Building roads was an extremely expensive undertaking.
On Earth, road construction was usually funded primarily by the government, with private capital playing a supporting role. Roads were rarely built entirely with private funding.
After all, a road network could be considered a nation's arteries, and its importance went without saying. If the government did not control it directly, serious problems could easily arise.
If possible, Xu Yi would naturally have preferred the Lampari Kingdom to fund the road network he had planned.
The reality, however, was that the Lampari Kingdom's finances were in very poor shape. Its major merchant guilds and great nobles might have been wealthy, but the kingdom's treasury itself was empty.
In Bunta City, this meant that Count Samo, the city lord, and the presidents of the major merchant guilds could lead extraordinarily luxurious lives every day, while the city itself had little money to spare.
Expecting such strained finances to cover the cost of road construction was clearly impossible.
Xu Yi therefore immediately abandoned the idea of having Bunta City or the Lampari Kingdom pay for the roads and decided to fund them himself.
Viscount Leslie's advice before leaving had also served as a warning to Xu Yi. It left him with neither confidence nor hope in continuing to expand the guild's factories on Viscount Leslie's-or rather, the Stark Family's-land, making the development of Falling Rain Valley essential.
Although Falling Rain Valley was well situated at the meeting point of Falling Rain Forest and the Hengduan Mountains, making it easier to establish contact with the elves of Night Song Forest and several dwarf tribes, including the Norma Tribe and Angola Tribe, it was still a full fifty kilometers from Bunta City. Developing it required reliable transportation, so building a road to Bunta City had to come