Chapter 1208 Big Event (First update, please subscribe)
On a canvas hammock with a mosquito net, Luo Yuan was moving a lot of his things. Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed across the sky above the woods in the east. The lightning paused for a moment, outlining the primeval forest and mountains.
“This damn place…”
Luo Yuan smoked a cigarette and cursed the primeval forest and mountains around him. He once again asked himself why he took such a job.
If he analyzes it carefully, he will have to admit that he can't live anywhere else. There is no place in Ming Dynasty where he can live. He is not suitable for city life because the rules and regulations, various systems and laws there make him feel uncomfortable.
Like all geological prospectors, they sometimes love and sometimes hate the field exploration life. However, Luo Yuan had to admit that after spending ten years in the field, he had fallen in love with it. During these years, he could not do without malaria, strong alcohol and countless insect bites.
He came from Xuzhou in 1867, when he was 17 years old. Like many immigrants who were adults or close to being members, he stayed in the new immigrant camp for half a year, and then served in the army for three years. In the second year after the establishment of the empire, he retired and received a pension, but he did not enter the farm or the factory.
With the help of an employment agency, he became a security guard for a geological survey team. In the following ten years, he traveled all over Ming Dynasty and even to Africa with the geological survey team.
Field exploration brings in a lot of money, and the expenses are minimal. Although he did not get rich, he did accumulate a lot of assets. Just half a year ago, Luo Yuan quit his job in the exploration team and obtained a small tin mining concession in Ecuador. This small mine is the reward for his ten years of life in the wild. This tin mine is not big, and it is the kind of small mine that companies look down on and feel sorry to abandon.
Luo Yuan, however, took a fancy to this tin mine. Tin is very expensive now and the price is expected to rise.
In the past six months, Luo Yuan has worked side by side with local indigenous workers. Now the tin mine has taken shape and the sound of pneumatic cannons can be heard from the mine from time to time.
At this time, Liang Li, his face covered in dust, came over and said with a smile.
"Boss Luo, look, this is freshly mined ore, it's of very high quality!"
Handing the ore to the boss, Liang Li said.
"After the investment in the mine is completed, in a year at most, Boss Luo, you can enjoy fine wine and beautiful women in Quito."
"Even if you don't have money, in Quito, any Chinese who speaks Chinese can have endless wine and endless beauties to sleep with!"
This is true. If it only requires fine wine or beautiful women, any Chinese can easily lead a life of luxury without needing any money at all.
Because why?
Because the empire is powerful enough!
I don't know how many local women are eager to marry Ming people and live a better life in Ming.
But unlike others, Luo Yuan liked the wild and the Indians. Of course, the only thing that bothered him was that the Indian workers were always lazy, and sometimes they would only work after he yelled at them or even slapped them. Of course, most of the time he would sit with them, drink victory wine, and chat about the strange things in the tribe.
Going to Quito to enjoy life?
To be honest, Luo Yuan really hadn't thought about it.
Although he had not thought about it, when Captain Xu of the exploration team told him the location of the tin mine, he also told him that his tin mining concession would last for twenty years. After fifteen years, he could sell the mining concession to the mining company. He could use the money to enjoy life in the city, or work as a senior employee of a mining company and live a life that many people would envy.
However, Luo Yuan had never thought that far. He was less than 40 years old, but he was tall and strong, with extraordinary arm strength. He was as strong as an ox. Working in the wild for many years had tanned his skin.
"Let's wait until we get the road to the mine completed. By the way, where's Accountant Xu? How's the loan negotiation going with the bank?"
While talking, Luo Yuan put out his cigarette on the damp ground under the hammock, and then he played with the ore. In the past ten years, he had seen similar ores many times. Every time an ore was discovered, the exploration team members were very excited. He still remembered the scene when the coal mine was discovered in Bechuanaland, and the team members excitedly fired into the air.
"I'm trapped here!"
Liang Li was surprised by the boss's mumbling.
"Boss? What did you say?"
After saying that, he scratched his hair and put on a rattan safety helmet. Just when Luo Yuan wanted to walk towards the mine, he suddenly heard something strange in the distance, which made him pick up the rifle, then blew the whistle, and looked at the mountain intersection vigilantly with a few Indian guards. Liang Li also looked at there nervously.
Soon, accompanied by a burst of chaotic horse hoof sounds, two horses came into his sight. The man riding on the horses, Indiana, was shouting in stiff Chinese from a distance.
"Boss, boss, there are robbers, there are robbers..."
It was Alcarlo, who came into the city with Accountant Xu and the others. Luo Yuan hurried over to ask.
"Where are Accountant Xu and the others?"
"They, they were stopped by bandits on their way here!"
"What! Where is it? Quick, bring the horse here!"
Without any hesitation, Luo Yuan jumped on the horse and ran out of the mountain along the mountain road with several guards from the mine, led by Alcarlo.
After about an hour, two dead horses came into their sight. When they were about ten meters away, Luo Yuan stopped the horse. He looked at the scene on the roadside in astonishment and could not believe his eyes.
"Fuck him..."
Before he could finish his words, Luo Yuan suddenly stopped talking, jumped off his horse, and stared at the corpses on the ground - three corpses, one was Accountant Xu's, and two were Indians. Without exception, they were all lying on the ground with their hands on both sides of their heads.
"Fuck..."
Luo Yuan suddenly felt a fire rising in his heart.
This is not murder!
This is an execution!
That's right, all three of them had their throats cut by a knife, which is a typical way for Indians to kill prisoners.
But, don’t those damn guys know that Accountant Xu is a Ming person?
While feeling angry inside, Luo Yuan shouted loudly.
"Arcaro, what's going on?"
"I... Boss, we don't know either. On the way here, we encountered robbers. There were a lot of them. Accountant Xu asked me to go back and deliver the letter..."
Hearing this, Luo Yuan, staring at the corpse on the ground with an angry face, spoke loudly.
"Carlos, go back and get the camera. You guys protect the scene. I'll be in Quito, at the embassy, soon. No matter what, I'm going to get justice for them..."
(End of this chapter)
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