Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2274: Economy and Party Struggle () Ginger is old and spicy

At this time, Gao Pragmatic was no longer at the racecourse, but returned to Jianxinzhai after seeing off the emperor, and met Gao Jiong at Tingxuexuan in the southeast of the main building complex of Jianxinzhai.

When Gao Jiong entered the courtyard, he saw a plaque and couplet with what seemed to be a new title hanging on the doorpost of Tingxue Pavilion. It read in gold letters on a black background, "Xuxuan lies down and listens to the snow, and is only indifferent to the pond."

He didn't pay attention at first, but suddenly he felt something was wrong. After taking a closer look, I realized that the couplet didn't seem to be written by the master. However, I had indeed seen the handwriting, but at this moment I couldn't remember whose handwriting it was.

At this time, it was not time to wonder whose hand the plaque was written. Gao Jiong abandoned his distracting thoughts and entered the hall. He saw Gao Pingshi sitting in the hall with no one else around, obviously waiting for him. Gao Jiong did not dare to hesitate and hurried forward and kowtowed to see him.

"Gao Jiong has met the master and asked him to be kind to you."

This is the characteristic of Jinghua. Even though Gao Jiong is already the president of Jinghua Ordnance Industry, and his father is a close confidant of Gao Pragmatic, both his father and son are "sons of the family" of the Gao family, that is, their ancestors have been servants of the Gao family for generations, so It is only right to pay homage to the master when you see him.

Don't think that his status is low just because he sees Gao Pragmatic and needs to pay homage. In fact, this is completely wrong. This is just like the Manchu ministers in the Qing Dynasty who saw the emperor calling himself a "slave", while the Han ministers saw the emperor calling himself a "minister". The former seems humble and lowly, but actually represents closeness; the latter seems to retain dignity, but actually represents alienation.

What is the nature of the power system? The closer a person is to the core of power, the better they can control or exploit power.

After Jinghua became bigger, there were many shopkeepers, supervisors and even presidents with foreign surnames. When they met Gao Jingjing, they often only needed to give him a gift. Gao Jingjing would often "forgive the gift" in advance, but this did not mean that their status was as high as that of Gao Jiong. These families who need to kneel down to see their master have a good son.

In fact, Gao Pragmatic has already had an internal policy. If a family member has a child or a servant with the surname "Gao" has made certain achievements and reached a certain status, he can apply to change his original surname back. But what is the reality? Those who changed their surnames back did not even get 10%.

Why is this? Of course, it is because there are greater advantages to continuing to use the surname Gao than to change back to the original surname! Think about it, why did the Qing Dynasty call it "raising the flag" when Han officials were admitted to the banner? This is the same principle.

Gao pragmatic glanced at Gao Jiong, smiled slightly, raised his hand, pointed to the chair on the left side of his head, and said: "Get up, sit down."

"Thank you, Master, for the seat." Gao Jiong kowtowed again, then stood up, sat down with half of his buttocks in the position designated by Gao Pragmatic, and at the same time leaned forward slightly, as if listening to the instructions.

Gao pragmatically said: "I came to you because I have a secret to discuss, so I asked someone to bring you the tea first. Check to see if it's cool. If it's cool, we're not in a hurry. I'll ask someone to change it for you. It’s not too late to talk again.”

Gao Jiong quickly looked at his hand, and sure enough, there was already a Yu porcelain tea cup. He quickly touched it with his hand, and without feeling the heat or cold at all, he replied: "It doesn't matter, the heat and coolness are just right. Just tell me what you have to say, I respectfully listen to Jin Xun." [Note: I should have said this here. "Respectfully listen to Jun Xun", but unfortunately the Wanli Dynasty wanted to avoid Emperor Zhu Yijun's taboo, so they had to change it to Jin Xun. ]

Gao Pragmatic could also see that he didn't care about the cold tea or the hot tea at all, but this was the proper meaning of the question, so he didn't say much, and just said: "You are the president of Jinghua Ordnance Industry. I just mentioned to the emperor that Wanli What do you think of the fact that part of the Type III production was handed over to the Royal Arsenal?”

Gao Jiong lowered his head slightly and replied: "The master has his orders, and the little one will naturally follow his orders."

This answer seemed to be slightly beyond Gao Youshi's expectations. He stared at Gao Jiong for two or three breaths, and said again: "I am asking what you think, not whether you want to disobey."

It depends on how the listener interprets this. Anyway, Gao Jiong was shocked. Although he resented his master for handing over such important technology to others, he really didn't dare to have the idea of ​​"disobedience".

Gao Jiong said quickly: "I don't quite understand why I did this, but I know that I must have my reasons, so I said that as long as I have my life, I will naturally do it."

Oh, that's it?

Gao pragmatic narrowed his eyes, pondered for a moment, and suddenly said: "What else did your father say to you?"

"Ah?" Gao Jiong was shocked and subconsciously looked up at Gao Pingshi. Looking at each other like this, he saw that the master's indifferent eyes were like the moon shining on a clear river, illuminating everything.

He didn't dare to bet on what the master knew or guessed, so he could only suppress the fear that made his hair stand on end and replied: "Hui, if you want to answer the master... my father said that he learned a saying from the master, 'Li Ke' We can work together but not alone; we can work with a few but not with many; if we are alone, we will lose; if we work together, we will be defeated."

