Niu Xuanzhu followed the king and princess into the palace, and General Niu led four soldiers to follow them nervously.

The palace did not have the luxury that the Oxbolt Pillar expected, except that the building structure looked unusually sturdy, and the only impression left on him was that it was very old, and the interior of the palace did not even have elaborate decorations and frescoes, although the walls were repainted, but the traces left by those time could not escape the eyes of the Oxbolt Pillar.

Niu Zhuzhu's doubts did not escape the king's eyes, even if he kept looking ahead: "This is the ancient castle of our forest country, our first castle, it is about six hundred years old today, when it was first built here, it was simply a milestone in the history of architecture, even our later forest fortress is not as strong as this castle." ”

Six hundred years of history is enough to make the ox bolt pillar look at the castle across the eyes, look at the castle seems to be every brick and wood is a hundred years of history of the work of art, these worn bluestone and iron hoops reinforced beams and sleepers have been in their posts for six hundred years, those wear and iron hoops have become their monuments, left to people to revere and admire.

As the king walked through the history of the castle, he seemed to be telling an old and interesting story, and the explanation of the new architectural ideas and brilliant design ideas brought almost everything to life in the castle. To tell the truth, the king's language skills are really strong, and Niu Zhuzhu was almost fascinated by it, thinking that if the teacher who teaches can give lectures like the king, it will be difficult for the students to get distracted.

Therefore, the distraction of the student proves that the teacher is a failure, and it is precisely because of this that the teacher is more difficult to accept the distraction of the student, so he invents angry retaliation methods such as "stand up and listen", "go out", and "invite parents".

Unconsciously, the king has changed from introducing the ancient castle to introducing the history of the forest kingdom, from the savages in the jungle to the fact that they walked out of the woods into civilized society, how they coped with the food shortage caused by the population explosion, talked about the several divisions and reunifications of their country, and talked about countless people who made immortal contributions to astronomy, geography, agriculture and even science and technology. There are no fewer challenges than an exam that a student needs to go through.

As the year of the story approached, Niu Zhuzhu gradually heard something about the current situation.

Exactly one hundred years ago, the Forest Country experienced the largest division in history, the originally unified kingdom split into two separate countries, the Forest Country and the Desert Country, and the king of the Desert Country was the elder brother of the King of the Forest Country at that time.

The king's tone changed when he said this, after all, this kind of royal fratricidal thing is really difficult to talk about, but the forest country at that time did encounter a great crisis.

But because of the second explosion of population growth, food became more and more scarce, and it was only natural that people responded to the food danger by burning forests, which was the fastest way to increase the area of arable land, and because of the use of tree ash as organic fertilizer, the yield of farmland burned was almost twice that of ordinary arable land.

This would have been understandable, but in less than ten years the problem was discovered by the vigilant wise man, the land produced by burning forests could not be kept fertile, and generally by the third year the yield had been significantly reduced, and by the fourth year many cultivated land was abandoned and people chose to burn new forests to obtain more fertile land, and in just a few years, the phenomenon of desertification has been revealed and very serious.

The first person to put forward the proposal of sand prevention and forest protection in front of the king at that time was the little prince of the country at that time, and later the king of the forest country, and it was the eldest prince at that time who resolutely opposed the proposal, saying that the premise that the people must be fed.

Since that day, the dispute between the two princes has never stopped, and the majority of those who support the little prince are scholars and far-sighted ministers, while those who support the eldest prince are pedantic ministers and military generals who are alive with the experience of their predecessors, they take the words of scholars as unfounded, they insist that nature can recover itself, so many forests cannot be used up, and the current desert will become a flourishing forest again in a few years, and the people's lives must be guaranteed. As the leader of a nation, you must not let your people go hungry because of all the small deserts.

Such an argument was extremely popular in the country at that time, and therefore the people pushed the little prince to the opposite side of the people of the whole country, selfishness, timidity, disregard for people's livelihood, and daydreaming became synonymous with the little prince, and even the little prince was spit on when he was traveling.

Even in that environment, the little prince persisted in his efforts, and he tried every day to convince his brother that in a few years he became much older than his brother, and in order to target him, the powerful prince not only did not control the burning of wood to make land, but issued a series of decrees to encourage the people to cultivate farmland, and also gave material rewards to large grain producers, so that the area of the forest disappeared at an alarming rate, and the devil's face became more and more hideous in the ever-expanding desert.

