The Imperial Ministry of Forestry, which had a name seven hundred years ago.

At that time, the full name of the Imperial Forestry Department was the "Royal Navy Shipbuilding Department", and their main task was to find the best wood and suitable wood for the empire that ruled the continent of Orin, and then cut down these high-quality oaks, send them to the wood processing factories to make specific components, and finally assemble them into sail battleships with a displacement of about 3,500 tons.

The Imperial Forestry Department has an even longer history than the Empire, and for a long time it was the most important cooperative structure of the Imperial Navy. It was not until about a hundred years after the founding of the Empire that iron ships began to appear in the sequence of the Imperial Navy. Over the next thirty years, the battleships of the Empire were built from iron to armor and finally to steel keels.

The Royal Navy's shipbuilding department was renamed the Imperial Forestry Department after the navy's first battlefleet was commissioned entirely of metal.

In the decades following the name change, the Imperial Forestry Department was reduced to a completely marginal department. Their work was almost all left with the task of providing timber for the royal family's renovation of the palace and the coffins of the royal family.

But this dilemma soon changed, and the first reason for the change was that the professors of Imperial University discovered the secret of "ripening" of the habitable planet.

Planting trees could theoretically turn planets that have a freshwater cycle but lack oxygen in the air into habitable planets. Although this will take a long time, it is still a very attractive option.

At that time, the empire only had three colonies, and such technology could theoretically bring at least 100 habitable planets.

As a result, the Imperial Forestry Department suddenly became a hot bait. Both the Crown Treasury and the Privy Council are pumping large amounts of gold pounds into the Forestry Ministry, and the Forestry Department has done something remarkable.

With the assistance of professors from Imperial University, the Ministry of Forestry selected a number of algae and plants that are tolerant of low temperature and low oxygen environments, and began to plant them on those planets that proved to be unsuitable for colonization, in order to mature a batch of colonies in the shortest possible time.

Then, the mining complex was born.

On the surface, there is no possibility of any "contradiction" between the mining complex and the Imperial Forestry Department. One mining, the other planting trees, it seems that there should be no possibility of competition between the two sides.

But according to Director Escobar, as the two most powerful departments of the empire at the moment, the Mining Complex and the Imperial Forestry Department are almost enemies of life and death. If it weren't for the Royal Guards, maybe the mining ships of the mining complex and the seeding ships of the Ministry of Forestry would have to be replaced with 18-inch main guns and have a frank and fierce exchange directly in the sea of stars.

His Majesty the Emperor granted permission for the mining complex to be unauthorised for mining is "all non-colonized planets", in other words, "non-habitable planets and asteroids". As a result, mining complexes are simply not directly involved in the mining of energy minerals – coal and oil are the result of plants catalyzed over a long-term geological environment, and can even be considered as plant fossils.

It is almost impossible for non-habitable stars to have plants, let alone the formation of coal catalyzed by long-term complex geological conditions.

The fact that mining complexes need to mine minerals on these planets where oxygen levels are severely insufficient, is quite expensive and cannot be used to extract energy minerals, which is already very frustrating. But now the Imperial Ministry of Forestry is conducting large-scale experiments and launching a non-habitable planet modification program, which is like scolding a bald donkey in front of a monk.

I'm digging for rocks here, and you've transformed a non-habitable star into a colony with a click...... Can I still dig this mine?

In order to prevent this blood pressure from happening, the mining complex began to condone the miners to destroy the trees planted by the Imperial Forestry Department. Tools such as steam harvesters were even purchased specifically for the mine. Even if they need to fill the high-pressure gas tank in advance on the colony planet, and then use interstellar jumps to enter the mining planet.

Anyway, the Ypsilons used for interstellar jumping are mined and sold by mining complexes.

The Imperial Forestry Ministry, in order to defend the "interests of the Empire" and "the glory of the historic sector", directly referred to the Privy Council for the adoption of a decree.

Anyone who cuts down a tree without the authorization of the Forestry Department shall be fined eighty gold pounds per tree. If the diameter of the tree exceeds one yore, the penalty shall be levied at the rate of multiplying the widest diameter of the tree by eighty gold pounds per jore.

Of course, if the logger is also a registered tree planter with the Ministry of Forestry, he will not be fined for cutting trees with a diameter of less than one yol without permission.

"Eighty gold pounds per tree, this price is already several times that of coal." Dussaint gasped, "They're robbing?" ”

"That's what the laws of the empire dictate." Chief Escobar spread his hands and said, "Mr. Lord, in your capacity, it won't be a problem to cut down a few of your own trees. But if you're going to chop more, turn them into fuel for heating...... The Ministry of Forestry will not be soft on fines. They can tolerate occasional violations, but they are never allowed to make exceptions. ”

A large part of imperial law requires reference to precedent. Once there is a precedent for exemption from punishment in a precedent, this precedent can be cited for enforcement in subsequent judgments.

"These people...... It's simply the devil. Dussander said angrily, "There are thousands of Imperial people outside who are about to freeze to death in the cold wind, but they still want to defend their special rights!" ”

"As far as I know, most of the poor spend a lot of time in the summer and autumn collecting weeds and small shrubs for fuel reserves." "If they don't even do these jobs, they are lazy – if they can't fight for their lives, they can't blame anyone else." ”

Dussaint glanced at Escobar, then sneered twice and didn't speak.

This fat man is still useful, and while it is cool to refute him now, it may cause problems for Dussand's plan to be implemented.

When my plan is executed, I will settle the ledger with you - the internal affairs bureau is about to go bankrupt, and you, as the director of the bureau, can eat more than 300 pounds of fat, if you don't get oil and water in the middle, my Dussand's name will be written upside down in the future!

"You go raise money." Dussaint confirmed the details one last time, "No matter how much, no matter how high the interest rate is proposed by the other party, just agree to it." ”

Escobar, on the other hand, asked in a low voice, "Mr. Lord, do you have any inclination towards the source of the coal?" If you are familiar with a coal agency, we can appoint a hospital to purchase it. ”

"Send a quote to every agency in Upper Albin." Dussander thought for a moment and shook his head, "Let them give a quote together, and the coal will be purchased centrally, and see if they can keep the unit price down a little - and, ask if the textile mill in Upper Albin has any cotton that has been simply treated, and then ask what the purchase price is." ”