God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 433: Perfect Time to Harvest Them All Together

For Actuary Johnny to have become Gray Fort Empire’s former Finance Minister, he naturally had strong abilities. Even though this round of Gray Fort Empire reforms had kicked him out of the game, he still possessed capabilities ordinary people couldn’t imagine.

He was someone skilled at calculation and extremely intelligent.

Although he hadn’t been good at media management before, and honestly had never even thought there could be such a thing in this world, after Magic Net became popular, he quickly found his opportunity.

Back when there was only Magic Space, he’d already started making a name for himself on Magic Net, frequently posting attention-grabbing content.

However, he hadn’t rushed to directly create something like World Economic News Agency. Instead, he kept observing while profiting on the side.

Until this futures market appeared—he quickly seized the opportunity.

From the previous stock market incident, you could see countless people would pay attention to the futures market.

But World Economic News Agency had only reported on the futures market once at the very beginning. They rarely paid attention after that.

Actuary Johnny seized the opportunity, choosing this as his entry point, writing several so-called "in-depth" analysis pieces about the futures market.

At this stage, though, not many people were paying attention to the futures market. Most people focused on features like Shopping Mall.

But soon, just as Actuary Johnny predicted, countless funds gathered in the futures market.

Many people turned their attention to steel futures.

Actuary Johnny made a quick decision and started hyping steel futures, constantly proving, explaining, presenting data, reasoning, and describing steel’s potential from every angle.

Who knows if he got possessed writing these articles, or if he really thought the potential was massive, but he started buying in heavily himself.

Of course, he made money.

He’d already made over four times his investment.

And he kept buying.

This became a perpetual motion machine. He started pumping steel futures, steel futures skyrocketed, he made money, continued pumping steel futures hard, steel futures kept skyrocketing, his enthusiasm for pumping steel kept rising...

Now he’d spotted an opportunity for both fame and fortune.

Right then, Actuary Johnny decided to write an article blasting Viscount Roster’s behavior.

The language was extremely harsh.

Anyway, he lived in Gray Fort Empire—didn’t need to worry about Viscount Roster’s retaliation.

With this thought, he hurriedly went to write the article.

An indescribable sense of satisfaction filled his heart.

Didn’t Viscount Roster say we need to prevent steel futures from overheating?

Well, I’ll show you what "we’re still at the foot of the mountain" really means!

Just spouting nonsense. The stock market’s already in that state and you’re still saying invest in it? Isn’t that all going under your name?

And land—you’ve completely destroyed land returns. Every acre planted loses money, and now you’re saying invest in buying land? Are you kidding?

Really think we’re fools?

Actuary Johnny thought this way, his language getting more and more heated.

While he was writing away, knocking came from outside: "Mr. Johnny, several great nobles want to invite you to visit them."

"Why?" Actuary Johnny was clearly stunned.

"They said these top nobles have formed an investors’ alliance. Many members admire you greatly and think what you write in the media is very insightful. They want to invite you over for a good discussion." His subordinate quickly explained.

"Hmm? Who are they?"

When Actuary Johnny heard his subordinate report the names one by one, he felt completely flattered.

These were all top-tier families in Gray Fort!

Quite a few had even longer histories than Gray Fort Empire itself.

So many great families mixing together and forming such an alliance—though thinking about it, it actually made sense.

After all, they’d been intermarrying for countless years. To put it bluntly, if any of their families got wiped out, the other families could instantly produce their own heirs to that family, and they’d definitely be actual blood relatives.

Their using this method for takeovers was actually very common.

But at this moment, Actuary Johnny naturally didn’t have time to worry about these things.

"Tell them I’ll visit in three days. I just have a very, very important press release to write right now. It’s about steel futures."

Actuary Johnny quickly suppressed his excited feelings and said with a smile.

"Okay, okay, I’ll go right away." He quickly said something and walked briskly outside.

When this alliance of nobles heard this news, several people were actually unhappy, but the others persuaded them, so they didn’t make a fuss.

However, when they saw Actuary Johnny’s press release the next day, their original displeasure completely vanished.

Good grief!

Really going all out.

Actuary Johnny’s entire piece used extremely sharp language, constantly attacking Viscount Roster, and analyzing from a very professional angle how Viscount Roster was just profiting for himself, so this and that.

"This Actuary Johnny, what an iron backbone!"

"Haha, speaks to my heart, really speaks to my heart!"

"Well said. It’s all that bastard Roster’s fault. If not for him, why would we be in this situation?"

"This analysis is well-reasoned. Steel is the most widely used metal in the world—how could there possibly be insufficient follow-through?!"

These nobles’ chat was basically a microcosm of what people were saying on Magic Net.

For a moment, Viscount Roster seemed to have become everyone’s opponent. Who knows how many people started attacking him, who knows how many people started cursing him.

Even some people not participating in futures trading, swept up in this public opinion, couldn’t help thinking about it, then following their train of thought, suddenly finding it odd but seeming like Viscount Roster really was in the wrong.

Basically except for the poorest people, who really wouldn’t go hungry anymore because of Viscount Roster and so unconditionally supported him, everyone else seemed to start wavering.

After seeing all this, Viscount Roster immediately started writing extensively, writing another article and publishing it through World Economic News Agency.

"People in this world are really strange. Tell the truth and nobody wants to listen. Make up a bunch of nonsense and everyone believes it without question."

Viscount Roster couldn’t help sighing: "With this article, I’ll convince whoever I can convince!"

"As for those who won’t listen, perfect—through our back-and-forth battle, they’ll be completely drawn in, willing to go all-in."

Viscount Roster didn’t know those people’s thoughts, but he knew one thing—most people loved watching drama.

Using media to frantically fight over a hot topic, with both sides being people of status—how could that not attract eyeballs?