God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 413: Sometimes You Have to Make Small Changes

"There’s definitely a connection."

Ren said with a smile, "Bottom line, the biggest effect of this operation is that it’s put more money into circulation. When there’s more money in circulation, we just need to get more goods flowing through the market, and most people’s lives will get better."

"After these people’s lives improve, the biggest impact will be that the population will start exploding even more rapidly. Our plan is already more than halfway successful."

Listening to Ren’s words, the Goddess of Magic nodded slightly. She’d basically understood Ren’s thinking.

Actually, it wasn’t hard to understand.

There were only a few core issues.

One acre of land produced enough grain to feed a whole family, so not that many people needed to buy grain. There was too much grain on the market, and prices crashed.

When grain prices crashed, nobles and manor lords found that grain prices were just too low—farming might not even cover costs. So people wanting to sell land appeared. When lots of people sold land, land prices dropped too.

Land prices crashed, grain prices crashed—people who’d been saving money to buy land now wanted to spend their money on other things they considered valuable. Some merchants and nobles holding valuable items didn’t want to sell for the moment, so prices of goods rose.

But just like that, wealthy people’s money was still in their own warehouses—just that goods weren’t circulating anymore.

So Ren planned to stimulate more people to enter magic-tech industrialization, mass-producing all kinds of goods. When there were more things on the market, prices would naturally drop.

And those nobles and merchants—because they were just too wealthy, this money needed to find new investment methods. That would be the stock market and investing in magic-tech industrialization factories. So this money would have a new destination and would start circulating in the market.

Large numbers of people would enter these workshops, have jobs, earn money, and could buy more things, creating even greater demand.

At this point, factories that had already transformed into magic-tech industrialization would naturally need to mass-produce even more goods to satisfy this huge market. Otherwise, wouldn’t other people be making all the money?

When things reached this step, a positive cycle had actually formed. Going forward, they wouldn’t need to do anything—the market would just keep progressing, and the magic-tech industrialization process would keep advancing.

In this process, everything would change.

Originally there were misers everywhere, generation after generation accumulating wealth in their castles. But now they had no choice but to take out their money and become factory owners in the magic-tech industrial era.

Countless people at the bottom—those originally considered rats and bedbugs in the gutters—would have their own jobs and certain income.

Townspeople, farmers, slaves, serfs—in this process, they’d also have their own new positions.

Of course, there’d definitely still be plenty of conservative people in this world. Tens of thousands of years, tens of thousands of years of mindsets—naturally couldn’t be completely changed overnight. But once some people changed, once a portion of people changed, then the era changed.

Those who still maintained "tradition" would all be crushed by the era.

Those at the very bottom were often the people with the highest mortality rate in this era. Every Frigid Moon, who knew how many people died. If three to five out of ten of their children grew up, that was already considered extremely lucky.

But when they had jobs, had fixed residences, had decent food—everything would change.

People who originally might have frozen or starved to death survived. Children who originally might have died also survived.

Wouldn’t the population explode?

Population explosion was a good thing for most gods.

Because faith came from each person’s heart.

As for whether these people would stop believing in the gods because their lives got better—that naturally wasn’t a concern.

After all, for a very, very long time to come, the schools these people attended would be church schools. How could their beliefs be affected just because they had full stomachs?!

While Ren and the Goddess of Magic were chatting about all this, in the mortal realm, Viscount Roster also noticed the changes in land prices.

"I was only paying attention to changes in grain and population issues before, and overlooked that land prices would also change."

Looking at the information sent to him by the World Economic News Agency, Viscount Roster showed an interested expression. "If that’s the case, then shouldn’t I buy up some land?"

"Land prices have definitely dropped because of increased grain production. After all, the value of output is decreasing. But land isn’t just for planting crops!"

"And would land really become that worthless? Can’t you also plant fruits, vegetables, or other things?"

"If I hoard a batch while prices are low, I won’t say how much it’ll rise, but at least when I need land later, there won’t be so much trouble."

"But... I need to be really selective. Not every lord will honor contracts. After completing the land transaction, some won’t sabotage things or cause trouble just because land prices rise later..."

"Wait! If I’m the one buying, others will definitely notice something’s off. If I send people to do it, they’ll inevitably be targeted by local lords and nobles and end up getting eaten alive."

"Right! I can have the Golden Merchant Guild do it. Now there are Golden Merchant Guild agents everywhere. Have the Golden Merchant Guild purchase discounted land within their sphere of influence. They definitely won’t dare target the Golden Merchant Guild—unless they don’t want to enter the trade system anymore, don’t want to make money."

The Golden Merchant Guild’s model pulled kings, dukes, counts... into a community of shared interests.

Everyone up and down the chain could earn a cut when selling goods, and all they needed to contribute was selling in their own territories.

But if they offended the Golden Merchant Guild over land and couldn’t do business anymore, probably before the Golden Merchant Guild did anything, people up and down the chain would already be unhappy.

Wasn’t this cutting meat from everyone?

People below wouldn’t get anything at all.

People above would see such a large chunk missing from the area they could originally profit from.

When the time came and trouble started, nobody would look good.

Having the Golden Merchant Guild buy land—perfect!

Thinking of this, Viscount Roster immediately took action. This time he’d made over 20 million gold coins from the stock market and had originally planned to invest it all directly into ultra-high-speed rail transit. But now he discovered he should set aside a portion to purchase land.

After all, the ultra-high-speed rail transit couldn’t possibly need all that money dumped in right away. They could talk about the rest later. First, seize this opportunity.