[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-god-of-technology-creating-the-internet-in-anoth":3,"chapter-god-of-technology-creating-the-internet-in-anoth-god-of-technology-creating-the-internet-in-anoth-chapter-493":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1704762,2176,"Chapter 493: Negotiations with the Gray Fort Empire","god-of-technology-creating-the-internet-in-anoth-chapter-493",493,"\u003Cp>\"So you’re basically planning to poach people?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon of Despair Nidhogg was silent for a while before slowly speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How can you call it poaching? It’s clearly a triple-win situation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Viscount Roster said righteously, \"The Church of Technology gets more fresh blood with experience. Alchemists get better working conditions and income. The Alchemy Guild gets the fame they want.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Besides, even if they start joining the Church of Technology to research Magic Conductors, not everyone will go. Even those who do won’t completely abandon alchemy work.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Won’t affect the Alchemy Guild at all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is called win-win!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon of Despair Nidhogg was silent for a while. \"Put it that way, you could call it quadruple-win, quintuple-win, sextuple-win.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Dragon Bank can loan out money, letting more people invest in Magic Conductor production.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Dragon Delivery gets more business.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those regular folks get better working conditions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"People using these Magic Conductors get convenient lives.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Exactly, that’s what win-win means!\" Viscount Roster laughed heartily, looking pleased. \"Anyway, this benefits everyone—it’s not about who benefits more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon of Despair Nidhogg was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed day by day like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The projection equipment installed everywhere soon started running. The alchemy competition instantly grabbed tons of people’s attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, right at this moment, the Gray Fort Empire finally completed verification. After confirming the Tulip Kingdom situation, they made a series of reforms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the agreement the Gray Fort Empire just sent over. Needs your personal attention.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young man brought a document to Viscount Roster’s office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Give me the quick version.\" Viscount Roster said casually as he took the document.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s about economic trade cooperation. The Gray Fort Empire’s currency is issued based on gold. Golden dragon coins do have purchasing power in Gray Fort, but they more commonly use a type of paper currency issued by the state.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young assistant spoke quickly. \"They hope we can establish a unified currency interface.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This would make trade between us more convenient.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm? Looks like they want to transition to credit currency too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Viscount Roster smiled dismissively. \"If it was really gold-based, why would they specifically come talk about it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now on the continent, most people conducting cross-border trade, even cross-territory trade, used golden dragon coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simple reason—golden dragon coins had stable quality. Everyone knew exactly what they were worth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus you could trade them through the Magic Net.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this didn’t include one country—the Gray Fort Empire. Though many of the Gray Fort Empire’s nobles and churches had deposited their wealth in Dragon Bank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even every decent-sized city had Dragon Bank branches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for domestic transactions, they still used their own currency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the result of reforms by that Tricky Coin guy—also how he got his nickname.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe they still don’t want to give up their currency system, but facing increasingly large transactions with us, they have to consider these things.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young assistant smiled and shared his thoughts first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Viscount Roster shook his head. \"Your understanding of this document isn’t thorough enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Their reforms are actually relatively moderate. On the surface, the Gray Fort Empire seems to have a unified currency. Transactions between lords, and regular people’s transactions in major cities all use the unified currency.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But in reality? Huge amounts of gold aren’t under the empire’s control at all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The amount they can issue is extremely limited.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Especially after Dragon Bank appeared—tons of private individuals transported gold to the dragons.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At this point, the Gray Fort Empire’s paper currency is actually very dangerous, maybe can’t even be redeemed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If word gets out, their paper currency collapses immediately.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Partnering with us actually has only one purpose—borrowing our power to stabilize this paper currency’s value.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They probably want us to accept this paper currency too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then use this paper currency to purchase all kinds of supplies in Gray Fort.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Doesn’t that mean they want to transfer the risk to us?\" The young assistant couldn’t help exclaiming. \"How could we agree to something like that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why wouldn’t you agree?\" Viscount Roster shook his head. \"We need the Gray Fort Empire’s raw materials. The goods we produce also need to be sold.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Being able to circulate in the Gray Fort Empire is what we want.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for other things, we don’t need to worry about them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We just need to spend the paper currency we earn very quickly and there’s no problem.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But well, we still need to negotiate with them properly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually from this document, Viscount Roster already saw that the Gray Fort Empire was ready to fully embrace the Magic Conductor era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just that some things needed proper discussion to ensure their interests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Viscount Roster had no resistance to things like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything needed to consider the interests involved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Never mind this kind of thing—even using landlords and private capital to invest, fundraise, finance and send funds into these industries through various means, Viscount Roster wouldn’t hesitate at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With capital and resources, you could speed up the whole process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After carefully reviewing the document several times, \"I need to make a trip to the Gray Fort Empire’s capital. I’ll leave things here to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Receive those people from the various churches properly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young assistant nodded quickly. \"But the distance from us...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll be back before that meeting.\" Viscount Roster said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, the young assistant said no more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Viscount Roster found the Dragon of Despair Nidhogg and rushed to the Gray Fort Empire at top speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just a few hours, he was already standing before the Gray Fort Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mr. Roster, didn’t expect you to come so fast.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gray Fort Emperor found it somewhat incredible. They were both people with status, and from different countries too. Shouldn’t they communicate first in this situation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he just flew right over?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His document had only been sent a few hours ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Such an important matter should naturally be settled as soon as possible.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Viscount Roster showed a helpless smile. \"After all, we don’t have much time left, do we?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1005,"2026-06-06T14:38:03.137Z",1,"novelbin.me","59a0eaa75fbebf6280d77a5b3b6f449c8d1acebb4e6674664b59b60afed0ec3b","god-of-technology-creating-the-internet-in-anoth-chapter-494","god-of-technology-creating-the-internet-in-anoth-chapter-134",524,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgod-of-technology-creating-the-internet-in-anoth-cover.jpg"]