"Mr. Maddock, why don't you help me with my job?
I understood the source of the woody anger. After a while I thought about it, I said that to Mr. Maddock.
"What are you saying about work? You mean the pioneering that the Lord keeps?
"I guess it's a little different. I listened to Mr. Maddock earlier and thought about it. From now on, let's manage the forest."
"Management of the forest?
"Yeah. I think that would be the only way I could get rid of the grievances of the woodloving woodcutters and say something that would benefit me too if I wanted to do some pioneering. I think we should create artificial forests that people manage, not forests that we leave to nature today."
"Wait, wait, I can't possibly do that. That's not what forests are for. The power of nature is beyond the power of man."
I'll hear what I have to say and I'll be in immediate disagreement, Mr. Maddock.
But I'm not going to be saying so much wrong.
More than that, it's not just an idea.
It concludes that knowledge in previous life is better.
I think my pioneering speed is unusual.
I hear the forest extending north of the village is vast, but no one in the village knows how big it is.
Because they say if you get lost in the back, no one will come back.
However, it is believed that the combination of my magic and the power of the Valkyries who inherit it it will greatly reduce the size of the forest.
Forest destruction is serious environmental damage.
When the trees are gone from the earth, the water retention of the land will be drastically reduced.
That would prevent the harvest from being taken in the field, and the rain might eliminate all the nutritious soil.
There is also the possibility of desertification in severe cases.
It goes beyond the mere problem of environmental destruction.
It's more likely that there will be another problem, as it probably won't be while I'm alive if I just say environmental damage.
That's the disappearance of firewood.
If you have run out of all the trees, you will have difficulty getting firewood.
This becomes a horrible case if you live in this land.
I never thought about firewood when it was heated by gas or electricity in my previous life.
But in this world, firewood is used for heating.
[Ignition] can be done with life magic, but without firewood there will be a situation where there is nothing to burn.
If winter came in that condition, they would all be sure to freeze to death.
I do not think it would be a bad thing to think about measures to that end now.
Forest management, if I say so, I'm going to do forestry.
I have heard that properly managed forests are very beneficial to humans.
The same is true of the ability to contain the effects of deforestation, as was the case earlier.
There will also be a point of stable access to even more fine forest resources.
In forests left to nature, trees and grass grow to such an extent that they do not bring light to the earth.
That makes it hard to grow into a very thick, solid tree.
It would be able to be processed as a durable wood by intermittently improving the sun.
Plus, my business plan includes growing magic mushrooms.
We need logs to produce magic mushrooms.
Neither do I want to do anything to eat up the woods on purpose.
"That's why I want to keep the forest under control. It's like planting a tree in a field if you ask me. But I don't know much about trees, even if I've grown vegetables and wheat. So I was wondering if a forest expert like Mr. Maddock could help me."
"Uhm. Honestly, I can't imagine if that's really going to happen after the forest trees are gone..."
"I think so. But you know how effective forest management is somehow. Besides, if Mr. Maddock doesn't agree with me, one way or another, I'm going to knock down the tree in disorder. I don't think it would hurt you to act with me in a way that prevents it."
Something tells me you're starting to say it yourself and it's like half blackmail.
But Mr. Maddock, although lost, seems to be starting to show interest as well.
After a while, I told everyone else to talk to me, so I went back to my house that day.
After all, a few days later, Mr. Maddock seemed to persuade me to pass on my words to the woodcutters.
The woodworkers seemed half-hearted by what I said.
But it seemed to calm me down in the opinion that if Mr. Maddock would look at that child, I'd see how he was doing a little more.
This is how I managed the northern forest as I pioneered it.
I don't care, is it okay to admit that I manage the forest like I admit the forest is mine?
Should I look at the trees and not at the woods, but at the trees and not at the land?
During this period, the atmosphere began to spread in the village that the north was somehow my jurisdiction.