Chapter Thirty-two: Golden Mile

  The land is in hand, and all that remains is to develop it. However, this noble guest from London does not seem to be in a hurry. For the next week, he spends every day cruising on the lake with his fiancée and little maid, basking in the warm sunshine, enjoying the ripples of the green waves, and watching the dance of the black swans in the intoxicating air, making others envy him.

  It was his entourage who were busy, the Yangs' mining office in Perth needed to be renovated, a large number of workers going back and forth to Kalgoorlie needed horses to be purchased, but no horse-drawn carriages would be bought because Boss Yang would use the latest diesel cars!

  What also excited the people of Western Australia was that Yang brought the latest high-tech product, wireless telegraphy. It is said that after installing this machine, Perth can directly send telegrams to Singapore. Before this, sending a telegram from this ghost place to London almost had to go around half the globe.

  A week later, a merchant ship that set sail from Britain at the same time as the Parrot arrived in Western Australia and unloaded 100 strange vehicles. In front of each vehicle was a machine with a chimney, behind which were two seats, in front of which was a circular disk similar to a steering wheel, below which was a steel axle extending into the machine, and behind the seats was a large open square cargo compartment. Above the seats was a canvas awning. What these Western Australians didn't know was that this was currently the most attention-grabbing thing on the old continent - the new heavy-duty truck from Sweden's Yang Motors, with a standard load capacity of 5 tons and a top speed of 70 km/h, which had just been born and received crazy pursuit, and was once considered an industrial miracle.

  In fact, this is just a very simple four-not-like.

  From Perth to Kalgoorlie, the whole way is solid grassland. Such a car doesn't even need to repair the road, and at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour, it can arrive in half a day at most, leaving in the morning and arriving in the evening. The oil tank is full, and refueling is not even needed halfway. Yang Feng really couldn't find anything more suitable for himself.

  These trucks are also divided into cargo and passenger types. The so-called passenger type is actually just installing a few seats in the carriage, and then building a shed on top of it.

  When these trucks, belching smoke, drove into Perth under the gaze of their drivers, the whole city was in an uproar. Countless West Australians came to see this marvelous automobile, and the craze lasted for a full week until two more American merchant ships arrived in port.

  These two American merchant ships brought a total of one thousand Chinese workers, but due to the large tonnage and the presence of reefs in the Swan River channel, these people had to disembark in batches by small boats. Not only were there Chinese workers, but also three hundred mercenaries sent by the American Umbrella Company.

  Two days later, a massive procession set out from Perth to Yang Da's private territory. Five hundred fully armed cavalrymen, one thousand Chinese laborers in trucks, and a silver pumpkin carriage in the middle, swept along the northern bank of the Swan River like a swarm of locusts, frightening the gold prospectors along the shore into fleeing for their lives.

  Because of the horse-drawn carriage, this team's progress was not fast. In fact, Yang, the big boss with a somewhat dandy and delicate appearance, spent his time flirting with girls along the way, traveling only about 100 kilometers per day. When the sun was high, he would start setting up camp, then take three young beauties to do who-knows-what, dragging on like this for an entire week before entering his territory, and after another day's journey, finally arriving at their destination.

  As for the rest of the things, Boss Yang didn't care about them anymore and handed over all the work to Han Fang and the mercenary Johnson. They had a lot of work to do, first of which was to enclose the entire territory of Boss Yang with fences, although the perimeter of several hundred kilometers was a bit harsh, but with a thousand workers it was nothing.

  In addition, they also need to build a camp. These people will be stationed here afterwards and cannot always live in tents. They must find a place near the water source to build houses, and surround it with walls. The indigenous people are not far from here, and there is no certain defense that can't be done. Moreover, the mercenaries who follow them need to patrol the entire territory every day, kicking out all the guys who break in. Of course, these Yang bosses will not go to ask about it. As soon as he arrives here, he takes three little beauties to a place alone and doesn't know what to do. These clever subordinates didn't dare to disturb the boss's elegance, even Han Fang sat and watched his daughter fall into the devil's claws.

  Yang Feng's lustful intentions towards Cai Yi are well-known to everyone, but becoming a concubine for such a noble person is clearly something worth celebrating. Didn't you see that even Johnson, as a Christian, ignored Yang Feng's flirtatious smile towards his own sister? And that sister of his is only 15 years old this year!

  Of course, they all misunderstood Yang Da Boss. This guy is doing big things. He's looking for the huge dog-headed gold that Hanna found in Karl Guli. But if he came to find it with good intentions, he wouldn't be able to find it. With three beautiful girls, he searched like a monkey catching lice in the bushes for two days but still couldn't find it.

