C830 The Chinese Army in South America Continent (1/2)

Bird droppings and rocks were the organic fertilizer accumulated from the feces of birds and animals for thousands of years. On South America Continent and in the Pacific Ocean, there were no humans or pirates who had stored them.

In the absence of the modern fertilizer industry, bird droppings and stones were a very valuable mineral deposit. If there were conditions in an agricultural country, they would be imported in large quantities.

However, saltpeter was a necessary material for the manufacture of explosives, a real strategic material of the world. It could not be made without gunpowder. When Britain was fighting for the sea, they had sent people to manage the toilets, and they even needed to collect the alkaloids on the walls.

It was evident how important saltpeter was to the countries of the world at that time.

According to the agreement between the three nations to divide the desert, the Peru and the Bolivia had occupied the northern part of the desert, while the Chile had occupied the southern part of the desert. However, the birds, manure and saltpeter resources were all concentrated in the northern part of the desert.

Under this huge background, a group of more than ten thousand Taiping Army soldiers were defeated and arrived at the Peru.

The high ranked general in Taiping Army, Li Shixian, was the cousin of Loyalty King Li Xiucheng, an important general in the later stages of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In 1860, Li Shixian led the Taiping Army to fight against Fujian. Although the Taiping Army had achieved a certain degree of victory in battle, it was a pity that they were outnumbered.

As of 1862, it was already difficult for the Taiping Army to continue fighting in Fujian. With the death of the Xiang Army on land, the sea, and the Western Battleships working together with the Xiang Army's blockade, no matter how brave Li Shixian's army was, it would be impossible for them to go back.

There were still tens of thousands of handicapped veterans left. They couldn't fight, they couldn't land, and they had nowhere to run … The only way out was to be a piglet.

Pigs, piglets, this is a recent Chinese history of the head of a humiliating mark, Africans are sold around the world as slaves, while Chinese workers are sold as pigs and piglets.

Tens of thousands of Taiping Army s, in order to survive, betrayed and sold themselves to Chinese workers. They boarded a foreign ship, and some of them were sent to cut rubber in Southeast Asia, some were sent to North America to repair railways, and some were sent to Peru s on South America Continent to be sent to become Chinese workers who excavated ores in the desert.

In 1862, there were more than ten thousand Taiping Army survivors, together with their relatives, transported to Peru to be used for the business of digging bird droppings and saltpeter miners. The miners often scolded and mistreated them, and food was like pig's food, and they had to work hard for more than fourteen hours a day, even more so than the prisoners in Qing Province. They tried to resist many times, but were surrounded by armed foreigners.

Peru and Bolivia were not willing to give up even the slightest amount of interest in ore. This caused the Chile to lose all reason, and the war finally began. This was the historical war of the South America, also known as the Pacific War of the South America.

The outbreak of war allowed the ten thousand Taiping Army s to see hope for freedom. They led the army of Weng Derong from Hunan and Chen Yonglai from Guangdong, and in March 1867, the Taiping Army s rose up and killed Western Goose, the supervisor of the mine. They also captured the weapons of the saltpeter company, and started a fierce battle with the army of Peru who came to suppress them.

After the rebellion, the two leaders reorganized themselves using the original composition of the Taiping Army. They also sent their captured Indian mercenaries and a Brazilian to look for the commander of the Chile's army, Major General Xi Lapizuo. They expressed their willingness to help the Chile deal with the Peru and the Bolivia's army.