God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 390: Absolutely Terrifying

Hearing ’Tricky Coin’ Al’s words, everyone was stunned.

Crazy manufacturing of weapons for the Church of Technology to use, and then somehow the money keeps increasing?

Does Viscount Roster charge the Church of Technology for providing weapons?

Where does the Church of Technology’s money come from?

Seeing everyone looking at him, ’Tricky Coin’ Al said seriously: "Viscount Roster’s territory can no longer be simply compared to a single factory. You have to stack together everyone’s lives."

"The Church of Technology’s demand for weapons and equipment keeps increasing, which means they need a large number of workers to produce war chariots, armor, and weapons. Where do these workers come from? Only by absorbing refugees from other places can they do it."

"Most refugees are dirt poor. Everyone knows that. In other ordinary traditional territories, they’re a burden. But on Viscount Roster’s turf, they quickly transform into workers, into labor. They can produce things, and then... naturally they can make money."

"Once they have money, they’ll buy all kinds of things. The new-style housing the Church of Technology built over at Foster Iron Mine has been successful. We’d definitely look down on that kind of housing, and a lot of citizens would too. But what about refugees?"

"They need a place to shelter from wind and rain. So they’ll buy."

"They work and get some money. They use that money as a down payment—about twenty or thirty percent of the house value—to buy the house. The rest is debt that they need to pay back monthly from their earnings, plus a certain interest to Dragon Bank. And what Dragon Bank wants as collateral is these very houses."

"Are you noticing something interesting here? These refugees recruited through military equipment production might only earn 3 gold coins. But after selling the house, Viscount Roster has 10 gold coins in hand. The remaining 7 come from Dragon Bank, but they also come from these refugees’ future."

"But no big deal, no need to worry about that. With 10 gold coins in hand, Viscount Roster can naturally take out a portion to pay the refugees, expand military weapons production, build new-style housing, and then cycle it like this, over and over."

"This is just the simplest model. It’s actually more complex. Don’t these refugees heading to Viscount Roster’s territory need food? Won’t grain merchants and restaurants get more prosperous?"

"These people need clothes. Won’t textile mills and garment factories need to keep hiring?"

"Hospitals, schools, food, clothing, housing, transportation... so many aspects will become prosperous because of these people’s arrival. These industries might be Viscount Roster’s or someone else’s—doesn’t matter. Either way, Viscount Roster either makes money directly or collects taxes."

"That’s another income stream for Roster territory."

"Once they adapt to this economic model, all of Roster territory’s industries will expand to some degree, and the longer it goes, the larger the scale of their expansion."

"And military weapons are just a byproduct of this process. If nothing goes wrong, the continuous production of these weapons won’t burden Roster territory at all. Instead, it’ll create a new growth point for Roster territory."

"Moreover, during this process, their consumption and investment will gradually stabilize and keep expanding without any fluctuation."

"A new operating mechanism, a new cycle, a new atmosphere. I even suspect that the reason the Church of Technology chose to act at this time is that they want to sweep more people along and rapidly enter the new era of magic-tech industry."

"Do you really think that in front of this constantly strengthening magic-tech industrial monster, just producing some weapons and equipment will drag them down? Will make them invade other countries for a few gold coins?"

Hearing ’Tricky Coin’ Al’s words, the scene went completely silent.

They’d never imagined that Roster territory’s operating model was actually like this.

If it was really like what ’Tricky Coin’ Al said, didn’t that mean that while other countries got poorer the more they fought wars—where the purpose of war was to reduce population, then plunder resources and use others’ resources to meet their own smaller population’s needs—the Church of Technology just simply ran out of things to produce and wanted to attract some refugees over to transform them into elements of magic-tech industrialization? 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Terrifying!

Absolutely terrifying!

But they thought of something even scarier.

At first, those workshops would recruit refugees and expand production to meet refugee demand. So would all those products really get consumed by these refugees?

Obviously not.

So the extra stuff produced would get sold externally.

If external sales weren’t smooth, they’d lower prices.

The things Roster territory could produce were already pretty cheap. This way, workshops that didn’t try to industrialize would probably completely disappear under this kind of impact.

If they didn’t prepare properly, it wouldn’t be long before these people who were doing okay might also become refugees.

And if they then ran off to Viscount Roster’s territory... forget everything else, they weren’t that far from the Southern Development Corporation!

The more you fight, the more you have!

The more you fight, the bigger you get!

And then they’d start eating away at their strength from another angle.

This information exploded in the minds of the Gray Fort Empire’s leadership. They suddenly realized things might not be as simple as they imagined.

"Sir Al, if everything really is like you said, what should we do next?"

A minister took a deep breath and looked at ’Tricky Coin’ Al. He believed that since ’Tricky Coin’ Al could see all this, he must have some ideas.

Maybe only this reform-minded guy could solve the current problem.

"Viscount Roster can use this military equipment as an anchor point for magic-tech industrialization reform. Naturally, we can use other things as anchor points to follow suit."

’Tricky Coin’ Al was very confident. "We don’t even need to reform in the big picture direction. We just need to make what we were already going to do more aggressive. For example, we can completely open up our major infrastructure construction plan."

"Of course, we also need to learn from Viscount Roster’s experience—we need to be able to get future money through Dragon Bank."

"During major infrastructure construction, we’ll definitely need to mobilize massive manpower and resources. We need to let everyone in every link make money, then figure out ways to make them spend money, gradually entering something similar to Roster territory’s military equipment magic-tech industry cycle—creating an infrastructure construction magic-tech industry cycle!"

"Once this cycle appears, our Gray Fort Empire will also enter a positive feedback loop, getting bigger and bigger!"