Gao pragmatic worries didn't happen in the end.

Although Zhu Yijun is young, he also knows the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, and civil officials can tolerate the appearance of a prince's companion under special conditions, that is because the companion reading is also considered a civil official, but it is absolutely impossible for them to agree to the prince to "run the craftsman's business" - how can this kind of cheap industry let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince get his hands dirty?

Therefore, although Zhu Yijun was full of interest, he only hinted that Gao Pragmatic could invest more manpower, material and financial resources in this matter, and even set up a small workshop to see if the production of firearms was really unable to stabilize the quality.

For this reason, he even hinted that if you are worried that someone is looking for trouble, you can put this small workshop under the banner of the Ordnance Bureau or the War Bureau, so that even if it is a subordinate institution of the Inner Court, even the civil officials can't talk about it - the production of ordnance by the Inner Court is one of the ancestral systems!

As for the approval and other procedural issues, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince swore that if he really couldn't do it, he could go to his emperor's father, and I believe that he should be accommodating.

For Gao Pragmatic, this is of course an unexpected surprise, at least before Gao Gong legalizes the private military industry from the system or at least pilots it, Zhu Yijun's idea is still quite useful. At the very least, with such a cover, he can now put up the basic shelf of the musket industry first.

However, this is easy to say, but it is very complicated and even a little difficult to do.

First of all, in addition to a Gao Yi, Gao Zheng has no talent reserves in firearms manufacturing, and Gao Yi himself is better at the manufacture of explosive weapons, such as grenades and mines.

Now Gao Yi is still studying the design drawings of the musket that Gao Pragmatic gave him, and it is hard to say when he will be able to eat it thoroughly - of course, this is no way, although Gao Pragmatic knows a lot of things, but after all, he is not proficient in everything, the design drawings he gave only have a general structure, but there are no precise design parameters, and all the exact standards need Gao Yi to study, explore, and test by himself.

This is only the lack of talent reserves in the "technical engineers", and even more so in the production of craftsmen, which are completely starting from scratch. Not long ago, Sanshenyuan reported that more than 20 craftsmen had been recruited, but only five of them had experience in the production of firearms, and the rest were only experienced as blacksmiths, so it can be seen that this is certainly not something that can be done overnight.

Gao pragmatic thought about it and felt that from the current point of view, if he had to take a shortcut, he could only start poaching people from the official workshop of the imperial court. But going to the government-run workshop to dig people is not a casual thing, at least even if the third bureau of the inner court has the support of Zhu Yijun, Gao Shishi does not plan to dig - this kind of thing is too sensitive, he doesn't want to violate the ban.

That is to say, people can only be poached in local yamen and local guard offices. Thinking about it carefully, Gao Pragmatic simply gave up the local yamen, after all, civil officials are relatively difficult to deal with, in case of encountering a few people who are full of food and support, it will be more annoying to make a fuss about this matter.

Gao Pragmatic was a secretary in his previous life, after all, he was a relatively cautious person, and he always tried to avoid the troubles that he could avoid, but he couldn't avoid them...... Again.

In the end, it is still easy to run the local health office, these generals have a low political status, and in their eyes, in addition to the official identity of the prince's companion, the key is "the nephew of the old Gaoge". I think that Liu Xian was the chief soldier of a town, but he was violently beaten by a Tongzhou Tongzhi, and he was so embarrassed that he almost lost his official position, and the protégés and disciples of the old Gao Ge were all over the world, and there were even many people in Kedao.

Therefore, it is basically unlikely that the local health center will dare to play tricks with Gao Pragmatic, and in line with the principle of pinching persimmons to pick up the soft, Gao Pragmatic has made up his mind to poach people from the local health center.

However, the time is a bit unlucky, and now he is about to return to his hometown for the exam, so he can't find time to do this matter himself, so he sent his subordinates to rush to Sanshenyuan, and told Sanshenyuan that he can find a way in Xuanda Sanzhen and Jiliao under his own banner.

In addition, you can also find a way to Jingying, but there is no need for people from Sanshenyuan to come forward in Jingying, and it is better to hand it over to Wei Ximin - he is in charge of Jinghua soap sales, and the relationship with the nobles of Jingying is so good that he is so good that he can mix oil.

As for his visit to Shinsai today, he has other things to do.

His cousin Gao Guoyan, who was in charge of the accounts of the "financial director", took the initiative to report to him after learning the news that Gao Pragmatic had returned to Beijing from Datong.

At three o'clock, Gao Guoyan rushed to see Xinzhai, Gao pragmatically and enthusiastically asked him if he had breakfast, if not, Jianxinzhai arranged a chef here......

As a result, Gao Guoyan waved his hand and said that he had eaten casually on the road, and today is short of time, so don't delay in these things, let's get down to business.

Gao was stunned when he heard this, and asked, "Isn't it so busy?" ”

"Not really?" Gao Guoyan stared at him with wide eyes, pointed to his nose and said, "Your brother is so busy that I only sleep three hours a day now!" If I read the book of sages with such care, although the champion does not dare to say, I don't think there is much problem with Henan Jieyuan! ”

Gao Shicheng laughed and said, "Second brother, if you are really willing to study separately, how dare the younger brother delay your future?" ”

Gao Guoyan rolled his eyes and pouted: "Don't come to this set, if I am willing to study, will I come to you?" No matter what you say in Nanjing, the style of study is much better than that in the north, so I won't study in the south and go back to Henan to take the exam? Do you know that if you can raise people in Suzhou and Hangzhou, when you get to our Henan, almost all have the opportunity to get Xie Yuan - the South List and the North List are not the same thing. ”

Gao pragmatic smiled: "I naturally know that Jiangnan has a strong academic style, but I don't care about the things in the south and north lists, anyway, I am from Henan, and I don't have to go to Nanzhili to take the exam, what are I afraid of?" I know you want to say that being born in the South List is more faceless than the North List in the eyes of outsiders, but I don't care about that, for me, as long as I can pass the exam, it's over. ”

Well, the score is not high, just pass...... Anyway, Gao Shiyu didn't plan to be Huang Guan or Shang, this kind of thing not only has to be level, but also lucky, so no one can say. So his goal is to be able to get into the jinshi, of course, if possible, it's better to mix up with the jishi.

"I don't care what you test! Don't dwell on these things. Gao Guoyan put away his smile and said, "There is some trouble over there in Kaiping, you have to make preparations, it is best to talk to the third uncle." ”

"Kaiping?" Gao Shishi sighed in his heart, stared at Gao Guoyan, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”