Black Corporation: Joseon - Chapter 385
Episode 385 That, Jang Yeong-sil. (2)
Jang Yeong-sil looked surprised as she saw Hyang’s mouth gaping.
“It’s been almost 10 years since I worked with you. Is this the first time I’ve seen you make such an expression?”
Hyang hurriedly adjusted her expression and answered Jang Yeong-sil’s question.
“Ah, I was momentarily surprised to see something that was more surprising than I expected. But how does it work?”
“If you think about shrinking a mountain fortress or moving a heavy object, many people come together and exert strength or use a lifter or a potter’s wheel. “Right?”
“Of course.”
“However, there are many cases where it is difficult to install a crane or a potter’s wheel due to limited space. Or, there are many cases where it is easy for 4-5 people to work together, but only 2-3 people have to work hard. “I’ve been thinking a bit about how to use it in such cases.”
Simultaneously with the explanation, Youngsil Jang gradually assembled the structures hanging on one wall.
When the assembly was finished, Hyang asked in a trembling voice.
“Could it be an exoskeleton?”
At Hyang’s question, Jang Yeong-sil let out an exclamation with surprised eyes.
“It’s truly amazing that you knew it as soon as you saw it! I’ll buy it back. It is an object worn that mimics the human skeleton. “Right now, we are making it out of wood because we are in the process of proving the concept, but if we do it right, we will make it out of steel to ensure strength.”
“How are you going to power it?”
Jang Yeong-sil’s complexion darkened at Hyang’s point out.
“That is a problem. I was thinking of a steam engine as a power source, but when I think about the size of the steam engine and the heat and fuel management… wow~.”
Jang Yeong-sil sighed briefly and continued speaking with a face full of regret.
“The process of conveying the user’s movements is the same. Right now, we are only imitating movement, so it can be done with thick and strong cotton thread, but if we actually make it, we will have to use iron rope, and then no one will be able to move it…”
Before Jang Yeo-sil could finish speaking, Hyang received the word.
“There may also be a problem of power control. If you use that, you can generate at least 2 to 3 times the strength of a regular person, but you don’t need that strength every time.”
“I’m getting it back!”
Jang Yeong-sil nodded strongly in response to Hyang’s words.
“That’s right! So, I thought about adjusting it before use and using it, but it was too inconvenient…”
“How will the power generated by the steam engine be transmitted before that?”
“That too, research…” As
Jang Yeong-sil began to speak, Hyang shouted.
“Director Jang! I am disappointed in my manager Jang! “How can a person do this?”
Jang Yeong-sil, who looked momentarily puzzled by Hyang’s sudden reprimand, immediately fell to the floor.
“Forgive me! I spent my own time and money on my own research! Nevertheless, you did not get the right results, which is a great sin! Please forgive me!”
Jang Yeong-sil asked for forgiveness by giving the most obvious reason for Hyang’s anger, but Hyang’s criticism continued.
“Why did you conduct this research alone? Doing such fun research on your own! “Doesn’t the director have no idea what to do?”
“yes?”
For an unexpected reason, Jang Yeong-sil unconsciously raised her head and looked at the incense.
‘This guy is joking… he’s serious!’
Jang Yeong-sil, who saw Hyang’s face, had no choice but to lie flat on his face again.
“I’m sorry! Since it was just the idea of a foolish craftsman, I thought it would be worthless and did not tell you about it! Please forgive me!”
“Even if it doesn’t seem worth a penny to you, it may be worth a thousand pounds to others! If you have researched anything other than this, please bring it to me right away! right now!”
“Yes yep!”
At Hyang’s command, Jang Yeong-sil hurriedly brought the conceptual drawings and blueprints of the things she had been planning and presented them to Hyang.
Hyang, who was looking at the blueprints that Jang Yeong-sil brought, got really angry at Jang Yeong-sil.
“Are you saying you just threw away these precious things? “Such fun things!”
“Here comes the Emperor!”
“I will take it, discuss it, and then add it to the challenge log, so you know that.”
