Of course Gao Pragmatic is involved in the military industry, and he is not worried about the court's institutional problems, because the Ming Dynasty has always had a magical practice, that is, if there is no precedent for something to be followed, it usually has to be proposed by a certain civil servant, and then
The cabinet will discuss it, and the emperor will finally decide whether to comply. Generally speaking, although the emperor has the right to make decisions, it is difficult for him to propose it himself - this is not a certain system, but more like a tacit understanding between the emperor and his ministers.
But since it was a civil official's "proposal", Gao Pragmatic did not panic at all. Whether it was the so-called "Gao Party" that was in the ascendant now, or Gao Gong's ally "Jin Party", he could just pick anyone to come up and talk about it, and then leave.
"Formal process", next, as long as any of the pavilion elders agrees, it can be submitted to the emperor's "Holy Judgment".
However, judging from the time, if Emperor Longqing would still die young, it would be difficult for Gao Pragmatic to enter the military industry during the Longqing era. But it doesn't matter, as long as Gao Gong and Gu Ming's position as the chief assistant is stabilized, and then history will be used to treat him.
Zhang Juzheng was overthrown by a fatal cold arrow, and it would not be a problem for him to get involved in the military industry in the Wanli Dynasty.
After all, as the old saying goes, if you are too hasty to eat hot tofu, if you blindly expand too many industries, if you take too big a step, you will be in trouble.
Therefore, he is not worried about the leakage of the design and manufacturing methods of mine products. On the one hand, Yu Dayou is killing Japanese pirates floating in the sea. There is indeed a demand for things like mines. On the other hand, he does not care about this.
The so-called "industry".
Mines, as a weapon that is used for pure defense most of the time, have limitations no matter how useful they are. How many can be produced in a year? How much profit can they make? Can they be compared with the army's landmines and grenades?
So his eyes were still focused on landmines and grenades. Landmines had been mentioned just now, so it was hard not to mention grenades.
When talking about grenades, we should also mention the trilateral governor Zeng Xian. During the Jiajing period, this governor Zeng not only invented landmines but also invented time bombs. At this time, he was called "slow cannon".
The slow artillery is a kind of time bomb invented by Zeng Mian when he was guarding the three sides of Shaanxi in the middle period of Jiajing. According to "Bingluo Wen": "Zeng Mian was on the side and used the slow artillery method. The cannon is as round as a bucket, and the hidden ingenuity is ingenious. The firing line
It was not sent out until one or two o'clock, and the outside was decorated with five colors. If the enemy picked it up, it would be regarded as a foreign object. Those who gathered to watch and pass it on were surrounded by walls, and the medicine was released in a moment, causing many casualties."
It can be seen that this kind of time bomb "slow gun" uses a slow-burning disk-shaped fuse to "time". In the era without CNC detonation, this idea was still no problem. However, the gunpowder technology at this time was still relatively rough.
, so there may be some problems such as some dumb guns and a slightly larger error in explosion time. As a lover of time travel novels, Gao Pragmatic is fully capable of improving gunpowder, but he has always been unprofitable and did not get up early. This business of making a lot of money did not work for him.
He refused to take it out now, so he only made some improvements on the ignition device and fuse and provided it to Qi Jiguang.
But in any case, the new "slow gun" of the Gao pragmatic brand must have a much higher yield rate than Zeng Mian's primary slow gun.
The product that Gao Pragmatic cares more about is the grenade. The name of this thing at this time is "Grenade". Gao Shidu felt that this name was a bit procrastinating, so he changed it to "Grenade"
"In fact, he originally wanted to play a prank and name it "Thunder in the Palm"...
The grenade Gao pragmatic provided to Qi Jiguang was also relatively primitive - the reason was that he refused to give up the opportunity to make a lot of money in the future - it was a bomb made of pig iron, shaped like a pomegranate and about the size of a bowl, and its function was similar to a modern hand grenade.
