Landscaping 最大流 / 最小割

Preparations for a good harvest in Spring start now and farmer John is preparing his field for a good season. He went over budget last year, as the tractors moving up and down the hills needed more fuel than he expected.

When harvesting, his tractors need to move both horizontally and vertically across all the land. In the image, you can see a region at low altitude in light green and a region at high altitude in dark green. When harvesting, his tractors will have to cross all the hills marked in red and they will have to go up or down 8 times.

This year, he is wondering whether he should level some parts of his field before sowing in order to lower his harvesting costs later on. Can you help him decide where the bulldozers should work in order to lower his costs? Farmer John knows that his tractors need A additional euros when moving between adjacent patches of land at different heights. He can also pay B euros to either increase or  decrease the height of any patch in his field.

What is the minimum amount of money he will have to pay this season?

Task

Given a description of the field, the price to change the height of a patch of land and the price his tractors pay when moving between adjacent patches, the goal is to find out the minimum amo