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 with it. Generally speaking, although the emperor has the power to make decisions, it is difficult for him to propose it himself - this is not a system, but something like a tacit understanding between the emperor and his ministers.
But since it was a civil official's "proposal", Gao Pragmatic was not at all panicked. 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 one of them to come up and talk about it, and then he would be gone. "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 Gu Ming's position as chief assistant is stabilized and Zhang Juzheng, who shot a fatal cold arrow at him in history, is overthrown, it won't 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, you will be in trouble if you take too big a step.
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 there be? Can it be compared with the Army's landmines and grenades?
So his eyes were still focused on landmines and grenades. Landmines have just been mentioned, so it’s hard not to mention grenades.
Speaking of grenades, we should also mention the trilateral governor Zeng Xian. Governor Zeng during the Jiajing period not only invented landmines but also invented time bombs. His name at this time was "Slow Cannon".
The slow artillery is a time bomb invented by Zeng Xian during the middle period of Jiajing period when he was guarding the three sides of Shaanxi. According to the "Military Strategy Uprising": "Zeng Mian was on the side and used slow artillery. The cannon was as round as a bucket, hiding ingenuity. The line of fire was not launched until one or two hours, and was decorated with five colors on the outside. If the enemy found it, it would be regarded as a foreign object. Those who gathered to watch and pass the news were surrounded by walls, and in a moment the medicine was released, and many people were killed or injured."
It can be seen that this kind of "slow cannon" time bomb uses a slow-burning disk-shaped fuse to "time". In an era without CNC detonation, this idea is still no problem. However, the gunpowder technology at this time is still relatively rough, so there may be some problems such as dumb guns and slightly larger explosion time errors. As a lover of time-travel novels, Gao Pragmatic is fully capable of improving gunpowder, but he has always been unprofitable and does not get up early. However, he is unwilling to take out this lucrative business now, so he only spends money on ignition devices and fuses. After making some improvements, they were provided to Qi Jiguang.
But no matter what, the new Gao pragmatic brand "slow cannon" must have a much higher yield rate than Zeng Mian's junior slow cannon.
The product that Gao Pragmatic cares more about is the grenade. The name of this thing at this time is "The God of Thieves Pomegranate". Gao Shidu felt that the name was a bit procrastinating, so he changed it to "Grenade" - in fact, he originally wanted to play a prank and named it "Palm Thunder"...
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. A hole is left in the cartridge case so that poisonous gunpowder and smoke-generating agent can be loaded into the case. 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 it, the fire in the gun will be shocked and ignite, causing an explosion; or it may poison the enemy and seal his throat or blind him.
Obviously, the "thief-killing machine grenade" not only functions as a hand grenade, but also has the function of modern gas bombs and smoke bombs. There is also a bomb that functions as both 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 to prevent it from breaking. During the battle, the defenders lit the fire lines, threw them under the city and exploded, 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 never stops doing anything, even if he replaces the new fuse with Gao Pragmatic's new grenade - even this so-called new fuse was only figured out when he was playing with fireworks when he was a child, and it will not be enough for future generations. Used for military purposes, it is a typical "Liuyang fireworks" level fuse. In addition, Gao Wuchen is now unwilling to use new gunpowder. This so-called new fuse is actually not as good as the Liuyang fireworks 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 firing device.
Let’s not talk about manually igniting the fuse. I don’t like that thing and have no interest in it. After all, after installing the new fuse, a small flame can ignite it. What is there to say? He mainly engaged in the so-called "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 worked tirelessly to "copy" 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 laying and detonating this thing is to dig a deep pit on the path along the Great Wall, bury the mine in the pit, and place a wooden box next to the mine, pass the mine's explosive information into the box, and put gunpowder at the bottom of the box. It has a steel wheel ignition device with a flint beside the wheel. A fuse is passed from the box through the bamboo tube. One section of the wire controls the rotation of the steel wheel, and the other section is controlled by the mine guard soldiers, or tied to the ground across the passage. When the enemy's horses and horses pass through the passage and step on the fuse (you can also Pulled by the mine guard soldiers), the steel wheel rotates, rubs the flint, ignites the gunpowder at the bottom of the box, and ignites 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. !
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 Gao Pragmatism as a flower.
But Qi Jiguang is not only praising these three types of "thunder" so harshly, because the real highlight is the latter two categories.
