When he saw this, Bai Zhizhan had his first doubt.

Did Lofos's death have anything to do with Chull?

However, in the message sent by the command of the Navy, no answer was given.

By the time the agents took Lofos to the hospital, Chull had already left the Gray Palace, leaving Hwaseong that night, or hiding.

According to the six-game guess, he is likely to go to the Maple Leaf Country in the near future.

However, it is equally possible to stay in the Newland Federation.

Here, there is another issue, and the most important one.

Under Nuland federal law, after the death of the president, the vice president fills the throne, and the vice president appoints a new vice president after he is sworn in.

Even if he did not accept his fate, there was a speaker of the House of Representatives.

All in all, it is not because the president suddenly has a kingdom without a leader.

It's just that herein lies the problem.

Nuland's federal vice president, Wallace, is a notoriously moderate faction.

When Lofus ran for the third time, he chose Wallace in the hope of gaining the support of moderates through him.

Apparently, Lofos certainly did not expect to die of a stroke at the time.

Here's the problem.

Both before and after the war, Wallace was adamantly opposed to getting involved in a war that had nothing to do with the Newland Federation.

In his words, there are two oceans in the way, and the war between the East and the West has nothing to do with the people of Nuland.

Obviously, this idea of his has a large market in Nuland.

For most isolationists, the Nuland Federation only needs to maintain a strong enough navy to be independent from the rest of the world.

And, of course, a war windfall.

If anything, that's the key.

Before the outbreak of the war, the Nuland Federation was the world's largest exporter, accounting for more than the Liangxia Empire in the export market, and by dumping surplus goods, it made huge profits that allowed thousands of Nulanders to live a good life.

This was even more true after the outbreak of the Great War.

If nothing else, in the first six months alone, the Newland Federation made nearly a billion dollars in profits from the sale of farm products such as corn, flour and potatoes.

What is this concept?

In the year leading up to the war, the Nuland Federation had exported less than $1 billion in agricultural exports!

Because of the existence of competition, and in order to discourage competitors through dumping, agricultural products were sold at low prices on the international market in the years following the Great Depression.

Not to mention making money, it is lucky not to lose money.

In 96 of the new calendar, the total export of agricultural products of the Newland Federation was 674 million New Zealand dollars, and the profit was not even a fraction!

Crucially, agricultural products account for a very small share of trade.

In the year before the Nuland Federation entered the war, exports of industrial products totaled more than NZ$20 billion, and profits amounted to billions of NZ$.

Many factories that were on the verge of closure were brought back to life after receiving orders from the Kingdom of Bran, the Narrow Empire and the Locka Federation, thousands of workers who were threatened with unemployment were able to save their jobs, and the 3 million new jobs made the Newland Federation thriving.

In the words of the outside world, it was not the New Deal of Lofos that saved the Newland Federation, but the renewed fire of war!

Without this war, without the enormous consumption caused by the war, in two or three years at most, Lofus's New Deal would inevitably become a rice cooker.

From another point of view, Lofus advocated entering the war in order to maintain the war dividends that had been obtained.

Of course, it can also be said to make the war more intense!

This is the key to isolationism's widespread support in the Nuland Federation.

At least before entering the war, almost all Nulanders believed that in just 2 to 3 years, the Nuland Federation would surpass the Liangxia Empire in terms of industrial scale.

Of course, that's why Lofus had to find a partner with Wallace.

At that time, if Lofos had chosen Ghana, his partner in the previous two terms, or Truman, a rising political rookie, he would not have won the third election easily, or even lost the election because of the internal division of the Democratic Party.

Of course, it will definitely take more effort.

With the war already in place, it is clear that Lofos is unlikely to devote much energy to the general election.

It's just that, after winning the election, Lofos did what a politician would do, pushing his political opponents out of the inner circle.

For the past two years or so, Wallace's main job has been to go around the country on behalf of Lofos to do war fundraising propaganda work.

It's certainly much better than staying in Hwaseong, though.

In fact, Wallace's experience has aroused strong dissatisfaction among conservatives within the Democratic Party, and it is therefore believed that Lofus crossed the river and demolished the bridge.

In a state of war, at best, dissatisfaction can only be expressed verbally.

When Lofus died suddenly, Wallace was attending a political rally on the other side of Newland, in Denver, nicknamed "The Western Capital."

According to the previous arrangement, he will next go to Jinwan and Angel City to inspect the naval shipyards.

It was at this link that there was an accident.

At that time, the staff of the Gray House, probably because they were too flustered, did not remember to contact Wallace, who was still in Denver but was about to leave for Golden Bay.

Actually, the staff of the Gray Palace can't be blamed.

The Secret Service did not announce Lofus's death in the first place, but temporarily blocked the news after Secretary of State Hale took over.

That is, the staff of the Gray House did not know that the president had died, believing that the president was nothing more than seriously ill.

If anything, the problem is Hale.

After daybreak, Wallace boarded a plane to Golden Bay, and it was only after he arrived that news of Lofus's death spread.

This is where the problem becomes very serious.

At that time, it was Hale who was in power in Hwaseong.

There is no doubt that this guy is a typical main battle faction, and he has a good personal relationship with Chull, and has visited the kingdom of Bran on behalf of Lofos many times.

It should be said that Hale has always been in charge of diplomacy with the Kingdom of Bran.

The Nuland Federation does not have a foreign minister, and the secretary of state is also in charge of foreign affairs, so it can also be seen as Hale's job to be in charge of the diplomatic work that he played with Bran.

The key is that Hale has worked with Lofos for ten years and has been Secretary of State for 10 years!

Even if it is not his turn to inherit the presidency, with what he knows about Lofus, he will definitely not let Wallace return to Huacheng to take power.

In his opinion, the first thing Wallace had to do after taking power was to order the army to cease all combat operations.

In addition, Wallace would have been suspicious.

Don't forget, the State Department and the Secret Service did not immediately announce the president's death.

Of course, the Secret Service itself is under the State Department, and the director of the Secret Service is appointed by the Secretary of State.

Did Hale deliberately conceal the news of Lofus's death, and in order to get rid of his political opponents, so that the speaker of the House of Representatives, who had little opinion, could come to power.

Moreover, the Speaker of the House of Representatives has been outside the core decision-making circle, has no understanding of the current situation, and will inevitably rely on the Secretary of State for everything after living in the Gray House.

In this way, Hale would become the de facto ruler of the Newland Federation.

In addition, almost all the key members of the Democratic Party in Hwaseong are Lofusians, and most of them are from the main war faction, and they will not accept Wallace's leadership.

With all this, will Wallace return to Hwaseong?