God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 330: The Integration

Viscount Roster was someone good at seizing opportunities.

From the first time he learned about the God of Technology and Magic Conductors, he’d perfectly seized the opportunity every single time.

This time was naturally no exception.

He had many industries under his command. For convenient management, he’d categorized them and invited lots of nobles and officials to become shareholders. Each industry represented a whole bunch of shareholders. Without a doubt, directly listing these industries on the stock market was possible, but their competitiveness definitely wouldn’t be strong.

He believed it wouldn’t take long before all kinds of promising companies would spring up everywhere, spreading across the entire world.

By that time, even with his endorsement, these companies might not be able to maintain their current positions.

But if he had time to integrate most of the industries in Roster territory, as long as he divided up each noble shareholder’s piece of the pie properly, an ultra-strong company that could definitely last many years would emerge.

As for whether some noble shareholders would gain more say in this process—without a doubt, they wouldn’t!

Because after all companies merged into one company, although everyone’s interests wouldn’t be harmed and might even increase a bit, the total number of shareholders for the entire company would explode—there’d probably be over a thousand.

With such a huge number of shareholders mutually checking each other, he, Roster, would still have the final say.

The only uncertainty was whether after going public, someone would gather most people’s equity together... But the stock market would appear directly on the Magic Net, accessible to over ten million people across the continent. Wouldn’t they want to share in the dividends too?

Those people could definitely form a kind of hedge with these shareholders, driving the stock price—that is, the company’s value—up to an even more terrifying number. Leveraging that number, the company would develop even faster.

As for whether this company might change hands someday in the future?

Viscount Roster knew very clearly—it was possible.

Even his territory was possible.

That’s just how this world was.

But so what?

He, the most loyal believer of the God of Technology, the last lord of Roster territory, who had no heirs—did he care about these things?

What he cared more about was changing the entire world through the God of Technology.

As long as it was beneficial in the short term and could push magic-tech industrialization forward, in his view, it was something completely worth doing.

Viscount Roster was thinking this when Nidhogg on the other side of the Magic Net seemed a bit dazed. "You’re saying the World Economic News Agency—that company that developed News Broadcast—is actually yours? The headquarters is in Roster territory?"

"Yeah. You didn’t know?"

Roster was somewhat surprised. He’d thought that in top circles, this wasn’t a secret. Who else but him could have seized the opportunity to build a company like that?

After pausing briefly, Roster seemed a bit worried. "Megan shouldn’t have reported any negative news about the dragon race, right? I had them mainly cover the human sphere of influence."

"No, no, it’s just..." Nidhogg hemmed and hawed for quite a while before finally speaking. "Actually, I wanted to have them help run an advertisement, but the World Economic News Agency seems to never run ads."

As the number one rated outlet on the Magic Net, the World Economic News Agency’s attention rate in the human world far exceeded any other living being.

Every day, millions of people—close to a third of users—would watch the World Economic News Agency’s news.

How much their user base trusted them was easy to imagine.

"..."

Viscount Roster was speechless. After staying silent for a good while, he finally accepted this reality. He’d worried for nothing. "What do you want to advertise? If it’s Dragon Bank, you don’t need to do any advertising. We’ll report on it directly."

"It’s not Dragon Bank, and not Dragon Delivery either. It’s the upcoming stock exchange. Although after the stock exchange is built, it’ll launch simultaneously in the City of Gold and on the Magic Net, and through the Magic Net it’ll definitely spread quickly, getting people to believe and understand this is genuinely very difficult."

Nidhogg had also gained deep knowledge of the business world recently and actually analyzed things quite coherently. "So I want to use the World Economic News Agency to hype up the buzz and get more people paying attention to this."

"Let more people know about and understand this thing."

"When it actually appears, people will also accept it more easily."

A mighty Dragon of Despair making such a response—if anyone heard about it, they probably wouldn’t believe it, right?

Viscount Roster was somewhat silent. Just as Nidhogg was preparing to continue talking, Viscount Roster sent a message. "This matter is of course no problem. Not only is it no problem, I’ll also have the World Economic News Agency launch a new program specifically explaining the stock market." 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

"After our stock exchange officially starts operating, they’ll specially report and comment on major stock trading events every day. If possible, they could even do live streams and add a new fixed-topic live broadcast."

Though the stock exchange matter had only just begun, Viscount Roster had keenly detected the key point. He felt that if he used the World Economic News Agency well, he could even manipulate stock prices and influence many people’s judgments.

He immediately confirmed this matter.

"Oh right, we haven’t confirmed the earlier matter yet. When exactly are you planning to start stock trading? How much time can you give me? Let me see if I can make it in time to integrate all the industries in Viscount Roster’s territory."

Seeing the matter confirmed, Viscount Roster quickly switched back to the original topic. "On my end, I’ll also start promoting according to the timeline and try my best to get this thing done."

Nidhogg: "Estimated to be seven days from now."

"I need the exact time. We’ll definitely need to mark the time when promoting." Viscount Roster emphasized.

"Then seven days from now. If this new building can’t be finished in three days, I’ll personally go grab a bunch of legendary magicians to come build the exchange for me. As for the exchange on the Magic Net, once we officially launch, the god will naturally grant it to us."

Viscount Roster froze slightly.

He was a perceptive person and instantly noticed that when Nidhogg spoke, his way of referring to the God of Technology had already undergone a certain transformation.

Nidhogg himself might not have even realized this transformation, but it was already a seed.

He believed it wouldn’t take long before they’d become like-minded people.

Though actually, the way they were conspiring together now already had the feel of being like-minded people.

Things were quickly settled. Viscount Roster repeated one final time: "Starting tomorrow, the World Economic News Agency will begin promoting the opening seven days from now. I’ll guarantee that before opening day, I’ll complete the integration of Roster territory’s industries and submit the data."

"Also, I need to see a dragon in fifteen minutes to take me back to Roster territory. For the next seven days, this dragon will stay by my side protecting me."