Things took a turn for the worse after the first sandstorm hit the village.

A large sandstorm engulfed a village of 500 people overnight, and the next morning when the passing merchants saw that the village was only located with high sand dunes and scattered roofs, they were so frightened that they dropped their goods and turned around and ran.

From that day on, the rumors split into two factions, and as villages were wiped out in sandstorms, people living on the edge of the desert began a panicked migration, and messages about the end of the world were out of control.

At this point, the balance of power in the royal family also began to change, more and more people began to reflect, more and more ministers were willing to calm down and objectively listen to the explanation and analysis of the little prince and those wise men, and then they came to the same conclusion as the wise men in horror, they couldn't believe such a simple truth they would take it as a joke at the beginning, so more and more people joined the little prince's environmental protection team to protect the forest, and the little prince's shili tended to balance with the big prince little by little.

The kind-hearted little prince is still trying to persuade the eldest prince to change his political position, but the eldest prince, who is bent on inheriting the throne, feels that the little prince has other intentions, and is obsessed with the belief that nature can repair itself, and all the current situation is only temporary, and soon the desert will recede, and the forest will surround the desert little by little from afar, and the little prince just wants to rely on the recent desert events to politically overwhelm him to achieve the goal of inheriting the throne, and he will never allow such a thing to happen, He is the legitimate heir to this country.

Later, when the king came to his senses and issued a timely order prohibiting the cutting and burning of forests, the eldest prince really felt threatened.

At this point, the king did not continue for a long time.

"And then?" Niu Zhuzhu was really curious about what happened next.

The princess, who had been listening quietly on the side, suddenly said to General Niu: "General Niu has worked hard, this person is not a bad person, it is okay to have me and my father here, you better go down and rest, and rely on General Niu more for the night inspection." ”

General Niu hesitated for a moment, then took a closer look at Niu Zhuzhu, and then bowed to the king and princess and said, "Then I will go down first." ”

After leaving the king for some distance, the adjutant general asked General Niu, "General, is this really all right?" The king was with that man......"

"The king has something to say to that man, it's not convenient for us to be around, and that kid is not a bad person." General Niu confirmed.

At this time, Niu Xuanzhu was also asking the king a similar question: "Your Royal Highness, aren't you afraid that I am a bad person or a spy?" ”

The king turned his head and said kindly, "What's the matter, anyway, the current situation of the Forest Country can't be worse." ”

"Huh?" Niu Bolt didn't understand too much.

"Hehe, I'm sure you're not a bad person." The king laughed.

"You are so wise, worthy of being a king, with a unique vision and an atmosphere of doing things." Niu Shuzhu raised his big finger and praised.

"Don't you want to know what happened after that?" The king abruptly turned the subject back to the story.

"yes, what happened later?" Niu Shuzhu asked.

"Then the old king fell ill and died suddenly." King's Road.

"Huh? Such a coincidence? …… I mean...... It's so unfortunate. Niu Xuanzhu didn't believe that there was such a coincidence, and this must be the ghost of the eldest prince.

The king continued: "Of course, this was done by the eldest prince at that time, he was controlled by the devil at that time, he had no idea what he was doing, his mind was all about the throne, but in the end he still failed to sit in the position of king, maybe this is the will of God. ”

"Weishenme he didn't ascend to the throne?" Niu Xuanzhu hurriedly asked, it seemed that the story had entered the climax.

"Because the old king had already set an heir to the throne before his death, after his death, the auxiliary ministers read the old king's edict in front of all the courtiers, and the little prince ascended the throne of the king." The king continued, "This should have ended there, and the eldest prince should have come to his senses, but it was not like that, and the eldest prince went further and further down the wrong path, and on the day the little prince ascended the throne, the eldest prince and his men defected from the forest country, and then one country was divided into two. ”

"What a bad person, fortunately your father is in charge of the forest country, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable." Niu Zhuzhu said to the king, according to the year, the king in front of him should be the son of the little prince at that time.

"I'm not my uncle's child, I'm the son of that bad-hearted man." The king calmly told a startling truth.

Hearing the king say that he was the child of the eldest prince, Niu Zhuzhu's eyes almost fell to the ground.