God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 331: Some People’s Brains Are Just More Flexible

Viscount Roster’s personal strength wasn’t very impressive.

He was just an ordinary mid-tier magician who probably couldn’t reach high-tier in his lifetime.

He had quite a few Magic Conductors and knew how to use them. When necessary, unleashing the combat power of a high-tier magician shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

But that was already his limit.

As an important figure, he did hire some bodyguards. The people usually by his side included one legendary magician and one legendary knight—one for offense, one for defense. Under normal circumstances, safety definitely wasn’t an issue.

But this time, to ensure the plan went smoothly, he chose to add a dragon.

In fact, the dragon’s deterrent power really did bring him huge help.

Nidhogg sent over a top-tier blue dragon, outstanding even among legendary figures. One dragon could easily take on three to five ordinary legendary beings without any problem.

With its help, in just about an hour, Viscount Roster returned to Roster territory.

He met with News Bird Megan and finalized the upcoming promotional campaign for the stock exchange. Then he began summoning the heads of each company to calculate each company’s specific assets, expected orders and profits for the next year, and dividends.

Then, according to the stock exchange scale, he determined the value of each share and how much stock each noble shareholder’s equity should be converted into.

Integrating and merging all the large and small companies in Roster territory—mechanical manufacturing plants, agricultural tool factories, textile mills, garment factories, military factories, and so on...

In just three days, he successfully established a new company: Roster Territory Group Company. Each company would continue operating according to its original model. The only difference was that in the future, all the money they earned would be gathered into Roster Territory Group Company and then distributed uniformly.

Of course, each originally existing company now had only one shareholder: Roster Territory Group Company.

As for the original shareholders, they would receive shares in Roster Territory Group Company according to their stakes.

With the group company established and the equity distribution plan confirmed, Viscount Roster began contacting shareholders one by one.

From largest to smallest.

The first person he contacted was naturally the Hand of the King, Berion Rogers.

Minister Berion’s family was very small, and the wealth and territory they possessed weren’t much. This was one of the reasons he worked so hard to climb up.

If he’d had a duchy to inherit, he definitely wouldn’t be like he was now.

But precisely because of this, his second-ranked goal all along had been to make his family wealthier, possess more territory, and let his children, grandchildren... live prosperously.

And precisely because of this, when Viscount Roster became Finance Minister and frantically raked in money through various events, he didn’t interfere at all. Eventually, he became a shareholder in several Roster territory factories, investing almost half his life savings.

Viscount Roster had only briefly explained to the Hand of the King Berion that he’d formed a group company and wanted to transfer stocks, and Berion directly nodded. "Your plan is good. Go do others’ work. You know me—I’m only responsible for investing money and receiving dividends."

"Of course, in the future I might also sell or buy equity. I already know about the stock exchange. Your territory’s ’media’ outlets have been promoting it for two days."

Viscount Roster froze slightly, then smiled. "You should also see the opportunity this time."

Berion was blunt. "Naturally. I don’t know what’ll happen later, but early on, Roster Territory Group Company, Dawn Southern Development Company, and the Golden Merchant Guild will all be the most dazzling entities. People will flock to them. Our company originally worth 1 gold coin—the total stock price might directly become 2, 3, or even 5, 6, 7, 8 gold coins."

"When necessary, I’ll naturally sell off a portion. This is a windfall from heaven."

Viscount Roster neither confirmed nor denied this.

After chatting with Berion a bit more, he went to notify the next person.

Those who could buy in were all nobles. Quite a few nobles actually didn’t want this kind of change because they preferred stability and unchanging conditions.

They liked maintaining the status quo, just like they always maintained ancient noble etiquette, maintained daily banquets, maintained everything routine about their territories...

But this time, they had no choice.

Once communication failed, a blue dragon would descend from the sky.

Faced with powerful force, these nobles became people who loved reform, were passionate about reform, were willing to devote themselves to the cause of reform, and even sincerely praised Viscount Roster’s plan—even though they didn’t know what the stock exchange was, much less what it meant.

Of course, those who didn’t know about this were most likely just people in remote areas and these conservative nobles.

News Bird Megan’s actions were incredibly swift.

After receiving Viscount Roster’s orders, that very evening, he reported on News Broadcast about the upcoming establishment of the Dragon Stock Exchange, and spent three minutes roughly explaining what it was and what important significance it had.

The next day, the World Economic News Agency’s media accounts of all sizes began overwhelming publicity about this matter.

In their narrative, companies going public would provide enterprises with financing opportunities, make it more convenient to solidify governance structures and brand images, and could increase wealth growth and wealth circulation... Everyone could profit from it.

They also promoted that the dragons had conducted a very large-scale prayer ceremony to the God of Technology and received feedback. When the Dragon Stock Exchange was established, a miracle would descend—most likely, stock trading would also be possible on the Magic Net.

In some slightly larger cities, people who’d obtained second-gen Magic Net through Dragon Bank activities and had a bit of free time without struggling on the edge of death even began discussing this matter in offline settings following the online publicity.

In bigger cities, even random street vendors could say a thing or two about the Dragon Stock Exchange.

You could really see News Bird Megan’s influence now!

Church of Shepherding.

Continental Wool Guild.

Famous live streaming sales host "I’m Really Not the Cult Heir," Wool Ryan, looked seriously at the news on the Magic Net. After a long while, he shifted his gaze to his father, the Pope of the Church of Shepherding and president of the Wool Guild.

"Father, I believe we should prepare to proactively send all kinds of information about the Wool Guild to the Dragon Stock Exchange and prepare to go public. This is an opportunity—an unprecedented opportunity!"