The second is the food supply for the bee colony; the Jade Spirit Bee mostly feeds on pollen, nectar, and the Spirit Honey they produce, with pollen from various Spiritual Medicines and Spirit Wood flowers being preferred.
However, the quantities of Spiritual Medicines and Spirit Wood are limited, and moreover, many varieties do not bloom annually.
This has led to the bee colony consciously controlling their own numbers to prevent starvation, not daring to breed too many offspring.
The second factor is easier to manage, now that the Zhou Family's influence is rising. If they were to propose cooperation to the cultivation families in Lanzhou or even the neighboring states under the same terms as they once offered to the Wang Family of Hongyao Valley, it is unlikely that there would be many refusals.
In this way, by using other families' medicine fields and orchards for beekeeping, it could expand the bee colony's size by several times, or even tenfold!
