The politician that Lofus admires the most, in addition to the founding father of the Nuland Federation, is the current head of the Liangxia Empire.

In Lofus's own words, if he had a choice, he would prefer to be friends with Xue Yuanzheng.

In this world, perhaps no one wants to be Xue Yuanzheng's opponent.

Not to mention anything else, in the past ten years, Xue Yuanzheng has done a lot of things that Lofos has always wanted to do, but has never dared to do or could not do.

The most representative is to promote trade with other countries by opening up the country's own market.

Although when evaluating this matter, most Westerners, including Lofus, use the basic argument of "historical inevitability". The Liangxia Empire, which had suffered a crushing defeat in the last World War and whose international status and influence had almost completely been reduced to zero, needed to adopt this openness to reshape the country's image and break the international order established by the Western powers in the post-war period in order to reap broader benefits.

However, Lofos has never denied that the economic and trade policies promoted by Xue Yuanzheng are essentially to offset and alleviate the impact of the Great Depression, solve the problems of domestic economic development through trade, and promote exchanges and exchanges with other countries, which is actually only an incidental role. As for reshaping the post-war international order, even if it is the number one strategic goal, it is the result of the development of economic and trade exchanges.

It was in this way that in the decade following the outbreak of the Great Depression, the economic development of the Liangxia Empire was at its most normal.

Of course, it can only be described as "normal", after all, unemployment in all countries is frighteningly high, and it is good to be able to stay normal.

Interestingly, almost all countries benefited from the Liang Xia Empire's open economic and trade policies.

The Nuland Federation is no exception.

As early as a few years ago, the Liangxia Empire became the largest export destination of the Nuland Federation and the second largest source of imports for the Nuland Federation.

Much of the oil pumped from the Texas oil fields in the south, the grain from the farmlands of the Missy River Plain, and even the goods made by the factories in the east were exported to the Liangxia Empire, where thousands of workers, ranchers, and entrepreneurs provided handsome incomes and fed tens of millions of families.

The imported goods of the Liang Xia Empire, from the porcelain used by every household, to the steamships that sailed across the sea, to the automobiles that began to be popularized over the years, and even the silk and other textiles that are still luxury goods have long been deeply rooted in the lives of the people of Newland.

If this is still the case in the Nuland Federation, will other countries be better?

Not to mention other countries, even the Narrow Imperial State is also highly dependent on the Liangxia Empire in terms of economy and trade.

To put it mildly, if it weren't for the aggressiveness of the Liangxia Empire on some international issues, war would not have broken out at all.

For example, the Liang Xia Empire has been seeking to recover the Sadou Islands in the north and south, and also to militarize them.

If there is no intention to militarize the North and South Sadou Islands, why is there any need to recover them?

In order to force the Narrow-Tydic Empire to compromise and retreat, the Liangxia Empire made a fuss about the export of grain and scrap steel, forcing the Narrow-Dipty Empire to have no choice at all.

The situation has developed to this point, and it is useless to say this.

The question in front of Lofos is very simple: in the short term, unless Xue Yuanzheng enters the water and orders the Liang Xia navy to attack Guan Dao or Nanzhu Kingdom, then no matter how far this war develops, even if Liang Xia's army lands on the Sayi mainland and beats the Sayi Imperial State to pieces, the Congress will not approve the sending of troops to participate in the war according to the provisions of the alliance treaty, to be precise, there are no similar obligations stipulated in the alliance treaty.

However, we must not watch the defeat of the Narrow Imperial State.

If the Nuland Federation were to sit on the sidelines, the Narrow Empire would hold out for a year at most, and perhaps be defeated in a few months.

For the same reason, the Imperial State simply did not have the capital to fight a protracted war.

An island country with few resources, after losing its sea supremacy and cutting off its shipping routes, what will it do?

According to the information obtained by Lofus, the grain stored in the Imperial State of Sakuyi can last until the spring of next year at most. If the harvest is good next summer and autumn, it may be possible to hold out until next winter. It's just that after that, 80 million narrow-minded people will have to eat the soil.

In addition, there are psychological aspects.

The Narrow-Sized Imperial Kingdom dared to challenge the Liangxia Empire, relying on the Nuland Federation and the Bran Kingdom, if the two allies watched the excitement, the morale and fighting spirit of the Narrow-minded soldiers and civilians would quickly fall to zero.

I don't even have the confidence to fight, why do you hold on?

What to do?

The solution is in the hands of Lofus.

"Aid Bill".

Of course, it can't be called a bill until it is approved by Congress.

The core content of the bill is to provide supplies or funds for the purchase of goods in accordance with the alliance-like and legally binding treaties signed with friendly countries such as the Imperial State, the Kingdom of Bran, and the Republic of Locke, in the form of free aid, conditional aid, unsecured loans, and mortgages, to help allies who have been invaded or violated, or who may be threatened militarily, tide over the difficulties.

Specifically, it was to provide military assistance to the Imperial State of Sakui.

It's just a few detours, and it's a little better.

It's just to deal with the corpse vegetarian guys in Congress.

In addition, Lofos has already prepared the first aid agreement.

According to his vision, the Narrow-Sized Empire would use the trusteeship interest in the Northern Horse Islands as collateral to obtain loans from the Nuland Federation to purchase military supplies from the Nuland Federation.

For this reason, Lofus had asked the Secretary of State to go to the ambassador of the Narrow Empire a few days ago and mention the matter in person.

It's just that so far, the Sakuyi Imperial State has not given an answer.

It's not surprising that you don't cry when you don't see a coffin.

A few days ago, the naval battle in the Guia Ocean had not yet ended, and the top brass of the Sakuyi Empire might still have some illusions that they did not need to receive assistance in this way.

In addition, what the narrow top brass wants is not assistance, but the Nuland Federation and the Bran Kingdom send troops to war!

Now, is there still a choice for the Imperial Kingdom of Sakuyi?

This is not enough.

In addition to food, the Nuland Federation does not have many military supplies that the Narrowish Imperial State urgently needs now, and many of them cannot be used for assistance.

What does the Imperial Kingdom urgently need right now?

Battleship!

Can the Nuland Federation send active warships to the Narrows?

Apparently not!

Don't forget, what the Narrowish Empire needs most now are aircraft carriers and fast battleships, and the Nuland Navy now lacks aircraft carriers and fast battleships.

To have enough aircraft carriers and fast battleships, but also to play with such an inefficient means as "assistance"?

To put it more thoroughly, those members of the Congress are unwilling to be enemies of the Liangxia Empire, not only because of economic relations, but also because the military strength of the Nuland Federation is not strong enough to defeat the Liangxia Empire, otherwise, the Nuland Federation would have already raised the banner of besieging the Liangxia Empire.

Aid destroyers such as small warships?

Even if you can help, it doesn't make much sense.

In addition, it was a question of whether or not food could be transported after the blockade of the Imperial Kingdom and the cutting off of shipping routes.

Even if an escort is provided, it is difficult to solve the problem fundamentally.

Aid alone is not enough.

To this end, Lofos also has a hand arrangement.

Now, that "arrangement" has come to the Gray House, just outside the president's study in the West Hall.