"If not for the Duke helping us analyze, we would still be foolishly believing that as long as the war continues, grain prices will keep skyrocketing, and the Valleysfolk should plant as much as possible! Now, it seems we were a bit naive, just like before, with countless people holding gold dying of hunger, while we have countless grain rotting in our hands, all of which is dictated by the Santarin Association and Sambiyan rchants who control vast amounts of shipping."
"So, the root lies in transportation, those evil rchants choke us by using this thod to extract profits from us, indirectly enslaving us."
"Not only in transportation, but also in our internal unity, we don’t band together and let those evil rchants dictate terms, naturally letting them exploit us. The Duke’s previous proposal was excellent; we should form a Mist Valley Agricultural Union, allowing all farrs to join. We can help them find sales channels and markets, at least hold so initiative and ensure prices aren’t crushed to unbearable levels."
The parliantary model inherently has many defects such as looseness and inefficiency, yet it also has the rit of appointing the wise, at least in a large rural association like Mist Valley where political maneuvering is relatively light, selecting mbers primarily chooses the competent, and the wisdom of several mbers present is above average.
Gaven slightly guided them, and they discovered the crux of the issue.
"Even if we discover the crux of the issue, it’s useless because our Valley is already completely encircled by the Santarin Association and Sambia, most coastal areas controlled by them, and in this matter, the Koer Kingdom stands on their side."
"Indeed, the Valley’s only large port, Scar Town, because of Lord Lashan’s stupidity, provided the perfect excuse for the Santarin Association and Sambia’s evil rchants, and it’s still occupied by others, leaving our painstakingly cultivated crops unable to sell."
"Even having a port is futile, who doesn’t know about the collusion between the evil Sambiyan rchants and the pirates of Sea of Fallen Stars? Their ships sail safely on the Sea of Fallen Stars, while other rchants’ ships are targeted shortly after leaving the port, ultimately leaving no remains, and many goods end up in the hands of Sambiyan rchants."
Identifying the crux of the problem isn’t difficult, but solving it is another matter.
They desperately realized that the Santarin Association, Sambia, and Koer Kingdom had long ford a blockade around the Valley, allowing them to siphon off from them.
The Valley, touted as the largest granary around, indeed produced little actual wealth, most ruthlessly exploited by those evil rchants through various ans.
"This is the second cooperative project I want to discuss, thoroughly managing the Ashaba River, turning it into the main artery connecting our entire Valley."
Gaven tily put forth the second major proposal, "As long as we thoroughly develop the river transport here, it can link the ten valleys of Dagger Valley, Shadow Valley, Mist Valley, Deep Forest Valley, Bow Valley, Battle Valley, Taser Valley, Feather Wing Valley, Tillage Valley, and Scar Valley into one, allowing mutual assistance and collective advancent. Even if sea routes are controlled by the Santarin Association and Sambia, we can still distribute so via land and won’t be entirely led by them."
"We’ve heard about the establishnt of your Ashaba River Managent Foundation, but this matter is said easily, done hard. Ashaba River’s berserk side, the Duke must have seen firsthand, they’re fundantally not one river."
"Ashaba River is typical of slow, gentle upper water flow, from Ashaban Beach to your Battle Valley, barely allowing flat-bottod boats, while upstream of Ashaban Beach, slightly larger flat-bottod boats struggle to pass."
Downstream of Yewen Pond, it becos rapid with significant terrain fluctuations, making small flat-bottod boats dangerous and prone to overturning, at best reaching Feather Falls, where water level drops are hundreds of ters, rendering direct sea access impossible."
"The river is forcibly divided into four sections, how to manage it?"
"As for this dam, how do we construct it? If built too small, it’ll be washed away and subrged during the rainy season, wasting labor and resources. If built too large, it’s unnecessary for ten months a year and becos an obstacle to daily life."
"The primary issue is the investnt in manpower and resources isn’t minor, impossible for a single Valley to accomplish. In the short term, seeing returns is tough, incredibly tough."
Concerning Gaven’s proposal, the seven mbers of Mist Valley couldn’t hide their excitent, yet when raising points, they presented various managent challenges.
Ashaba River is the Valley’s mother river, the distribution of major subvalleys confirms it; it’s not rely coincidence but inevitable, because during migration to open the Valley, they followed this river. More accurately, it connects eleven subvalleys, including Moon Valley, now part of Sambia.
Their lives are influenced by this river more than usual, and they’ve certainly thought of managing it, considered utilizing it?
But the river’s situation is complex, far beyond ordinary rivers, constrained by various terrains and influenced by climate seasons, significantly increasing managent difficulty.
"What if I build a dam here, raising upstream Ashaba River’s daily water level to that of rainy seasons?" Gaven didn’t mince words, directly producing a Valley map, pinpointing his territory at the outflow of Yewen Pond, posing a hypothesis.
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