God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 402: Need to Recruit a Few More People

Actually, there were many things Ren hadn’t mentioned.

The massive increase in grain production per unit area would lead to increases in cotton, vegetables, fruits, sugar, and livestock numbers, allowing more people to consume more nutrition.

During this process, both the population and the intelligence of sentient beings would improve significantly.

Because in the past, many people were dull-witted due to insufficient nutrition during childhood.

With a massive population increase and improved intelligence, the next step would naturally form a positive feedback loop with the magic-tech experts, further accelerating the evolution of magic-tech industry.

Although once the population reached a certain number, under the influence of magic-tech industrialization, the next generation or the generation after that would most likely start thinking they should have fewer children, the people alive now wouldn’t think that way. With their efforts, the population would at least multiply several times over.

But there was no point in saying all this now.

What mattered most right now was increasing the population as much as possible, improving mortals’ combat power, while also increasing the supply of faith to make the gods stronger too.

Besides, under normal circumstances, population change patterns would follow what Ren expected. But after going to war with that world behind the Tulip Kingdom, things might not go that way.

War would also affect population composition and development.

"Hearing you say this puts my mind at ease."

The Goddess of Agriculture finally breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "I recently developed another high-yield crop, and it’s very suitable for mountains, dry lands, and even saline-alkali areas that aren’t suitable for crop growth."

"I was worried that grain quantities were already so high, and if we added another staple crop next year, it might cause unpredictable problems."

The God of Nature nodded in strong agreement. "I don’t have any improvements to staple grains, but the druid potions have gotten even better, and I’ve developed several targeted versions for different soil types. Also, I’ve cultivated several strange fruits that can be used as staple foods when necessary."

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Ren looked at these two gods with some surprise, not expecting their efficiency to be so high.

In such a short time, they’d already cultivated so many staple crops, and from what it sounded like, they were suitable for many places that weren’t suitable for planting before.

Plus those targeted druid potions.

This reminded Ren of how in his previous life, different lands needed different fertilizers.

Shaking his head slightly to clear these distracting thoughts, Ren finally smiled. "Just handle these as you see fit. Having more staple grains is actually good—it gives people choices in what they eat. Most mortals don’t like things staying the same, they just haven’t had choices."

"In the future when they’re not short on grain, having more choices is good for them, plus these are suitable for regions that are difficult to develop."

Regions difficult to develop often meant these places were either unclaimed land, or areas that even local nobles were too lazy to develop.

Once these staple crops appeared, these nobles would have two choices: either send large numbers of people to clear the land, or open up these regions and let more people voluntarily clear the land, grow things, then pay certain taxes.

Based on Ren’s understanding, these people would most likely choose the latter.

Because clearing land was just too much effort for them, and not worth such a huge investment.

With magic-powered machinery coming into use, the plains they currently controlled or other large relatively flat areas could all be developed more efficiently.

And now, magic-tech workshops had also started becoming popular in many places—at least in large nations like the Kingdom of Dawn, Gray Fort Empire, Hill Lands Commonwealth, City-State Alliance, Elven Kingdom, and Highland Kingdom.

Spending energy developing mountainous regions versus doing these magic-tech-related industries would naturally be easier to make money from, easier to gain profit.

They’d naturally make their choice.

Developing mountainous regions required too much manpower, resources, and energy—something they didn’t want to face. Better to give the development rights to others, let freemen and peasants do the developing.

After developing and planting, they’d take a cut of the taxes.

Then they’d just quietly wait for a disaster year to come, and they could do what they’d always done—through loans and other methods, take these developed regions back into their hands again...

But this was a relatively long process, and Ren didn’t want to affect the improvement of combat power by dealing with these issues.

A bigger crisis still lay ahead—sometimes you just had to make certain compromises.

Besides, when magic-tech industry entered the next stage and collided with these established practices, maybe it would spark something different?

While Ren was chatting with the two gods, the Magic Net had already exploded.

People had thought Golden Spike Grain’s yield might be high.

But they hadn’t expected the yield to be that insane.

People had thought agricultural magic-powered machinery might be impressive and save a lot of labor.

But they hadn’t expected it to reach such an insane level.

Super strong grain varieties, super strong harvesting ability—this meant yields would definitely be huge, the probability of natural disasters affecting the harvest was very small, so yields would naturally become very high...

When people thought about this, Southern Development Corporation’s stock started soaring.

Skyrocketing.

So much grain—how much was it worth? How many people would it affect?

Not everyone could sense that grain prices were about to crash.

"Wait, Tech God, I suddenly noticed a problem."

The Goddess of Agriculture suddenly captured the livestream image in front of her, then pointed at a bullet comment and said, "Look at this. We seem to have always overlooked this issue. We should have warned the God of the Sky from the very beginning."

The God of the Sky, one of the top-tier gods.

His authority encompassed sky, lightning, rainfall, and clouds.

Without a doubt, this was a god who could control the weather, and weather directly affected agricultural output...

Although believers of the God of Agriculture could see weather changes and let more people complete the right tasks under the right weather.

But... why didn’t they just have the God of the Sky intervene directly?

As long as the God of the Sky intervened, any region would have the right weather at the right time, leading to massive grain increases and avoiding the impact of some natural disasters.

The several gods looked at each other—they’d actually all forgotten about this.

And at this moment.

In the mortal realm.

Viscount Roster looked at the Southern Development Corporation’s stock price that had already started fluctuating wildly, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

Rise, rise—he’d laid the groundwork for so long, not just to spread grain and agricultural magic-powered machinery, but also for this moment, to raise enough funds for the Southern Development Corporation’s next stage of developing magic-tech workshops!