After the establishment of the system of four courts and six ministries of the imperial court, most of the affairs of the state can be handled directly by the cabinet, and in the end, as long as the backup is transferred to Zhao Zhen.

Moreover, the cabinet composed of more than a dozen forces of various departments, according to Zhao Zhen's copycat voting model in later generations, quickly dealt with various things, and handed over to Zhao Zhen for adjudication once the vote was held. In this way, it not only speeds up the handling of political affairs, but also pools wisdom to avoid the rash decisions of one person or a small number of people.

When there are no big wrong decisions, Zhao Zhen is also willing to let them slowly get used to this model without hindering them. In this way, he has a lot more time out of thin air, and most of those tedious daily affairs are passed on to the civil ministers who like to be diligent in political affairs, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, it is really the best of both worlds!

With nothing to do, Zhao Zhen plans to visit the general supervisor he cares about the most. Since he came to this time and space, he didn't intend to be a king who eats and waits for death, the Royal Academy and the general as a prison are the most important guarantees for him to achieve his goals, and they are the places he cares about the most, and he usually spends most of his time there.

In fact, the development of human society depends to a large extent on the development of materials science, and many ideas and innovations are limited by basic materials. In primitive societies, the foundation of material science was basically zero, and human beings could only use local materials and use the simplest wooden sticks or stones to enhance the power of hunting. Later, we slowly entered the age of cold weapons such as bronze and iron, and even the era of hot weapons after the emergence of gunpowder, and with the change of basic materials, the power that human beings can create is also undergoing earth-shaking changes.

However, materials science is a very complex subject, or in many cases, there is an element of luck in the results. Thinking about the theoretical research of the Celestial Empire in many fields in the later generations, it is not much worse than that of Western countries, or even surpassing, and the ability to copycat is also famous overseas. However, why the engine, which is the core of aircraft power, has not made a major breakthrough, this should not be impossible to make people's shapes!

Since Zhao Zhen came to this era, he summed up his biggest advantage is nothing more than knowing the trend of social development and strong industrial technology skills. The former can make him just take fewer detours in his life, but the latter can raise the production level of the entire human society to a certain level in a very short period of time, and it is very likely to change the direction of world development.

The memory from later generations made Zhao Zhen discover that the Northern Song Dynasty is a history of struggle between reformers and conservatives, and every time the law is changed, it faces a serious threat of people's demise and political rest. And most of these reasons are due to the identity of the person who initiated the reform, because all the changes in the Northern Song Dynasty were proposed by a certain minister and implemented after persuading the emperor. In this way, if another person changes the emperor's opinion, or the emperor changes, then what awaits is the next wave of people to come and restore the change.

The national fortunes of the Northern Song Dynasty were also consumed in this kind of tossing and turning back in the past. Originally, the era of Song Renzong was the most critical era in history, which was not only the rise of the Northern Song Dynasty reform, but also the beginning of the Empress Dowager's reign, which had a far-reaching impact on later generations. The basic pattern after Song Renzong is almost the same, the emperor wants to change the law, not long after the emperor whines, the queen mother takes advantage of the situation to govern, the conservatives hug their thighs, vigorously crack down on the change, and wait until the next emperor himself, and repeat such a trick.

Zhao Zhen is not worried about the original trajectory of the Northern Song Dynasty, he believes that he can change the fate of the Great Song Dynasty and the fate of the Chinese nation!

Zhao Zhen to be the prison to stay the most is the iron smelting group and the firearms group, the members of the two groups at the beginning were quite afraid of the emperor's majesty, can not let go of their hands and feet, and then everyone has been together for a long time, after understanding his temper, they can sit down with him to discuss problems, Zhao Zhen also from time to time to teach them some knowledge of later generations, so that they can open up the limitations of their thinking.

"Weichen sees the emperor, welcome the emperor to come and inspect!" Zhao Zhen, as usual, just walked into the workshop where he would supervise the iron smelting group, and Li Tiezhu, the newly promoted team leader by him, hurriedly ran over to salute.

"I see that you are sharp-eyed, every time you find out, are you kid not doing things with your heart?" Zhao Zhen pretended to be serious and said.

"Back to the emperor, Wechen doesn't dare, but your light is so dazzling, it's hard for Wechen to find out!" Li Tiezhu, who is in his twenties, is not much older than Zhao Zhen, and he knows his usual humorous personality, and he speaks relatively calmly in private, and he is amused intentionally or unintentionally.

