God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 416: Update Announcement, The New Feature Is Really Useful!

Chapter 416: Update Announcement, The New Feature Is Really Useful!

Land could be used for many things.

In Viscount Roster’s view, land could be cultivated. As long as you cultivated enough, you could control grain prices. That way, naturally, magic-tech industrial development would proceed more smoothly.

Having more places for planting naturally meant being able to face various natural disasters.

Besides that, land could also absorb more employment.

As development continued, Viscount Roster had also realized the importance of employment rates.

In the past, most people were farmers, slaves, or barely surviving in the lowest levels of society.

Perhaps such people were easier to get faith from, but it was very difficult to convert them into faith for the God of Technology.

As a believer of the God of Technology, his only goal was to make the world more industrialized.

So he needed to transform more people into an industrial population, or let more people have access to industrial products.

Under this line of thinking, Viscount Roster believed they should continuously purchase more land. This would become his solid backing.

Of course, there was another very important point.

That was that this land would directly affect the establishment of the future ultra-high-speed rail transit system.

Perhaps people found it hard to imagine—clearly establishing an ultra-high-speed rail transit system was beneficial for everyone, but in the future construction process, it would definitely be incredibly difficult.

Sometimes human greed was terrifying, especially among these traditional nobles.

Even if these nobles didn’t realize how important the ultra-high-speed rail system was to them, they still wouldn’t mind jacking up land prices to outrageous levels when the ultra-high-speed rail transit system passed through their territory.

Ultimately, this would cause the construction costs of the ultra-high-speed rail system to become prohibitively high, or make it impossible to develop at all.

To avoid this situation, purchasing more land now also had its benefits.

Just like that, days passed one by one, and the Golden Merchant Guild controlled more and more land, especially after the grain auction when most places had stable, low-priced grain supplies.

Under these circumstances, grain prices naturally remained low and stable, which also caused land price fluctuations. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

However, Viscount Roster soon shifted his attention elsewhere, just injecting large amounts of capital into the Golden Merchant Guild to complete the current land acquisition task.

After all, Viscount Roster had many things to do. No matter how important land was, he couldn’t possibly concentrate all his attention on this one thing.

Besides, what difference would his attention make?

The main actors were still the Golden Merchant Guild members. Even if he paid attention, he couldn’t make any impact.

The development and creation of new magic conductors, the establishment of numerous workshops, and various other engineering projects all needed his attention.

Previously, his attention had been almost entirely focused on grain production. After confirming there was no issue with the most basic grain demand, the Southern Territory entered a new era.

Large numbers of workshops sprang up, large numbers of commercial organizations emerged endlessly. Near various construction sites and factories, many inns, restaurants, clothing stores, and other shops specifically serving construction workers or passing merchants appeared.

Compared to other countries or territories, workers near these new workshops or construction sites often had much stronger purchasing power.

On one hand, it was because these workers had substantial wages. On the other hand, it was because they were just too busy and didn’t have time to make food, clothes, and so on.

Even if they really had a tiny bit of spare time, they’d choose to study, because through studying, their wages could increase.

The social structure was gradually changing, and people were starting to find their own positions in the industrial era.

The Southern Territory became unprecedentedly prosperous.

On this day, the Magic Net suddenly released an update announcement.

[Update Announcement:]

[1. ’Shopping Mall’ feature officially launched, click to view details.]

[’Shopping Mall’ was jointly created by the Goddess of Magic and the God of Technology. This feature is mainly designed to provide users with a good shopping environment. In Shopping Mall, you can directly view all video bloggers’ storefronts, as well as dedicated shopping store. In Shopping Mall, you can engage in shopping, group buying, distribution, auctions, and various other retail activities...]

[2. ’Bulk Trading’ feature officially launched, click to view details.]

[’Bulk Trading’ was jointly created by the Goddess of Magic and the God of Technology. This feature mainly provides large-scale purchasing channels for commercial users. We recommend manufacturers join to achieve seamless connection between manufacturers and merchants. Here, merchants can purchase goods in larger quantities at lower prices...]

[3. ’Futures Trading Market’ feature officially launched, click to view details.]

[’Futures Trading Market’ was jointly created by the Goddess of Magic, the God of Technology, and the Dragons. It will be built next to the stock market and bond market. This feature is also a financial transaction, mainly trading bulk products such as grain, cotton, soybeans, etc. Delivery dates are set in the future, with prices, delivery quantities, payment methods, locations, and other conditions specified in contracts between both parties...]

[4. Fixed known bugs...]

Everyone’s first thought upon seeing this announcement was: Why another shopping feature?

Isn’t live streaming sales good enough?

Can’t those bloggers’ storefronts also be used for shopping?

Why specifically establish a shopping feature?

Every feature the God of Technology had released in the past had been very unique, with no overlap whatsoever with previous features. Why would such a situation appear this time?

Many people couldn’t help thinking—had the God of Technology run out of inspiration? Didn’t know how to develop the Magic Net anymore?

But very quickly, they started refuting their own ideas. How could the God of Technology be like that? That was the God of Technology!

The God of Technology must have had his reasons for doing this.

With this in mind, people opened this new feature one after another.

The moment they opened it, people suddenly realized that this Magic Net Shopping Mall had fundamental differences from the storefronts and live streaming sales on Magic Net Video.

The biggest difference was that storefronts were like individual shops on the market. Each shop could display products the shop owner considered valuable, but ultimately the quantity was limited.

How many products could a blogger put in their storefront?

These products were often focused on one category.

As for live streaming sales, the situation was even more particular. People had to constantly watch the livestream, watch the host release products one by one. Most of the time, if you missed it, you missed it.

But Magic Net Shopping Mall was different.

Here you could directly search for a product category and then see countless shops’ products.

For example, if you needed to buy a piece of clothing, in the past you could only browse through individual bloggers’ storefronts. Some bloggers had it, some didn’t. Some were out of stock, some weren’t.

Plus, there was often no way to compare, or rather, comparing was very difficult since you had to flip back and forth between several bloggers’ storefronts.

Many times people would notice one situation—the same clothes from Roster Territory Garment Factory had different prices at different bloggers.

Really, one careless moment and you’d end up being ripped off.

The key was that realizing you’d been ripped off made it even more painful.

But now the situation was completely different. You just had to search for "clothes" in the search bar, and you could see countless merchants. Basically, with just a glance, you could tell who had the cheapest identical items. Most importantly, countless products were just sitting there, letting people freely choose.

Compared to entering through Magic Net Video storefronts, it couldn’t be more convenient.