Bright Sword: Leading the Special Operations Squadron to Fight the Japs

Chapter 359 Xinzhou Gold Mine

In Shenshan Township in the northwest of Xinzhou, Wang Meng was taking Mr. Li Siguang around. According to his memory, there should be a huge gold mine in this place with astonishingly large reserves.

Wang Meng had no intention of taking over the gold mine, after all, it would be suspected of spending money before it is earned.

However, he is now in a competition with those countries on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and it will be difficult to catch up without the support of external forces.

The race has just begun, and now one ton of gold can be used as two tons.

When the situation is decided, it will be useless even if all the gold is put at stake, and there will be no chance of a turnaround.

Therefore, Wang Meng made up his mind to find this gold mine and use it all to purchase production lines, introduce talents, develop education, and improve the overall national strength.

Mr. Li Siguang was now sweating profusely. He had been wandering in the mountains with Wang Meng for several days and had dug countless mines, but the gold content was very low.

"Chief of Staff Wang, just give me a definite answer. Is there really a gold mine here? As far as I know, Shanxi is indeed very rich in mineral resources, but there is no gold mine with a gold content that is worth mining!"

Wang Meng still held the machete and went around in the mountains and forests, never giving up any possible clues.

"Mr. Li, just trust me, you will definitely find the gold mine!"

"Then tell me, why are you so sure there is a gold mine here? As far as I know, you don't seem to have any experience in prospecting for gold?"

Wang Meng was speechless for a moment. He couldn't tell him that he saw it on the news, right?

"Dream!"

Wang Meng left Li Siguang, whose expression had turned petrified, and found another rock that felt like a gold mine.

"Come on, dig a hole here!"

Wang Meng still has a very high prestige in this geological research institute. After all, it was he who discovered the Qingyang Oilfield on a "flash of inspiration".

The drilling team immediately set up their equipment and began drilling holes in the solid rock.

After several hours of work, the sample was taken out, but it turned out to be an ordinary piece of stone without any gold content.

"Oh? No way? Is this another fake news to defraud stock investors?"

Mr. Li Siguang shook his head and prepared to return home with the drilling team. They had accompanied Wang Meng in the deep mountains and forests for several days, which was considered as an explanation to him.

"Chief of Staff, then shall we go back first, rest and come back later?"

Wang Meng lost his temper and rushed to the drilling rig and started tinkering with it without saying a word.

The drilling workers looked at each other, until Li Siguang was the first to rush forward to help, and then they all joined in.

Your parents who provide you with food and clothing and your immediate boss are working tirelessly, how can you just sit there and watch?

The Chinese people are not afraid of hardship, they are just afraid that their leaders will cheer them on and treat them like slaves!

Another hour passed, and the drill rig drilled down another meter, then the drill bit slowly rose up.

Everyone's heart was lifted high along with the drill.

The drill bit left the ground, and Wang Meng squatted down himself, slowly took out the rock sample, and then turned the rock around as if he was drawing a lottery!

"call!"

Wang Meng’s eyes widened, he looked at the range several times, and then the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but rise to the sky.

"What's going on, Chief of Staff Wang?"

Wang Meng's expression attracted the attention of every worker and technician at the scene, and they couldn't help but come closer.

"Look!"

Wang Meng handed the golden rock samples to the workers around him with a sense of relief, and then thunderous cheers broke out.

"Chief of Staff, you are amazing!"

Li Siguang's lips trembled with excitement, and then he gave slurred instructions to the drilling team to set up camp immediately and continue digging holes.

After another two days of digging more than a dozen mines, we finally confirmed that this was a vein with extremely high gold content.

Judging from the rock samples, the content of gold in this vein is as high as 70%! Moreover, according to Li Siguang's judgment, the reserves of this vein are at least tons!

Wang Meng, with a scruffy beard, finally fell asleep in the tent after enduring for several days.

I slept for a whole day and didn't wake up until after twelve o'clock the next day.

"Chief of Staff Wang, you're finally awake. If you hadn't been snoring like a cow, I would have sent you to the hospital long ago!"

Wang Meng looked at Li Siguang, who had dark circles under his eyes, and rubbed his eyes.

"How is it? Mr. Li, how difficult is it to mine this mine? When is it expected to be put into production?"

"Wait, tell me first, how did you determine that there is a mine here?"

"I told you a long time ago, in a dream!"

Li Siguang looked at him with contempt and knew that he was talking nonsense and not telling the truth.

"I must be out of my mind to believe your lies! Forget it, after our analysis, this vein is easy to mine, and we estimate that gold can be extracted in three months!"

Wang Meng immediately called the signalman and sent a telegram to Kong Jie in Xinzhou, requesting that his Fifth Armored Division immediately send a regiment to garrison at the gold mine to ensure safety and assist in mining!

Kong Jie didn't expect that in the end his own soldier would become a miner?

However, these are only stopgap measures. Once the Xinzhou Gold Mine Security Team is established, the guarding of this gold mine will be handed over.

After completing the arrangements, Wang Meng returned to Pingshun and finally met Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang.

After Zhao Gang established complete government agencies and armed forces in various places, he returned to the military fortress.

"Thanks to Shubing for continuously selecting talents for our government, otherwise, we would have been overwhelmed if we had to expand our business so quickly!"

"Old Zhao, our Old Li has been busy while you were gone!"

Li Yunlong pushed a large pile of information in front of Zhao Gang. This time, the independent column captured more than 6,000 prisoners. He and the political cadres examined and screened them one by one.

Fortunately, with the experience from the last screening, this time the process was very fast.

Those who should be killed should be killed, those who should be reformed through labor should be reformed, and those who should be released should be released.

However, there were still more than 4,000 puppet troops ready to join the independent column, completely breaking away from their past selves.

"Old Li, you can do it now? You are really a jack of all trades. I think I can go take a rest now!"

Wang Meng and Li Yunlong looked at each other, and for a moment they couldn’t figure out what Zhao Gang meant by “take a rest”?

"Old Zhao, what do you mean?"

"That's right, Lao Zhao, you're not going to run away, are you?"

Zhao Gang looked desperate and pointed at Li Yunlong and Wang Meng's noses.

"Have you two really forgotten or are you just pretending to be stupid? Before you went to the battlefield, didn't you promise me that you would let me go to western Yunnan after the battle? You don't want to go back on your word and let me continue working, do you? Even a donkey pulling a mill needs a break!"

Li Yunlong and Wang Meng just remembered this and apologized by slapping their foreheads.

But what Zhao Gang said made sense, and it had been almost a month since I came back this time, so it was time to deliver medicine to William and Mao Hang.