There is a hole in the shell so that toxic gunpowder and smoke-producing agent can be filled into the shell. When used, it may be thrown into the enemy's position and explode; or it may be placed on the roadside. After the enemy's horses and horses trample on it, the fire in the gun will be shocked and ignite, causing an explosion; or it may cause an explosion.
After the enemy is poisoned, his throat is sealed and his eyes are blinded.
Obviously, the "thief-killing magic grenade" not only functions as a hand grenade, but also functions as a modern poison gas bomb and smoke bomb. There is also a bomb that functions as a poison gas bomb and an incendiary bomb. At this time, it is also called "the enemy of ten thousand people."
This kind of enemy is first made of dry mud into a hollow spherical shell. A small hole is opened on the shell surface to pour poisonous and flammable gunpowder, and the fire line is outside, and then it is put into a wooden frame or barrel.
In order to prevent it from breaking into pieces. During the battle, the defenders lit the fire line and threw it under the city to explode, poisoning and burning the enemy siege soldiers.
The idea is still very good, but the trouble still lies in the fuse. Due to the limited manufacturing level of the fuse, the success rate of these things exploding or igniting is a bit ugly. Gao Pragmatic kept doing it and changed to a new one.
Even if the fuse was his new Gao pragmatic brand grenade - even this so-called new fuse was only figured out when he was playing with fireworks when he was a child. It would not be enough for military use in later generations. It is a typical "
"Liuyang Firecrackers" level fuse. In addition, Gao Wushi is now unwilling to use new gunpowder. This so-called new fuse is actually not as good as the Liuyang Firecrackers fuse of later generations, but it is just a little better than the local products of the Ming Dynasty.
As for why Gao Pragmatic didn't give up those messy smoke, burning and other functions, it's not that he doesn't know the development direction of future military grenades, but that he refuses to use new gunpowder. Naturally, it is impossible to have as powerful an explosion as later generations of grenades -
—There is no solution to this, so just make do with it for now.
Another "contribution" Gao Pinggong made to landmines, mines and grenades was the ignition device.
Let’s not talk about the manual ignition of the fuse. I don’t like that thing and have no interest in doing it. After all, after installing the new fuse, a small flame can ignite. What is worth saying? He mainly did the so-called
The "steel wheel ignition device".
In fact, this kind of device was invented by Qi Jiguang himself in the original history, but in the eighth year of Wanli, Gao Pragmatic was tireless in "copying" people and got this thing out before Qi Jiguang, and also directly copied it on the Internet.
The method of use and production were included in the calligraphy and painting album given to Qi Jiguang for the first time.
The method of setting up and detonating this thing is to dig deep pits along the Great Wall, bury the mines in the pits, place a wooden box next to the mines, pass the mine's explosive information into the box, and put gunpowder at the bottom of the box.
There is a steel wheel ignition device with flints installed next to the wheel. A fuse passes through the bamboo tube from the box. One section of the line controls the rotation of the steel wheel, and the other section is controlled by the mine guards, or is tied to the ground across the passage.
When the enemy soldiers and horses pass through the passage and step on the fuse (it can also be pulled by the mine guard soldiers), the steel wheel will rotate, rub the flint, ignite the gunpowder at the bottom of the box, and ignite the mine fuse.
Since this thing was originally created by Qi Jiguang himself in history, he may have some preliminary ideas now, so after Gao Pragmatic directly brought out the finished product and plan in front of him, Qi Jiguang of course applauded it - it is really a hero who sees the same thing.
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The above-mentioned progress, in Gao Pragmatic's view, is really just a "small step forward", but in Qi Jiguang's view, it is already a "big step forward for civilization" - Hey, why are these two sentences so familiar?
No matter, it's because of this that Qi Jiguang praised his pragmatism as a flower.
But Qi Jiguang is not just praising these three kinds of "thunders" so harshly, because the real highlights are the latter two categories.