38 Chapter 25: Trade (Part One)

TL: A_Passing_Wanderer

ED: Chrissy

Guano was excrements of migratory birds found in islands near the South American coastline facing the Pacific Ocean. More correctly, the bird crap that had been piled up over time to become deposits of guano.

'Pretty sure the indigenous population down there is already using it for their farming right now,' Kim Gi-Wu thought.

Actually, guano was a natural resource that various Andean civilizations had been using since ancient times.

Guano was incredibly precious. Not only was it an excellent natural fertilizer, but it was a crucial ingredient when creating gunpowder, too.

It wasn't for nothing that the Western powers nearly lost their minds trying to acquire guano from this region.

'Besides, if we acquire silver from there, we can also earnestly start the currency-driven economy, too.'