God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 466: All of You Go!

The Gray Fort Emperor’s words directly made the Supreme Justice Minister fall silent.

Did they have a choice?

If they wanted to learn more advanced technology, they definitely needed to send people.

Among these people, some would definitely choose to stay in Roster territory, join Roster Group, enter the Church of Technology. But so what?

Not send people, and watch as people from other countries go study, then watch themselves get eliminated?

Right now, Roster Academy was willing to accept their students without any conditions; that was already extremely generous terms.

Honestly, even if Viscount Roster made some excessive demands, could they do anything but agree?

The Gray Fort Emperor’s words weren’t pleasant, but so what? This was reality.

Even now, if their children went to the academy, they might not really come back.

The gap between the two sides was growing larger and larger.

"We can send a batch of death warriors to study."

The Gray Fort Empire’s Army Marshal directly shook his head. "I have large numbers of intelligence personnel absolutely loyal to us under my command..."

Before he could finish, the Finance Minister already spoke. "No, no, no. We can mix one or two intelligence personnel into the exchange students, but we can’t send many like that."

In his view, people who could be brainwashed into death warriors would probably have trouble learning this advanced technology.

Plus there was huge risk in this.

You had to know, Roster Academy would gather large numbers of magicians and clerics. Who knew what kind of abilities these people possessed?

If it leaked out, it wouldn’t be good for either side.

The pressure would fall on them.

The Army Marshal wanted to say more, but the Gray Fort Emperor waved his hand. "Enough. No need to send intelligence personnel. Just study properly, go openly and aboveboard, publicize it widely."

Compared to the Gray Fort Empire officials’ twisting and turning, the nobles below made their decisions quickly.

Clarkson family.

A while back, because the Clarkson family patriarch refused to sell steel futures, the entire family atmosphere was very oppressive.

Many people thought the family patriarch had gone crazy.

Quite a few people even thought privately about whether they should band together with clan elders to depose him.

They felt that under this patriarch’s leadership, the Clarkson family would definitely fall apart.

But now, not a single person mentioned such things. Forget mentioning it; every single one was completely convinced, incredibly loyal.

The reason was simple. Steel futures prices, after Viscount Roster announced the ultra-high-speed rail system, had climbed steadily to a very terrifying number.

Though it was far from reaching the peak numbers from before, it was still considerably higher than their comprehensive purchase cost.

Then the Clarkson patriarch didn’t hesitate; he directly sold.

He seemed unwilling to continue bearing the huge risks brought by the futures trading market.

After this series of operations, the Clarkson family hadn’t suffered terrible losses like the vast majority of people who invested in steel futures. Instead they’d made about 800,000 gold coins!

This number was enough to make up for the Clarkson family’s income decline this year, even enough to cover several years.

From heaven to hell, from hell to heaven. Two rotations made the Clarkson family members full of confidence in their patriarch.

Today, the Clarkson patriarch once again convened a family meeting.

Everyone was very respectful.

The formerly unruly clan elders were each more respectful than the last.

"Honestly, recently I’ve been constantly thinking about the family’s future."

The Clarkson patriarch looked around, slowly speaking. "Traditional land-based industries have been eliminated. Or rather, trying to maintain a family like ours by growing grain is already impossible."

"Our family needs to find new breakthrough points."

"In today’s era, what has the most potential? What most likely can obtain higher profits?"

"Without question: magic-tech!"

"But how do we cut in? I once considered whether we could be upstream or downstream suppliers. My conclusion was no, because we’re too far from Roster territory, even too far from Dawn’s Southern territories."

"Transporting things we produce to them is just too difficult."

"Then I thought about using magic-tech to produce other things, like the textile mills and garment factories some people have already established."

"Right now, there aren’t many such manufacturers in the City-State Alliance. The City of Gold has even fewer; it might be a good choice."

"But the City-State Alliance has too few places growing cotton. Trying to compete with Gray Fort Empire manufacturers, we’d have basically no advantages."

"We can do it now, but what about after the ultra-high-speed rail system is built?"

Hearing their patriarch’s words, everyone in the meeting room fell silent.

An atmosphere of despair spread.

Right!

Seemed like there was no way.

Whether establishing upstream/downstream factories or a core factory built around magic machinery, their competitiveness would be poor.

Going back now they could barely maintain it, make a small profit, but what about the future?

Their family that had existed for thousands of years couldn’t just look at the present.

"After racking my brains, I only thought of one method: we start now packaging and building City of Gold specialty products, specialty foods, specialty crafts. Starting now, selling externally through Shopping Mall, through Magic Net videos."

The Clarkson patriarch took a deep breath. "At this stage we’ll use the Magic Net to build our brand, make a name, but the scale can’t be too big, because transportation costs are just too high; we can’t sell much!"

"But we’re in the City of Gold! The ultra-high-speed rail system is destined to be built here first."

"When the ultra-high-speed rail system is built here, that’s when we start expanding. We can follow the ultra-high-speed rail system and ship our products to all the places it covers."

The scale of this business didn’t seem very big, and it would be limited.

But you had to admit, this was a pretty good idea.

It might really become a long-term family industry.

At the moment, the clan elders nodded one after another, all supporting the patriarch’s plan.

"This is the original plan, the plan we’re about to implement. But I don’t want to pin all our hopes on just this one industry."

The Clarkson patriarch raised his hand to quiet everyone down, then continued speaking. "I plan to send large numbers of elite family members to Roster Academy to study."

"I hope they can learn the essence of magic-tech at Roster Academy and find new hope for the family."

"We need to send as many family children as possible. I hope to get everyone’s approval."

As soon as these words came out, they immediately caused an uproar.