In Chile, there are 19 saltpeter mines and six copper mines under the command of the former military commander of the East. There are nearly 10,000 miners and nearly 50,000 living around mining.

The miners work hard and harvest 3.53 million kilograms of saltpeter per month. However, including manpower, all power seems so unreliable in the desert. There is no good road or fixed water source to boil nitrogen on a large scale. Even if it is boiled, the nitrogen soil transported out of the desert is still limited. The finished nitrogen soil that can be transported to the southern Copiapo port every month is only 50,000 to 60,000 kilograms of finished nitrogen soil that can be transported to the southern Copiapo port every month.

In the view of the Dongyang Military Office, Chile's annual transportation of nitrate soil has leap from 200,000 kilograms to 600,000 kilograms, which is undoubtedly a huge technological progress.

But in fact, how much nitrile soil can be produced in Chile is only related to metaphysics, or luck.

The Ming Dynasty's nitrate boiling industry was mature, and the technology of evaporation and recrystallization was impeccable. Chile's saltpeter mine was not special to the Ming people, just ordinary salt and nitrogen, the same as the Northwest, but it was more pure.

There are water sources, but the distance is far and the transportation cost is extremely high. In other words, the real limit on output is still the transportation capacity.

When the former military governor Shao Tingda left the desert, he issued a reward to various tribes, hoping that the indigenous people could lead the flag army to find a suitable water source. Only by finding the water source can the flag army and miners survive, and then expand the scale and there will be more nitrite soil.

There are not only saltpeter mines, but also silver mines and copper mines in the desert, but these minerals can only be left alone at present, which feels very uncomfortable.

It’s like why no one goes hunting and eating during famine? Because the physical strength and calories consumed by hunting are far greater than the energy replenished by hunting, so even if the prey runs around in front of you, those who are about to starve to death will not hunt.

Lie quietly and die slowly.

But Shao Tingda was working hard, and they were busy building roads in the desert. When the road surface was flat, they could transport the wooden rails from the port to the mountain pass into the desert, build carriage wooden rails, and transport more people and more tools into the desert.

There are good and bad things. At least in the desert, whether it is wooden tracks or railway tracks, there is no need to worry about human stealing, and you can also have fewer concerns when building roads. But the bad thing is that the flag army in the desert cannot repair the wooden tracks even if they want to repair the wooden tracks, because they may not even be able to find a tree after walking on several days.

Even near the oasis, there are dry thorn grass everywhere, making it difficult to find decent wood.

However, while searching for water sources, the flag army discovered several open-pit copper mines one after another, and one of them looked extremely large, not far north of the No. 17 Nitrogen Mine Plant, which was almost next to the Peruvian border.

But at this time, Shao Tingda was not at the No. 17 Nitrogen Mine Factory, nor even at the nearest Copiapo. He went to the place further south than Santiago, now Lier City, and the Mapuche tribe at the bottom of the southern bank of the Biobio River.

There was a Ming army camp called Lautaro Camp. Guerrilla General Lin Xiao was the head of the military camp and trained hundreds of Mapuche heroes to become outstanding soldiers.

When Shao Tingda's strong black war horse stood in front of the gate of Lautaro Camp, he was satisfied with the soldiers who were participating in training in the camp.

Unlike the common local people living in deserts, mountains, lakes and volcanoes in northern Chile, the Mapuche people, who are born at the bottom of the valley, look stronger and taller, which makes them look like they have no tanned skin after wearing cotton uniforms, and they can't see anything different from the Ming soldiers.

The soldiers wore brown military uniforms specially woven for them by Changsheng, cotton short robes and mid-single pants, which were easily worn, with canvas patches on their shoulders, knees and elbows. The clothes were worn by the trousers, and the clothes were wrapped around the trousers, which changed the habit of not wearing shoes. They were wrapped in hair scarves on their heads, and they stood like pine.

But Shao Tingda could still tell who was the Ming army and who was the Mapuche at a glance.

There were one or two feathers in their turbans. Some people would wear Western-style sleeveless alpaca vests on their short robes. Their spears were tied with feather ornaments. The bird gun wooden gun holder drilled into round holes and hung the feather-tight leather pieces with ropes.

"General, the guerrillas in Lautaro's battalion are ready to go to the battlefield. They have no support to be able to skillfully use knives, spears, sticks, bows and crossbows to form formations or scattered soldiers. When they have support, they are good at using bird guns, burying landmines, operating artillery and quickly making wooden cannons to put them on the battlefield."

Lin Xiao had already received news from Kuaimatong that Shao Tingda had arrived in Lautaro Camp, which made him suddenly feel like he was in a sudden state. His first reaction was that something happened.

The war in Colombia was pretty good. Lautaro drove the guerrillas to ambush all the necessary routes in one year, assassinating and attacking, which heavily weakened the Western Army's strength in northern Colombia. Now the local people with simple military weapons even dared to attack the strongholds during the day.

The long-term attack and siege have allowed the war to go to the last step and be removed.

At this time, even if Lautaro fights against the Western Army in a dignified formation, not to mention who has high combat skills, just talking about military equipment, Lautaro might be better than the Western Army.

Compared with the huge number of local people, the Eastern Military Prefecture did not provide much armament for Lautaro, but they seized a lot of weapons and armor. The equipment of a soldier in the Western Conference was enough for Lautaro to arm five or six soldiers.

The above is everything Lin Xiao knows about the situation in Colombia.

Chile also entered a critical moment, with nineteen saltpeter mines opening kilns, three silver mines and six copper mines. Recently, traces of super-large copper mines and small iron deposits were found in the north.

The Spanish were keen on gold and silver minerals, but the Ming Dynasty at this stage was exactly the opposite.

At the official level, they were about to lose interest in silver. With high-quality goods, the military government can earn more than half of the production of the Potosi Silver Mine from Spain every year. The imperial court also passed the shortage of silver. The huge amount of silver circulating on the market also brought a small amount of inflation to the country. From the emperor, Chen Mu, Yin Zhengmao, and Chen Lin, from top to bottom, the imperial court and military government paid more attention to coal, iron, copper, and salt.

They are the future.

Makino is the future, and Chile is also the future.

As the year approached another year, Shao Tingda appeared in Lautaro Camp in the south, who should have received goods from various places in Liercheng and transported them to the military government.

Lin Xiao naturally had an unknown premonition in his heart. He was worried that it was his uncle Lin Manjue who was guerrilla, but this was not Shao Tingda's purpose.

"General Lin, Shao came to convey the bad news to Lautaro Camp. Twenty days ago, General Lautaro led his army to attack Kali, a large city in western Colombia, and attacked the Western Army on the banks of the Kali River. Unfortunately, he became the target of artillery and was hit by a Fran machine cannon that fired a scattered spider. His injuries continued to worsen and he was unable to control the army."

"Because the general's son is still in the Imperial College in the capital, General Lautaro requested the military office, hoping that you can replace his unfinished career in the name of Lautaro - expel the Western barbarians from the land of South Asia."
Chapter completed!