The reconciliation of the Locke Republic with the Empire was a rather long and tortuous process.

Crucially, this is not an isolated incident.

The kingdom of Bran bore the brunt of the impact and impact.

Long before the rise of the Liang Xia Empire, in the era when ships were still sailing, the strategy pursued by the Bran Kingdom, which had already dominated the global seas, was to use alliances, support, and containment to prevent the emergence of a land power that could pose a threat to it in the Western Continent.

Strictly speaking, uniting with the Locke Republic to deal with the Empire in a major war is a concrete manifestation of this strategy.

Now, the Locke Republic and the Empire have simply abandoned their past suspicions and come together for the first time in history, preparing to rule the Western Continent together.

How to curb this giant-level land power?

Don't forget that any land power, after it develops, will seek overseas colonies and challenge the sea power.

Combined, the Locke Republic and the Empire have a population of about 130 million, with a land area of more than 1 million square kilometers, and the Locke Republic is the third largest colonial suzerainty in the world, with a population of more than 100 million colonies under its control. In other respects, the industrial productivity of these two powers far exceeded that of the Bran Kingdom, about 70 percent of the Nuland Federation, half of the Liangxia Empire, and the third in the world.

More importantly, the Locke Republic and the Empire of the Empire have a huge appeal in the Western Continent, if you include the many small countries, this alliance with the Republic of Locke and the Empire of the Empire as the core, has a population of about 300 million, a land area of nearly three million square kilometers, the second largest overseas colony in the world, and the second strongest industrial productivity that surpasses the Newland Federation and is second only to the Liangxia Empire.

Such a giant, let alone dominating the Western Continent, it is not a problem to compete in the world.

So, with a strait that is only thirty kilometers at its narrowest point, will the Bran Kingdom be able to protect itself?

The answer is clearly no.

Historically, after the rise of the great powers of the Western Continent, they would challenge the Kingdom of Bran, which was only separated by a strait, or even conquer the Kingdom of Bran.

Because there is no other choice, the Kingdom of Bran can only move closer to the Newland Federation.

Some people will say that it was the Bran Kingdom that first allied with the Narrow Empire and handed an olive branch to the Newland Federation, and the Locke Republic and the Rimman Empire were fully reconciled, so the strategic adjustment of the Bulan Kingdom was due to the fact that the Locke Republic turned to the Riman Empire when there was no other way.

Obviously, this argument is far-fetched.

The reason is also very simple, the reconciliation between the Locke Republic and the Hindan Empire is certainly not a one-time thing, there is a process, and it also takes time.

In addition to the Bran Kingdom, the most affected is the newly born Luosha Federation.

It's just that for the Luosha Federation, this matter is both good and bad.

In the first few years, it was a great blessing for the newly born Luosha Federation, which was in an extremely difficult situation, and it could even be said to be a gift from God. Very simply, after the Locke Republic and the Empire have released their previous suspicions, they must first consider the overall situation, then spend a lot of time on integration, and then they have to sweep the surrounding areas, at least unite the surrounding small countries, and finally it is the turn of external expansion.

In addition, the defeated Empire needed to recuperate.

As a result, the dream of Western powers sending troops to intervene in the civil war in Luo Sha was completely ruined.

Look at it from another angle.

If this had not been the case, the Western powers would have been able to send troops in large numbers after the stop, at the latest, after the end of the Sepas Peace Conference. In order to extinguish Luo Sha's mutiny with the power of thunder, troops had to be sent from the Western Continent, and the Locke Republic and the Empire needed to play the leading roles.

Unfortunately, this is not the case.

After the consolidation of the Locke Republic's alliance with the Riman Empire, the Locke Federation faced threats even higher than that of the Bran Kingdom.

In any case, the Kingdom of Bran is an offshore country, separated from the western continent by a strait, so as long as it maintains a strong enough navy, at least there is no need to worry about threats to the mainland. The Luosha Federation is also a country on the western continent, with a frontage of thousands of kilometers wide in the west.

Obviously, if the two powers to the west join forces, the Luosha Federation will be the first to be threatened.

It is precisely because of this that in the next ten years, the Luosha Federation has been working hard to consolidate the western defense line, which has also had a more far-reaching impact.

The first is that between the Raksha Federation and the Empire, many small and weak states have to make a choice.

Either to the west or to the east.

The dozen or so countries here are actually about a dozen barrels of explosives, and if they don't do it well, any small country with a small projectile may detonate the next big war. Not to mention, among these dozen or so small countries, many of them are emerging countries that took the opportunity to become independent after the end of the Luosha Empire.

These small countries all belonged to the Luosha Empire before, or the spoils of the Luosha Empire's previous expansion wars.

Will the Luosha Federation give up?

When they are too busy to take care of themselves, the Luosha Federation will naturally not cause trouble, but after it becomes stronger, it will be a different matter.

In fact, this is the reason why the Luosha Federation took the initiative to move closer to the Liangxia Empire.

In the face of the superpower emerging from the west, the Luosha Federation had no choice at all, and could only turn to the Liangxia Empire, which was once a long-cherished enemy and was said to be a discordant during the Great War, to at least reconcile and eliminate the threat from the east, so as to concentrate its forces on the west.

The Locke Republic can reconcile with the Empire, so why can't the Luosha Federation reconcile with the Liangxia Empire?

Besides, the Luosha Federation was a federal state established after the overthrow of the decaying imperial power, so naturally there was no need to follow the dogma of the imperial period.

Obviously, for the Liang Xia Empire, it is also unwanted.

It is precisely for this reason that after the "Peace of Saiba" came into effect, the Liangxia Empire only symbolically sent an army to join the military intervention initiated by the Bran Kingdom and the Sayi Empire, and mainly operated in the occupied areas during the Great War, and did not participate in the front-line combat operations.

Shortly thereafter, the military intervention ended in failure.

After withdrawing at the first time, the Liangxia Empire received the olive branch handed by the Luosha Federation. In 84 A.D., the year after the intervention ended, the Liangxia Empire signed a secret treaty with the Luosha Federation to reconcile with the Luosha Federation by returning the territory occupied by the Luosha Empire during the Great War.

In return, the Luosha Federation promised to export oil and iron ore to the Liangxia Empire within the next forty-nine years.

It was this secret peace treaty that liberated the military forces deployed by the Luosha Federation in the eastern region and created the conditions for the next use of troops in the western continent.

It was also this treaty that rewrote and locked the post-war world pattern.

In the huge continent, the Western Continent and the Xuan Continent, which are called the "World Islands," two powerful military-political alliance blocs have once again appeared, and an equally powerful bloc has been born outside the World Island, and the situation of confrontation between the two powers has thus developed into a three-legged stand.

However, it did not form a stable relationship.

It is also impossible to be stable.

As long as there are interests, and as long as they can still be seized and obtained through military means, then no form of international relations can exist stably.

Not to mention, once again, the arms race has turned into a wild horse that has escaped.