Joseon Devours an Engineering Student (1)

Technological advancement is the same as national advancement.

The quintessential example of this is Britain.

Ordinarily, when people think of Britain, they think only of a trash country that created the East India Company, wreaked havoc among the Indian princes, and made a mere company responsible for the “governance of a state,” all while selling drugs like opium in the name of eliminating its trade deficit...

Unexpectedly, those bastards also served as the vanguard of technological advancement during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

No, it was precisely because they succeeded in mass-producing textiles and steel through the Industrial Revolution that they were able to become the British Empire of that era.

"If we look back over the history of human development, we can see that producing more goods through better technology is more important than anything else."

There is a reason Korean history textbooks specifically mention that deep plowing was introduced during the reign of a certain Silla king, that people began using iron plows, and that fallowing disappeared.

We learned this material from textbooks, so all we can do is respond, “What’s that supposed to mean, you history-obsessed bastard?” But for the people who lived in that era, each one of these technological innovations must have been a revolution.

A piece of land that could not produce even ten seom of white rice before deep plowing was introduced suddenly produced fifteen seom once deep plowing became available...?

That was an astonishing change, comparable to having my take-home salary fixed at two million won for life and then suddenly seeing it rise to three million won...