Chapter 1283 - 620: The Boiling Sea: One Piece Appears in the Real World! (Part 3)

However, the current number of shops is no longer comparable to the initial makeshift stage; browsing like this is too inefficient and wastes customers’ time.

So Catherine conveniently launched a "search" service.

Financial Street is essentially a virtual marketplace that combines reality and illusion, aside from having a unique identifier, everything else can be adjusted at will.

As a result, ordinary visitors without a VIP membership level, and those whose spending has not reached 100 pounds, have to browse all the shops.

Occasionally, shops that have already been passed by suddenly appear again in front, and this happens more than once.

This is an "advertisement insertion" service provided after charging shops a certain fee.

Simply purchasing a basic VIP membership can eliminate ordinary ads and enable a clear mode.

As the membership level increases, services such as "filtering similar shops," "product keyword search," "price trend changes," "multi-shop price comparison service" ... and so on can be provided.

At the supreme VIP level, just a thought can have the most cost-effective goods or intelligence delivered directly to your door.

Conversely, shops also have their own membership levels.

Different levels allow joining different traffic pools and appearing on different recommendation spots.

The disparity in "traffic" at different positions is vast, and the difficulty in making money naturally follows suit.

Merely the monthly star merchant ranking event can contribute a small heavy cruiser fleet or a newly started pre-dreadnought ship for Catherine and Byron.

Customers and shops recharge each other. In the end, whether the east wind overwhelms the west wind or vice versa depends on who spends more.

No customer or shop knows what kind of monster they are nurturing with their spending here.

The recent Mind Wish Power mostly comes from the merchants of the shops.

If it was before Catherine obtained the [Wealth] Divine Position, praying to Lady Friday would be of little use.

But after she acquired the [Wealth] Divine Position, praying to her could truly alter one’s financial fortune in mysterious ways.

At the very least, even if others bought the same traffic, they could be placed in a better position by Catherine.

Not daring to say otherwise, on Financial Street, she is the absolute Finance Goddess, a single thought can make someone a millionaire, and another thought can make them lose everything.

Catherine feels her power growing every second, causing her lips to perpetually curl upward:

"In the economic theories and marketing schemes provided by Byron, this is called ’traffic’ or ’gateway.’

Whether it’s an online shop, an offline street, a community, or even a country, the principle remains the same.

Under the current world’s richest Remit People’s propaganda, many believe that if a country or company, or group is wealthy, it’s because the system is advanced, while poverty indicates a backward system.

In fact, this is complete brainwashing.

The same national system, why do those at shipping nodes like Castilia and Netherland have wealth while countries not on the shipping routes lag behind?

The same system internally, then why are coastal gateways rich while deep inland areas are backward? Are they not hardworking? Not smart?

This has little to do with the system; wealth depends mainly on one factor — the gateway.

Draw a circle, if they say you can, then you can, even if you can’t.

The same street, if your shop’s ’gateway’ is good, you earn; if another shop’s gateway is poor, making money becomes harder.

If a field receives top-level funding and policy priority, that’s also an artificial gateway."

"Why could the richest Remit People prosper?

That’s because the Church forbids its followers from engaging in high-interest lending, leaving them a loophole to exploit, how could monopolizing not be profitable?

This has nothing to do with the system’s advancement or a nation’s intelligence.

Claiming a people who’ve wandered for over a thousand years, with no friends across the globe, are smart, is simply the biggest joke since this Era.

In the commerce field, whoever controls traffic and gateways holds the power of resource distribution, essentially holding the [Wealth] Divine Position itself!"

Catherine has always been comprehending rules through her powers and the [Wealth] Divine Position, preparing to enact her Sixth Order Demigod Promotion Ceremony.

Thinking of this, she blinked her bright eyes:

"Perhaps my Demigod Promotion Ceremony should be: Ensure no business in the world is hard to do? Hehe."

Of course, this was a joke.

She felt that Financial Street’s virtual shops were still too childish. Perhaps only by wielding the [Financial Holy Sword] and brewing the world’s first financial storm could she truly ascend to the demigod position.

Next, let’s see which country is blundering and volunteers to become the battlefield for financial warfare.

[Finance Queen] Catherine, although positioned as logistics personnel, if anyone dares to underestimate her destructive power, they will surely cry bitterly.

At this moment, the Central Auction House bell rang thrice in succession.

Dong! Dong! Dong!

The "main course" to entertain the many distinguished guests finally hit the table.

Archbishops of the old and new churches; the Vice President of the Lighthouse Union; princes, dukes, and governors of various countries; the infamous Pirate King; the renowned Fifth Order Legends... gathered together.

The scale of today’s auction is unprecedented.

To save the important figures’ time, those ordinary auction items just brought out were immediately bid on by their attendants, allowing the auction to proceed rapidly.