Viscount Rost and the Wild Mage had roughly settled on their general direction.
They would massively expand infrastructure, building Super-High-Speed Trains, Magitech Vehicles, highways that allowed Magitech Vehicles to travel quickly, and other facilities on a broad scale;
They would use the Golden Merchants' Guild to reach agreements with small and mid-sized nobles, sell Magitech production lines to them, and promise to buy back their qualified products, further encouraging those nobles to join the Magitech Industry;
They would visit the Great Dragon Bank and persuade it to provide financial support for small and mid-sized nobles, using low interest rates to encourage them to borrow on a larger scale;
They would persuade more major nobles, super nobles, and kings to buy shares in large companies such as the Golden Merchants' Guild, luring out their money to improve and supplement Magitech production lines and construct part of the infrastructure;
They would make more major nobles and kings understand the Tulip Kingdom's crisis, convincing them to willingly participate in the coming reforms and cooperate with various initiatives...
Viscount Rost was highly confident he could accomplish the first few points. Whether it was Rost Territory or the Golden Merchants' Guild, both were under his control. As for the Great Dragon Bank, it was an opportunity to make money. No one dared default on a dragon's debt, and besides, there was collateral.
But the further down the list he went, the less confident Viscount Rost became.
He understood nobles. He knew all too well that even with foreign invaders at their gates, their choices might not be rational. Some major nobles might even be willing to lead the enemy in, so long as their own interests remained untouched.
To get them aboard, he needed to turn them into a community of shared interests and make