"Well, I am convinced of that! By the way, to get back to the point, I haven't been here for a few days, can there be any progress in open-hearth steelmaking and converter steelmaking that I showed you? The two came to the rest area next to them and sat down, and Zhao Zhen asked.

"Back to the emperor, I've read all the two steelmaking ** Weichen you gave, and there are some things in it that Weichen still understands too well, like what is this oxygen? And is this carbon element the charcoal we usually burn? Li Tiezhu said and took out the book and pointed it out to Zhao Zhen.

"It's a *** annoyance!" Hearing him ask like this, Zhao Zhen sighed in his heart. Although I can guide them to train steel, it is not an overnight task to let them understand the mystery.

So Zhao Zhen had no choice but to flicker: "Oh, you said this!" These are all my names for some things that people don't know yet, and the Royal Academy will teach them in the future. Let me tell you this, this oxygen is actually a component of the air around us, and of course there are many other components in the air, which we have to discover for ourselves. In addition, this carbon element can also be simply understood as charcoal, and iron also contains this kind of thing. I also divided iron into pig iron, wrought iron and steel, the amount of carbon is an important criterion, in other words, the amount of carbon seriously affects the quality of steel, the reason why smelting steel requires high temperatures, in fact, is the process of burning these impurities. ”

"I see, this knowledge is really too profound, Weichen wants to know more, but the emperor, you don't have time to deal with Weichen, I don't know if there is anyone else who understands this way besides Your Majesty?" Li Tiezhu listened to it very well, but it is human nature to explore the unknown.

"I have taught this knowledge to Wang Shenli and Chen Xinhua of the Royal Academy, and they have dabbled in it, so you can discuss it with them with my edict."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Let's talk about your situation!"

"Wechen and your colleagues have discussed, this open-hearth steelmaking method is relatively close to the method we are using now, we also made a small open-hearth for experiments, and the steel produced is indeed much harder than the previous one, and there is some flexibility. Your Majesty, please come with Weichen ......"

Li Tiezhu took Zhao Zhen to a small open hearth in the open space outside the room, picked up the iron on the ground and said to Zhao Zhen: "Your Majesty, look at it, this is what we have refined for the first time." ”

Zhao Zhen took the piece of iron, took it in his hand and checked it, and found a stone and knocked it a few times, it did have a bit of the appearance of steel in later generations, and he was quite satisfied that they could make such a thing for the first time, so he said to him: "Thank you for your hard work, you did a good job!" ”

"Loyal to the emperor!"

"The slogan is good, and it will be better to add another one to serve Da Song!" Zhao Zhen said with a smile.

"Hehe, Wechen will definitely add it next time." Li Tiezhu also hit the snake with the stick.

"Alright, you boy, give me all that little bit of your thoughts! Tell me, is it possible for the imperial court to build open-hearth steelmaking on a large scale now? ”

"Back to the emperor, according to our current technical level, the converter may not be realized, but it is not very difficult to build this open-hearth on a large scale, and Weichen thinks that we can try to build a larger open-hearth. However, according to the data of this small open-hearth experiment, once it is expanded, the demand for coal and other ores will be relatively large, and the current amount will not be able to support it at all. ”

"Oh, it's inevitable, have you sent people to find these ores?"

"I have searched for it, but the manpower is limited, and the ministers have only carried out a simple search in the mountains around the capital, and the ore for steelmaking is still almost found, and this quantity problem still needs to be solved by the emperor......

"Let me think about it, do you have a map?"

"Yes, it's still a copy of yours! This way, please! Li Tiezhu took Zhao Zhen to a large table in the lobby of the backyard, pointed to the map on the table and said to him: "Your Majesty, please see, these marked places are the places where the ministers found the ore." ”

Zhao Zhen's son Li Tiezhu's instructions, glanced at the map, and found that these points were basically distributed in the mountainous areas around Kaifeng, which was roughly in line with the distribution of minerals in his memory. When he looked at Cizhou, his brows furrowed deeply.

Cizhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, also known as Cixian County in Handan City in later generations, is the birthplace of the famous Cizhou kiln culture in China. The main reason why this place has become the birthplace of kiln culture is that this place is rich in coal, and it is also high-quality coal. It can be said that this place should be the first choice as the industrial base of the Northern Song Dynasty, not only rich in raw materials, but also relatively close to the capital, which is convenient for the imperial court to control.

But Zhao Zhen has to face a serious problem at the moment.