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Kang Dongliang is back and comes from Yukon under the wind and snow.

Also arriving at the same time, Rosenthal was also here. Li Yaoyang wanted him to interview Kang Dongliang and do some gold hunting topics. This topic should set off a wave of reading frenzy. After all, people's desire for gold is unprecedented.

After the old men had almost finished chatting, Li Yaoyang invited Kang Dongliang out alone and chatted while eating.

Of course, the main person in charge of asking questions is Rosenthal and the reporters he brought, the entire interview team.

"Mr. Kang, can you talk about your understanding of the history of gold digging? I'm very curious, by what kind of chance you started this great cause."

Kang Dongliang thought for a while and said:

"When it comes to gold rush history, it has to start from the last century. In the 1840s, Britain took the lead in completing industrialization. At this time, the west coast of North America was just a trade territory for fur merchants, maintaining the original production model.

At that time, the area where California was located was under Mexico's control, while Alaska in the north was the territory of the polar bears. The ownership of the remaining vast western land was still controversial, including the Yukon.

The Yukon region located in the northwest actually officially joined the Canadian Federation in 1898.

At the end of the 19th century, it was Europe, and North American explorers came here to hunt for gold, which led to the gold rush in the entire North American region. This was once the most important gathering place for gold rushers.

The largest trader in the Americas at that time was the Hudson Bay Company.

The company is the earliest commercial joint-stock company in North America and still holds many commercial complexes in Canada.

Throughout the 1940s, George Simpson took over the Hudson Bay Company, who had visionaryly established trading sites on Vancouver Island, and the company and the United Kingdom took root on the West Coast.

The Hudson Bay company's approach to "occupying the mountains and becoming king" has aroused dissatisfaction among the ugly country.

Some people even published articles threatening that the ugly country would occupy the entire North America.

This idea attracted a large number of passionate American youth and stimulated the attitude of the upper class.

For a time, the land along the western coast became the fuse of British-US relations.

It was time to speak with your fists, and the British side could no longer sit still.

The two sides were at a loss for a while, only the spark that detonated the powder barrel.

Fortunately, Pandora's box was not opened, and Britain and the United States sat back on the negotiating table.

The UK requires the division of land at 45 degrees north latitude, while the Chou Kingdom requires the division of land at 50 degrees north latitude and 40 minutes north latitude.

Within two years, both sides used all their coercion and inducement, and tried their best to test each other's bottom line in both back and forth.

At the most critical moment, the Ugly Kingdom bluffed again, and the remarks of the war began to rampantly.

The threat played a role. In 1846, the two sides signed the Oregon Agreement - regardless of rivers and mountains, they simply demarcated the boundary at 49 degrees north latitude, shaping the current U.S.-Canada border.

At the same time, the 49th-degree north latitude line has also become the legal operating scope of Hudson Bay Company. If you want to do business, you only allow northward expansion and not southward.

In this way, the company can only go north all the way to find a way to make a fortune.

The company went up the river to the Yukon area, opened up two trade routes, and established cargo distribution points along the route.

Although Hudson Bay Company has established the necessary infrastructure for Yukon's development, the company's business direction has proven to have made huge mistakes.

First, the Yukon is not like Quebec and Great Lakes, and there is no large number of Indian tribes, and it is difficult to find fur trading partners;

Secondly, the timber business has high requirements for transportation capacity, and the two trade channels pass through the ice field, while the northern seaports have been frozen for most of the year, which is not conducive to commodity transportation.

Due to lack of commercial potential, the Yukon region, with an area of ​​500,000 square kilometers, remained unattended in the first half of the 19th century.

In addition, the breeding weather is severely cold and the products are poor, so it cannot attract colonists.

The intervention of European trading companies has angered the indigenous tribes with strong territorial consciousness, and it is very unlucky to go to settle down and buy a property.

The Metis are a mixed race of maple leaves.

However, they are neither mixed races born from Europeans' intermarriage nor the result of the integration of indigenous nations, but rather mixed races born from European men and Indian women.

This group of mixed-race children are spread all over the maple leaf, and their language and living habits are different from those of Europeans and Orthodox Indians.

After the seven-year British-French War, Quebec was completely ceded to Britain.

Before this, Hudson's Bay Company controlled the central and southern regions including Ontario, while the French "Northwest Company" was active in the west all year round, leaving behind this group of mixed races.

In fact, most of the Mettys are mixed with the "French-Indian" mixed race, and are also mixed with a few "Irish-Indian" and "English-Indian" mixed races.

However, the differences between mixed-race populations did not make them hostile to each other, but instead increased their sense of identity and gradually integrated into an integrated ethnic group.