“Glory comes!”
“That’s right, people should have mutual respect… We should do fun things together, but I’m trying to have fun alone…” * *
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Hyang, who was catching her breath after all the chaos, remembered again the reason she came here. I did it.
“ah! “The reason I came here today is because I want Director Jang to make a clockwork machine.”
“You mean clockwork?”
“That’s right.”
Hyang told Jang Yeong-sil about the problem with the propulsion engine of a ship equipped with a steam engine.
“… So the development department is trying to experiment with a steam engine, but I think this seems hasty. If you think the way you are thinking is not right, you have to start over again. If you do it wrong, unnecessary expenses may be repeated. If that happens, wouldn’t it be possible for all the officials from the Ministry of Finance and Economy to come in and cause trouble, starting with Inspector General Kim?”
“I guess so.”
At Hyang’s words, Jang Yeong-sil nodded without realizing it.
Even though he knew it, the budget consumed by the research institute and Area 51 was enormous. If there had been no performance so far, it would have been okay to make an uproar demanding that it be abolished immediately.
After confirming that Jang Yeong-sil understood, Hyang explained the purpose for which the clockwork device was needed.
“So I think it would be better to conduct experiments using scaled-down model ships.”
Jang Yeong-sil nodded at Hyang’s explanation.
“That is certainly true. “If so, what size would be appropriate?”
In response to Jang Yeong-sil’s question, Hyang opened his arms and showed an appropriate size.
“This much? “I think it’s about the width of my chest.”
Jang Yeong-sil immediately responded to Hyang’s words.
“I understand. Then, I will make a clockwork device and a model ship as well. “How long can I upload it?”
“Is it possible to do it in about five days?”
“It seems possible.”
“Then make sure you receive it within five days… Ah! When making a clockwork device, you have to make it easy to change the direction of the power shaft.”
“Do you have directions?”
Jang Yeong-sil, who pondered Hyang’s words for a moment, soon nodded.
“I understand why you have to do that. “I will agree to it that way.”
“Then I look forward to it.”
After finishing the business, Hyang stood up. The scent that swept up the drawings that Jang Yeong-sil had neglected brought attention again.
“Again, please don’t throw away the best ideas you have come up with.”
“Yes sir.”
Hyang, who was about to leave Jang Yeong-sil’s office, suddenly turned around as if she remembered something.
Jang Yeong-sil, who followed Hyang to see him off, looked very nervous when Hyang suddenly turned around.
“Lowering?”
“Ah, I had a sudden thought about exoskeletons and power issues earlier. “Let’s go in and talk.”
“yes? yes.”
Hyang entered the office again, sat down, laid out a blank piece of paper on the conference desk, and started talking.
“That exoskeleton. There’s no need to have all four limbs like a human, right? There’s also the problem of having to install a steam engine there…”
As he trailed off, Hyang began drawing a picture on a blank piece of paper.
The picture that Hyang drew was of construction machinery such as excavators and cranes.
“If you transmit power and control movement using pulleys and iron rails like this…”
Jang Yeong-sil, who was listening to the picture and explanation of the fragrance, immediately understood and nodded.
“ah! It will be of great use in civil engineering and building construction! “I’ll give it a try!”
“I plan to post it in the challenge log as well.”
“haha! “It will be a good competition!”
Meanwhile, the disciple who was listening to the conversation between Jang Yeong-sil and Hyang became tearful.
‘I can’t understand what you’re talking about! ‘I thought I was smart, but was I just a frog in a well?’
While Jang Yeong-sil’s student was frustrated in a corner, Hyang finished talking with Jang Yeong-sil and stood up with a satisfied look on his face.
“Then I look forward to the future.”
“I will do my best!”
* * *
Jang Yeong-sil, who returned after seeing Hyang off, sat down on a chair and sighed lightly, looking back at his student.
“Isn’t he truly an amazing person?”
“yes.”
