"Five ships of silver ingots, ten ships of copper ingots, you still kill me, you are too embarrassed, this is impossible......" Silapizo's face turned red with excitement.

Tang Lei and the others were stunned for a moment: "Why did the general say this? We didn't make excessive demands? Chile has been a gold mine, a silver mine, and a copper and iron mine since ancient times, and now there is another saltpeter and struvite mine, you can say that you are a country sitting on a mountain of gold!"

"We don't want gold, because we know that the British and Chilean transactions are settled in gold, and your treasury is indeed a little stretched, but the other deposits are not so embarrassed, is it?"

Silapizo shook his head and said anxiously, "No, no, no, you don't understand what I mean, and you will understand when I tell you this......"

It turned out that Tang Lei and others miscalculated the industrial level of Chile, copper ore and copper ingots are not a concept at all, and the industrial strength of a country is separated by it.

South America is indeed rich in minerals, and the reserves of non-ferrous metals such as gold, silver, copper, and iron are second to none in the world, but there are not many coal mines on this continent, and perhaps there are large coal reserves under the Amazon jungle, but let alone the nineteenth century, even in the twenty-first century, it may be difficult for people to mine coal from the tropical rainforest.

Without coal, there is no way to coke, and without coke it is difficult to develop a large-scale smelting industry.

Therefore, Tang Lei's request is really embarrassing, it doesn't matter if you want the original ore, how much you want is nothing more than a waste of manpower and time to dig it well. But what you want is industrial semi-finished metal, this Chile really can't do it, and the concubine really can't do it!

After hearing this, Tang Lei patted his head, "Blame me, really blame me!" Then let's do it, I'll modify it slightly, six ships of high-grade silver ore, six ships of high-grade saltpeter, and the remaining eight clippers, you fill me with high-grade copper ore......"

"This business is done, I don't need to ask Your Excellency the President, I can promise you! My God, you are really my lucky star, this war has reduced the number of merchants in Europe by one-third, we have hoarded a lot of ore, you have really done me a great favor!"

"If I can, I hope we can carry out long-term trade cooperation, we need arms and all kinds of light industrial products, and I can also sell all kinds of ores you need at a good price, this is a win-win situation!"

Three days later, a secret agreement was signed with Tang Lei on behalf of the president in Antofagas, and the Ryukyus and Chile formally established diplomatic relations, providing preferential tariff treatment to the most favored nation tariff and not restricting the investment of businessmen from both sides.

After the signing of the treaty, 10,000 reinforcements from the island of San Felix boarded the ship and set sail for the Chilean mainland, the fleet departed at 3 a.m., and at 5 p.m. the Ryukyu dragon flag and the Xiao flag were fluttered outside the harbor of Antofagasta.

A hand-picked group of 3,000 brown-clad troops lined up in the harbor to greet their relatives from afar, and the city of Antofagasta was a sensation, with more than 30,000 people crowding to the docks to watch the expeditionary force from the land of legends.

Twenty clippers deliberately lined up in a column and came from the sea like a dark cloud crushing the city, and the scene shocked everyone.

The horns of the sea ships were connected into a piece, and the Taiping soldiers on the shore also blew the horns of victory, and the sound of the sound converged and floated throughout the city.

The ship was getting closer and closer, so close that both sides could see each other's faces, the familiar clothes, the familiar faces, the familiar country sounds, suddenly shattered the strong shells of all the soldiers, I don't know who got up first, and the whole port suddenly howled and cried bitterly.

"Someone from my hometown! Someone from my hometown is finally here...... The sky has eyes! That's our folks......"

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

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

The crowd was in chaos, the neat military formations dispersed, and the people shouted hooray roars and threw themselves into the sea, and the ships that had sailed away almost crashed directly into the pier of the trestle.

The Chilean people were dumbfounded, they watched the murderous brown soldiers cry and run towards the sea, they swam desperately forward in the waves.

And the Chinese on the sea ship also jumped into the water from the sides of the ship like dumplings that shook the world, and swam towards their comrades with all their might.

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

"Brother, good brother, we're finally together again...... Don't cry, we can't go back to our homeland, so we will fight another homeland! The Manchu Tartars don't want us, at least there are prime ministers who want us!"

"This gathering, we will never be separated again! Where we are, there is the kingdom of heaven!"

The Antofagasta division shook the whole of South America, and the Chilean people at the port could not understand why these Chinese were so excited, and the two words of China seemed to have magic power for them.

A nation that has been colonized for 300 years and has long forgotten the glory of its ancestors will certainly not understand the spirit of the Chinese nation that has not been cut off by a civilization of 3,000 years.

Henry, a British arms dealer peeping in the distance, said in horror: "Is this really Chinese? This is the insensitive Chinese of European legends? No, not at all, the whole of Europe has been misled by misinformation!"

"This group of people has a very terrible temperament, and it is definitely not a plate of loose sand! Oh no, once this group of new forces joins the battlefield, how will Peru and Bolivia fight? They will definitely lose!"

Henry is worthy of being a merchant who eats arms and rice, he has a very keen sense of the army, and at that moment he had a little epiphany, he found that if the Chinese are placed in a comfortable environment, then they are a herd of obedient little sheep.

But once these Chinese are placed in a harsh environment, these people will quickly become tigers, leopards and jackals, and without a home, they will have no way out, and without a retreat, they will burst out with the power to terrify the whole world!

"Contact Peru and Bolivia right away...... Prepare me for the clipper ship and I will go north! This war must not be stopped, this is the biggest deal of my life, and I will definitely not allow these Chinese to stir up yellow!"

"Absolutely not!" Henry gritted his teeth in anger, and the jubilant scene outside the window pierced his heart.