God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 474: If Things Don’t Go Smoothly, You Attack

The interviews officially began.

Everything went smoothly.

Roster Academy quickly got on track. Although the enrollment for schools like the School of Agriculture was far short of expectations, there were no problems in other areas.

After seeing all this, Viscount Roster left Roster territory with relief and, together with the dragons, met with a large number of the continent’s big shots.

This included most major nobles, including the Gray Fort Empire’s emperor, and he reached cooperation agreements with them, determining the Rail Transit General Company’s development path.

"Things went way smoother than we imagined."

On the way to the City-State Alliance with Viscount Roster, Nidhogg the Dragon of Despair couldn’t help but speak. "I thought quite a few of them would refuse, or they might make more demands of us."

"This isn’t up to them."

Viscount Roster showed a thick smile on his face. "Everyone else joined, only he didn’t join. Never mind affecting their own development—do you think others will let him off the hook?"

"If it was some random person directly proposing this, the resistance would definitely max out."

"But after my earlier groundwork, plus pulling a bunch of people in from the start, they had no choice."

What Viscount Roster didn’t say was that from the beginning, he only planned to control a few main lines, letting all routes in other areas develop freely. This was the core of what made these major lords feel they could accept it.

Benefits, threats, sufficient freedom, promising them a good future—none could be missing. Lacking any one point would make the whole thing very difficult.

There could be lots of resistance involved too.

Not wanting railways built in their territory, wanting to sell land for railway construction at high prices, wanting to blackmail other surrounding lords—way too many possibilities.

Especially things like wanting to sell land at high prices.

If it was a regular person choosing to build railways, and everyone in front and behind had agreed, but he was in the middle section and proposed selling his land at an extremely high price, they’d probably have to agree.

And this was a dark forest.

Nobody could guarantee they’d be the last one, but everyone wanted to be the last one.

Because the last one could leverage the most, and as long as they controlled the degree well, they wouldn’t have to worry about offending others along the line.

Once you entered that state, trying to make progress would be extremely difficult.

Fortunately, this time they cut through the mess quickly, striking directly when emotions were at their highest, plus recruiting several major nobles. Then, with him as an important Church of Technology figure bringing Nidhogg the Dragon of Despair to negotiate in person, things naturally went smoothly.

"You humans really have lots of schemes."

Nidhogg the Dragon of Despair couldn’t help but sigh.

"If you didn’t have lots of schemes, how could you profit big from this?" Viscount Roster smiled indifferently. In his view, having lots of schemes was an advantage.

"Can I really profit big?" Nidhogg the Dragon of Despair was still somewhat uncertain.

"Of course you can. This will directly affect all intelligent life on the entire continent. If nothing unexpected happens, before long, railways will cover the entire continent, and circulation of all people will be incredibly fast."

Viscount Roster was full of confidence. "Think about it—besides you dragons, who are such naturally powerful species, all other species will rely on this set of rules. What will happen?"

"You also said this to those major nobles, but I don’t believe things will go that smoothly." Nidhogg the Dragon of Despair shook his head.

"If things don’t go smoothly, then we’ll have the Tech Combat Clerics and dragons attack." Viscount Roster’s tone was calm, as if talking about something insignificant.

In this current era, nothing was more important than the ultra-high-speed rail transit system.

The ultra-high-speed rail transit system would have multi-dimensional and far-reaching impacts on all intelligent life, directly promoting economic development, triggering the magic-tech industrialization process, reconstructing social structure, and promoting cultural integration across the continent.

This was the biggest opportunity of this era.

And it was what he as a Church of Technology believer should do.

What’s more, this was also very important to him personally and would have a huge impact.

No one understood better than him the impact the ultra-high-speed rail transit system would bring.

Using the ultra-high-speed rail transit system well, material transportation costs could drop by at least 90%, which would make commodity flow accelerate countless times.

It would also reduce factories’ raw material purchasing costs.

At the same time, it would increase talent attraction. Cities that the high-speed rail transit system could reach would all become employment choices for many people.

It could even directly promote the continent’s urbanization process and accelerate the entire continent’s pace.

For this project, Viscount Roster could give up everything.

After hearing this, Nidhogg the Dragon of Despair was briefly silent, then nodded, completely certain.

Intense work quickly began.

The Rail Transit General Company’s shares opened for subscription.

In just half a day, 500 million gold coins had already been raised.

If this number had been in the past, it would also have been a very huge number.

Even Dragon Bank had taken a long time to collect these gold coins.

Let alone now!

After the steel futures incident, getting these nobles to take out so many gold coins in a short time wasn’t easy either.

And they’d also become sensitive, always worried about various problems, worried about being harvested again.

"Go public officially next?"

After confirming that all one billion shares issued had been fully subscribed, Nidhogg the Dragon of Despair focused his gaze on Viscount Roster.

"That’s the normal process."

Viscount Roster didn’t say much, but instead changed topics. "How many shares did you dragons subscribe to?"

"Not many, not many. A total of 280 million shares." Nidhogg the Dragon of Despair waved his hand. "Don’t worry, it won’t have any impact on your plans."

Buying nearly one-third of the shares directly, Viscount Roster’s expression didn’t change noticeably. He just nodded.

This number was within the reasonable range.

He’d never intended to let all the major nobles he’d contacted get enough Rail Transit General Company shares anyway.

Notifying them was just to discuss with them and, after signing construction agreements, give them the most basic respect.

As for whether they could seize this opportunity, that wasn’t something he could decide.

With so many nobles, there were always plenty of people with surplus wealth who would see this opportunity.

"Then we’ll officially go public tomorrow morning at 9."

Seeing Viscount Roster had nothing to say, Nidhogg the Dragon of Despair immediately nodded and stated the next schedule. "You can start your promotion too."

Viscount Roster nodded and sent News Bird Megan a very simple message with just one sentence: "Begin executing the plan."

Almost instantly, across the entire Magic Net, every function showed a large amount of messages about the Rail Transit General Company’s IPO, along with all kinds of information about this company.