Of course, Gao pragmatic has to involve the military industry, and he is not worried about the system of the imperial court, because the Ming Dynasty has always had a magical convention, that is, if there is no precedent to follow, a certain civil servant usually has to put forward it, and then the cabinet will discuss it, and finally the emperor will decide whether to do it. Generally speaking, although the emperor has the right to decide, it is difficult to propose it himself—this is not some kind of system, but rather a tacit agreement between the monarch and the courtier.

But since it is a civil official "proposal", Gao Pragmatic 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, even if you go through the "regular process", then, as long as any of the cabinet elders agrees, it can be submitted to the emperor for "holy ruling".

However, according to the time, if Emperor Longqing will still die young, it will be difficult for Gao Pragmatic to enter the military industry in the Longqing era. But it doesn't matter, as long as you stabilize the position of Gao Gong Gu Ming's first assistant, and then bring down Zhang Juzheng, who shot a deadly cold arrow at him in history, it will not be in the way of getting involved in the military industry in the Wanli Dynasty.

After all, as the old saying goes, if you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, you will blindly spread out too many industries, and you will get eggs if you take a big step.

On the one hand, Yu Dayou's side went around to exterminate the Japanese who came from the floating sea, and there was indeed a demand for such things as mines, and on the other hand, he didn't care about the so-called "industry" that he hadn't even skimmed out.

Mines, as a weapon that is used for pure defense most of the time, have limitations no matter how useful they are, how much can they be produced in a year? How much profit can I make? Can it be compared to the army's mines and grenades?

So his eyes were still focused on mines and grenades. Landmines have already been mentioned, so it's not good not to mention grenades.

Speaking of grenades, it is necessary to mention the trilateral governor Zeng Mill. During the Jiajing period, the governor of Zeng not only invented landmines but also invented time bombs, which at this time was called "slow cannon".

The slow cannon is a time bomb created by Zeng Mill in the middle of the Jiajing period when he was guarding the three sides of Shaanxi. According to the record of "The Usurpation of the Soldiers": "Zeng milled on the side and slowed down the artillery method. The cannon is round like a bucket, and the middle is clever. The line of fire is not sent until one or two o'clock, and it is decorated with colorful colors. Those who are found by the enemy are horrified by foreign objects. The crowd of people gathered to watch the rumors and spread the wall, and the medicine was shalved, and many people were killed and injured."

It can be seen that this kind of time bomb "slow gun" adopts the method of slow-burning disc-shaped lead to "timing", and in the era of no 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 squibs and slightly larger explosion time errors. Gao Pragmatic, as a lover of novels, is fully capable of improving gunpowder, but he has never been profitable and does not get up early, but he refuses to take out this lucrative business now, so he only made some improvements in the lighter device and fuse, and provided it to Qi Jiguang.

But in any case, the new "slow gun" of the high-pragmatism brand must be much higher than the yield rate of the primary slow gun of Zeng Milling.

And one of the products that Gao pragmatic himself cares about more is grenades. The name of this thing at this time was "Thief Killer Grenade". Gao Shiyu felt that this name was really a bit of a drag, and he had already renamed it "Grenade" directly - in fact, he originally wanted to play a prank and name it "Palm Thunder......

The grenade that Gao pragmatic provided to Qi Jiguang was also relatively primitive - the reason was that he refused to give up his opportunity to make a lot of money in the future - it was a bomb cast from pig iron, which was shaped like a pomegranate, the size of a bowl, and its effect was similar to that of a modern grenade. A hole was left in the shell to allow the case to be filled with toxic gunpowder and fuming agents. When used, it may explode when thrown into the enemy line; or placed on the side of the road, after the enemy soldiers and horses trample on it, the fire in the gun is shocked and ignites, causing an explosion; or poison the enemy and seal his throat and be blind.

Obviously, the "thief magic machine howitzer" not only has the role of a grenade, but also has the role of modern gas bombs and smoke bombs. There is also a kind of bomb that acts as both a poison gas bomb and an incendiary bomb, which is also called "ten thousand enemies" at this time.

This is a hollow spherical shell made of dry mud, with a small hole in the shell surface to fill it with poisonous and incendiary gunpowder, and then put it into a wooden frame or barrel to prevent it from breaking. During battle, the defenders set fire on fire and threw it under the city to explode, poisoning and burning enemy siege soldiers.

The idea is still very good, but the trouble is still in the fuse, due to the limited level of fuse manufacturing, the explosion or ignition of these things, the success rate is a bit ugly. Gao pragmatic does not do two endlessly, and changes the new fuse, even if he is a high-pragmatism brand new grenade - even this so-called new fuse is only pondered when he played with fireworks when he was a child, and it is not enough to be used for military use in later generations, but it is a typical "Liuyang firecracker" level fuse. Coupled with Gao Pragmatism's refusal to use new gunpowder now, this so-called new fuse is actually not as good as the Liuyang flower cannon fuse in later generations, but it is just a little better than the current Ming native products.

As for why Gao Pragmatic didn't give up those messy smoke, burning and other functions, it was not that he didn't know the development direction of military grenades in later generations, but that he refused to use new gunpowder, and naturally it was impossible to have the powerful explosive power of grenades in later generations - this is incomprehensible, so it's good to make do with it now.

Another "contribution" of Gao Pragmatism in the field of mines, mines and grenades is the firing device.

Let's not talk about manually lighting the lead, that thing is highly pragmatic and doesn't look down on, and I'm not interested in it, after all, after replacing the new lead, a little flame can be ignited, what is worth saying? He mainly engaged in the so-called "steel drum ignition device".

In fact, this kind of device was made by Qi Jiguang himself in the original history, but in the eighth year of Wanli, Gao pragmatic "copied" people tirelessly, and got this thing out before Qi Jiguang, and directly presented the use method and manufacturing method in the manuscript album given to Qi Jiguang last time.

The method of laying and detonating this thing is to dig a deep pit along the passage road of the Great Wall, bury the mine in the pit, and place a wooden box next to the mine, and put the medicine and information of the mine into the box, and put gunpowder and a steel wheel ignition device at the bottom of the box, and a flint is placed next to the wheel. A fuse is passed 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 tied to the ground objects across the path, when the enemy soldiers and horses step on the lead through the passage (it can also be pulled by the mine guards), the steel wheel rotates, rubs the flint, lights the gunpowder at the bottom of the box, and ignites the mine fuse.

Since this thing was originally made by Qi Jiguang himself in history, he may have some preliminary ideas now, so after Gao Pragmatic directly took out the finished product and plan in front of him, Qi Jiguang applauded the case - it is really the same as the hero!

The above progress, in Gao Shishi's view, is really just a "small step forward", but in Qi Jiguang's view, it is already a "big step forward in civilization" - hey, why are these two sentences so familiar?

No matter, anyway, it is because of this that Qi Jiguang will praise Gao pragmatic as a flower.

But Qi Jiguang is not only praised so ruthlessly because of these three kinds of "thunder", because the real highlight is the latter two categories.