Su Yu played with a stone in his hand. This stone was brought from Jinjia Village today.
"The stone in my hand, after being heated and smelted at high temperature, will turn into a substance similar to iron. Don't underestimate it. If you add it in a ratio of 1,000 to 2 when forging iron, the result will be Iron weapons must be much stronger than nothing."
Yu Zheng looked at the stone in Su Yu's hand.
"Did you get this stone from Jinjia Village? Is this why you bought the land in Jinjia Village?"
"So to speak, you can go to Jinjia Village to get some stones and try them."
This was not the first day that Yu Zheng met Su Yu. He felt that Su Yu was not telling lies, but if what she said was true, he couldn't even imagine that this thing might be able to change a country.
"I will find someone to try what you said. As long as what you say is true, then the conditions will be whatever you want."
"OK."
Yu Zheng couldn't sit still now and hurriedly left with the stone.
Qinglin stood in the darkness of the carriage waiting, but he didn't expect that his master would come out shortly after entering.
"You will have someone go to Jinjia Village early tomorrow morning to pick up a few stones, like the ones I have."
Yu Zheng said, throwing the stone in his hand, and Qing Lin caught it.
"Yes, Master."
Qinglin felt a little baffled that his master was interested in the stones in Jinjiacun after meeting with Miss Su. However, these were not important. He just followed his master's instructions.
After meeting Yu Zheng, Su Yu took a nice bath and went to bed to rest.
In modern times, when she lived at her grandparents' house, there was a silica factory not far from the village. Silica was collected from other places and smelted into ferrosilicon. Ferrosilicon itself has many uses, but she didn't know much about it. When smelting iron, it was proportional. Adding ferrosilicon can achieve the deoxidation effect, and the quality of the iron produced is much better than without adding it. She knows this.
In the past, she often went to the silica factory with her friends in the village. There were a lot of silica piled there. When she went to Jinjia Village that day and saw the stones in the fields, Su Yu was sure that they were silica. Combined with what she heard from the street today, Only with the emperor's temperament could Su Yu have such a bold idea.
But Su Yu didn't dare to buy too much of the land in Jinjiacun, and bought almost a third. If she bought all of it, it would be a different matter in the eyes of the emperor.
The next day, Yu Zheng went to the Hanlin Academy to take up a post. When he was dismissed, Yu Zheng went back to his colleagues' banquet to drink wine. He got on a carriage at the gate of the palace and went directly to the blacksmith shop that Qinglin had rented before.
"Madam, the eldest young master went to the blacksmith shop as soon as he got off the job. That blacksmith shop was taken over by Qinglin today. Now there are only two masters and servants inside. It looks like the eldest young master wants to strike something himself, but what exactly is it? , our people didn’t find it.”
Mrs. Zhang stretched out her hand and admired her newly dyed tanko.
"Those who grew up in the countryside can't change their stubbornness even if they win the first prize. Who among the serious young masters in Kyoto would do such a thing as blacksmithing?"
"What Madam is saying is, how can the eldest young master be compared to the second young master and the third young master."
Her Xuan'er and Qin'er were naturally the best, so how could those bitches compare to them? They just got lucky and got the top prize.
"Let our people just watch and not do anything else."
"Yes, ma'am."
This matter was so big that Yu Zheng didn't dare to leave it to others, but tried it himself. He didn't even return to his home after he resigned, and he changed into regular clothes on the carriage.
The people in the shop had been emptied, and their people were still guarding outside. As soon as Qinglin arrived, he lit a charcoal fire in the stove and placed a crucible on it, which was specially used by the blacksmith shop to melt molten iron. Yu Zheng threw two stones inside, and Qing Lin pulled the bellows.
As the temperature increased, the two stones in the crucible slowly turned red, but there was no sign of melting. Yu Zheng couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. He took it for granted, how could he listen to a little girl. But what happened in Yujia Village made Yu Zheng doubt that what Su Yu said was true.
While Yu Zheng was stunned, the stone in the crucible changed.
"Master, look."
Yu Zheng looked up and saw that the two stones in the crucible were gradually melting. He felt a little incredible. After the two stones were completely melted, Yu Zheng took the crucible tongs on the side, took the crucible out of the flame, poured the dissolved silicon water into the iron bowl on the side, and then took a few pieces of pig iron on the other side. Heating the molten iron in a crucible, after waiting for the molten iron to melt, Yu Zheng thought about the ratio Su Yu said, used a special spoon to scoop up a drop of silica water and dropped it into the molten iron, stirred it a few times, and poured the molten iron into a mold aside to cool.
Then clamp it with iron tongs and start forging and quenching, put it on the stove to heat, and continue forging and quenching.
It was already half an hour later when the knife in his hand was shaped into shape. Yu Zheng looked at the faint light shining on the blade, which looked different from the previous knives made of iron.
"Qinglin, try a knife."
Qinglin took a knife from the shelf nearby. The two knives collided in the air. The new knife, which had not yet opened its blade, directly cut the knife in Qinglin's hand into two pieces.
"Master, the difference is too big."
Yu Zheng was stroking the blade of the knife with his hand, and there was a faint light in his eyes.
"Hit me again."
In the evening, Su Yu sat where he sat last night. A pot of tea had been brewed on the table in front of him and he was sipping it.
"Girl, Mr. Yu is here."
Bai Mo was reminded by her girl during the day, so she didn't say it was her future uncle, but Mr. Yu.
Yu Zheng's lips curled up slightly but he didn't say anything and went straight into the house.
"Ugly girl, I have tried the recipe you mentioned today, and it is indeed effective. I plan to donate it to the emperor tomorrow. If you have any conditions, just tell me."
"I don't have any conditions. I just hope that when the government sends people to Jinjia Village to collect silica, the price will be raised a little, so that I don't have to work in vain."
It's a joke, she was negotiating terms with the emperor, maybe she thought her life was too long.
"That's it, nothing else?"
"What else do you think?"
Yu Zheng thought that it would be okay if Su Yu didn't want it. Anyway, after they passed the door, all his things would belong to her.
"Well, I will explain to the emperor tomorrow that you discovered this thing."
"You do whatever you want, I don't care."
Su Yu really didn't care. When she told Yu Zheng about this method before, she just wanted to get a higher price from the government and register with the emperor. If she committed a crime in the future, the emperor would take care of her. She was given a lighter sentence because of her merit this time, and Su Yu felt that the latter was necessary.
If the present person took the silica stone, wouldn't the fields in Jinjia Village still belong to her? After taking the silica stone, she would just ask some coolies to pick some soil and backfill it. However, such fields are not fertile enough to be cultivated. These are nothing. thing.
Yu Zheng couldn't come out for too long, so the two of them left after a few words.
Su Yu originally planned to move to Jinjiacun, but after thinking about it later, he decided to wait and see for a few days before talking.
The next day, Yu Zheng went to the Hanlin Academy to take up his post. After the morning court was over, he went directly to see the emperor. With his current position, he was not qualified to participate in the morning court.
"Your Majesty, Editor I would like to see you."
(End of chapter)
