C1028 taiping

"Five ships worth of silver ingots?" Ten ships worth of copper ingots? "You might as well kill me. You all are making things too difficult for me. This is impossible …" Xi Lapizuo was so excited that her face turned red.

Tang Lei and the rest were all startled, "General, why do you say that? Didn't we ask for too much? Chile has had gold mine, silver mine and copper mine since the ancient times, and now there is an additional saltpeter and guano stone mine, you can say that this is a country sitting on a golden mountain! "

"We do not want gold, because we know that the transactions between the United Kingdom and the Chile are settled with gold. Your treasury is indeed a bit tight, but the other mines are not that embarrassing, right? You're still not making sense? "

Xi Lapizuo shook his head impatiently and said, "No, no, no, you guys didn't understand what I meant.

Originally, Tang Lei and the others had wrongly estimated the industrial level of Chile. Copper Ore and Copper Ore were not even of the same concept.

Although South America was rich in minerals, gold, silver, copper, iron and other non-ferrous metals, they were second to none in the entire world. However, there were not many coal mines on this continent, and maybe the Amazon Forest had a large amount of coal underground. But, forget about nineteenth century, even in the 21st century, it would be difficult for people to extract coal from the tropical rain forest.

Without coal, it was impossible to refine coke, and without coke, it was very difficult to develop a large-scale smelting industry. If all the coal was imported into coke, then it would be better to just transport the ore away for others to refine.

Therefore, Tang Lei's request was really difficult. It didn't matter if he wanted the raw ore, as long as he had enough, it would just be a waste of time and manpower to dig it out. But you want the semi-finished metal, this Chile can't do it, this concubine can't!

After Tang Lei heard this, he smacked his forehead: "Blame me, it's really my fault! Six ships for high grade silver ore, six ships for high grade saltpeter, the remaining eight scissor boat s, you have already filled me to the brim with high grade copper ore … "

"Deal!" This business is done. I don't need to ask the President for permission, I can promise you that! "Oh my god, you are really my lucky star. This war has caused the number of merchants in Europe to drop by a third. We have amassed a large amount of ores, and you have really helped me a lot!"

"If possible, I hope that we can carry out long-term trade cooperation. We need firearms and various light industrial products, and I can sell you the various ores that you need at a preferential price. This is a win-win situation!"

Three days later, Xi Lapizuo signed a secret agreement with Tang Lei on behalf of the President in Antofagasta. Ryukyu and the President officially established diplomatic relations, and both sides provided preferential treatment with tariffs and did not restrict the investment of the merchants on both sides.

After the signing of the secret agreement, 10,000 reinforcements from Saint Felix Island boarded a ship and headed towards the Chile. At 3 a.m., the fleet departed and at 5 p.m., the Ryukyu Dragon flag and the 'Xiao' flag fluttered outside the port of Antofagasta.

The meticulously selected three thousand brown army s lined up at the port to welcome their distant relatives. The entire city of Antofagasta was in an uproar as more than thirty thousand people crowded onto the dock to watch the Expeditionary forces from the Legend Kingdom.

The scene at the time when the twenty scissor boat purposely lined up in a straight line and travelled across the ocean like dark clouds pressing down on a city, shocked everyone.

The horn on the ship became a series of horns, and the Taiping Army on the shore also sounded the victory horn. The sound intertwined together and floated around the entire city.

The boat was getting closer and closer, close enough for both sides to see each other's faces. The familiar clothes, familiar face and familiar country voice broke the tough shell of all the soldiers. No one knew who started first, but the whole port suddenly burst into tears.

"Someone from home is here!" [Finally, someone came from my hometown …] The heavens have eyes! "That's our countryman …"

"Our reinforcements, our Chinese reinforcements! We are not forgotten, there are still people in our homeland thinking about us, thinking about us! "

"Long live Taiping Army! Long live the Prime Minister! "

The crowd instantly turned into a mess as the orderly military formation scattered. The people shouted for the ages as they rushed towards the sea, and the ships that were sailing far away almost directly crashed into the dock.

The citizens of Chile were all dumbstruck. They watched as the brown army cried and ran towards the ocean like she was a god of death, desperately swimming forward in the waves.

The Chinese people on the ships were also wailing and jumping from the sides of the ships into the water like dumplings, swimming towards their comrades with all their might.

The two groups of people embraced each other in the sea, and all their emotions exploded in that moment.

"Brother, good brother!" Finally, we're together again … Don't cry, we can't go back to our homeland, we'll make another home! At the very least, there is still the Prime Minister who wants us! "

"With this reunion, we will never be separated again! Wherever we are, we are in heaven! "

The meeting of Antofagasta shocked the entire South America. The people of the Chile at the port could not understand why these Chinese people were so excited. The word 'China' seemed to have a magical effect on them.

A nation that had been colonized for three hundred years and had long forgotten the glory of its ancestors would certainly not understand the spirit of a Chinese nation whose three thousand years of civilization had not ceased to exist.

Henry, the British arms dealer spying in the distance, said in horror, "Is this really Chinese? Is this the European legend of the numbing Chinese people? "No, that's not right. The whole of Europe was misled by the wrong information!"

"This group of people have an extremely terrifying aura, and they are definitely not just a bunch of loose sand! Oh no, once this group of reinforcements enters the battlefield, how would the Peru and the Bolivia fight? They will definitely lose! "

Henry was worthy of being a merchant at arms meals. He had a keen sense of the army, and at that moment he had a flash of insight that the Chinese, if placed in a comfortable environment, would be a flock of sheep.

But once these Chinese were placed in a harsh environment, these people would quickly turn into tigers, leopards, wolves, and wolves. Without a home, they would have no way out. Without a way out, they would burst forth with a power that terrified the entire world!

"Immediately contact Peru and Bolivia … Get ready for me, I want to sail north! This war must not stop. This is the biggest deal of my life, and I will not let these Chinese mess it up! "

"Absolutely not!" Henry gnashed his teeth in anger. The sight of the jubilation outside the window stung his heart.