Di Mali's manager's room is the most luxurious place in the area. Influenced by colonial Spanish culture, everything is Spanish style, small buildings with white walls and red tiles, Gothic carved furniture, and the most rare thing is a high-leg sofa that is very classy. This is Di Mali's favorite, even a manservant as close to Weng Derong is not allowed to touch it.

Oily little Juan was wearing a suit and a small vest, crossed his legs, and smoked a cigarette and sat on this sofa waiting for Di Mali. Cigarette ash landed unscrupulously on the couch under the ass.

Di Mari obviously felt a little sorry for his sofa, but he didn't dare to show it on his face, but greeted him with flattery. "Young Master Juan, you're here. I happen to have something on my hand to keep you waiting. ”

"You look pretty good here." Juan Jr. didn't answer, looking at the decoration of the small building, which was obviously not what a manager's salary could have.

"It's just something simple, laughing." Di Mari said in a low tone, and after saying that, he put an envelope in the pocket of Juan's suit, which contained a thousand pesos.

Seeing that Di Mali was very sensible, Juan Jr. put it away with his hand, and then stopped greeting. "This is a letter from the master, open it and take a look." Little Juan took out the letter from Master Juan to Di Marie from his bosom and handed it to him.

Di Mari knew that the matter was very important, otherwise he would not have sent Juan Jr. to come in person, so he hurriedly tore open the letter, took out the letter inside, and read it.

"What? The lord wants to sell here? Di Mari saw half of it, looked at Little Juan and cried out in disbelief.

Juan Jr. looked warily at Ong Derong beside Di Mari.

"Weng Derong, you go out first." Di Marie immediately understood what Juan Jr. meant, and it seemed that the letter was still confidential.

Weng Derong knew that the content of the letter was crucial, and although he went out of the room, he did not go far, but put his ear to the wall outside, eavesdropping on the conversation of the people inside.

Seeing Weng Derong leaving, Little Juan patted Di Mali on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, go there, you are still the manager." The lord still trusts you very much. ”

"But for such a big move, I'm afraid it will take many days to prepare." Di Marie muttered.

"You take care of those Chinese coolies first, and there can't be one less. Don't mine these days, dispose of the coal in the factory, and then prepare to move. Juan Jr. conveyed the old man's meaning to Di Mari.

"Yes, just do as you tell you to do." Although Di Mari was a little reluctant, he still nodded and obeyed the arrangement, although he was the manager, he was still the servant of Lord Juan, what the above said, he could only do it.

"I won't stay with you any longer, the gray here is really big enough." Little Juan was obviously not used to the dust here, and after a short stay in the mining area, the collar of the suit was a layer of dust.

"You go slowly, and I'll let them see you off in a carriage." Di Marie flattered Juan Jr. while sending him out of the factory.

Juan Jr. was apparently pleased with Di Mali's sycophancy, and was impatient to leave the place and go to a nearby town for fun.

At this moment, Weng Derong was nervous about the important news that he had just overheard. He was in a dilemma, he wanted to tell Yang Xiaoshan, but he was afraid that he would expose himself, but if he didn't tell Yang Xiaoshan, he was afraid that this matter would be very unfavorable to them.

After thinking about it, Weng Derong decided to inform Yang Xiaoshan that he did not take the wooden shed directly, but quietly found Wu Ruxiao on the ground and asked him to relay this important news.

"What? Are you going to take us to the island to dig up guano? Yang Xiaoshan was surprised when he heard the news, and he didn't expect such a variable to appear at this critical juncture.

"Yes, Weng Derong told me personally, he overheard it outside the house." Lao Wu didn't dare to slack off, and after getting the news, he immediately found an opportunity to meet Yang Xiaoshan and inform him.

Yang Xiaoshan frowned, this is not good news. Guano was indeed a very lucrative export of Peru in the nineteenth century.

In this era, European and American countries have not yet invented chemical fertilizers, but the population is growing rapidly, especially in Europe, where the population pressure is very high. Although the industrial revolution was flourishing at that time, agriculture was still the foundation of the national economy, and it could not solve the problem of feeding the population. To increase the yield of crops, it is necessary to improve the fertility of the soil, and to improve the fertility of the soil, it is necessary to fertilize. At that time, the best fertilizer was Peruvian guano, because experience has shown that using Peruvian guano as fertilizer can increase crop yields by at least 3 times.

Peru is very rich in guano resources. More than twenty kilometers off the southern coast of Peru, there are three granite islands. The island is barren and the main "inhabitants" are several species of seabirds. Because there are abundant schools of fish near the island, seabirds catch and eat for a living. Seabirds have lived on the islands for millions of years, leaving over time a layer of droppings up to 45 meters thick on the islands.

Peruvians themselves simply do not want to go near the smelly island and dig up the smelly bird droppings, so they hire indentured Chinese workers to dig up the bird droppings.

Although digging for guano is less dangerous than mining, it is much more difficult to escape if you are taken to those small islands.

"Gotta act quickly and get out of here as soon as possible!" Yang Xiaoshan was also anxious in his heart, because he didn't know when the mine would transfer them.

Weng Derong was not wrong in what he relayed, the owner of the mine, Juan, was very dissatisfied with the wealth that the coal mine brought to him, there were too many dead miners, so he paid a lot of funeral expenses, and the quality of the coal mines in this mining area was not very good. It couldn't be sold for a high price, so Juan's boss decided to abandon the mine and go digging guano instead.

Guano is much more profitable than a coal mine, and there is no need to worry about the workers escaping on the island, as long as a dozen black thugs act as overseers, and there is no need to hire these 200 or so Indian guards. This alone can save him more than 30,000 pesos a year. So he sent his nephew to inform the manager Di Mali that he was optimistic about these Chinese coolies and was ready to transfer them to the island to dig guano.

"Shixian, you go to find Wang Dabang, Lao Wu, you go to Bao Chao, let them come over quickly, let's discuss, we have to get out of here quickly." Yang Xiaoshan was thinking about the escape plan in his heart, he couldn't wait any longer, he had to act immediately.

After a while, Bao Chao and Wang Dabang also arrived, and these people in the wooden shed discussed the escape on behalf of the 2,000 Chinese coolies in the audience.