By the early 19th century, the Meti people's national consciousness became stronger.

They united, pioneered the northwest, and attempted to break away from colonial rule in order to open up their own homes.

The Metis lived and fished and drove the French trade forces to move westward.

Soon, the British forced the Mettis to cut off trade with French companies and allowed them to sell goods to local British merchants.

In this way, the pricing power was completely in the hands of the British, and the fundamental interests of the Mettis were threatened.

Under the instigation of the French Northwest Company, the Mettis began to fight against the British colonists.

The Metti militia groups began to consciously organize underground anti-colonial activities.

Surprisingly, a few years later, the initiator of the farce, the French Northwest Company, was merged by Hudson Bay Company.

The Mettis lost their only support and had to sit down with the British to negotiate trade rules, and the tension gradually eased.

In the next half century, most of the Metis settled in the Grassland in the middle of the Maple Leaf to do business with the Hudson Bay Company.

The good times did not last long, and the Hudson Bay Company sold a large amount of land to the newly established Maple Leaf Dominion.

The transfer of land property rights instantly made the Meti people lose their sense of security.

They face two choices, either to participate in the resistance movement or to give up their homes and continue to move westward.

Louis Lille, a tribal leader who was unwilling to die in silence, led the militia to occupy the headquarters of the Hudson Bay Company and established a temporary management agency to force Maple Leaf Kingdom to negotiate.

After negotiations, Canada promised to retain 1.4 million hectares of land, establish bilingual institutions and Catholic schools, and finally led to the birth of Manitoba.

Who would have thought that Maple Leaf Kingdom had just made a temporary compromise and did not intend to settle the matter.

As soon as the summer began the next year, the Maple Leaf Army drove into Manchester Province in a mighty manner, reversing the previous decline.

A group of national leaders were liquidated for treason, and the Metis had to seek new residence.

Interestingly, the Metis never admitted that they were Canadians, so how could the treason come from?

The white land reclamators did not stay in Manitoba, but approached westward step by step.

The Metis and other Indian tribes also continued to be oppressed by the colonists.

Although he was rectified by the authorities, Lille was not discouraged and he still wanted to seek national autonomy.

In order to achieve his demands, Lille launched the second uprising.

Not only did the Mettis' wishes not come true, they also lost many leaders, including Lille, who was hanged.

Several humiliated Meti tribes migrated along the mountains to the Yukon area of ​​"The Emperor is High and the Emperor is Far".

In this way, three ethnic groups were active in the Yukon region: the first ethnic group, the name of the Indians in the Maple Leaf Kingdom; the Inuits; and the Metis.

Among them, the Meti people are well-equipped, have advanced production modes, and hold advanced European weapons, which are the most combat-effective.

For a time, Yukon became the most complex area within the Maple Leaf Country, with melee and terrorist attacks from time to time.

After the second uprising, the Metis became an "invisible nation".

They were hiding their identity, dared not admit their identity, and even dared not show up in public.

The so-called "open guns are easy to hide, but hidden arrows are difficult to defend against." Under the threat of the "invisible nation", the isolated Yukon branch of the Hudson Bay Company has become the hardest hit area for attacks.

Not only does the trade channels lack security, but even production bases are often subject to retaliatory attacks and business is choked.

The company had to hire a small number of troops to maintain the normal operation of the company.

The expensive security costs once made the company's senior management plan to abandon Yukon.

This makes it even harder for colonists to move in.

However, 20 years after the Mettis moved in, an amazing discovery completely changed the extremely desolate Yukon.

In August 1896, a gold digger named George Carmack discovered the largest natural nuggets ever in a stream in Yukon.

In Carmack's words - gold stuck in the slab and looks like a sandwich sandwich.

After the incident was exposed, the entire western part of Maple Leaf Country was in an uproar.

In the 16th century, explorer Cartier mistakenly brought brass and quartz back to France as gold and diamonds.

This misunderstanding also left a proverb in French: It is as fake as a maple leaf diamond, and it can also be translated as "unreasonably wrong".

Who would have thought that in addition to the famous "Maple Leaf Diamond" and "Maple Leaf Gold", there are indeed a large amount of gold mines near the Arctic Circle of the Maple Leaf Kingdom.

The following spring, when residents of Seattle and San Francisco learned about the situation, Yukon was already overcrowded, and Maple Leaf Country also set up border inspections for this.

Most gold diggers from the West Coast choose to take a boat to the southern port of Alaska, climb over White Mountain, flow down the Yukon River, and arrive at the Klondike River.

Local regulations are stipulated that every gold digger entering the country must bring a full year of supplies, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter the country.
Chapter completed!