Therefore, he believed that the master did this to ensure that the Beijing Military Industry would last forever, and that the master would summon me after sending the emperor back to the palace to explain the reason behind this. So he stopped me and asked me to wait aside for the master to summon me.

This time Gao Pingshi believed it, because it was consistent with Gao Mo's usual approach.

"It's true that having an elder in the family is like having a treasure." Gao Pragmatic nodded in approval, and then said: "It will be of great benefit to you to listen to your father's teachings more in the future." "Yes, I understand, sir, please rest assured." In fact, What Gao Jiong wanted to know more at this moment was another thing, but he didn't dare to ask.

Fortunately, Gao Pragmatic took the initiative and said: "Your father said I would tell you the reason, which is right... The reason is that I only promised the emperor to hand over the production technology of Wanli III Type to the Royal Arsenal."

"Ah?" Gao Jiong wondered: "I'm sorry for my stupidity..."

"I mean, I only promised to teach them gun production technology." Seeing that he didn't understand, Gao Pragmatic added: "I didn't say I would also teach them bullet production."

"Ah!" Gao Jiong finally understood this time and clapped his thigh in excitement: "How clever, sir! The biggest technological innovation of Wanli Type 3 is not gun production. After all, rifling has been roughly used in Wanli Type 2 (referring to Wanli Type 2). Very shallow straight rifling), now it is easy to change to spiral rifling by using a newly designed rifling machine, which is not too difficult.

The biggest technological innovation of Wanli III is bullet technology. This shape and structure, as well as material selection and processing, are the real core essence of a rifled gun! As long as the bullet technology is in the hands of Jinghua Ordnance Industry, it doesn't matter if the Royal Arsenal can produce the Wanli III Type. Without Jinghua Ordnance Industry supplying bullets, producing more guns will be like burning fire sticks! "

The Wanli Type 3 is essentially a Mini rifle that can be produced by the current technological level of the Ming Dynasty, and the key technology of the Mini rifle actually lies in the Mini bullet.

The shape of the mini bomb is cylindrical, with a tapered front end and a concave cavity at the back. There is a wooden plug in the concave cavity. When the Minie bullet is loaded into the gun bore, the diameter of its cone-shaped bullet is slightly smaller than the diameter of the gun bore, making loading easy.

There is a conical cavity at the bottom of its warhead, and a wooden plug blocks the bottom of the hole. When firing, the gas presses the cork into the cavity, forcing the bottom of the projectile to expand and close to the rifling, sealing the gap between the warhead and the barrel, preventing the gas from leaking, and allowing the warhead to rotate at high speed under the pressure of the rifling.

This design solved the problems of difficulty in loading ammunition for front-loading rifled guns and low range accuracy of smoothbore guns, making the Minie rifle once a more important decisive factor on the battlefield than cannons (although it was not for a long time).

However, the manufacture of Mini bombs is difficult - at least under current technical conditions. Because of the tightness requirements, the processing technology requirements are very high. If Gao Jingshi had not unified a number of weights and measures within Jinghua many years ago, such as meters, decimeters, centimeters, millimeters, etc., and insisted on the development of vernier calipers within Jinghua, otherwise there would be no Mini bullets at all.

This in turn means that except for Jinghua, there is currently no other company in Ming Dynasty that can manufacture mini bombs. Even for Jinghua, making mini bombs requires a large number of skilled craftsmen - after all, it is really a pipe dream to ask for mechanized automatic processing these days.

Gao Jiong is indeed proficient in technology but not conspiratorial. As soon as Gao Pragmatic talks about technology, he immediately understands it. At this time, Gao Pingshi saw that he fully understood, so he stopped explaining more and just asked: "I've told you the truth, do you have any questions?"

Gao Jiong said hurriedly: "No more, no more. The master is wise, and the little one is beyond his reach."

"Okay, you go ahead." Gao Pingshi waved his hand, and suddenly added: "Come and see your father more when you have time. He is alone with Xin Zhai, and he also wants to see you more."

"Yes, I understand." Gao Jiong replied, then hesitated and said, "Master, I have an unkind request, I don't know whether to say it or not."

"Go ahead."

"The younger one has two sons and one daughter..."

"I know, send it to Jian Xinzhai." Gao Yingshi immediately smiled and said: "What kind of ungrateful request should I take? Jian Xinzhai's expenses are all directly paid to the head office's accounts. There is no cap on the amount, but I am not afraid of these three extra "Double chopsticks."

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!" Gao Jiong was really overjoyed. Although Xinzhai was not the Nanning Marquis Mansion in the capital, it was indeed the "Beijing Headquarters". Being able to send your children to meet Xinzhai means that you have a great chance of meeting highly pragmatic children from time to time. As long as our children can have a good relationship with the young master and the young ladies, it will be a big advantage in the future... Speaking of which, this matter has been done too late. It would have been even better if I had had the opportunity to send the children here earlier and have a good relationship with the young master.

But it doesn't matter. Although the eldest young master has gone south to lead the troops in the Western Expedition, judging from his age, he should not stay in southern Xinjiang as president. He will come back after the Western Expedition... there is still a chance.

With excitement, Gao Jiong said goodbye to his master and left Tingxuexuan. Originally, he thought about going back quickly to implement the tasks assigned by his master, but after thinking about it, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart and quickly turned a corner to find his father, Gao Mo.

The old man is right, my old man is indeed a bit powerful, I'd better go to him for advice first.
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