God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 460: The Roster Academy Plan!

As the news sank in, people thought of more and more different possibilities.

The ultra-high-speed rail system’s impact on the entire world was absolutely enormous.

Especially for those nobles and merchants who’d already begun magic-tech industrial reforms, even more so for them.

They felt like they were seeing a new world.

The Clarkson family patriarch was one of them.

From the moment he got off the ultra-high-speed train, he’d been thinking: in this new era, how should their family position itself?

Earlier when they’d speculated on steel futures, the biggest reason was simply that they couldn’t find a path forward. Their investment model couldn’t continue anymore, plus seeing other people constantly making money speculating on steel futures, their mindset became unstable.

This time everyone had given up on steel futures, but he’d chosen to hold on. It was almost certain that before long, everything their family lost would come back.

They might even make a small profit.

But once they had these funds, what should their family choose to do?

He could already clearly see that the ultra-high-speed rail system would change the entire world. If they stuck with the old ways, it wouldn’t be long before they’d be eliminated by the times.

Magic-tech industrialization... was perhaps the only opportunity in front of him.

Right now, even though the finance industry in the City-State Alliance was developing rapidly with more and more people gathering, other industries were relatively behind.

You could even say basically nonexistent.

Currently, all the impressive industries were in Roster Territory Group Company. They had all kinds of magic machinery plants, magic vehicle plants, garment factories, textile mills, processed food plants, ultra-high-speed rail train plants, plus production of various weapons and equipment...

You could basically say that every industrial plant in this world could be found there.

Besides Roster Territory Group Company, the next most prosperous places were definitely Southern Development Corporation and Foster Iron Mine.

Without question, the Clarkson family didn’t have the ability to compete with these three companies; they didn’t even have any possibility of comparison.

But they could choose to cooperate with these three companies, or take inspiration from them, picking one plant as a template, or becoming their upstream or downstream factory.

Without question, doing this would be very safe.

The next biggest question was: how should they choose?

Wait!

Compared to traditional industries, the biggest special feature of magic-tech industrialization was that they needed multiple factory zones working together, developing jointly.

Only with upstream and downstream working together could they manufacture some really impressive things.

This was also why the territories near Viscount Roster’s territory had started becoming prosperous, and why Southern Development Corporation’s industrial development was slow. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

In this situation, as one of the places farthest from Roster territory in the southernmost part of the continent, choosing to enter these industries was wrong.

The Clarkson patriarch brainstormed, vetoing his own idea from just moments ago.

If they had tons and tons of customers below them, they could go find some other people to enter the market together, but clearly that still wasn’t enough now.

Plus the families they knew had mostly suffered terrible losses and couldn’t recover in the short term.

So what should they do?

The Clarkson patriarch fell into silence for a long period after that.

Finally, after thinking for who knows how long, after brainstorming and crazily refuting himself who knows how many times, he had an idea.

Right now they should quietly wait for steel prices to stabilize, then sell all their steel futures to recover funds, then use most of that money to buy bonds, storing a small portion directly in the bank.

This should ensure their family’s assets didn’t depreciate too obviously.

Then mobilize the family members to start looking for City-State Alliance specialties, special crops, special seafood, whatever, and start selling on Shopping Mall, through live streaming sales, etc.

Obviously this wouldn’t make much money in the early stages, at least not for the Clarkson family.

But that was fine. They’d quickly familiarize themselves with these specialties, preferably develop some processed foods too.

Then quietly wait.

The ultra-high-speed rail system, once built, would definitely reach the City of Gold.

The City of Gold had special status now. No matter what you were doing, you couldn’t avoid the City of Gold.

Once the ultra-high-speed rail system was built, they could sell these specialty products from the southernmost part of the continent to every corner of the continent.

They’d follow the ultra-high-speed rail system’s expansion and continuously expand their own influence.

Sure, the business wasn’t very big right now, but what about when the ultra-high-speed rail system connected the City-State Alliance, Gray Fort, and the Kingdom of Dawn?

What about when the ultra-high-speed rail system covered the entire continent?

Starting now, they could definitely seize the initiative, even create their own brand image.

Just like Roster territory: when you mentioned it, everyone’s perception was that place full of new and novel things.

This was the Clarkson family’s first foothold in this new era.

When they’d profited to a certain degree from reselling City of Gold specialty products, that would actually mean the entire continent had already unified.

No longer separated by vast distances like before. At that time, the things they could do would multiply.

While the Clarkson patriarch was thinking about these things, many people had already started looking for Viscount Roster, wanting to know the plans for the ultra-high-speed rail system going forward.

However, no one expected that after announcing the ultra-high-speed rail system, Viscount Roster would immediately leave the Southern territories.

He went straight to find a dragon and flew back to Roster territory.

The ultra-high-speed rail matter still needed time to sink in.

During this time he couldn’t make any moves; he had to wait.

Only by waiting could he get the most suitable opportunity.

Of course, his return to his territory this time wasn’t purely to avoid these people.

He could totally go to many places beneficial to magic-tech industrial development, like Foster Iron Mine; they had lots of new materials being smelted, and many people hoped he’d make a trip there.

But he had something more important.

Roster Academy was complete!

This was a plan from a long, long time ago, a plan to cultivate technical talent.

In the Church of Technology’s development, what was most important?

Of course, magic-tech.

Technology that used magic power like an infinite energy source for development.

For technology to develop, you didn’t need vast numbers of people, especially R&D talent.

Additionally, to expand your sphere of influence, you needed lots of people who understood business.

These two things were precisely what this era lacked.

Ordinary schools at best could only teach people to read and write, could only let people basically operate those magic machines.

But trying to cultivate the kind of cutting-edge talent they needed was basically impossible.

Thus came the Roster Academy plan!