do you think it will cost for such a stone courtyard building hanging halfway up the mountain, with exquisite rock walls and copper walls inside and out?" At this time, a skinny middle-aged man came up to me and sat down, and said, "Brother, it's a deal? Boss Li is very kind, and he gave Allah 3 tons. It's not a waste of time. I know, Shanghai There is a shortage of tungsten raw materials right now! Allah, I got 3 tons, grandma’s, and saved half of Shanghai city!" The fellow Shanghainese said happily. In the evening, the host hosted a banquet.There are some real things on the table, such as bear's paw from Northeast China, bird's nest from the seaside, snake's breath from Guangdong, big river crab from Shanghai... everything that one expects to find.The wine is all Moutai.It is said that the cottage king is particularly fond of this wine. "Come, come, under the care of all of you, please have a good drink, and tomorrow morning I can get out the 30 tons of 'black bumps' picked from various hills!" "I didn't say anything, Second Master, if you have a word, who of us didn't carry our heads and did it for Brother Guo!" After the meal, I roughly counted the food and drinks on the table. There are three tables of people, and if there is no 4,000 yuan, I can't get it anyway. "Is this how you are entertained all year round?" I asked "cousin". "Basically, there are even higher ones. It was a banquet hosted by Guo Quanlu in person. However, he rarely does so." "How much does he have on hand? Can he afford it?—The people who come to eat and drink don't pay for it themselves?" "You're a layman. The people who serve the wine table come to the mountains to buy goods. Nan Batian has nearly 2,000 miners, and they can mine at least 20 tons of tungsten ore every day. He sells us 1 ton 3,000 yuan. In fact, the cost he spent was less than 700 yuan. Do you calculate how much he earns per ton? And there are plenty of ores on the mountain, which could not be transported in the last three or five years. He seems to be Being a favor on the outside is actually a huge profit!" He quietly pushed open the back door of the stone courtyard, and asked me to raise my head and look straight ahead.I saw that there was a hole about a hundred meters high in front of me, and there was a hole with lights on. From that hole, I could vaguely see 4 people walking back and forth holding a tool. "That's Guo Quanlu's lair, and the people at the entrance of the cave are bodyguards. It is said that he hired a lot of bodyguards. If you can watch him go down the mountain, the formation will definitely surprise you. Once, I saw him and counted them. There are 12 pairs, plus dozens of entourages, which can be described as mighty. When I went down the mountain, I happened to meet a big cadre from the province who went to the countryside to inspect the work. Hey, this Guo Quanlu is rich and powerful! His Mercedes-Benz 500, followed by a convoy of more than a dozen jeeps and tractors, forced the provincial official to the side of the road..." "When did he start?" "That happened four years ago. Guo Quanlu and his gang heard that there was a treasure buried on this mountain, so they gathered a group of veterans (he himself had been a scout in the army for three years, and he knew how to point a three-legged cat), They went up the mountain and seized a mine. At that time, although Guo Quanlu and the others knew that the ore on the mountain was a treasure, they didn’t know how to turn it into money. It happened that a few people came from Guangdong at this time. These guys knew the goods and knew it was worth it Those who made foreign fortune paid a lot of money to buy it from Guo Quanlu. Later, the Cantonese sold it to the Fujianese, earning 150,000 yuan. When Guo Quanlu heard about it, he became impatient and took people up the mountain to buy it. Those Cantonese people stopped them, saying that the mine belonged to them, and insisted on taking back the 150,000 yuan. As the saying goes, if you smell fishy smell, you want to eat big fish. The people were driven away. With just such a toss, he made a net profit of more than 500,000 yuan in a mine on the mountain, and transformed himself into the king of the mountain village in this area. He gathered his brothers, sisters, relatives and friends together , Formed a mining team, occupied 3 hills with mineral deposits, and then took advantage of the opportunity of those poor men from other places who wanted to make a fortune, and sold more than 30 mines to foreigners like the first time. In less than half a year, These mines were initially completed and began to make profits. Guo Quanlu gathered thousands of local people and took all these mines back from the hands of foreigners. Those foreigners are dumb and eat coptis. Kicked out of the mountains. Guo Quanlu’s poisonous trick has harmed many people! A foreigner from Wuhan was ruined by a town like Guo Quanlu. Dichlorvos..." I feel trembling all over. The mine where the villain made his fortune is before my eyes.Today, it is the "palace" of the famous Nan Batian. We walked into this "palace", and just sat down on the brand new sofa, two girls in miniskirts came over and made us a cup of steaming Nescafe coffee. "Brother Lin, haven't seen you here for