The three returned to the Ministry of Works and went about their work. After a while, the sound of iron hammering could be heard from the Ministry of Works.

The camera zoomed in, and weapons were piled up everywhere around the place where Tang Hao was.

Common weapons include the eighteen types of weapons such as axes, halberds, hooks and forks, swords, spears, halberds, whips, maces, hammers, spears, sticks, crutch and meteors; uncommon weapons include the guillotine, chain hammer, lantern shield, mace, universal golden wheel, etc.

Several young disciples were sealing the boxes with a hissing sound. The iron ingots in the furnace were already burning red.

Tang Hao approached with a hammer in hand and said to the young disciples working the fire, "Do you know where the force is first exerted when swinging the hammer to strike the iron ingot?"

"Master, it should be the waist. The waist drives the back, and then drives the arms to swing the casting hammer."

Tang Hao nudged the young disciple's leg with his hammer and asked, "Are those two legs of yours just for show? This is the most developed muscle tissue in the human body. When exerting force, it must start from the calves, then move up to the thighs, through the waist, back, and arms, and finally release it. This is how you accumulate power to strike."

"Use your calves to exert force, and use your waist as the axis. Watch carefully." After Tang Hao finished speaking, he half-turned his body, clasped his feet tightly on the ground, and his calves instantly tensed. The whole person was like a tiger ready to pounce. He exerted force with his legs, turned his waist back, and the casting hammer clanged loudly, landing heavily on the red-hot iron ingot. The red-hot iron ingot instantly collapsed.

The recoil force caused the forging hammer to bounce high up. Tang Hao turned around and used his calf to exert force. He swung the forging hammer that had bounced high up and swung it in the air. With a strong wind sound and another loud bang, it fell on the iron ingot again. This time, the speed was extremely fast and the force was even greater.

"Use the force of the force to achieve the desired effect. Each hammer blow will be faster and stronger than the last. After thirty-six hammer blows, the iron ingot will be transformed into steel with less impurities and better ductility and toughness."

"It's Master's famous skill, the Thirty-Six Forms of Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique. It may seem chaotic, but each strike is precise and accurate."

"I heard that the Chaos Cloak Hammer Technique requires incredibly high strength. Anyone who can swing it ten times in a row is already a formidable blacksmith. Even in the Ministry of Works, which is full of experts, there are only a handful who can swing it more than twenty times. As for those who can swing it more than thirty times, there are only a few veterans in the Ministry of Works."

In a blink of an eye, the thirty-six hammers had been hammered, and the entire iron ingot had become visibly smaller under these thirty-six hammers.

"After removing the impurities, the next step is forging and shaping. Creating the rough blank is still primarily based on strength. When dropping the hammer, make sure to extend it in all directions."

Amidst the clanging sounds, a shield half a person's height gradually took shape. The difference was that there were a dozen or so one-foot-long protrusions on one side of the shield.

"Master, is this a shield? Why does it have so many bumps?" The young disciple fully demonstrated the spirit of asking questions when he doesn't understand.

"Of course, this is a shield. It's the first of its kind, a long-range shield. It's connected to a 1.5-meter-long handle, allowing you to swing the shield directly into the enemy's face. These protrusions provide resistance when the enemy slashes at the shield, preventing damage. They can also suddenly appear and injure the enemy."

Tang Hao was very satisfied with the design, so he explained it a few more times to the young disciples.

"These protrusions need to be sharpened. I'll teach you young disciples a few small things. If you don't understand something, ask me. Don't mess around."

After educating the young disciple, Tang Hao happily left his shift and called Yang Bin to go for a drink.

While Tang and Yang were having fun, the poor Liu Hong was still working on the iron.

Zhao Huan had no idea about the division of labor among the blacksmiths. After returning to the warm room, Zhao Huan spent two hours just processing the memorials sent by the Ministry of Public Administration.

The drought had just passed when floods appeared in the south, the Tatars in the north were ready to make a move, the Japanese pirates along the coast were still a problem, and bandits started to appear within the country.

I spent the whole afternoon reading memorials, and they were all worrying. It would have been fine if I didn't have the cheat code of a time traveler, but the level I was trying to pass was still in difficult mode.

Bai Shizhong was right. Without money, we could not save the country from disasters, train soldiers, or fight against the Japanese pirates. We couldn't even put out the fires that were everywhere, let alone the development of the Song Dynasty.

Reviewing memorials is not the most important thing. With the six ministries and the cabinet, the Song Dynasty will not be in such a bad state.

The most important thing for the Song Dynasty at present is to improve productivity, develop the economy, and ensure that the people have enough food to eat and warm clothes to wear. In order to resist foreign aggression, we must first stabilize the country.

"Huang Banban, send these approved memorials back to the Ministry of Public Security. Also, tell them not to send me memorials that have already been approved by the Cabinet. I will approve them and have the Imperial Household Department affix their seal. If any problems are discovered later due to improper handling, whoever approved them will be held accountable, and I will hold them accountable without mercy."

After a moment's thought, he added, "After I go to the Ministry of Public Administration, I'll go to the Cabinet and tell them that I will review memorials in the morning and study statecraft in the afternoon. I ask the Prime Minister and the gentlemen in the Cabinet to take the trouble to send someone to guide me every afternoon."

After dealing with the memorials and eating a quick meal, Zhao Huan began to make a business plan for coal development on the table.

If the emperor did business personally, he would definitely be opposed by all the ministers in the court, who would say that he was competing with the people for profit, so he had to hide behind others.

It would be best if this business was placed under the Xingxian Palace. Once it became bigger and stronger, it could naturally support the internal transport warehouse.

On the day before he ascended the throne, Zhao Huan had already asked Yuan Zonggao to secretly dispose of the land and manors of the Xingxian Palace in the capital in Wenhua Hall and exchange them for money as the first pot of gold for future development. It seems that everything has been done now.

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