Volume 2 Chapter 87 - You must treat the root cause if you treat a problem (1/2)

“Control the river?”  Count Sean knit his brows and looked out the window at the river before saying in a thoughtful voice, “Xu Yi, you don’t suspect that Cimila Porter is deceiving you because of his grudge?”

“He can lie to me, but the water situation won’t lie.”  Xu Yi shook his head, “I didn’t pay attention to this before, so I never noticed it.  But after being reminded of this by chairman Porter, I’ve carefully observed the situation and asked many fishermen about this matter, they’ve all said that there were visible changes with the river during this time.”

“This change might not mean…..”  Count Sean suddenly took a deep breath and shook his head before saying to Xu Yi with a smile, “I was wrong.  Since I am Banta City’s City Lord, this is something that I should consider.  You’re right, since there is a hidden danger with the river, we should prepare for this ahead of time.”

Count Sean lowered his head to think before calling for an aide, having him summon someone who was familiar with the situation of the river.

When the aide left, Count Sean thought for a bit before saying to Xu Yi, “If what this Cimila Porter said is true and we really need to control the river, there will be a problem.”

“What problem?”  Xu Yi asked.

Count Sean spread his hands and said with a bitter smile, “This is an old problem, there’s no money.”

Xu Yi couldn’t help rolling his eyes.  He already expected this as he said with a sigh, “Alright, since I was the one who brought up this matter, then our Frestech Chamber of Commerce will take care of it.  But Lord City Lord, we have to agree on something before this.  Managing the river is something that kingdom officials should be responsible for and I can help solve this problem, even help you pay for this, but we must make it clear that this amount is not an investment from our company.  So the City Lord’s Manor must return our money and give us compensation.”

Count Sean helplessly shook his head, “Although I know that what you said is reasonable, can’t you give me the City Lord some face?  Alright, you’re right.  Managing the river is my responsibility and as for returning your money and giving you compensation, we can talk about that later.”

Xu Yi nodded, not continuing with this question with Count Sean.

Although the Frestech Chamber of Commerce could lose a bit of money from this, compared to earning the trust of Count Sean, he could handle this small loss.

Not to mention that Xu Yi’s main goal wasn’t this.  Compared to the interest that he could earn in the end, this bit of investment could basically be ignored.

After solving the problem of money, there weren't any other problems.

After a while, the official in charge of the river was called and Count Sean asked him about the situation of the river.  After confirming that the river had indeed changed, he ordered him to perform a serious inspection of the river and detail what needed to be fixed in a detailed report.

As for requests to Xu Yi, other than money, they also required some magic machine, which Xu Yi agreed to.

Other than this, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce had experience upstream and the Amrit Chamber of Commerce was responsible for the river project outside the city, so the Amrit Chamber of Commerce naturally couldn’t be excluded.

Only Count Sean needed to discuss with chairman Cruise and this was unrelated to Xu Yi.

After their initial talks, Xu Yi left the City Lord’s Manor.  Still came to welcome him.

Xu Yi was surprised to find that Sophia was actually following behind Still and looked at her with an expression of worship.

As expected, Kennard was by Sophia’s side.

“What did the Lord City Lord say?”  Still asked Xu Yi.

The Lord City Lord said that this matter is very important and he has already started convening people to deal with this.”  Xu Yi replied, “As for me, it’s the same as before.  I’m taking out money and manpower.”

Still revealed a faint smile and took Xu Yi’s hand as she said, “It’s good that the Lord City Lord treats this matter as something important.  I think that since they could change the river upstream, there’s no reason why they can’t clean up the sediment here.”

“It isn’t anything hard, but the problem is that these are only temporary solutions and not solutions for the root problem.”  Xu Yi turned to look to the northwest.

This was here the Falling Rain Forest and the upstream river was.

Agnes had appeared last year because the river in the Falling Rain Forest was blocked with sediment, causing the flow of the river to change.

After a year of fixing it, the Falling River Forest’s river was now completely controlled.  There were stable cement banks constructed on the sides of the rivers, forcing the river to return back to its normal flow, solving the problem of water for the Night Song Tribe.

But this was also a temporary solution and not solving the root problem.

If they couldn’t stop the sediment flow problem, no matter how they controlled the river downstream, it was no use in the end.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi called out.