On the second day, after early morning, Ye Lingyue finished her daily practice, followed Ye Huangyun's arrangement, and arrived at Yejia Shifang.
The Ye family started with iron ore, and the stone workshop is to cut the ore dug from Seven Star Mountain, and then sort and screen it. After preliminary refining, it is sent to the county town for sale.
Small-scale ore trading can also be carried out in the stone workshop to supply the daily expenses of the iron shop in Qiufeng Town and the townspeople, so it is called the Ye Family Stone Workshop, but it is actually a small market.
The Ye family has 70% to 80% of their annual income, and they rely on the stone workshop, so the importance of the stone workshop is second only to the Ye family mine.
"Lingyue, this is your first visit to Shifang. I'll show you around." The person responsible for escorting Ye Lingyue was her eldest cousin Ye Sheng who had met her once in the clan test.
Ye Sheng is sixteen years old this year, and his appearance is fairly handsome, but because he is the grandson of Ye's parents, he can't help being a little arrogant
Speaking of Ye Lingyue, Ye Sheng didn't have any impression of her at first, he only knew that she was a silly girl from birth.
This time, Ye Lingyue was a blockbuster in the family test, and her father, Ye Huangyun, was full of praise for Ye Lingyue, saying that she was a young genius.
Ye Sheng looked at it today, and felt that Ye Lingyue was nothing more than that, she just defeated Ye Ning by chance, so she was called a little genius, and her father was too exaggerated.
In Ye Sheng's view, the fact that Sangu was a genius when she was young does not mean that her daughter is also a genius. Ye Liuyun is the only genius that Ye Sheng can recognize in the Ye family.
Ye Sheng didn't take it seriously, and greeted Ye Lingyue with a bit of contempt. Ye Lingyue saw it in her eyes and didn't say anything. She just followed Ye Sheng along the way and asked casually about Shifang.
"Lingyue, you are from the Ye family. Do you know what the main business of the Ye family is?" Ye Sheng asked Ye Lingyue while walking.
"Mines and iron ore. I heard that the ancestor of the Ye family started his family because he discovered a large mine in the mountains." Ye Lingyue knew a little bit about the history of the Ye family's fortune.
"Wrong, ordinary iron ore, how can it support the entire Ye family. What the Ye family is really good at is refining iron and rough refining black iron." Ye Sheng curled his lips, very ignorant of Ye Lingyue. I look down upon it.
Such a simple matter, even the three-year-old child of the Ye family knew it, but Ye Lingyue didn't know it.
"I also ask my eldest cousin for advice." Ye Lingyue didn't care, but humbly asked for advice.
"Iron and black iron are different. For example, in the two piles in front of you, the gray and white ones are iron stones, and the silver ones are black iron stones. There is only a slight difference in color between the two, but the price difference is twenty times. Iron-like workers are all It can be cut and refined, but black iron can only be cut by warriors who have attained the third level of body refinement, and warriors who have attained the fifth level of body refinement can refine it." Ye Sheng picked up a piece of iron ore and black iron stone, and explained it to Ye Lingyue .
From Ye Sheng's mouth, Ye Lingyue also learned a lot of common sense about iron and black iron.
In Daxia, iron can only be used to forge civilian utensils, but black iron can be used to forge weapons and equip the army.
The output of black iron stone is small, and it is extremely difficult to refine it. Even the Ye family can only refine it initially.
Among the iron ore produced by the Ye family mine every year, the proportion of black iron and iron ore is a hundred times different, but it is also because the Ye family owns a small part of the black iron that it can stand in Qiufeng Town for many years.
The two of them walked around the stone workshop. Whether it was the workers in the stone workshop or the merchants and townspeople who came to trade, when they saw Ye Sheng, they couldn't help but respectfully call out "Master Ye Sheng". It can be concluded that Ye Sheng's status in Shifang is still very high.
When those people saw a beautiful woman following Ye Sheng, they couldn't help but take a few extra glances, and Ye Sheng didn't introduce him, obviously intending to snub Ye Lingyue out.
"I still have some things at hand. The part in front of me is iron ore and black iron ore. You should learn to distinguish them first. The processing plant is in front of you. If you are interested, you can go in and have a look." After Ye Sheng explained, Let Ye Lingyue think about it in private, and leave temporarily.
Ye Lingyue stood beside Xuantieshi and Iron Ore for a moment.
Ye Sheng asked Ye Lingyue to distinguish black iron ore from iron ore. It was because the two ores were very similar when they were first mined. Except for experienced masters, it was difficult for ordinary people to distinguish. In previous years, many mine workers, Shoddy, using iron ore to pretend to be black iron ore, seeking huge profits.
The first thing for all Ye family members who come to Shifang to study is to distinguish black iron ore from iron ore.
For others, the two kinds of ores that are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye are clear to Ye Lingyue at a glance, just because she possesses the miraculous dryness.
With a movement of the fingertips, the breath of the tripod in the dry tripod penetrated into a black iron stone.
As Ye Sheng said, the gray-white is iron, and the silver is black iron. Most of the black iron ores mined by the Ye family are actually mixed stones of iron and black iron.
Ye Lingyue observed it, and found that there were a lot of impurities in the pile of black iron ore in front of her, and the black iron composition in each piece was pitiful.
Inside a piece, there is only about 10-20% black iron.
Obviously, this kind of black iron ore cannot be sold directly to the county town, so Ye family warriors need to refine it before selling it.
The grade of the black iron ore is obviously much lower than that of the Xuanyin jade. Ding Xi in the dry tripod saw the impurities in the black iron ore, and just turned around lazily before shrinking back.
Bang, bang, bang—a clanging sound ahead.
Ye Lingyue walked forward, and saw that the processing workshop was bustling with activity, about 20 or 30 warriors were cutting and forging black iron ore respectively.
Drink—with a loud shout, beside Ye Lingyue, a martial artist of the third level of body refinement condensed Yuanli on the iron axe, chopped it down with one axe, and the black iron ore was cut into several pieces.
Immediately afterwards, the cut iron ore was handed over to a martial artist at the fifth level of body refining.
I saw that the other party was holding a hammer in his hand, knocking it down.
With a bang, the hammer hit the black iron ore.
I saw that the body of the hammer was carrying lingering Yuanli, and the hammer fell on the iron ore. The force was so fierce and concentrated that it attracted a burst of applause.
As the hammer fell, Ye Lingyue could see a large amount of stone chips falling, and part of the ore impurities were also beaten out.
Different from ordinary iron shops for iron making, the workers in Yejiashifang who deal with black iron ore are not simple. If you look closely, you will find that they use Yuanli when cutting and forging.
It takes about an hour for a piece of black iron ore after cutting and forging. The size of the ore has shrunk by half, but the content of black iron in it can be increased to 30% to 40%. This kind of black iron ore can be transported to the county. sell.
Amid the applause from everyone, Ye Lingyue exited the processing plant.
"It's a lot of work. I don't know if the dry cauldron can be used to purify black iron ore." When Ye Lingyue walked out of the processing plant, she was still holding two pieces of black iron ore and iron ore that came along.