Lin Mu continued to listen to the conversion of the royal nephew, and uncle as they talked.

"But what is it that they wanted with us, Uncle Kou?" The king questioned.

"Oh, it was the same old, people needing thousand year old Hong Lin trees. I told him that we don't have the location for any such trees as of now. Instead of that, we are willing to provide them some wood from our own reserve storage that they can take." Kou answered.

Hearing this, the king furrowed his brows.

"Hmm… the number of Hong Lin trees that reach a thousand years has greatly fallen over the years for us. I think it may be time to enact the measures father had chosen back then." The king spoke upon hearing Kou.

"Those measures were controversial and you know that. If we really do announce them, our trade will fall and so will the taxes we gain from our people." Kou replied.

"But if we really don't do anything, we will be losing our heritage, the Hong Lin trees. You of all people should know well uncle, there must always be at least ten thousand year old Hong Lin trees living, or the entire forest will start to die.

They are the mother trees that we protect, but if others cannot replace them later on, if some accident happens, we won't be able to do anything and it will be too late to regret it." The King said in a concerned voice.

~Sigh~

long time now. Many past ministers and kings tried to find some solution, but it was never suitable for the time period. Even now, we cannot do

potential to survive till a thousand years and become thousand year old Hong Lin trees. If we forcibly protect all trees and prevent them from being cut down, just for the fear that it might be the potential thousand year old tree, it will only cause an

his eyes to

considered to be very sensitive. Lin Mu had evidently gotten to learn several sensitive secrets of the Hong Lin

were ten mother Hong Lin trees being actively protected by the royal family somewhere and that not all Hong Lin trees had the potential of becoming a

that there were actually people that sold Hong Lin saplings to various people. The customers for this were both the

as well, just for the hope that the tree might reach thousand years and grow to become a thousand year old

did not know was that they had been intentionally misinformed. If they did find out about this, there was a great chance they would be

kingdom, there were less than 5% of trees that were actually a hundred years or older. One could only imagine how difficult it would be for a Hong Lin tree to reach

there was a way he could take advantage of this

Mu observed both of them for a while and saw that they were not doing anything

the records

repository was located. It was located right below where the king's court was and even had a direct entrance

descended into the repository. Luckily for

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