God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 353: Business Acumen

"Looks like you also think our plan is feasible, Roster." After listening to Roster’s suggestions, the Archbishop of Agriculture didn’t express anything directly. There was too much information—he still needed time to digest it, and many people in the Church of Agriculture would need to digest it together.

"Naturally."

Viscount Roster said with a smile, "Agricultural Magic Conductors are inherently highly efficient. As a supplier of agricultural Magic Conductors, I’m very clear on this point—clearer than anyone."

"You could say the biggest drawback of agricultural Magic Conductors for the world is that they’re expensive. But producing such machinery inherently has high costs."

"Under these circumstances, it’s impossible for every lord and noble to purchase them. At most, they’d buy one or two small ones. I originally thought that in the future they could only purchase them together with several lords, or merchants could form teams and follow the weather each year."

"For example, a merchant caravan purchases a hundred harvesters, starting from the southern City-State Alliance, constantly harvesting and moving north. Due to climate differences, the maturation times are different. As long as they’re not intercepted along the way, they can most likely harvest from south to north."

"Using these agricultural Magic Conductors so frequently would allow them to quickly recoup their investment and generate profit..."

Viscount Roster was expressing his thoughts, but as he spoke, he suddenly realized something was wrong. If he kept talking like this and the Church of Agriculture changed their approach from placing some in every church to forming such teams instead, wouldn’t he sell a lot less?

With this thought, Viscount Roster changed topics. "But compared to these, your Church of Agriculture’s plan is obviously better. Although generally, the harvesting of many crops does indeed mature gradually from south to north, occasionally there are exceptions."

"Once exceptions occur, the losses would be enormous."

"Plus, you’d need to pass through many, many territories along the way, encountering so many nobles, even needing to pass through many countries. This situation would also greatly increase trading difficulty. Even my... our friends, the elves’ Golden Merchant Guild, have to pay countless toll fees to do this."

The Archbishop of Agriculture said with a smile, "But this really is a good supplement, isn’t it? I think our Church of Agriculture can also engage in such activities. All along, we’ve been struggling with one thing—the continent’s area is just too large. Even if we purchase that much agricultural machinery, during busy farming seasons it might not be enough. But these two systems complement each other, and with coordination from local agricultural churches, things will definitely go much smoother."

The continent was so vast. For the Church of Agriculture to single-handedly provide agricultural Magic Conductor rental services to all planting areas across the entire continent was actually very difficult. It might even take many years of supplementation to accomplish.

If it was just the initial planting, that was fine—they could stagger things a bit.

As long as they calculated it out and could complete local planting within a few days, it would work. But what about harvest time?

That really was racing against time.

When crops matured, if they couldn’t harvest quickly, if they accidentally encountered thunderstorms, an entire field of grain could be ruined.

In time-racing mode, to have enough harvesters prepared by agricultural churches, they’d need to prepare at least several times the amount.

Even for the Church of Agriculture, even being able to borrow money from the bond market, the Church of Agriculture felt it still wasn’t possible.

And there was another problem here. If they purchased too much and borrowed too much money, they’d have to charge more fees, otherwise they wouldn’t even have enough to pay the interest.

But if fees were too high, not all farm owners would be willing to rent. They might as well get more slaves—that’s what they’d done in the past anyway.

This would create a contradictory situation. Buy too much and fewer people would rent. Buy too little and many people would rent, putting them in crisis.

But if under normal circumstances it was one quantity, and during busy farming season it was another quantity, the situation would be vastly different.

Listening to the Archbishop of Agriculture’s introduction and ideas, Viscount Roster was also slightly stunned.

He really hadn’t thought these two plans could be used in combination. But after hearing the Archbishop of Agriculture’s introduction, he understood that it indeed seemed to be the case.

In just a few sentences, he’d actually sold another huge batch of agricultural machinery. This made Viscount Roster very happy, even though the project hadn’t truly landed yet.

"I wonder when your Church of Agriculture plans to start? How much will the first batch purchase? I can actually arrange for people to make a batch first."

Viscount Roster thought for a moment. "Right now we don’t have many orders for agricultural Magic Conductors, so we shouldn’t need much of a queue. But soon, when the wheat matures and the major territories of the Dawn Kingdom’s royal capital plains officially start harvesting and using agricultural Magic Conductors on a large scale, I can’t say how many orders there’ll be. My suggestion is you either place orders quickly or wait until the new factory is established."

"New factory?" The Archbishop of Agriculture caught the key point.

With the Church of Agriculture’s information channels, they naturally knew that quite a few nobles had already equipped themselves with agricultural Magic Conductors. Although most of these nobles were just doing Viscount Roster a favor—they had other cooperations between them, or they were shareholders in the Roster Territory Group Company themselves—a purchase was a purchase.

They’d definitely use them when the time came.

Once they uploaded to the Magic Net to show off, orders would inevitably skyrocket.

"If all goes well, Roster Territory Group Company will jointly invest with the Southern Development Company to start building new-style factories on a large scale in the southern region. Once these factories are built, production efficiency will naturally improve greatly. However, establishing these new factories also takes time."

Viscount Roster said with a smile, "Of course, the main production goal of these new factories is still producing magic-powered vehicles, especially magic-powered trucks. Other machinery can only be considered supplementary."

"Dragon Delivery and the Golden Merchant Guild have already placed orders with us. Combined, they want to purchase 5,000 magic-powered trucks of various sizes to test the waters first."

The Archbishop of Agriculture was secretly amazed. Magic-powered trucks should be the largest type of magic-powered vehicles, specifically used for transporting goods.

From the videos released by Roster territory, these magic-powered trucks could pull several times, even dozens or hundreds of times the cargo that ox carts could pull. On flat land, they could travel nearly a hundred kilometers per hour. Incredibly powerful transport capability.

Such magic-tech equipment, and Dragon Delivery and the Golden Merchant Guild combined wanted to purchase 5,000 units.

Who knew how much stuff they were planning to transport.

Truly terrifying!

"Speaking of which, our Church of Agriculture might also need to purchase some magic-powered trucks. Though we definitely don’t need that many large ones—mainly small and medium-sized ones." The Archbishop of Agriculture paused, then added another sentence.