Xiang Ying and the officer corps did not want to land in Iquique, this unexpected war was not in their plan, since leaving Dakar, the Zhiyuan stopped all military operations, they put away their fangs and hid in the depths of the ocean to carefully avoid those golden waterways.

After the bloody battle of Dakar, the British and French Atlantic navies were crazy to search for this legendary warship, and all the Western merchant ships on the golden shipping route received urgent orders, and everyone was looking for this ghost ship with their eyes wide open.

The Zhiyuan did not dare to approach the golden channel during the day, and it really needed to cross the channel and choose the dark late night, and carry out strict lighting control.

Along the way, they were almost caught by the British and French fleets four times, but the god of fate once again showed a smile, and the Zhiyuan successfully broke through the danger in the face of danger.

The warships of Britain and France, the merchant ships of Europe, the storms of the Atlantic, and the loneliness and sickness of the slow journey did not defeat these brave young men, and when they crossed the Drake Passage into Chilean territorial waters, the fleet owners finally breathed a sigh of relief, because before setting sail, they knew by telegram that Chile and the Ryukyus had established diplomatic relations and had close cooperation.

Along the way, we finally arrived in a relatively safe sea area, and perhaps the British and French intelligence agencies have always judged that the Zhiyuan will enter the Indian Ocean around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, so the surveillance density on this side is still very low.

After crossing the Drake Passage, the British and French warships were almost nowhere to be seen. But the returning fleet didn't enjoy it for a few days, and when the clippers carrying supplies quietly docked in Puerto Montt to buy a shipment of supplies, they received shocking news.

It turned out that not only the Heavenly Kingdom soldiers of Weng Derong and Chen Yonglu were fighting in South America, but more than 10,000 Heavenly Kingdom soldiers in Nanyang had just arrived in Antofagasta under the escort of Ryukyu officials.

When Xiang Ying and the others got this information, they immediately ordered to abandon the original plan to go directly to Tahiti and set sail north to watch the battle.

In their plan, if the Chilean army and the veterans of the Celestial Kingdom fought well, then the Zhiyuan would not appear to go west from the open sea to Tahiti and then return home. But once the battle is frustrated, the Zhiyuan will definitely not watch the friendly forces suffer.

"The battleship is the floating land, and the iron armor of the Zhiyuan is the motherland, this is the military soul injected by the prime minister into the navy, and this is the root of the existence of the Ryukyu Navy! The motherland cannot watch her children suffer defeat and be slaughtered! So we have to join the war!"

The loud words made all the heavenly veterans of Iquique moved, it was really nice to have a motherland behind him, the beggar had to lean against a wall with his back against the dog, and no matter how poor the child was, he would not be afraid when he thought that there was a mother behind him!

The Kingdom of Heaven has been destroyed and cannot be restored, that is, from this moment on, these veterans of South America have completely stood in the Ryukyu camp, and all the Chinese in Ikique have accepted the dual citizenship of Chile and the Ryukyus.

Xiao Lotian has worked hard for several years, and has paid countless efforts and finally received rich rewards, and all the legacies left by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, whether tangible or intangible, have been inherited by him.

In the following decades, when Iquique won a great victory and the veterans of the Celestial Kingdom were granted a 150-year lease, the remnants of the Celestial Kingdom scattered around the world secretly contacted the Ryukyus, and more than 130 secret gangs south of the Yangtze River alone declared their allegiance to the Ryukyus, and the strength of the CIA suddenly skyrocketed.

This is the people's hearts and minds, Xiao Letian seems to have won the recognition of all underground black organizations and societies in China, and even the relics of the heavenly kingdom can be saved with all his strength, not to mention those small anti-Qing gangs.

Of course, this is all an afterthought, Xiang Ying and they came ashore not only to encourage these overseas Chinese, but also to negotiate with the Chilean army, when Xiang Ying offered a price of 500,000 taels of silver, Cirapizo was stunned.

"Oh my God, do you want so much money from us for just this battleship? This is blackmail!"

500,000 taels of silver, converted into the metric system, that is, one ton of seven silver, even if Chile is rich in gold and silver, it can't get so much silver at once.

"Blackmail? huh...... Do you still want to win this war without our participation? You say 500,000 taels is too expensive, but I say it's still a discounted friendship price?"

"Do you know how much a shell is for a 210-caliber naval gun? Do you know that in that naval battle, we consumed hundreds of shells? How to calculate the loss of the steam turbine forced pressurization? How to calculate the reduction of the service life caused by the wear and tear of the rifling of the gun? Do you think that the main guns of a battleship can be used for a lifetime without being replaced or repaired?"

"Modern warfare is a game of burning money, you still want to win without gold and silver? If you want to dominate the struvite and saltpeter deposits, and you don't want to invest in military costs, you should wake up for such a cheap thing, and if you sleep again, I'm afraid you will fall asleep!"

Cirapizzo was speechless when he was refuted, and he also knew that the future war could not be separated from the support of these Chinese, and if he wanted to continue to attack Peruvian and Bolivian territories, these more than 10,000 brown troops must not be missing.

Three days later, Cirapizo received an authorization from the president, allowing him to handle the negotiations with the Ryukyus side with full authority, and the final result was similar to that of Tang Lei. The Chilean side provided a total of three tons of high-grade silver ore and ten tons of copper ore as military expenses for the Zhiyuan to participate in the war.

Subsequently, the two sides formally signed a 150-year lease of two-thirds of the Ryukyu area, which is not only limited to the urban area, but the entire northern part of the Iquique Province, and the two-thirds of the province is under the administration of the Ryukyu side, and Chile only retains sovereignty.

When the news reached the ears of these veterans of the Heavenly Kingdom, everyone cried like crazy, laughed wildly, hugged each other and howled hysterically. The kingdom of heaven that Hong Xiuquan didn't give them before, but he didn't expect to get it in South America.

In the eyes of these veterans who have left their homeland, the kingdom of heaven is not a land with milk and honey, nor is it a paradise full of golden agate trees, in the simple values of the Chinese, as long as we can build a house, have some land of our own, have wives and children, and then can justly let us work hard to build a homeland, that is the kingdom of heaven.

It is such a simple ideal, such a simple request, but it is enough to pay tens of millions of lives to get it, which cannot but be said to be the sorrow of a nation for thousands of years.

After the treaty was signed, Xiang Ying did not waste a minute, immediately boarded the ship and left Iquique to join the Zhiyuan in the open sea, and after boarding the ship, he quickly set sail for the Fernandez Islands, where the supply clippers were staying.

However, he never expected that his front foot would leave Iquique, and the secret electric back foot from Ryukyu would be delivered.