If analyzed based on geographical knowledge, the Lister River is essentially not a river, but an artificial waterway in a saline-alkali swamp.

The Liszt Mars is the largest saline-alkali swamp in the north of the entire New World. The terrain is low and concave. Every time the sea tide rises, sea water will flow back into this area, eventually forming a very huge swamp.

There is only one kind of red-leaf shrub in this swamp. This red-leaf shrub can resist the corrosion of saline-alkali swamps and survive by absorbing and purifying saline-alkali water in the swamp. It has a very strong growth momentum, covering the entire Lister swamp, and a large number of animals and birds live in this swamp.

The earliest construction purposes of the Port of San Poria and Nice City were the same. On one hand, it was a transit port that provided supplies for ships heading south and north, and on the other hand, it was a transit city that provided supplies for expeditions deep into the inland of the New World. The two were located just east and west, both at the waist of the Liszt Swamp, and the two places were the narrowest straight-line distance among all areas of the Liszt Swamp.

Later, as countries in the Old World began to breed precious animals to the New World, the Liszt swamp, which inhabited countless animals, became a paradise for hunters, and the main service objects of Saint-Perria Port and Nice City also became those adventure hunters. For example, the ancestors of several large families in Nice City were all hunters, and even Nice City retained the traditional festival of Hunting Festival.

Later, with the continuous progress of geography, some people measured that the straight-line distance from Nice City to Port San Pelia was very short, and it was estimated that as long as one road was opened, merchants who traveled between the two places could complete a trip in just a few days. Unlike before the Liszt River was opened, it took at least two months to get there. Moreover, it was easy to encounter robbers and robbers during the detour. Many merchants lost property and even lives because of these accidents.

When someone proposed the idea of ​​opening a river channel in the parliament of these two cities, the idea quickly became a proposal and a formal plan in a short time. The reason why it was passed so quickly was mainly because the merchants traveling between the two places had had enough of the wasted time and dangers they encountered on land.

Although opening a river channel has become a formal planning plan, it is somewhat difficult to implement it, because it is difficult to dig a river channel in the middle of the Lister swamp, which is far more difficult than digging a river channel on other solid lands. Moreover, the large amount of sea water poured backwards at high tides can easily destroy the construction results of the previous day.

Because of this difficulty, the entire plan had a stagnation period of nearly three years after it was quickly passed. Even the city councils in both places wanted to give up the plan. In the end, a child of a council member from Port Saint-Perlia made a fantastic suggestion at a festival banquet held by a city council. This allowed the three-year plan to be implemented and finally built the current Liszt River.

This suggestion is very simple. Since it is impossible to dig artificial rivers according to the conventional methods, then abandon the conventional methods and cut out a river in the red-leaf shrub forest directly by cutting down trees. The intermediate docks that need to be docked after the night of the river do not need to be built according to the conventional methods. Just cut out a dock shape on both sides of the river and then set it on the red-leaf shrub forest with wooden boards, which becomes a useful dock.

Although this method is simple and crude, it is quite implementable. Soon the city councils in Nice City and Port San Pelia passed a new planning plan and began to formally promote the construction of the river.

Less than half a year later, a river channel that runs through the east and west cities appeared on the Lister Swamp, and the Lister Swamp was also divided into the South Lister Swamp and the North Lister Swamp because of the emergence of this river channel.

Judging from the common sense of geographical knowledge in this world, the Liszt River does not have the characteristics of a river at all. Even if all the trees on the river surface have been cut down, their roots are still at the bottom of the river, and there are swamp shrubs on both sides. There is no so-called bottom of the river. The river itself is part of the swamp, and even the depth of most sections of the river can only reach the waist of an adult.

However, this river that cannot be considered a river played a huge role in the early and mid-stage migration of the New World. At that time, nearly 80% of the goods in the entire inland area of ​​the New World were transported from this river to the Port of San Polya and then to the Old World, and the goods from the Old World were also transported from this river to the inland of the New World.

It is precisely because of such a huge cargo throughput that the two cities at both ends of the river, the Port of San Poria and Nice, have become the first cities with a population of over one million in the New World.

In addition, in order to better serve the ships passing through the river, the councils of the two cities spent a lot of money to build three special rest and recuperation piers in several deepest sections in the middle of the river. Later, these three piers even became three water towns built on red-leaf shrubs.

However, this prosperity began to fade with the emergence of steam trains, because steam trains are not only fast, but also carry a huge capacity, which is far from comparable to those flatbed ships on the Lister River. More importantly, this river channel spends a lot of money to clean the roots of the river that have grown tenaciously in the river channel every year. If it is not cleaned, these roots will grow on the river surface and become dangerous things like reefs. If the flatbed ships hit, they will basically be scrapped. This can be seen from the large number of scrap ships on both sides of the river that have not had time to be completely cleaned.

The emergence of steam trains had a smaller blow to Nice City, because Nice City's city council had outstanding foresight at that time. When building the mainland railway network, it took the initiative to invest, and even later increased investment, gained decision-making power, making Nice City the central core of the mainland railway network.

Although it is far from comparing with the past in terms of freight monopoly, the current position of the New World central hub still allows it to maintain prosperity.

