Thousands of sparks

Chapter 45 Imperial Forestry Department

The Imperial Forestry Department still had a name 700 years ago.

The full name of the Imperial Forestry Department at that time was the "Royal Navy Shipbuilding Department", and their main task was to find oaks of good age and suitable wood for the empire that ruled a continent of Olin, and then cut down these high-quality oaks. Send it to the wood processing factory to make specific components, and finally assemble it into a sailing battleship with a displacement of about [-] tons.

The Imperial Forestry Department has an even longer history than the Empire, and it has been the most important cooperative structure of the Imperial Navy for a long time.Until about 100 years after the founding of the empire, iron ships began to appear in the sequence of the imperial navy.In the following 30 years, the battleships of the empire went from wrapping iron skin to wrapping armor, and finally to laying the keel completely with steel and completing the construction.

The Royal Naval Shipbuilding Department changed its name to the Imperial Forestry Department after the Navy's first battle fleet composed entirely of metal was commissioned.

In the decades after the name change, the Imperial Forestry Department was once reduced to a completely marginal department.Their work is almost limited to providing wood for the royal family's decoration of the palace and providing the coffins of the royal family members.

But this dilemma quickly changed. The earliest cause of the change was that the professors at Imperial University discovered the secret of "ripening" the habitable planet.

Planting trees can theoretically turn some planets with fresh water circulation systems but lack of oxygen in the air into habitable planets.While this will take a long time, it's still a very attractive option.

At that time, the empire only had three colonial planets, but such technology could theoretically bring at least hundreds of habitable planets.

As a result, the Imperial Forestry Department suddenly became a hot commodity.Both the Royal Treasury and the Privy Council are sending large amounts of gold pounds to the Forestry Department, and the Forestry Department has indeed done some impressive things.

With the assistance of professors from Imperial University, the Ministry of Forestry has cultivated and screened out a batch of algae and plants that are resistant to low temperature and low oxygen environments, and began to plant them on planets that proved unsuitable for colonization, hoping to ripen them in the shortest possible time A group of colonial stars.

Then, the mining complex was born.

On the surface, there is no possibility of any "contradictions" between the mining association and the Imperial Forestry Department.A mining, a tree planting, the two sides seem to have no possibility of competition.

But according to Director Escobar, as the two most powerful departments in the empire, the Mining Consortium and the Imperial Forestry Department are almost life and death enemies.If it weren't for the Royal Guard Fleet guarding the venue, maybe the mining ship of the Mining Federation and the planter ship of the Forestry Department would have to replace their 18-inch main guns, and have a frank and intense exchange directly in the star sea.

His Majesty the Emperor permits the mining complex to mine "all non-colonial planets", in other words "non-habitable planets and asteroids".Therefore, the mining complex cannot directly participate in the mining of energy minerals—coal and oil are the result of plants catalyzed by the long-term geological environment, and they can even be regarded as plant fossils.

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

The mining complex needs to mine minerals on these planets with severely insufficient oxygen levels. The cost is high and there is no way to mine energy minerals, which is already very annoying.But now the Imperial Forestry Department is conducting large-scale experiments and launching a non-livable planet transformation plan, which is like scolding a bald donkey in front of a monk.

I'm struggling to dig rocks here, and you transformed the non-inhabitable star into a colonial star with one click... Then can I still dig this mine?

To prevent this blood-pressure-raising situation from happening, the mining complex began to allow miners to destroy trees planted by the Imperial Forestry Department.Even tools such as steam logging machines were purchased specifically for the mine.Even if they need to fill the high-pressure gas tank in advance on the colony star, and then go through the interstellar jump to enter the mining planet.

Anyway, the Ypsilon ore used for interstellar jumps is mined and sold by mining associations.

In order to defend the "interests of the empire" and the "glory of the long-established department", the imperial forestry department directly submitted a decree to the Privy Council.

Anyone who fells a tree without the authorization of the Forestry Department shall be fined eighty pounds per tree.If the diameter of the tree exceeds one yoel, the fine shall be the diameter of the tree at its widest point multiplied by eighty gold pounds per yoel.

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

"Eighty pounds a tree, the price is already several times that of coal." Dusand took a breath, "Are they robbing?"

"This is the law of the empire." Director Escobar spread his hands and said, "Mr. Lord, in your capacity, it will not be any trouble to cut down a few trees in your own house. But if you plan to cut down more Some, turn them into heating fuel...the forestry department will never be soft on fines. They can tolerate occasional violations, but it is absolutely impossible to allow exceptions."

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

"This group of people... are simply devils." Du Sande said angrily, "Thousands of imperial people outside are about to freeze to death in the cold wind, but they still want to protect their special rights!"

"As far as I know, most poor people spend a lot of time in summer and autumn collecting weeds and small shrubs as fuel reserves." Director Escobar explained, "If they don't even do these jobs, it can only show that they They're slobs—if you can't fight for your own life, you can't blame anyone else for being cold."

Dusande glanced at Escobar, then sneered twice and did not speak.

This fat man is still useful. Although it is cool to refute him now, it may cause trouble for the implementation of Dusand's plan.

When my plan is finished, I will settle the accounts with you—the Bureau of Internal Affairs is about to go bankrupt, but you, as the director, can become a fat man weighing more than 300 catties. Write!

"You go to raise money." Du Sande confirmed the details for the last time, "No matter how much, no matter how high the interest is, just agree to it."

And Escobar asked in a low voice, "Mr. Lord, do you have a preference for the source of coal purchase? If you are familiar with a certain coal agency company, we can designate the hospital to purchase it."

"Send an inquiry letter to every agency company in Shang Albin." Du Sande thought for a while and shook his head, "Let them make quotations together, purchase coal in a centralized manner, and see if we can lower the unit price a little—and , Ask if there is simply processed cotton in the textile mill in Upper Albin, and then ask to see how much the purchase price is."

(End of this chapter)