  It should be correct, this guy's memory has always been good, and he had been to the Karl Gully mine area before, although it was already excavated at that time, but referring to the surrounding terrain, the error shouldn't be too big. The entire gold mine area is just over one square mile, and more than 1,000 tons of gold have been mined in this golden mile for over a hundred years, and it's still unknown when it will be depleted! It can be said that it is the most valuable square mile on the entire earth.

  "How can dreams be so accurate, besides, how can you be sure that the dream is about this place?" Lin Ke'er rubbed her slender waist, complaining discontentedly. Yang Feng told her that he had dreamed of discovering gold with the three of them together, so these two days were spent reenacting the dream. Although this lie was very clumsy, it still worked to coax these 17- or 18-year-old girls, except for Lin Ke'er who raised some doubts. Catherine, the youngest, never doubted what Yang Feng said, and now she was still happily lowering her head like a golden squirrel.

  Yang Feng's hand was placed on her waist, gently stroking downwards, then leaned in close to her ear and whispered, "Tonight I'll give you a good massage, you'd better cooperate well."

  "Ugh!" Lin Huo Ke's face turned red as she hit him, causing Han Cai Yi to quickly lower her head in embarrassment. Just then, Catherine suddenly let out a scream, and the three of them rushed over to see a giant cobra that had been disturbed from its beautiful dream, sticking out its tongue and threatening them, its coiled body looking colorful, its triangular little head ferocious.

  Catherine, who had grown up in the city since childhood, had never seen such a thing and was immediately frightened into Yang Feng's arms. Boss Yang stroked her beautiful golden hair with one hand and pulled out his gun from his waist with the other, shooting two shots at the snake's body, killing the innocent viper instantly.

  The brave and colorful sister picked up the dead snake with Yang Feng's cane, and in the twilight, a golden light flashed under the snake's body. The large gold ingot that Yang Feng had been expecting for so long was quietly half-buried in the soil.

  "My goodness!" Catherine suddenly left Yang Feng's arms, bent down and picked up the dog-headed gold, with a considerable scale of double peaks that made Yang Feng feel dizzy.

  "Shh, don't tell anyone, this gold mine will be yours later, got it?" He stopped the little girl's excited screaming and said seriously. For now, he had no interest in developing this gold mine, and he wasn't lacking in gold either. The main reason he bought this place was to let the outside world continue to forget about this most remote corner of the world, and then set up his own private armed forces here.

  To say that gold mines are things that can drive people crazy, the British even robbed the Dutch of their gold mines, let alone their own. Without sufficient military strength, whoever touches this thing is equivalent to suicide.

  Catherine, who had already blindly worshipped Yang Feng, immediately nodded her little head heavily and then went to share the joy with her colourful sister.

  "Why not tell others? This is our own land, we can totally develop this gold mine! And didn't you come here to dig for gold?" Lin Luoke asked very innocently.

  "Caroline, gold is not something we can touch now. If we make public the discovery of a large gold mine here, there will be endless trouble afterwards. We are not short of money now, why do such a foolish thing? The gold is buried in our own land and won't fly away. Isn't it better to leave it for now and develop it when we have enough strength to protect it? Don't tell anyone when you go back, including your brother." Yang Feng said, stroking her shoulder.

  Lin Huo seemed to understand and nodded slightly.

  Once the gold was found, the location of the gold mine was officially determined. Yang Feng then had people return to Perth, bring back thousands of tree saplings, and have them planted here. Then, he built a small wooden house for himself in the forest, surrounded by a wall on the outside. From now on, this would be his vacation villa in Kalgoorlie. He also bought tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, and had those workers graze them on this land from then on. As for the mining exploration, it seemed that Boss Yang had completely forgotten about it.

  Those workers naturally welcomed the same wages for mining, which was more comfortable than herding sheep. However, they soon found out that things were not as simple as they thought, because Boss Yang selected all young people from Hua Gong and clearly told them his true purpose.

  "Now I'm giving you two options: either continue with your current salary and do the ordinary work assigned to you, or join Umbrella Corporation, where your salary will increase by 50%, but in exchange, you must undergo rigorous military training from now on. Later, as mercenaries, you will carry out tasks assigned to me, which may involve bloodshed or even death. However, you will receive double your current salary and a full insurance package. If injured, the company will provide medical treatment; if killed in action, the company will provide compensation. Your families will also be taken care of by the company. Those willing to join as mercenaries can stay; those unwilling can leave and continue working."