Stravinite is actually an organic fertilizer accumulated from the dung of birds and animals over thousands of years, and it is stored by unmanned pirates in South America and the Pacific.

When the modern fertilizer industry did not appear, struvite was a very valuable mineral deposit, and agricultural countries would import a large number of them if they could.

And saltpeter, the necessary raw materials for the manufacture of explosives, the real strategic materials of the 19th world, gunpowder cannot be made without this thing, when Britain was fighting for dominance over the sea, it once sent special people to manage the toilets, and they even had to collect the urine alkali on the wall skin, yes, human urine contains nitrate.

It can be seen how important saltpeter was to countries all over the world at that time.

According to the agreement between the three countries to divide the desert, Peru and Bolivia occupied the northern part of the desert, while Chile occupied the southern desert, but struvite and saltpeter resources were concentrated in the north-central desert, which caused a serious diplomatic conflict between the three countries in Chile.

In this context, a Taiping army of more than 10,000 people broke out in Peru.

Li Shixian, a high-ranking general in the Taiping Army, was the cousin of Li Xiucheng, the loyal king, and an important general in the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In 1860, Li Shixian led the Taiping army to Fujian, although the Taiping army fought bravely and achieved a certain victory, but it is a pity that the enemy is outnumbered, and there was a gap in weapons and equipment at that time, and the war has become more and more unsmooth for the Taiping army.

By 1862, the Taiping army in Fujian was completely unsustainable, there was a strangulation of the Hunan army on land, and there were Western warships on the sea to cooperate with the Hunan army blockade, even if Li Shixian's army was heroic, it could not return to the sky.

There are still tens of thousands of remnants left, and they can't fight, they can't surrender, and there is nowhere to escape...... In the end, the only way out is to become a piglet.

Pigs, piglets, this is a humiliating mark on the head of the Chinese in modern history, Africans are trafficked all over the world called black slaves, and Chinese workers are trafficked called pigs and piglets.

In order to survive, tens of thousands of Taiping soldiers betrayed and sold themselves as Chinese laborers, boarded foreign ships, and some were sent to Southeast Asia to cut rubber, some were sent to North America to build railways, and some were sent to Peru in South America, where they became Chinese laborers digging ore in the desert.

In 1862, more than 10,000 remnants of the Taiping Army and their relatives were transported to Iquique, Peru, South America, to work as guano and saltpeter miners, the mine owners often beat and abused them, the food was like pig food, and they had to do hard labor for more than 14 hours a day, and even the hard labor prisoners were clearer than them, they wanted to resist many times, but they were surrounded by foreigners with loaded guns, and they wanted to go back to China, but they were afraid of being killed, so they could only endure in silence, so there were many people who died of illness and committed suicide.

In 1866, the second year that Xiao Letian had just crossed the past, the conflict between the three South American negotiations finally broke out, Peru and Bolivia refused to give up a little mineral interest, which made Chile lose its mind, and the war finally began, which is the historical South American saltpeter war, also known as the South American Pacific War.

In March 1867, the Taiping army in Iquique launched an uprising, killed the mine supervisor Sigos, seized the weapons of the saltpeter mining company, and engaged in a fierce battle with the Peruvian army that came to suppress it, killing the Peruvian major Tuvicos and the captain Jura, and capturing 200 Indian mercenaries.

After the uprising, the two leaders reorganized the Taiping Army in the original structure, and also sent captured Indian mercenaries and a Brazilian to the commander of the Chilean army, Major General Cirapizzo, and offered to help Chile deal with the Peruvian and Bolivian armies.

Major General Sirapizo was overjoyed and sent a second lieutenant disguised as a second lieutenant to the Iquique mining area, where the rebel forces were stationed, and brought a letter from the President of Chile, giving Chilean nationality to all the Taiping soldiers and their families, and saying that Iquique would be handed over to the Taiping Army and their families after the war.

When Tang Lei used his Chinese status to go north to the Iquique region, Onderong and Chen Yonglu had formed an army of 7,000 men, and the Peruvian army was deadlocked in Iquique.

And at that time, this army already had the official establishment of Chile, and it was called the "Brown Army" of the 6th Chilean Border Column.

Rao is Xiao Letian read the information in advance and had a little bottom in his heart, but when the more detailed information came out of Tang Lei's mouth, he sat on the chair with his ass and rubbed his temples desperately with his index finger.

Xiao Letian is generally well aware of what happened in Europe and Asia in the 19th century, but he does not know much about what happened in South America and Africa in which era.

Of course, he had heard of the Pacific War in South America, but Xiao Letian didn't know the specific details, let alone where a Taiping army had fought alone, and even achieved such brilliant achievements.

"Our Chinese is ambition, and there are all Chinese dragons there, as long as we take advantage of the wind and rain, there will always be a day when we will take off...... Tang Lei, let me ask you, is this why you forged your identity?"

Tang Lei's knees were weak at the moment, his eyes were red and swollen, and tears flowed, he had suffered too many grievances along the way, fighting with pirates, fighting with the Peruvian border navy, crossing the Pacific Ocean and encountering a storm.

But this is not sad enough, in the Ryukyu CIA vigorously interrogated him why he forged his identity without permission, and asked himself what his intentions were, he was almost tortured to extract a confession, and the hero was afraid of being sad if he was not afraid of bloodshed!

"Woooooooooo......oo I came to South America alone from distant China, in what capacity should I use to approach Weng Derong and Chen Yonglu? What should I do if they don't believe me?"

"Even if I can prove my identity in the Ryukyus, I can prove that I am not a spy of the Qing Demon, but can I negotiate with others with my identity?

"Prime Minister, we must intervene in this war, South America is too rich, struvite, saltpeter, silver, copper, iron...... As long as we can have a foothold in South America, even if there is only one port, our commercial power can penetrate it......"

"Prime Minister! We are not even afraid of Austria, do we still care about Spain's power? South America is now a time of chaos in power, South America ruled by the Spaniards is collapsing, and Britain, France, and the United States have not yet stretched out their tentacles! This is our chance!"

With a snap, Tang Lei took out a hand-drawn map of South America on the ground, "Iquique, we must occupy the port of Iquique, which will be the most important stronghold of our Ryukyu Navy in South America in the future!"

"Everything that my subordinates do is for this purpose!"

Note: Today is the last day of 2015, the heart is clean three more, I wish you a great fortune in the new year, a thriving career, tonight I send a few rounds of red envelopes in the group, and I hope that my book friends will also take action, don't be stingy when you receive red envelopes, all return one.

You guys are really amazing, I have a preliminary estimate that the amount of red envelopes in the group will be hundreds of yuan a day, you are too ruthless......