Transportation Reform (1)

As Master Park Jega, who wrote *A Critique of Northern Learning*, once said.

‘There are no carts in Joseon.’

Until the early to mid-2010s, historians tended to take that at face value and mistakenly think Joseon was a country that rarely used carts.

In reality, Korean terrain is so mountainous that carts simply couldn't be used for transport; it wasn't because they had no intention of using them.

And relying on ships for most cargo transport was also just the old "if you have no teeth, use your gums" mentality at work.

“I’m truly delighted to be working with Jang Byeoljang and Magistrate Jeong.”

At my words, the two men both flinched and trembled.

Good grief, anyone watching would think I was going to eat them alive.

Far from devouring them, I wasn't even going to bully them.

They just needed to work themselves to the bone with me for Jongmyo, Sajik, Joseon, and the people, keeping to office hours and grinding away until quitting time...