“I feel it every time I see it, but His Majesty the Crown Prince is a divine being. “He is the one sent by heaven for Joseon.”
“Isn’t the person you hold dear, Master? “A teacher is proud of his disciples.”
Jang Yeong-sil shook her head at her disciple’s words.
“Compared to the Crown Prince, I am just a firefly under the moonlight. Didn’t you just see it? Even though it was the first blueprint and model he had seen, he found the problem and even came up with an application on the spot. Who in Tanggeum Joseon could do this? As far as I know, there is only one person besides you.”
“Who is that?”
Jang Yeong-sil answered firmly to his disciple’s question.
“Your Majesty the Lord.”
* * *
While Jang Yeong-sil was preaching to his students, Hyang’s steps back to his office seemed like they were going to fly.
“Hehehe…”
A big smile appeared on Hyang’s face as he looked at the blueprints and various concept drawings in his arms.
‘With this, the risk of losing money has been reduced!’
As work progressed under Hyang’s leadership, Hyang was slowly feeling a sense of crisis.
‘If I do this wrong, I won’t have anything to do later, right? If you do it wrong, you can only be a king instead of a virtue! My dream is in danger! Portion control failed!’
It was a scent that bitterly reflected on one’s own failure to control portion sizes.
But there was no answer. This was because the talented people at the research institute and Area 51 moved passively and could not bear to see things that seemed feasible right now rolling around in front of their eyes.
‘If I do this, my life plans will be disrupted! ‘We have to find a way now!’
That’s how Jeon Jeon-rok was created.
‘Still, it’s a little lacking…’
Nevertheless, for Hyang, who felt that 1% was lacking, Jang Yeong-sil’s works were a gift from heaven.
Most of the conceptual drawings and designs drawn by Jang Yeong-sil made me want to take off my official uniform and go into the blacksmith shop right now.
Hyang, who was looking at the blueprint with such a happy face, thought of Jang Yeong-sil and muttered softly.
“The nobleman also said that it was outside the standard…”
I felt it when making gold pens in the past, but the level of skill possessed by the craftsmen of Tanggeum Joseon was formidable.
“If it weren’t for the trend of craftsmanship and war…”
It was a time when there were many craftsmen of such a high level that Hyang, who first confirmed the craftsmen’s skills, complained, but Jang Yeong-sil was a scholar in the military world.
Jang Yeong-sil’s skills can be seen by looking at the anecdote of Jagyeonggnu before Hyang intervened and the record that no one was able to fix the broken Jagyeongnu.
With the intervention of Hyang, Jang Yeong-sil’s fate changed significantly.
As the scent became a thing of the past, there was no need to be dismissed in the future. And while making various objects that Hyang wanted, Jang Yeong-sil crossed a kind of boundary.
No, Jang Yeong-sil was not the only one who crossed the border like this.
Swept by the typhoon of the ‘science and technology revolution’ symbolized by the research institute and Area 51, people began to cross the border one after another.
With the border line just around the corner, people such as Yi Sun-ji and Princess Kim Dam, who had been blocked by the wall of Neo-Confucianism and social norms, began to cross the border and move upward.
* * *
Two days later, researchers and craftsmen who came to work at the research center and Area 51 had to look at the bulletin board and make a fuss.
“How many of these are there in total?”
“I gave up counting…”
People looked dejected when they saw the notice plastered on the wall next to the bulletin board.
People who were looking at the items distributed evenly, starting from ‘Hard Struggle’ to ‘Wugong Yi Mountain Sang’, soon realized one thing.
“The person who proposed it is all Director Jang?”
“I see?”
“No, this gentleman has a sense of humor! “What are we going to do if we solve it in one go like this?”
While he was complaining to Jang Yeong-sil, the craftsmen of the technology verification department came to his defense.
“That’s not it…”
‘The crown prince robbed Jang Yeong-sil!’
‘The crown prince ordered me to report unconditionally from now on!’
The people who heard the craftsmen’s words actually looked pitiful.
“Chief Jang, that guy’s good times are gone~”