Through the proper channels
One of your tenants has a proposal for you. He proposes to dig a channel known as a qanah into a hillside, where the water table is high, which will allow him to flood some low-lying ground and turn it into an oasis garden. The barren hillside is your property, though at present it yields no income of any kind.
Requirements
- Current settlement is a player-owned town or castle
- Desert terrain within 3 units
Applaud his plan, and tell him that you will charge him nothing to sink a channel through your property.
- Generosity +100
- Town prosperity +20
Insist he purchase the hillside from your at market rate.
- Generosity -100
- Town prosperity +15
- Gold +300
Wait until he digs the channel and clears the fields, then charge him heavily to use the water without which his effort will be for nothing.
- Generosity -200
- Calculating +50
- Town prosperity +10
- Gold +500