How to make a budget, that is another big article, Gao pragmatic continued to push back as a matter of course, and the reason is very simple: there is no hurry in this matter, because at the moment he doesn't even know whether to tell Gao Guoyan about his next plan.

After all, although the two are cousins, they really haven't had much contact before, according to the habit of high pragmatism, for people who can't be fully trusted, then they must adhere to the principle of "meeting people and talking about three points, not all of them", at least they have to observe for a period of time before deciding.

Will the entire Chinese civilization sink into the sea of misery in a few decades, to put it mildly, it is almost all on his shoulders alone, the burden is so heavy, he can't hide things in his heart?

Next, Gao Pragmatic began to assign work tasks to Gao Ming. However, Gao Jue's affairs are easy to handle, he originally planned to directly let Gao Jue be Gao Mo's assistant at the earliest, but after going to Kaiping, he had other thoughts and planned to arrange for him to go to Qi Jiguang's side for "further study".

It just so happened that Gao Cheng was originally a cronie under Gao Jie's uncle, and he had studied for a few years, although he did not have a serious reputation, but he was also a child, so Gao Pragmatic arranged for him to go to Qi Jiguang's side to "accompany and record the essence of Qi Du's military training".

Of course, since Gao Jue has no official status, his nominal task is to supervise the training of the Gao family. As for Qi Jiguang, I believe that with this Kaiping secret meeting, it is impossible to refuse.

Although Gao Jue was a little surprised by this, he did not reject it, after all, Qi Jiguang was extremely famous, and in Gao Jue's opinion, it was a good thing that he could not ask for training and using troops under his command. The only doubt is that although Qi Jiguang is accustomed to fighting with elite soldiers and does not lead the "army" much, no matter how "elite soldiers" are, they are often on the scale of thousands of people, and the targets of attacks often exceed 10,000, or even tens of thousands. But he is just a family member, and seeing the meaning of the eldest young master, he didn't plan to let himself join the army, but to stay by his side, so ...... Is it really necessary to learn this method of using troops?

But Gao Pragmatic is the master, he is a servant, since Gao Pragmatic wants him to go, he can still do it, and secretly thought in his heart: Anyway, they are all learning to lead soldiers, and it is not a problem to bring more, will it not be possible to bring less? Go ahead.

Gao Yi was followed by Gao Yi, who was originally a fugitive military family, and was taken under Gao Jie because of his family's outstanding skills in making firearms, and You Shan made all kinds of thunderbolt fireballs.

The so-called thunderbolt fireball is an iron cast spherical shell, which contains gunpowder and various ignition devices, so that it explodes when it is pressed, or pulled, or ignited, and the power is huge. There were such things in the drawings that Gao Pragmatic provided to Qi Jiguang before, which he called grenades according to the habits of later generations.

However, although Gao Pragmatism can provide manufacturing ideas, his hands-on ability is not worth it, and this Gao Yi, according to Gao Mo, is extremely skilled in manufacturing firearms, especially for this "grenade" type, he is particularly good at it - their family has always been good at this way, and he is even more unique here, if it weren't for something happened at home, he didn't have to flee out and live in the rivers and lakes, and was finally "picked up" by Gao Jie.

For Gao Yi, Gao Shishi's explanation began to increase.

First of all, Gao pragmatic gave him a copy of the set of manuscripts and albums given to Qi Jiguang directly, and said that he would notify Sanshen Garden to divide a place outside the garden for Gao Yi to build a new courtyard as his workplace.

Next, he was asked to make a few samples of all the products according to the records in the manuscript album, and at the same time, in order to cooperate with his manufacturing, he would get the materials he needed for him, and the approval documents he needed would also be obtained at the same time - the Ming Law clearly stipulates that knives, guns, swords, halberds, bows, crossbows are not prohibited and manufactured, and the prohibited ones are armor, flags, brands, guns, etc.

A is armor, a flag and a card are the tools used to command the leader of the army, and the gun is a general term, which is actually a firearm. So even with Gao Pragmatic's identity, it is also guilty of making firearms at home, and he has to find a legitimate reason - it was difficult to do it before, because it was impossible to let Gao Gong come forward for this little thing, but now it is easy to do, he and Jingzhong Xungui have now become preliminary allies of interests, and directly ask Cheng Guogong for an official document, which asks Gao Pragmatic to "co-produce new firearms" in the name of the Shenji Battalion.

The reason for "co-producing new firearms" is good enough, because the Ming Dynasty originally had a lot of firearms "imported" from foreign countries, and then explored the principles and imitated and improved them, in this process, sometimes a small number of private craftsmen participated, and even in some cases there were civil officials who were interested in firearms to join them, although Gao pragmatic did not have a reputation, but he was also an innocent civil official, and the imperial court had no reason to suspect that he co-produced new firearms with ulterior motives - as long as the production volume was not large, you can experiment. If the manufacturing volume is large...... Then you have to find a new reason, or get the consent of the imperial court. But that's for another time, and there's no need to worry about it now.

Gao pragmatic asked Gao Yi what other firearms he had, but Gao Jue's answer was relatively modest, and he only said that "they are all involved, and they dare not speak well." Gao was interested, so he deliberately asked him if he could make guns and cannons.

Gao Yi replied: "If you want to make a bird, you can make it, but you need to have a skilled blacksmith to cooperate; As for the cannon, it depends on what the eldest young master is talking about, if it is a tiger squat cannon or a whirlwind cannon, as long as there are materials and craftsmen, the small one can start to be built now, but if it is a captive cannon, an attack cannon, or even a general's cannon and a Weiyuan cannon, it still needs to be cooperated by special people, and the small one can't do it alone. ”

Many people are familiar with the Tiger Squat Cannon, which is an artillery equipped by the Qi family's army. In order to facilitate shooting, this kind of cannon is to put the cannon in a fixed position, much like the appearance of a tiger squatting, hence the name. The tiger squat cannon is not very powerful, the firing range is not far, but because of its light weight, it is more convenient to maneuver, suitable for mountain combat, similar to today's mortar, it is mainly a curved artillery, and the whirlwind gun is also similar, all of which belong to light artillery.

The latter ones can be regarded as medium-sized or even heavy artillery, such as the general cannon, which is mainly evolved from the small magic cannon in the early Ming Dynasty, and the general cannon in later generations still preserves the real thing, with a caliber of about 100 mm, an outer caliber of about 200 mm, and a total length of about one meter and four. Judging from the numbering of those generals' cannons, from May to October of the twentieth year of Wanli, at least 110 generals' cannons were manufactured, which shows that the artillery manufacturing capacity of the military factory was still relatively strong at that time. The heavy general cannon, weighing 1,000 catties, was transported by car, called the Great God Gun Rolling Car, which increased the mobility and flexibility, and those who saw it were frightened. There is also Ye Gongshen's cannon, which weighs more than 200 catties.

The Weiyuan artillery, mainly by the general cannon to reduce weight, but also improve mobility, the small weight of 100 pounds, the large weight of 200 pounds, can be used in field battles, can also be used for offensive danger, is a multi-purpose large artillery.