God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 350: Connecting the Dots

"Maybe they just want to get a good reputation in the new era?"

After receiving the Gray Fort Emperor’s private message, Viscount Roster paused for a moment, then quickly typed out line after line of text. "The magic-tech industrial era has already arrived. Before long, the entire world will undergo earth-shattering changes. If churches want to establish themselves in this new era, they also need to reform."

"If they still follow past practices, before long, their era of glory will pass."

"If I were in charge of a church, I’d also approach it from these angles. Free schools are the closest place for commoners to access knowledge, and also the best location for them to promote their church’s ideology to commoners."

"Also, many of these students who’ve received knowledge won’t take long before they enter the magic-tech industrial system and become excellent workers."

"When they discover that what they learned for free back then at the church school can increase their income so much and make their lives so much better, what choice will they make? Won’t the probability of them having faith increase?"

"The logic for hospitals is the same. Take the Church of Light, for example—they used to like distributing holy water because people with diseases are at their most vulnerable. If holy water can cure them, they’ll naturally worship the God of Light more and might develop faith."

"As for building roads and bridges, they probably figure marking their name means people will see it every day when they pass by..."

The Gray Fort Emperor looked at Viscount Roster’s lengthy explanation, disbelief written all over his face. If it were one church or a few doing it one after another, even lined up in a queue—seeing one church do it and others following suit—that could be the reason.

But the problem was they suddenly did it collectively, as if they’d all received divine oracles at the same time, then started. Using the same methods—issuing bonds at the Dragon Bond Exchange—while simultaneously promoting related matters in their churches. As soon as funds arrived, they instantly began.

No matter how you looked at it, this was premeditated. There might even be something happening between the deities... In short, it didn’t look like an ordinary event at all.

"I want to know, has your Church of Technology received any divine oracles recently?" After a long silence, the Gray Fort Emperor posed the question again.

"No." Viscount Roster didn’t hesitate in the slightest. "We just need to develop magic-tech industry according to the God’s will. We still have many tasks to complete."

"Speaking of which, with so many churches suddenly taking action, many building bridges and roads, doesn’t that mean before long, the main roads of your Gray Fort Empire will become incredibly smooth?!"

"Since that’s the case, are you interested in the magic-powered vehicles produced by our Roster territory? We can already mass-produce them. Before long, they’ll be officially on sale. The price differences based on different models are admittedly quite large, but they’re absolutely worth every coin."

"Absolutely worth it."

"Compared to traditional transportation, magic-powered vehicles are faster and carry heavier loads. I don’t know how good your intelligence capabilities are, but I think you should know at least something about my Southern Development Company’s recent activities."

"My Southern Development Company is cooperating with the Roster Territory Development Company. We’ve established a huge magic-powered vehicle production super-factory in the southern region and are building medium and large roads between major cities and manors. Once construction is complete, if all goes well, by the Month of Harvest we’ll be able to use magic-powered vehicles to transport the grain we’ve grown."

"They run with almost no consumption at all. You just need to place them in self-charging arrays for charging, and they can provide stronger transportation capacity than livestock..."

The Gray Fort Emperor naturally knew about this.

The shadow had already relayed this information back.

He even knew the specifications of various large transport magic-powered vehicles.

But precisely because of this, he had another question that needed Viscount Roster to answer. "Since you’re already building ultra-high-speed maglev trains on a large scale in the southern region, why are you still establishing so many magic-powered vehicle transport routes? No matter what, magic-powered vehicles can’t possibly reach even a fraction of the speed of ultra-high-speed maglev trains, right?"

"We just need to connect cities with ultra-high-speed maglev trains, and all kinds of supplies can be rapidly transported within range."

"Oh, my goodness! Worthy of being His Majesty the Emperor of humanity’s most powerful empire." Viscount Roster let out an exclamation.

But for some reason, the Gray Fort Emperor felt like Viscount Roster was being sarcastic.

"We don’t have as ample funding as you do. We also can’t borrow that many gold coins from the bond market. In the early stages, we only plan to install ultra-high-speed maglev trains on main routes. The remaining areas will primarily use roads and magic-powered vehicles."

Viscount Roster was someone who knew how to grasp the right tone. "Magic-powered vehicles can reach more places than ultra-high-speed maglev trains, and road construction costs are lower. Combining the two, we’re confident we can connect every village, every manor with rail transit, and connect them all to the entire transportation network."

"Of course, in the future when we have sufficient funds, whether it’s ordinary roads or rail transit, we’ll build them even more comprehensively. I think these two can actually exist as complementary systems. Not everything is worth using ultra-high-speed maglev trains for."

"It’s like how horse carts and ox carts had pretty good transport capacity before, but people still chose to use ships for large-scale grain transport and such."

The Gray Fort Emperor wasn’t a fool. On the contrary, he was a very smart person—otherwise the Gray Fort Empire wouldn’t have developed as rapidly as predicted, and so many reforms wouldn’t have been completed all at once. But as he aged, his thinking had become somewhat rigid, and the recent events had such a huge impact on him that he’d temporarily overlooked many details.

With Viscount Roster putting it this way, he suddenly understood.

Immediately after, he thought of more things. Were those churches suddenly starting to build roads and bridges also related to this?

Previously, most people’s travel range was limited. Roads were basically prepared for nobles, armies, and merchants. But with the transformation of the transportation system and the establishment of Magic Conductor factories, the mobility of free citizens would also accelerate greatly...

Also, the transportation of raw materials and goods between factories—it seemed everything had new requirements for transportation, no longer the scale of before.

If that was the case, ultra-high-speed maglev trains seemed somewhat insufficient... At least the transport capacity they’d originally designed wasn’t enough. Should they continue expanding?

Increase the frequency?

Or should they also coordinate multiple transportation methods like Viscount Roster’s side?