Chapter 1490: Legendary Warship: Holy Mother's Immaculate Conception! (Part 2)

The reason the Remit People initially chose to oppose the North Sea Empire and set up trade barriers throughout the entire Orthodox Alliance, hindering free trade, was essentially due to the trade conflict caused by the impact of industrialization on handicraft workshops.

When civil capital of the Netherland Kingdom was completely harvested, the upper institutions were severely strained, the Remit People fled entirely, and the whole country naturally experienced turmoil.

True gold and silver flowed out massively from this country, forcing the Netherland internally to shrink the silver supply.

The “Tulip Bubble” inevitably exceeded the financial realm, transforming into a severe impact on the real economy.

Those who were once in precarious situations, living on bank loans—handicraft workshop owners and factory owners—could no longer borrow new to repay old debts.

If no accident occurs, as the handicraft workshops of Netherland fall into desolation and livelihoods decline, it is destined to evolve into a prolonged Great Depression lasting for years.

Yet crisis also spells opportunity!

Exactly as handicraft workshops vanish completely, it can naturally pave the way for the Industrial Revolution, transforming countless seasoned handcrafters into workers and allowing the manufacturing industry to be reborn from the flames.

They held absolute economic rights, which would soon transform into absolute political rights.

It won’t take long before the entire country changes hands.

By then, Byron, who had already regained the people’s support, might at any time cross the 50% share threshold set by the Silver Law!

Meanwhile, Catherine had already gained enormous benefits instantly.

As the Willing Power of the vast citizens of Netherland arrived, a spot of golden light shined from Catherine’s prominent chest, then rapidly spread throughout her body.

Rustle…

The financial power overflowed fiercely.

Integrating her own divinity with the Immortal Stairway quickly, in just a few breaths, roughly two-thirds of her spirituality transformed into [Immortal Divinity] exclusive to demigods.

A pair of petite golden dragon horns on her forehead emitted a supreme and noble Divine Aura, capable of effortlessly transforming stone, steel, and mercury into gold upon contact.

Her own spiritual kingdom, Financial Street, dragged along the merged Golden Mist Palace and Flower Mountain Celestial Kingdom to quickly ascend, just one step away from the Material World.

The Promotion Ceremony of the three major divine positions [Reform], [Finance], and [Creation] had finally reached halfway.

The first step was a wave of harvesting worldwide through the “scissors difference” between industrial products and agriculture to severely damage the estate economy various countries had adhered to for millennia.

Let the entire world personally experience the Great Power of the Industrial Revolution changing the world.

The second step was to wield the [Financial Holy Sword] over the Netherland, the most developed in finance and commerce, to trigger a financial tsunami and mercilessly harvest wealth, excluding major capital and competitors.

The third step, after the financial battle of killing the chicken, all countries would realize the world’s trend is unstoppable, and then we could naturally ignite the Fire of Transformation in everyone’s hearts.

Using mass production to replace manual labor, factories to replace handicraft workshops to enhance societal productivity and alter the entire world’s appearance.

If it weren’t for the overall structuring of [World Transformation], the demigod promotion ceremony of Byron and the two queens.

Seeking to shake the immense influence over the entire world, not just limited to one country or continent, allowing the three of them to acquire Great Power comparable to veteran demigods upon reaching the Sixth Order.

At this time, Catherine, having previously led the first financial crisis in the world, could already have been promoted.

Keep in mind that even [Hundred-Headed Dragon Mother·Tiamat], the Mother Goddess of dragons, has only half demigod power left now.

After Catherine promotes to Sixth Order Dragon God, she might completely leap out of the shackles of inherent dragon species within the Material World, paving a path to a new dragon species bloodline, such as… Pixel Dragon.

Byron raised his thumb, very flatteringly praising, “Sister, you’re mighty,” while not forgetting to remind:

“The ‘profit-seeking nature’ of capital is its Original Sin. As finance keeps developing, capital would inevitably prefer the short-cycle, quick-money financial speculation market rather than grounded investment in the real economy. It is a tragedy for capital when technology companies aspire to the stars and sea, but instead swarm into petty loans. If we do not control it, the entire country will inevitably shift from the real to the virtual, eventually ending in a horrible demise.”

Saying this, he also felt a sympathy.

He remembered when writing his graduation thesis, the whole society was touting learning from developed countries to develop the tertiary industry, a second industry perceived as less civilized and eco-friendly than those developed nations.

But in just a few years, after the tide receded, some developed countries showed the world they were indeed dragging without underwear.

Those who almost swung the knife to castrate themselves probably broke into a cold sweat, and no one spoke anymore about the tertiary industry ratio being too low.

Catherine solemnly nodded:

“Don’t worry, I know finance is a double-edged sword. Also remember you said capital is not oviparous, nor is it born; it is transformative, any existence that touches it becomes contaminated. It is a more secret source of contamination than the Old Gods and has the possibility of contaminating them… the Old Gods. From henceforth, I will use this power as cautiously as I would against the taboo of black witchcraft.”

Since the [Finance Queen] already had this awareness and caution, the world’s capital is unlikely to evolve into a devouring flood.

“Doo——!”

At the same time as the withdrawal of the Netherland Kingdom from the battle sequence, the first Holy Silver Empire Royal Fleet to reach the North Sea Region gradually approached the awaiting Deep Sea Fleet of the North Sea Empire.