"Master, Guanshan Town is one of the villages and towns closest to the Black Earth Plains. It is also a necessary route for traveling from Yening City to Profound Iron City. Every year, from March to September, the trade route is at its busiest, with roughly two caravans passing through each day. However, since these caravans have already paid their taxes in Yening City or Profound Iron City, Guanshan Town has no right to charge them tolls."
"But Yening City is a full twenty thousand li from Profound Iron City. Before and after passing through Guanshan Town, the caravans have to cross roughly three thousand li of wilderness. They must therefore make a brief stop in Guanshan Town to rest and replenish their necessary supplies. This brings in an annual net profit of around fifteen hundred Immortal Stones."
"Then there are the five hundred mu of Immortal Spirit Rice Fields cultivated by Guanshan Town. Guanshan Town has one specialty: mountain-stream snow spring water. Although this water is not as miraculous as spirit spring water, it is excellent for irrigating crops. A thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Kou, Jiang, Li, and Dong families were outer disciples of the Great Dream Sword Sect. They were ordered to establish a village and town in the Black Earth Plains, and later discovered Guanshan Town's mountain-stream snow spring water."
"For this reason, the ancestors of the four families decided to establish a village and town here and build five hundred mu of Immortal Spirit Rice Fields. With the Immortal Spirit Rice Fields, they could gain the support of the Great Dream Sword Sect. For the past thousand years, Guanshan Town has exchanged eighty percent of the harvest from the Immortal Spirit Rice Fields for the Great Dream Sword Sect's protection. We have also