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~

Many past ministers and kings tried to find some solution, but it was never suitable for the time

become thousand year old Hong Lin trees. If we forcibly protect all trees and prevent them

his eyes

be considered to be very sensitive. Lin Mu had evidently

trees being actively protected by the royal family somewhere and that not all Hong Lin trees had the potential

sold Hong Lin saplings to various people. The customers for this were both the citizens from the Hong Lin

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

was a great chance they

Lin kingdom, there were less than 5% of trees that were actually a hundred years or older. One

this all and wondered if there was a way he could take

leave and went back to his own room to cultivate for now. Lin Mu observed both of them for a while and saw that

get to the repository so I can see the records about

the area where the repository was located. It was located right below where the king's court was and even had a direct entrance to it from the back. Its main entrance for others though was from the floor

for him, there was no one in the hall

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