so long?" "Cousin" also changed his voice. I quickly turned my head away. "Brother, this is your first visit, right? You should stay longer!" I was entangled by the other one, and the pair of soft hands on the shoulders gave me goosebumps all over my body. "Hee hee, let's go inside and have a chat." Her voice was very soft, but it seemed to be an irresistible order. When I stood up from the sofa and visited my "cousin" beside me, he had long since disappeared. "Hee hee, hurry up, hurry up!" "Come on, come on..." What kind of mine owner's lair is completely a brothel for men and women!Without even looking back, I walked through the "Juyi Hall" and walked to the foot of the mountain. After a long time, "cousin" rushed over with a flashlight and asked me anxiously, "Why did you go down the mountain alone? I saw Guo Quanlu just now, and he said he wanted to see you! Go up!" "No, I don't want to stay here any longer!" "Then...then you can't see Nan Batian, isn't it for nothing?" "No. I've seen enough! A complete upstart, a shameless feudal ghost!" I said this through my teeth. I'm not a person who appreciates the whens that are all the rage these days!Musical songs, the affectation is often disgusting.However, I am very attracted to the kind of music in the church. It often has a feeling of fascination and purification. What I want to tell the reader here is another piece of music that is neither girly nor church music, it is a piece of music composed of black notes.It is full of eerie light, and it is the kind of melody that is not easy to hear in our cities... It is said that on this day, Li Shenggui, a villager in Lingbao County, Henan Province, hurried back to the mountain village from Shenzhen with his fiancée, who was not happy.It turned out that he went to Shenzhen and found that the gold smuggling price was three times that of his hometown!Li Shenggui thought, it's a shame that people in our village guard the Jinshan Mountain and are only engaged in the business of reselling the ore!A car full of ore is worth less than a piece of gold the size of a cigarette butt!Why don't we directly refine and sell gold? Hearing what Li Shenggui said, the village head patted his thigh on the spot: Medium!I can directly refine gold, and one year is equal to the income of the past three years.Agui, this task is entrusted to you.The village head has great hopes for the only high-achieving student in the village who has been to the county. In this way, Li Shenggui was the first to open an alchemy workshop in his own home. He worked as a technician himself and asked his fiancée to be his assistant.The entire alchemy process is primitive and scientific: after the ore is crushed, it is put into a ten-cubic-meter pool and filled with highly toxic sodium nitride.After a day the gold is separated from the ore and is filtered through the small holes in the bottom of the pool along with the sodium cyanide, then in another pool the gold is drawn out of solution with zinc and finally placed in a bowl of sulfuric acid cook together.After an hour, it will settle at the bottom of the bowl and become gold mud, and it will be calcined again to become gold. All day and night!When Li Shenggui took out the golden gold from the sulfuric acid mist and was ecstatic with joy, his fiancée felt dizzy... The alchemy was successful, and the village head immediately made a decision to build eight sodium cyanide alchemy factories in the village, with Li Shenggui as the chief technician.For a while, the whole village was full of smoke and fog, and was busy.This year, the whole village smelted 300 tons of ore, with an average net income of 2,500 yuan per person.Li Shenggui is a minister of meritorious service, and in addition to the fact that he usually quietly keeps a small amount for each batch, after a year, his banknotes are as high as six figures. On this day, when Li Shenggui was about to lead a few young men from the village to the south to sell gold, his future father-in-law ran to him in panic. Agui, Azhen, she... woo... The old man collapsed on the ground before he finished speaking, Azhen!Azhen... When Li Shenggui rushed to his fiancée's side, he saw that Azhen's face was ashen, and she had already lost her breath from bleeding from her seven orifices.This is a symptom of sodium radon poisoning. It was me who killed you!Jane!Jane -!Li Shenggui hugged his fiancée's body and cried like hell.On the day of the funeral, he took out several large bundles of 10-yuan RMB from his home and lit them on Ah Zhen’s grave, burning them one by one for three hours... Jane is gone forever.But Li Shenggui's alchemy did not stop.His village has won the title of model village for getting rich year after year.When the village head and Li Shenggui went to the county to receive the award, the village was immersed in sorrow.It turned out that another person with sodium cyanide poisoning had a funeral today.There have been eight funerals in this village in the past few years... The small roads in the mountain village are filled with mournful melodies played by Taoist priests to mourn for the dead.However, amidst the melancholic mourning, groups of younger and more youthful men and women walked firmly towards the golden mountain without hesitation...