Chapter 269: Sensation
After a full week of prospecting, Father Buckger gave his final answer. "Congratulations, Baron. You're about to become rich.
"This is an alluvial river deposit. The surface river sand contains as much as 8 grams of gold, while sample tests from the lower ore layer showed an astonishing 16 grams.
"This gold mine stretches two kilometers along the river. Preliminary estimates put its reserves at as much as fifty tons. Once you register it with the colonial government, this place will belong to you."
At the news, everyone grew excited. Such a rich deposit was rare even in Austria.
Overwhelmed with joy, Baron Fikeni forcibly suppressed his emotions and immediately declared, "It won't just be me getting rich—we're all going to get rich.
"Rest assured, everyone, our original agreement still stands. This gold mine belongs to all of us, including the young men who sacrificed themselves searching for it. They, too, will have a share.
"I swear on the honor of the Stre Family that once the mine is registered in the colony, half of its profits will belong to you.
"Now, let us defend this gold mine that belongs to us!"
Finding gold also meant that the most dangerous moment had arrived. In overseas colonization, there had been no shortage of bloody infighting caused by stakes too great and spoils unevenly divided.
Forget internal fighting—even before the property rights had been registered with the colonial government, letting the news leak out was extremely dangerous.
Before such immense profits, cases of one gang swallowing another whole were all too common. In the vast openness of the African Continent, the greatest danger was neither the jungle nor native cannibal tribes, but the countless others in the same trade.
Baron Fikeni did not have much wealth. After equipping everyone