Because Lofus had told him in advance, when Secretary of State Hale arrived, the secretary did not follow up, but only opened the door for the Secretary of State.

Lofos had finished his paperwork and was about to get a bite to eat.

It was the middle of the night, but he had to go to Congress early to-morrow morning, and Lofus had not thought of going to bed, and he couldn't sleep at all.

"How?"

"It's not good news, but it's not bad."

As soon as Hale said this, Lofos immediately frowned.

It is one thing to aid the Narrow Empire, but if you really want to say it, the key is to unite more countries, especially the allies from the last war, to put pressure on the Liang Xia Empire.

No matter how strong the Liangxia Empire is, it does not dare to be an enemy of the whole world.

These allies are all Western powers.

For this reason, Lofus asked Hale to do this.

That's what Hale does.

The day before yesterday, Hale made his first gain.

The Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bran sent a message promising that sanctions against the belligerents, including an embargo, would be considered after several preconditions were met.

At that time, the Bran Kingdom imposed all-round sanctions on the Liangxia Empire and the Narrow Empire on the grounds of "anti-war", especially the strategic embargo.

The key to this is actually the oil produced in Posha Bay.

After the end of the last war, before the end of the war, the Emirate of Posha Bay, which was originally under the rule of the There Empire, declared its independence one after another, and then all of them became protectorates of the Kingdom of Bran, becoming semi-colonial countries without full sovereignty, and the oil fields of Posha Bay also fell into the hands of the Kingdom of Bran.

For the past decade or so, the Liangxia Empire has been the largest buyer of oil in Poshawan.

According to incomplete statistics, about half of the oil produced by Posha Bay was shipped to the Liangxia Empire, and almost all the oil companies in the Bran Kingdom were trading with the Liangxia Empire.

It was the huge profits from the oil trade that allowed the Kingdom of Bran to emerge from the post-war quagmire and become the first old empire to recover. More than ten years after the war, the Bran Kingdom also became the number one trade object of the Liangxia Empire on the western continent from the oil trade.

To say, Posha Bay was actually the oil depot of the Liangxia Empire.

As long as the Bran Kingdom announces an oil embargo, the Liangxia Empire will not want to buy oil from Posha Bay!

Without oil, what will the Liangxia Empire do to fight?

The Narrow Imperial State?

Obviously, that's the key.

Although the Kingdom of Bran will sanction all belligerents, as long as the Newland Federation does not join, it will continue to export oil to the Narrow Empire.

The Union of Nuland was already the world's largest oil producer and the number one oil exporter. In peacetime, more than half of the oil exported by the Nuland Federation was bought by the Liangxia Empire, and almost all the Nuland oil companies were trading with the Liangxia Empire.

In addition, the demand for oil in the Sagi Imperial Kingdom was not very large, so even if the oil was cut off in the short term, it would not have much impact.

The embargo included not only oil, but also iron ore from Austria, natural rubber from Malai in the south of the Yanhai Sea, rice from the Daiman Kingdom, and even tropical fruits from Van Luo, almost all of which were sold to the Liangxia Empire, many of which could not be replaced by other sources.

There is no doubt that the embargo will certainly have an impact on the war potential of the Liang Xia Empire.

Even if it is difficult to produce results in the short term, after all, the Liangxia Empire is not only vast in land and resources, but also has strategic reserves, and many resources do not need to be imported, but it will definitely have an impact on the economy of the Liangxia Empire, as well as the lives of the people, and it will also make the imperial authorities feel the pressure.

One way or another, the imperial authorities certainly need the support of the population.

However, it is up to the Nuland Federation to decide whether or not to impose sanctions and embargoes on the Kingdom of Bran.

This is the prerequisite mentioned earlier.

The first is that the Nuland Federation has to take action, not stay out of it, such as supporting the Narrow Empire and condemning the Liangxia Empire in diplomatic settings.

Obviously, this is the key to Lofos's active preparation of the "Aid Bill".

Secondly, the Nuland Federation must give full play to its influence in the Western Continent and stabilize several powerful countries on the Western Continent, at least to maintain the current situation.

To put it bluntly, it is necessary to eliminate the worries of the Bran Kingdom.

The Kingdom of Bran is an offshore country on the Western Continent, 108,000 miles away from the Liangxia Empire at the other end of the World Island, but across the sea from the Locke Republic and the Riman Empire.

In terms of threat, the Western Continent is far more powerful than the Liang Xia Empire.

Fundamentally, the Liang Xia Empire can only threaten the overseas territories of the Bran Kingdom, and cannot threaten the mainland of the Bran Kingdom at all. The powerful countries on the Western Continent are different, and after they develop, the first thing they do is to compete with the Bran Kingdom for sea power.

Actually, this is also related to the last war.

In the words of Prime Minister Bran, after paying the price of millions of casualties, the Kingdom of Bran not only did not receive any benefits, but instead promoted the alliance between its former allies and its former sworn enemies, while the Kingdom of Bran, which should have vested interests, was left aside.

After the Great War, the Locke Republic not only did not appreciate the Bran Kingdom and continued to make friends with the Bran Kingdom, but reconciled with the Purman Empire.

From the standpoint of the Bran Kingdom, this is absolutely intolerable.

In the past hundred years, the Bran Kingdom's consistent attitude towards the powerful countries of the Western Continent has been: co-optation and division.

To put it simply, it is to try to prevent the emergence of a threatening power on the western continent, and if it appears, it will unite with other countries to strangle.

The most representative is actually the policy towards Locke and Queman.

A hundred years ago, when the army of the Locke Empire swept through almost the entire Western Continent under the command of the Dwarf Emperor, the Bran Kingdom came forward to form an anti-Locke Alliance, united the Luosha Empire and supported the then very weak Riman Kingdom, and finally shattered the Spring and Autumn Dream of the Dwarf Emperor in the decisive battle of the Iron Furnace. After the end of the Locke Empire, the upgrading of the Kingdom of Locke to the Empire of Empire, and the express train of the second industrial revolution and becoming the number one power on the Western Continent, the Kingdom of Bran repeated its old trick and gathered the Republic of Locke and the Rosa Empire to form an anti-Empire. As a result, in the last war, the anti-Manman alliance gained a loud voice in the Western Continent, and the Manman Empire also fell.

After more than a hundred years of turmoil, the number one power on the Western Continent has changed several times, but only the Bran Kingdom has not fallen.

Twenty years ago, the Bran Kingdom was willing to negotiate with the Liangxia Empire before achieving a decisive victory, in fact, it was afraid that after the complete defeat of the Empire, the Locke Republic would become the first power on the Western Continent and dominate the entire Western Continent without a strong rival.

At that time, the Luosha Empire had become history, and the newly-born Luosha Federation was not yet qualified to compete in the world.

Unfortunately, after the war, the Locke Republic and the Empire of Hindrance came together quickly to achieve national reconciliation through compromise and tolerance.

Although the Western Continent is far from being unified, the two united powers are a threat to all the surrounding countries.

The Luosha Federation felt it, and so did the Bran Kingdom.

To say that the Bran Kingdom is the first to bear the brunt, because the Luosha Federation has the support of the Liangxia Empire, and the Locke Republic and the Juman Empire may not dare to start a war at will.

After the threat around them is resolved, even if it is only temporarily weakened, the kingdom of Bran will pay attention to the situation in the western and eastern seas separated from the mainland.

The task that Lofos had given Hale was to get this done.