On the other hand, the Port of St. Perilla is different. Although St. Perilla also saw the future of steam trains, they hesitated to choose whether to invest in the construction of the railway network, because the money is invested heavily, but there is basically no possibility of recovering the money in the short term, and there will even be losses. In addition, the city council conservatives in the Port of St. Perilla took the upper hand, and finally the Port of St. Perilla chose to wait and see, and even bought it when selling part of the channel rights of the Lister River in Nice City, becoming the actual controller of the Lister River.

The final series of wrong decisions caused the importance of the Port of San Polya to fall on the new and old freight routes in the new and old continents after the opening of the mainland railway network, and eventually the entire port city also declined rapidly.

Now the Port of St. Perria has returned to its original state of cargo transit station. If it weren't for the old love of Nice City, it would still have allocated some of the goods to the Lister River and then transferred from the Port of St. Perria to the old continent. Perhaps the current Port of St. Perria cannot even maintain the apparent prosperity.

However, although the Port of St. Perilla cannot obtain huge monopoly benefits from freight, the decision-making level of the Port of St. Perilla has taken a different approach and found another way to make money, and this path is still a business without any foundation.

Because St.Peria Port controls more than 90% of the shares of the Lister River, it is not an exaggeration to say that this river that runs through the Lister Marsh belongs to St.Peria Port, and the three marina towns on the river channel naturally belong to St.Peria Port.

The Port of St. Perria was then centered on the three marina towns and developed into the depths of the north and south Liszt swamps, and established a large number of jungle towns dedicated to serving swamp adventurers and hunters, completely controlling the Lister swamps in their hands, and it also fully grasped the various natural resources of the Lister swamps.

As for how much wealth and interests the Liszt Mars contain, no one else knows except the city council of the Port of St. Perria. However, when the port of St. Perria was still able to maintain a superficial prosperity when freight convenience declined, it can be seen that the wealth obtained by the Port of St. Perria from the Port of St. Perria is not a small amount.

However, this situation has changed a bit in recent years, because some countries around the Lister swamp have also begun to claim part of the ownership of Lister swamp, and some even sent troops into the Swamp, as if they wanted to forcibly occupy the Swamp.

In the end, these troops disappeared silently in the swamp. Although St.Peria Port did not admit that it was his own actions, anyone with discerning eyes knew very well that the only way to destroy thousands of troops in the Lister Marsh was to be able to do it.

After seeing that the army could not be forcibly occupied, those countries did not give up. Instead, they secretly encouraged some social activists to publicize that the Liszt swamp belonged to the entire New World, and that any New World people were the owner of the swamp, thereby pushing the Port of St. Perria to the opposite side of the entire New World.

These social activists may feel that it is not enough to publicize outside the swamp, and some bold ones even ran to the swamp, and conducted various publicity and speeches in the dock town controlled by the Port of St. Perria.

When the Holy City was docked in the first resting and recuperation town, many social activists led their students to promote their shared ideas on the wooden shelves on the dock.

However, most people who come to the harsh environment of the swamp are those who come to catch a rare creature and get rich overnight. They don’t have any spare time to stand in front of the simple wooden shelves of those people and listen to their nonsense. Those who want to experience the adventure of the swamp will not care about who the swamp belongs. They just need to play quickly.

It was precisely the attitude of these guests that the people of the St.Peria Port Guard, who was in charge of the security of the wharf town, did not drive away these social activists. Instead, they opened a place for these people to give speeches and publicity, as if they regarded this as a recreational program with local characteristics.

When Leo and his team got off the boat, it was already dark and sailing on the dark Liszt River. Even the most experienced old captain was like committing suicide, so they had to live in this small dock town for one night and leave tomorrow morning.

After getting off the boat, Leo and his group did not rush to the small hotel booked by the Holy, but instead called on several social activists who were about to leave the pier and return to their residence, and then invited them to dinner at the tavern on the pier.

The reason why Leo and Sylvia are interested in these social activists is because these social activists are from the Old Continent, and they can just know some of the situations in the Old Continent from these people.

These social activists did not want to talk to Leo and the others, not because they saw that Leo and Sylvia had any bad intentions, but after seeing Joan, who was following the two, wearing the knight armor of the Void Heart Church, simply regarded Leo and Sylvia as people of the Void Heart Church.

In the impression of them, the clergy and believers of the false heart are all crazy people. They may be kind to you the moment before, but the next moment they may turn against each other and swords at the moment, so it is the consensus of the people in the old continent that they try to stay away from the false hearts.

However, after Leo and Sylvia explained, these social activists realized that they had misunderstood and happily accepted the invitation from the two, of course, the premise was that Joan did not sit at the same table with them.

Under Sylvia's conscious guidance, the several social activists who had drunk alcohol did not hide anything, and they said everything they should say and what they should not say.

What makes Leo and Sylvia interesting is that these social activists did not come to the New World voluntarily at all. They all fled to the New World. In fact, in their minds, only criminals and thieves are willing to move to the New World. This is also the common view of people in the Old World.

These social activists actually don’t know much about the countries in the old continent. They lived in a small country called Latovek since their origins. Because this country has produced a very famous social activist and has compiled a textbook-like social structure, most of the scholars in this country are social activists.

Because most social activists criticize politics with sharp words to demonstrate their political propositions, they often offend some powerful people. These social activists offended a big man with real power in neighboring countries because of their extreme words. As a result, the big man was famously petty, so they sent people to assassinate these social activists, forcing these social activists to leave their hometowns and flee to the New World.
Chapter completed!