While Yang Zhi and Chengcai made progress, the construction team led by Wan Liang also made phased progress.

At this time, on the top of Jilong Mountain, a camp covering an area of seventeen or eighteen acres of land has already taken shape. From a distance, Jilong Mountain looks like a big-bellied beauty lying horizontally, so the area above the top of the mountain is enough to open up a station.

And near the Golden Vein, an extremely secret camp has also become popular, and at this time there are more than 1,000 people, including 400 construction personnel, living in the camp. Due to the temperament and habits of the natives in the east, the captured group of natives did not bring any trouble to Wu Jie and them, and they accepted Wu Jie's jurisdiction and command very cooperatively.

At this time, not far from the camp, in the foothills of the team, the pits and rocks were exposed in the grassy jungle, and many naked and strong indigenous men were wielding hammers, steel drills and other tools in their hands, beating in the hard ore.

From time to time, pieces of rubble, blackened by the flames, were hammered down and picked up by the waiting indigenous women and gathered in bamboo baskets beside them.

Although the natives did not know exactly what the use of these yellowish stones was, they were not particularly labor-intensive, and combined with the food that the natives could eat three meals a day, they had already bought off this group of natives who actually demanded a lot.

Not to mention that Li Tianyang and the others also generously cut a few sets of coarse linen clothes for this group of natives, which are much more delicate than the animal skins and aprons of the aborigines, and they have won the hearts of many natives.

These natives who mine ore work for about five hours a day, and there is a half-hour rest time for every two hours, and one day of repair time for every four days of work, although it is heavier than the manual labor of the original tribe, but the food is also more abundant, and there is no need to worry about starvation.

The ore mined in the early stage was secretly transported to the Bengang R&D Institute and used as raw materials for the study of the gold refining process. It's just that with the finalization of the "mixed lead blowing method", it is no longer necessary to transport ore thousands of miles over, but to pile up in the warehouses of this newly built camp.

The natives who are now settled in this mine camp are only about 100 families per family, and the number of strong laborers that can be used is only about 100 people. Therefore, the ore mined by these miners every day is less than 1,000 catties, and in terms of ancient and simple mining tools, it has reached the normal standard.

The smelter in the camp is under construction, and the required coal mines, lead blocks and other raw materials are also being collected and transported, and along with these raw materials, there are more than a dozen craftsmen and masters who have been trained by Yang Zhi and Chengcai in the refining process of "mixed lead and ash blowing method".

Until now, the affairs of the entire gold mining site have been kept strictly secret by Li Tianyang and them, except for the upper echelons of their team and dozens of members like Yang Zhi and Chengcai who want to come into contact with the gold mining collection, even the hundreds of soldiers of the special operations battalion who have been scattered around the mine and monitor every move around the surrounding area, as well as the construction workers who participated in the construction of the camp, do not know the actual content of this camp.

"By the time the smelter and the rest of the houses are erected, the infrastructure of the camp will be over. In the future, whether we want to re-expand or have other requirements, we have also reserved a piece of land in advance, and as long as the construction is carried out, it can be built quickly! For more than four months, Wan Liang, who is no longer young, is taking Li Tianyang to visit this newly built camp.

This is the first time that Li Tianyang has come to this mine that has worried him for so long since he heard about the golden vein and explored the golden vein.

Although he was still not satisfied with some of the facilities in the camp and the mine and the progress of mining, thinking that the project could be reached to such a point in just four months, Li Tianyang had to admit the hard work and efforts that Wan Liang had put in.

Moreover, the progress of the Hongtang station on Jilong Mountain is also not as good, in the case of starting construction on both sides, there is still such a rapid progress, and it is also a speedy project in the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this is naturally indispensable to the credit of cement, a cheating product of later generations, otherwise Wan Liang would not have been able to make such a feat in such a short period of time in a jungle.

"It's really hard for everyone, you can send a message to the team members below in a while, and say that everyone's salary has doubled this month, which is a reward for everyone's hard work in the past few months!" Li Tianyang has never been a stingy person, and with the windfall of the golden vein, Li Tianyang has a strong confidence to promise everyone better welfare.

"Then I will thank you for your generosity, young master, on behalf of everyone!" As one of the insiders, Wan Liang lamented that Li Tianyang and their luck was good, and at the same time, he was secretly glad that he could get Li Tianyang's trust, and he was able to take refuge in a team with a great future, and Wan Liang's descendants could also get a better future, isn't this what he wants!

"I won't say anything else, it's still the same sentence, everything here must be kept extremely secret, if anyone under you has any doubts, just say that this is an iron mine according to the pre-agreed matter!" Li Tianyang nodded with satisfaction, for these rare technical talents, especially for outstanding and self-motivated talents like Wan Liang, Li Tianyang naturally trusts and cherishes them.

"Don't worry, young master, I'm tight-mouthed!" Wan Liang smiled, of course he understood the importance of this matter, no matter how much Li Tianyang attached importance to it, it was what he should do.

Subsequently, Li Tianyang followed Wan Liang to visit the houses of the natives and team members in the camp, as well as the food in the canteen, and even Li Tianyang went to the mining site where the natives started with great interest, and had an in-depth understanding and saw the mysterious image of the golden vein that he had admired for a long time, but had never seen.

When a large area of ore veins that emitted this pale yellow color extended in front of Li Tianyang's eyes, and spread into the foothills of the mountains whose surface was eroded by wind and rain moss to the same as other ordinary rocks, Li Tianyang couldn't help but sigh in his heart, if he didn't deliberately look for it, who would have known that among this gray-white foothills, there was such a priceless and crazy golden vein!!

(End of chapter)