When Shi Yi thinks about Xianyu, someone always comes to disturb her.

The whole evening was lively in a friendly atmosphere until the late night, and everyone was fully expressing their enthusiasm.

The young people left reluctantly only when they were exhausted.

As expected, Wei Dong was toasted until he was drunk before being let go. During this period, Xie Jiu blocked a lot of alcohol for him, but in the end he was defeated because he had too many opponents.

Xie Jiu drank too much, which was rare for him.

They were dutifully helped back to the tent by the teetotal guards. Strangely, they were even arranged to sleep in the same bed.

When Xie Jiu woke up the next day, he was surprised for a long time. Did everyone know that he liked Wei Dong? And they were all quite supportive!

He even dared to arrange him and Weidong together. Aren't you afraid that I will kill their boss when I'm drunk?

He couldn't believe himself. Did these people want to help him, or did they really not know the consequences?

Hey! I've really become insane from being idle.

Weidong woke up and saw that they were sleeping together again, and he didn't think it was strange.

Isn't this a common thing?

Looking at the calm Wei Dong, Xie Jiu couldn't understand what Wei Dong was doing. Did he agree or didn't care?

Xie Jiu was extremely conflicted.

Wei Dong didn't have time to argue with him. After he went out, he found Huba and asked him to settle the herd of horses and select the good ones that could become stud horses according to their grades.

Let them get familiar with the new herd as soon as possible and train the leader to obey orders. They will set off back soon.

The lead horse is very important. If it is well trained, it can lead the herd along the designated route without the need for a large number of human pursuit and interception.

Even if they encounter bandits who want to rob, the leader horse can lead his group to escape safely, because these horses are running freely and there are no bridles for the bandits to grab.

The bandits could only drool when they saw it, there was nothing they could do. Do you think they could lasso the horses?

Are you kidding? The guards are there to do nothing. If bandits come out to rob you, it's ok for you to just run away. Otherwise, if you run too slowly, it's not certain who will win the fight.

Weidong's guard team is armed to the teeth by Shi Yi. Anyone who dares to provoke them will be killed. This is a grassland and the wilderness. What matters is strength. Whoever has the faster knife is right. This is a place where you can kill but not bury.

The Weidong caravan brought back a herd of horses without having any of them stolen. This was due to the good lead horse on one hand and the powerful escort team on the other.

This time he would bring the herd of horses back first, and then return to the Tiankeng in Xishoujiang City to transport the ore brought by various tribes back to the Bai family office in the Central Plains.

The Baijia Office will have a professional transportation team to deliver these ores to various workshops in different categories. After being processed by the workshops, these ores will be turned into many different products.

There are also small amounts of gold and brass.

Although the quantity is small and it is not conspicuous among various ores, its value is very high. The value these metal ores bring to the workshop every year cannot be ignored.

Therefore, the horses that Weidong brought back were just incidental benefits, but the most valuable things were these inconspicuous broken stones.

The grassland people's mining of ores is still very primitive. For example, gold mines are considered valuable only if they are in the form of obvious gold nuggets or gold grains.

For example, the ore brought back by Weidong did not look like any metal on the surface, and there was no yellow gold in the gold mine either, it was just stones of very strange colors.

But this kind of ore can be refined into gold in the workshop, which is amazing! Wei Dong also felt it was magical when he saw it, but this is the strength of the workshop.

They made many things that others could not make. Shi Yi took Weidong to see the ore refining process, and only then did he know the value of these different stones.

This was also the main reason why Shi Yi asked him to lead people deep into the grassland. The mineral resources here are rich, and the locals are not aware of them. This is the power of knowledge.

In a very short period of time, Shi Yi stuffed a lot of knowledge about minerals into Wei Dong's head. He now knows more than twenty kinds of minerals, all of which are needed by the workshop and can be refined with mature technology.

Therefore, Weidong traveled around the grassland under the pretext of selecting horses, and finally discovered eight kinds of minerals. The production areas of these minerals were very close, all in this area.

This place is full of small tribes and is very easy to operate, so when he did this, his most important purpose was hidden very well.

No one knew that what he wanted most were these ordinary stones, and everyone thought that what he wanted most was a thousand-mile horse.

Although horse improvement is also in his plan, ore is his most important task. If all the ore here can be mined, it should be enough to meet the needs of the workshop within three years.

Metal ores in the Central Plains were controlled by the imperial court, which meant that even if a metal mine was discovered, it was difficult to obtain the mining rights.

Gold, silver, copper and iron are all mines controlled by the imperial court and belong to the country, even if you bought the place yourself.

Shi Yi had no intention of rebelling, but as her workshops grew larger and larger, she needed a large number of metal accessories to produce many products. However, if she purchased them all ready-made, the cost would be too high.

Ore is the cheapest raw material. In the past, she bought discarded scraps and waste ore from the imperial court and refined them, and the output was very satisfactory.

However, later on, the court's control became increasingly strict, the amount of waste ore sold became smaller and smaller, and the quality of the ore became worse and worse, which was far from enough for household use. What should be done?

Giving up is not my character.

Since the imperial court did not allow local mining, she went to neighboring countries to purchase. From the neighboring countries that traded with her, when the caravans returned, in addition to bringing back their specialties, the rest was ore.

This thing is very profitable. Shi Yi used the income from these minerals to support 80% of the orphans and helpless elderly people in the orphanage.

These people should have been supported by the imperial court, but the national treasury was notoriously poor. Shi Yi felt that most of these people would starve to death if they waited for relief from the imperial court.

Who made her be fed by beggars in the beginning? Only by eating other people's food could she have a chance to survive. If she doesn't care about these homeless people, who else can take care of them?

Where there are orphanages, there will be no beggars or orphans starving to death, and even the elderly without children can spend their old age in peace.

Although he was not rich, Shi Yi did his best to provide money to the orphanage.

When money was really not enough, Shi Yi had to make money by selling medicine and seeing patients. Fortunately, the workshop had been profitable in recent years and she no longer needed to go out to make money.

After having Weidong, she finally dared to give herself a vacation. After being busy for so many years, she could finally enjoy life properly. She was not a luxurious person, and she just wanted to live a comfortable life.

In terms of food, clothing, housing, transportation, do whatever makes you comfortable.