God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 438: Better to Act Than Just Feel Tempted

Seeing that these people were already hooked, Viscount Roster’s lips curved into a smile.

Right away, he pulled out the sales plan he’d prepared in advance.

Of course, he also brought out the farm construction plan and price lists for various magic-powered machinery.

The prices weren’t particularly expensive.

After all, from the very beginning, they’d wanted to promote these pigs. You could even say they were dying for every lord across the continent to build a farm like this.

Both sides had the same goal, which made the cooperation go super smoothly.

Before long, the deals were locked in.

The World Economic News Agency recorded everything, and it aired on that evening’s News Broadcast.

At the same time, both short-video and article versions of the news popped up all over the Magic Net.

"!!!"

"That impressive?"

"Totally worthy of being god-given!"

"They can raise pigs that big!"

"160 days to get that big? That’s ridiculous, right? How’s that even possible?"

"Why wouldn’t it be? Think about it—how long has it been since Viscount Roster went south?"

"Holy crap! First there’s super cheap grain with massive yields, and now there’s pork from pigs that grow this much meat in such a short time. Everything’s really changed."

"Before, when the Church of Shepherding wanted to buy a farm like this specifically for raising sheep, I couldn’t understand it. Now I finally get it!"

"Our territory absolutely needs to build a farm like this!"

"So you just need to castrate them and that nasty smell goes away? Wow!"

"Wonder if traditional black pigs would have the same effect after castration?"

"The regular ones can do it, but they take a whole year to raise and you only get forty or fifty pounds of meat, and they eat a ton. Why would anyone want black pigs? I don’t want anything else—I just want to buy god-given pig piglets."

"Huh? The piglets aren’t sold by Viscount Roster—after they breed them, they hand them over to the Church of Agriculture to sell. Anyone can buy them at Agriculture churches. But if you want the actual farm, you need to go through Viscount Roster!"

Almost instantly, the entire Magic Net exploded.

In this era, forget about ordinary farmers, freemen, citizens, and regular merchants—even some minor nobles and regular clerics in average church temples didn’t find it easy to eat meat.

Now they suddenly learned about a livestock that was easy to raise, grew meat fast, and actually tasted good—how could they not get excited?

Even a lot of freemen wanted to buy a few and raise them themselves.

Land prices were already pretty cheap now. Plus, grain yields were super high and grain was cheap too. They could totally mix their extra grain with other stuff and use it to raise these pigs.

Then they’d have a stable meat source.

Honestly, not everyone cared about the taste and flavor of the pork. What they cared more about was how much meat it could provide and how much grain and other stuff they’d need as feed.

The whole world was buzzing because of the success of the Long White Pigs.

However, there was one group of people who once again turned their attention to these Long White Pigs.

Johnny, the actuary from the Futures Trading Report, immediately focused on this matter.

"The god-given Long White Pigs have unparalleled abilities—they grow fast, need less food, and taste delicious enough. They’re definitely going to have a really solid market."

"Viscount Roster is selfish, but you’ve got to admit, he’s incredibly capable, especially when it comes to innovation."

"We can predict that before long, god-given Long White Pigs will spread across the entire world. Almost every lord will try raising them, and even many merchants will do the same."

"However, while everyone’s focusing on these god-given Long White Pigs, I’m looking at the farms themselves."

"These farms have completely changed how we think about raising animals. They confine each Long White Pig to individual small pens, but it’s not really cruel."

"Because the environment there is unimaginable—specialized cleaning magic conductors keep everything permanently clean and tidy, even cleaner than the houses we rent ourselves..."

He went on and on with his setup, making everyone think he was talking about the god-given Long White Pigs just like everyone else.

This approach was super effective.

Because right now, almost everyone was focused on these pigs.

This would directly affect the diet structure of the vast majority of people.

With grain no longer scarce, people’s mindsets were quietly changing.

They weren’t thinking anymore about how to avoid starving to death!

When articles like this appeared, they naturally resonated with tons of people.

Of course, the nobles felt the same way.

Because they saw a profit opportunity.

For them, grain was abundant. Now that grain wasn’t worth much, what about using that grain to raise meat? Maybe that was a pretty solid choice.

However, soon enough, the real agenda showed itself.

What he actually wanted to discuss was the new-style farms.

No, more precisely, he was using the farms as an excuse to keep reinforcing the idea that these farms would be everywhere soon—almost every lord would have one.

These farms came in different sizes—large, medium, and small—but without exception, they all required tons of magic conductors.

These magic conductors needed massive amounts of steel, so naturally steel sales would boom.

Plus, these huge farms, according to Viscount Roster, used steel frame construction. Supposedly only steel frames could achieve such massive scale.

So besides all the steel needed for the magic conductors everyone already knew about, the buildings themselves also required tons more steel.

Just like those new-style houses.

On top of that, transportation and other issues also required massive amounts of steel...

Point after point kept coming up, constantly reinforcing how the market for steel had once again expanded because of these farms.

Expanded to an unimaginable degree.

Almost every territory would need massive amounts of steel.

Current steel production absolutely couldn’t support such enormous construction demands.

People who’d clicked on the article probably never imagined they weren’t reading news about god-given Long White Pigs at all—they were reading steel news.

But the article built up layer by layer, somehow creating this feeling that the world really was desperately short on steel.

And then a lot of people started feeling anxious—if there wasn’t enough steel, wouldn’t it be really hard for these farms to spread?

If that was the case, could pork even be successfully popularized?

Had to admit, Johnny the actuary was genuinely talented and already had a really deep understanding of Magic Net users.

Just one article, and who knows how many people he’d managed to mislead.

They’d even forgotten that even without the farms, just the appearance of the god-given Long White Pigs alone could already overturn so much.