It's spring again, and after two months of field exploration and planning, Bracken Tree Farm has entered the season of planting and cutting trees.

Although he is a "noble" forest farm owner, Lin Yilong naturally still does not understand the mysteries of this: the identification and cultivation of tree species, the irrigation and nutrition of saplings, and the water supply and drainage of tree reserved land, which require professional knowledge.

This is also thanks to the attention of the world's people to climate change: according to several EU resolutions on climate change, the conversion of carbon dioxide from a hectare of forest is about 6-10 tonnes in a year, and the price of a tonne of carbon emissions is 8-12 pounds [Note]. As long as saplings are planted, a forest with a survival rate of 60% or more is considered a mature forest. And this price, without adding the Ministry of Agriculture's subsidy to large landowners for not producing grain and other agricultural products, is that his contribution to the write-down of British carbon emissions should be well over £1 million, and the existing 400,000 is completely uneconomical to rely solely on EU agricultural subsidies.

Lin Yilong's first reaction was not to think about how to recover the 800,000 pounds lost last year - this was already a matter of the previous financial year for him - but that he was pitted by a group of "despicable and shameless" bird protectors. Before he formally recruited workers to run the farm, it was someone from the Royal Bird Society who took over the farm, but he lost money by making a mistake about the use of the land.

So he sent a fiercely worded lawyer's letter to the people of the Royal Bird Society, demanding that the ignorant people pay him 800,000 pounds for his losses immediately, and if they did not do so, immediately go to legal proceedings.

But before proceeding with the lawsuit, as the owner, Lin Yilong also had to prove that he had "done his best to reduce the loss".

Lin Yilong, who had confidence, made an appointment with officials from the Ministry of Environment to record and inspect the valley forest.

Since Lin Yilong built iron fences on both sides of the highway, countless environmental groups and rural protection organizations have come to inquire about the possible use of the valley forest, as a forest farmer, although the trees there need to be cut down and planned for other uses, but because of the "principle of proportionality" in administrative law, it is impossible for neither the Ministry of Environmental Protection nor the West Gramorgan County Committee to approve it, which makes these organizations worried, as if Lin Yilong's world will be destroyed as long as Lin Yilong cuts down trees.

By writing letters, meeting with officials and writing letters to the deputies of the House of Commons — what they ultimately wanted was to make the named Brecken Tree Farm worthy of the name within the Brecken Bakken National Park — the MEP, under pressure from some lawmakers, began to ask the Ministry of Justice about the possibility of such an approach. The Ministry of Justice replied that as long as the House of Commons passed the bill, there would be no problem, and all other possible methods were blocked.

So, more or less, Lin Yilong's action to register natural forest land was in the hands of officials from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, so they sent experts from Lin Yilong's alma mater, the University of Wales, to survey the valley forest and get the report back.

The results are speechless: 65,000 acres of Brecken's nearly 75,000 acres of land are natural woodlands that are on the rise, and if converted into hectares, the Ministry of Environmental Protection would pay Lin Yilong a carbon write-down subsidy of £2.2 million a year alone.

Officials from the Ministry of Environmental Protection eagerly sought to meet with Mr. Lin, who had been arranged in the living room of the forest farm.

"Mr. Lin, we can't provide you with such a carbon emission write-down subsidy for the time being. An official sent by the Ministry of Environmental Protection explained the audit dilemma faced by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, "This amount is a bit too large, beyond our best estimates, and requires the personal approval of His Excellency the Minister." ”

"It has nothing to do with my client. "We want to know whether the MEP's subsidies will be distributed according to the plan, and of course we respect the official decisions on these issues, but whether these decisions are legal and reasonable can be discussed." ”

"All I can say is that we can get the approval as soon as possible, but even if it does, it may not be such a large whole forest land. The official told Lin Yilong and Katie about the possible situation, "Some forests are not up to our standards, and they are ........"

"My client is not interested in the internal decision-making of the Ministry of Environment. Katie rudely interrupted the official's explanation, "Because in any case, the cabinet has to meet the emission reduction commitments to the EU and make payments to other countries, and since they have to pay the same amount of money, why should we bear such a heavy administrative cost when they come to us?"

"The amount we pay for the carbon emissions trading is already counted by the land registry, all private or public forest land has been counted, this is the amount that has been decided, if you go to the Bracken Tree Farm, it is purely an additional cost.......

"So, does that mean that I can do without these trees, burn them to ashes, and wait for the next year when there is enough subsidy to plant them?" Lin Yilong asked, "I am very interested in the reasoning of this: you see, if I underreport 5,000 acres of forest, does the treasury have to pay 5,000 acres more for carbon emissions to foreign countries?'I would rather give Canada 50 million pounds than subsidize my own people to plant trees?' ”

"I will try my best to reflect Mr. Lin's doubts to our director. The official said, "If Mr. Lin can lower it some, will it make this meeting more fruitful?"

"Why do talks need results? Lin Yilong asked, "Now, my forest farm is still among the unprotected forest land, and I don't need to apply for permission from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, although I may get less subsidies, but I can sell timber and sheep to earn back, I don't think there is anything wrong with my original intention, since it is also business income, but the rest is a matter of more money and less money?"

"We are willing to provide an additional £600,000 subsidy to Bracken Timber. "The 600,000 pound subsidy can be included in the income together with the EU and the Ministry of Agriculture's subsidies, and the total can reach 1 million pounds." ”

"This subsidy is so insulting to our intelligence. Lin Yilong said, "If the next offer does not satisfy us, we will withdraw the application for forest land protection that we submitted before and start burning trees to grow grass and raise sheep?"

"I would like to ask Mr. Lin how he determines the amount of the subsidy?" the official asked.

"Of course, according to the most common tree species in the current Bracken Forest Farm, linden and birch, these two trees are in the table given by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, which belong to 10 tons of carbon dioxide conversion per hectare per year, even if it is according to the minimum 8 pounds of carbon dioxide conversion standard, I should pay at least 2 million pounds, and this is my minimum requirement. Lin Yilong said seriously.