At the end of July, the Kolath Legion ended its fighting on the Kitland Plateau, and in early September, Roland arranged the affairs of Dragon City and followed the legion on his journey home. Halfway through the march, he asked his father for leave and offered to take a detour to the "Great Falls".

Rudolph also thought that young people were interested in playing and wanted to visit the famous Karon Waterfall, and suggested that he take Lyudmila with him, which was a holiday tryst for them. However, Roland also has to bring Jack and Kafta and ask his father to write a letter of introduction to introduce him to the mayor of Great Rapids, Yodel Stolypin, which is not like a tourist.

"Why are you suddenly interested in that fishmonger?" Rudolph's impression of Mr. Joddle was average.

Jodel's ancestors, like the vast majority of Far Easterners, were exiled heretics and were among the first settlers to settle near Karon Falls, when there was no "Great Falls" but a simple camp enclosed by a wooden fence. The Stolypin family made a living from fishing on the lake, and the first few generations were poor fishermen, until Jodel's grandfather's generation began to make their fortunes. Fresh trout caught in the lake is smoked dried in pine wood and then soaked in vegetable oil, which can be stored for a long time and has a wonderful taste that is very different from fresh fish. Stolypin sold the processed trout in barrels to Fort Atonement, which turned out to be unexpectedly popular, and as a result, he amassed a fortune, bought a new fishing boat, and opened a workshop specializing in oil-soaked trout, and by Yodel's generation, the Stolypin family had become the richest people in Grand Rapids.

Rudolph had a bad impression of yodel, not that he despised his family's background as fishmongers. Yodel's grandfather bought "indulgences" to wash away the accusations of heresy, and Yodel worked hard to curry favor with Archbishop Philip and spent a lot of money to sit on the throne of the mayor of Great Falls. At the beginning of Rudolph's formation of the militia, he suffered from the lack of military budgets, and asked for help from rich people from all over the country, some people donated generously, some people did not contribute much money but their attitude was very enthusiastic, only this yodel, even if he didn't pull out a dime, and invited Mr. Rudolph to eat a closed door, such a cold treatment made him still haunted, his son asked him to write a letter to the "snobbish fishmonger" to pull relations, he was reluctant in his heart.

"I have read an article written by the mayor in the newspaper, and I share some of his views and want to find an opportunity to communicate with him, and I am very interested in the river near the Great Rapids, and I would like to visit the local area, and maybe that small town can develop into the industrial heart of our Far East."

"Really?" Rudolph was frightened by his son, "Since it's business, then I'll have to go with you and knock the fishmonger by the way." ”

Roland smiled and persuaded his father that there was no need to make a fuss, "Today's Kolath Legion is far from being comparable to the grass platform team at the beginning, and since Yodel is a shrewd businessman, he should understand that this is not what it used to be, and his attitude towards us will change." ”

"He's probably going to please us as much as Philip and Clausez did, and I've seen a lot of snobbish guys." Rudolph couldn't help but mock as he wrote the letter.

"Snobbery is nothing, it's better than those die-hards who can't see the general trend clearly, and I suspect that Mayor Yodel will regret that he was too cold to you all these years, and we should give him a chance to step down."

"Hah, you little slippery head!" Rudolph handed the letter to his son and laughed.

Roland glanced at it and couldn't help but laugh to himself. The father was resentful and looked like an older middle school, but in fact, he knew very well in his heart that the letter was written enthusiastically and gave the mayor of Yodel enough face, and he couldn't see that there had been a knot between the two.

Roland put away his father's handwritten letter and took Lyudmila, Kafta and Jack to the Great Falls early the next morning, and it turned out that the fishmonger-turned-mayor was as knowledgeable as he expected, not only entertaining visitors, but also accompanying them on a tour of Karon Falls, despite his official duties.

Counting the major rivers in the entire Atlas continent, the Veres River ranks third in terms of basin area and fifth in length, but if you calculate the average flow, this raging river is the first river deservedly.

This big river originating from the Lucia Snow Mountain flows from the northwest to the southeast, from the coral bay into the sea, stretching for more than 7,000 miles, almost traversing the entire territory of the Far East Province, the middle and lower reaches of the river system are numerous, the river channels are dense, and the largest branch is the Bailu River that flows through the provincial capital "Fort of Atonement".

The reproduction of human beings depends to a large extent on the abundance of local water resources, and since ancient times, most of the famous cities and ancient capitals have been set up near the famous rivers. When the empire pioneered the Far East, it chose to establish a provincial capital on the banks of the Bailu River, mainly because of the convenient local water resources and river transportation, and the fertile impact plains on both sides of the river bank also provided vast and fertile farmland for urban residents to cultivate.

To this day, the White Deer River Plain remains the largest grain-producing region in the Far East and throughout the empire. Unlike the grain-growing regions of the Far East, Bailuping has developed a unique form of "irrigated agriculture" in the Far East due to its unique hydrothermal conditions, where rice is the main crop rather than cereals. Most of the grains in the Far Northeast are harvested once a year, and the barbaric "slash-and-burn" cultivation is still used in remote areas, which causes great waste of land and even forests and grasslands. The rice-growing areas of the southern river plains, which crop twice a year, and the yield of rice per unit was far higher than that of any other type of grain, produced food that not only met the needs of the locals but also supplied the inland provinces of the empire. Taking the provincial capital "Fort Atonement" as a typical example, almost all the towns with large populations in the Far East are distributed in the southern plains along the rivers, and the agricultural belt with the lowest latitude in the Far East Province only accounts for one-tenth of the province's territory of more than 4 million square kilometers, but the total population is as high as three million, accounting for two-thirds of the total population of the Far East.

"Mr. Roland, have you ever been to the interior of the Empire?"

"Mr. Yodle, I am ashamed that my travel experience is limited to the Far Eastern provinces, and I have not yet had the privilege of visiting the interior of the Empire."

Roland walks in the company of the mayor of "Great Rapids", Jodel Stolypin. The waterfall that crashed down from the sky slammed into the lake below like a snow-white floodgate, making a rumbling roar that resounded through the sky, and the two had to raise their voices when talking.

"There's nothing to be ashamed of, I've never even been to the Fort of Atonement at your age, young people have time travel, and when it comes to the Far East, before the rise of agriculture in the Far East, food was mainly grain-based, although it doesn't make any sense, but I have a strange impression when I have more contact with the locals......"