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Yet another of those stories where they make higher tech items than what exists in that world without ever having to deal with failure and large amounts of testing.They make gunpowder sound like "just mix this and that and you have gunpowder".It's also funny how Japanese authors tend to forget that they compare Europeans dark ages (the stagnant part of the middle ages where technology barely had a chance to evolve) with the period they had right before they met the American fleet, which are quite a few years appart.Obviously, the result is that japan had significantly more advanced technology (fairly high-end steel forging, cesspools, agriculture and so on).The worst part of this story is that the main character is just the "idea guy", ideas pop out of nowhere (the author even admits it by writing things like "somehow ideas came out one after the other"), and it just so happens that there are very skilled people around that are capable of not only financing but also figuring out and making what he thinks off.It would have been better if at least the first few things would have been things he made himself to make his farm work easier, or if he had to really work hard to convince people to help him with funds and workforce, but all of that is solved by a convenient noble-ish person that has too much time, money and curiosity.As a comparison, take "ascendance of the bookworm", the story is really slow paced, but the thing I want to point out from that story is that the main character has to do all of the prep work and come up with a working proof of concept before it has any chance of being accepted and funded.I am not saying that the story is something to throw away, but it's just one of those fairly basic ones that you only read when you have nothing better and need to waste a bit of time.