Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 225 The Meeting of Senior Relatives ([-])
Of course, Gao Pragmatism is involved in the military industry, and he is not worried about the system of the court, because the Ming Dynasty has always had a magical practice, that is, if there is no precedent for a certain matter, it is usually proposed by a civil servant, and then Discussed by the cabinet, and finally determined by the emperor whether to follow through.Generally speaking, although the emperor has the right to make decisions, it is difficult to propose it himself-this is not a certain system, but a bit like a tacit understanding between monarchs and ministers.

But since it is a civil servant's "proposal", Gao Yushi is not panicked at all. Whether it is the so-called "Gao Party" that is now in full swing, or Gao Gong's ally "Jin Party", just pick one out and talk about it, and you will be gone. "Formal process", next, as long as any elder of the pavilion agrees, it can be submitted to the emperor's "sacred order".

However, judging from the time, if Emperor Longqing still died young, it would be difficult for Gao Yushi to enter the military industry during the Longqing era.But it doesn't matter, as long as Gao Gong Gu Ming's position as the chief assistant is stabilized, and Zhang Juzheng, who shot a deadly arrow at him in history, is brought down, it will not be a problem to set foot in the military industry again in the Wanli Dynasty.

After all, as the old saying goes, if you can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry, if you blindly spread too many industries, you will get caught if you take too long.

Therefore, he is not in a hurry to leak the design and manufacturing methods of mine products. On the one hand, Yu Dayou is hunting down the Japanese pirates who came from the floating sea. There is indeed a demand for such things as mines. The so-called "industry" in one stroke.

Naval 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 landmines and grenades of the army?
So his eyes were still focused on mines and grenades.Landmines have already been mentioned, so it is not easy not to mention grenades.

Speaking of grenades, Zeng Mian, the governor of the three sides, must also be mentioned.The former governor during the Jiajing period not only invented landmines but also invented time bombs. At this time, he was called "slow gun".

The slow gun is a kind of time bomb created by Zeng Mi when he was guarding the three sides of Shaanxi in the middle of Jiajing period.According to the records in "Binglue usurping news": "Zeng Mian was on the side, and set up a slow-fire method. The cannon is round like a bucket, and the ingenuity of China and Tibet is ingenious. The firing line is not fired until the first or second hour, and the outside is decorated with colorful colors. Those who find it are horrified by the enemy. Gathering and watching, it is said that players are surrounded by walls, and the medicine is released in a short time, causing many deaths and injuries."

It can be seen that this kind of time bomb "slow gun" uses the method of slow-burning disc-shaped leads to "timing". In the era without numerical control detonation, this idea is still no problem.It's just that 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.Gao Yushi, as a fan of time-travel novels, is fully capable of improving gunpowder, but he has always been unprofitable and does not get up early. He is unwilling to take out this big-money business right now, so he only works on ignition devices and fuses. After making some improvements, it was provided to Qi Jiguang.

But no matter what, the high-practice brand new "slow gun" must have a much higher yield than Zeng Mi's elementary slow gun.

The product that Gao Yushi cares more about is the hand grenade.The name of this thing at this time is "Striking Thief God Machine Pomegranate".Gao Shidu felt that the name was a bit procrastinating, so he had already changed the name to "Grenade" - in fact, he originally wanted to play a prank and named it "Palm Thunder"...

The grenade provided by Gao Shishi to Qi Jiguang is also relatively primitive—the reason is that he refused to give up his chance to make a lot of money in the future—a bomb made of pig iron, which is shaped like a pomegranate and the size of a bowl, and its function is similar to a modern grenade.A hole is left on the cartridge case to fill the case with toxic gunpowder and smoke.When in use, it may be thrown to the enemy's formation to explode; or placed on the side of the road, after the enemy's soldiers and horses step on it, the fire in the cannon will be shocked and catch fire, causing an explosion;

Apparently, the "Ghost Striking Gun" not only functions as a hand grenade, but also as a modern gas bomb and smoke bomb.There is also a bomb that functions as both a gas bomb and an incendiary bomb, which is also called "the enemy of ten thousand people" at this time.

This kind of enemy is first made of dry mud to make a hollow spherical shell, and a small hole is opened on the surface of the shell, so that poisonous and incendiary gunpowder can be poured in, and the fire wire is exposed outside, and then it is put into a wooden frame or wooden barrel. to prevent it from breaking.During the battle, the soldiers defending the city lit the fire wire, threw it down the city to explode, poisoned and burned the enemy siege soldiers.

The idea is still very good, but the trouble is still in the fuse. Due to the limited manufacturing level of the fuse, the success rate of explosion or ignition of these things is a bit ugly.Gao Pragmatism does not stop at nothing, and if he replaces the new fuse, he will be considered as a new high-practice 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. It is used for military use, but it is a typical "Liuyang Fireworks" level fuse.Coupled with Gao Wuzhen's refusal to use new gunpowder now, this so-called new fuse is actually not as good as the fuse of Liuyang fireworks in later generations, but it is better than the local products of Daming.

As for why Gao Yushi didn’t give up the messy functions of smoke and burning, it’s not that he doesn’t know the development direction of military grenades in later generations, but because he refuses to use new types of gunpowder. Naturally, it is impossible to have the powerful explosive power of grenades in later generations— - There is no solution, so let's make do with it for now.

Another "contribution" of Gao Yu in terms of mines, mines and grenades is the ignition device.

Let’s not talk about manually igniting the fuse. I don’t like it because of its high practicality, and I’m not interested in doing it. After all, after replacing the new fuse, a small flame can be ignited. What is there to say?He mainly made what he called "steel wheel ignition device".

In fact, this kind of device was created by Qi Jiguang himself in the original history. The method of use and the method of production are included in the manuscript and picture album sent to Qi Jiguang for the first time.

The method of laying out and detonating this thing is: dig a deep pit on the passage along the Great Wall, bury the mine in the pit, and place a wooden box next to the mine, put the explosives of the mine into the box, and put gunpowder at the bottom of the box. With a steel wheel firing device with a flint next to the wheel.A fuze is passed out from the box through the bamboo tube. One section of the line controls the rotation of the steel wheel, and the other section is controlled by the mine guards, or tied to the ground across the passage. Pulled by mine guards), the steel wheel rotates, rubs against the flint, ignites the gunpowder at the bottom of the box, and ignites the mine fuze.

Since this thing was originally created by Qi Jiguang himself in history, he may have some preliminary ideas now, so after Gao Yushi directly presented the finished product and plan in front of him, Qi Jiguang of course clapped the case and applauded—it’s really a hero who sees the same thing. !

From Gao Yushi's point of view, the above-mentioned progress is really just a "small step forward", but in Qi Jiguang's view, it is already a "big step forward in civilization"-eh, why are these two sentences so familiar?

No matter, anyway, it is because of this that Qi Jiguang praised high pragmatism as a flower.

But Qi Jiguang didn't boast so much just because of these three types of "thunder", because the real highlight is the latter two categories.

(End of this chapter)