God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 364: Bet on Sheep

Wool Ryan looked at the information online, his brow furrowed. After who knows how long, he shook his head. "This project isn’t suitable for us, unless the person wanting to start a business is entering an industry our Wool Guild can influence, like wool, sheep milk, mutton, or trade operations in the northern region."

"Besides that, for any other direction of investment, we’re also newbies. Either we’ll easily be fooled into investing money and waste it, or we’ll really invest it, but with poor judgment and get scammed. The probability of us making a profit is far, far, far lower than Viscount Roster and the others."

Hearing this, the Pastoral Pope was slightly stunned, but thinking carefully, he had to admit the situation really was like this.

They lacked sufficient information support in too many areas and could easily run into problems.

"Easy come, easy go—that’s always been true," Wool Ryan said with a smile. "Father, rather than following the trend and investing the gold coins on hand into these industries, why don’t we learn the new breeding farm techniques from the Southern Territory and raise more sheep on our turf?"

"The investment in this area is also very large, but no matter what the harvest is, can’t we monetize it? Besides, even if we lose money the first year, will we the second and third year? We’re professional sheep farmers. No one in this world understands sheep farming better than us."

As Wool Ryan spoke, he seemed to think of something. "Earlier when we saw all the churches taking action and communicated with the God through prayer, didn’t the God say He was cultivating even better sheep breeds for us? Why don’t we ask the God if our new excellent sheep breeds can integrate with Magic Conductor breeding farms? If they can, that’s our real future!"

What were sheep?

They were livestock.

No matter how many you raised, you could sell them for meat.

That was certain.

Wool could also be used for warmth. If you produced too much, at worst you’d sell it a bit cheaper. There were plenty of people who needed it.

Especially with rumors that as magic-tech industrialization developed, the population would grow more and more. When the population grew, wouldn’t demand for wool also increase?

No matter from what angle you looked at it, raising more sheep definitely wouldn’t be a problem, as long as you ensured that raising too many sheep didn’t lead to running out of grass and turning the surrounding area into a desert. As long as you avoided that, there definitely wouldn’t be a problem.

Just raise them and that’s it!

At least that’s how Wool Ryan and the Pastoral Pope saw it.

Over these years, whether there were more or fewer sheep, didn’t they pretty much sell them all?

Especially now with the Magic Net, it was obviously in a state of not having enough to sell. Raising more would definitely be no problem.

Come to think of it, if they really needed a lot of pasture, it seemed they could also use the Golden Merchant Guild’s druid potions to promote land recovery and pasture growth. Even the traditional worry about not having enough pasture didn’t seem to be much of a concern.

As long as the scale went up, the cost of these druid potions wouldn’t be a problem at all.

Recalling what he’d seen on the Magic Net from the Southern Development Company’s breeding farms—pigs standing in designated areas according to plan, automatically cleaned, automatically fed, each growing white and strong, who knows how much they could produce but definitely a lot—the Pastoral Pope was tempted.

"How about I pray to the God in a bit and ask about the situation?" The Pastoral Pope felt more and more delighted the more he looked, more and more convinced they could operate this.

"Before that, we should communicate with Viscount Roster first and see about their Magic Conductor situation. Ask if they can redesign according to sheep habits, and whether there are any special Magic Conductors, like Magic Conductors for shearing, Magic Conductors for milking. If there are Magic Conductors suitable for making sheep cheese and such, that would be even better."

Wool Ryan thought about it. "When we inquire with the deity, we might not necessarily need this information, but what if the God needs it?"

Even as a family that had served the God of Shepherding for generations, when facing the God of Shepherding, they still needed to be cautious. This was basic respect for the deity.

The Pastoral Pope thought about it and felt there was indeed some logic to this. He immediately opened private messages and started sending messages to Viscount Roster.

The moment he saw the message, Viscount Roster was a bit dazed.

Honestly, he’d thought about breeding farms raising pigs, chickens, ducks, and cattle, but raising sheep—he really hadn’t thought of that.

On one hand, except for the northern regions and the beastmen, people in other areas ate relatively little mutton, and the wool business had already been almost monopolized by the Church of Shepherding, making it hard to get involved.

On the other hand, he rarely saw sheep and had completely forgotten about this.

Now that it was brought up, his subconscious reaction was to answer that there definitely wouldn’t be any problem. After all, wasn’t breeding any animal pretty much the same?

They could even create automatic egg-collecting Magic Conductors, let alone sheep farming.

But thinking more carefully, he became a bit more cautious. "I’m not very familiar with sheep farming, but our Magic Conductor breeding farms can already cover pigs, cattle, chickens, and ducks. Presumably, sheep shouldn’t be a big problem."

"Whatever needs you have, the technical personnel on our side can try to meet them as much as possible. As long as you order on a large scale, we can even send technical personnel for on-site inspections to determine the best plan."

The Pastoral Pope looked at the response and nodded slightly. "If it’s really suitable, our Church of Shepherding is confident we can get one-tenth of the lords and farmers in the Western Territory, and more than half of the Teylir Emirates to build these breeding farms on a large scale..."

"Oh, right, many places in this area are managed by clerics from your Church of Technology. We can give certain preferential treatment for this part..."

Honestly, Viscount Roster was a bit dizzy. If that many people really went to raise sheep, the entire continent’s meat-eating habits would probably undergo huge changes, because by then, the price of mutton would definitely drop to a terrifying level.

There would just be too much.

But thinking more carefully, he soon discovered the problem. They’d probably only seen the Magic Conductor breeding farm situation online but didn’t fundamentally understand them. They didn’t know about the efficiency of Magic Conductor breeding farms, the cost issues, and so on.

With this in mind, Viscount Roster started carefully explaining everything to them.

Of course, this was also a kind of sales pitch.

No one knew better than Viscount Roster and the dragons how much money the Church of Shepherding had made in the stock market recently. They currently held at least several million, even tens of millions of gold coins in funds.

This was enough money to keep millions of people alive for a year.

As long as he convinced them, chances were a large part of this money would become orders for Roster Territory Group Company.

This was a super major client!

The Pastoral Pope’s thinking was similar. They needed this investment opportunity even more.