To say, the kingdom of Bran is the one who is wronged.

Although at the root, the all-out confrontation between the Liangxia Empire and the Bran Kingdom around the Fanyan Ocean, especially the economic and trade interests in the Fanluo region, was the root cause of the last global war, but between countries, there are no eternal enemies, no eternal friends, only eternal interests.

Moreover, the impact of the Great Recession on the international order must not be underestimated.

Don't look at the end of the war, the Bran Kingdom first encircled the Narrow Yi Empire, and then wooed the Newland Federation, and went to great lengths to make a second alliance group, but fundamentally speaking, these actions of the Bran Kingdom were not preparing to be enemies of the Liangxia Empire, but to expand overseas markets.

At that time, there was no "enemy" with the Liangxia Empire.

After the last war, the Liang Xia Empire withdrew from the surrounding area of Fan Yanyang almost without reservation, and almost all of its investments in Fan Luo were lost. Under the general trend of the post-war period, the Liangxia Empire entered a stage of strategic contraction, and tensions with other powers were greatly eased.

In the golden decade after the war, the international situation was quite stable.

Then came the Great Depression.

During the Golden Decade, the Kingdom of Bran behaved aggressively in order to capture the dividends of the war and make up for the losses suffered in the Great War. With the advent of the Great Depression, the foreign strategy of the Bran Kingdom turned in a new place, from strategic expansion to strategic contraction.

As long as you understand the situation at that time, it is not difficult to understand the reason.

Before the Great Depression, there were two major international events that were closely related to the kingdom of Bran.

First, the Luosha Federation has been recognized by most countries, and the internal and peripheral situation has also stabilized, and it has entered a stage of rapid development, and is about to become an emerging industrial power.

The second is that the Locke Republic achieved a comprehensive reconciliation with the Manman Empire by returning part of the Alor region and allowing the local residents to choose their nationality again.

It can be seen that whether it is the revival of the Luosha Federation, or the transformation of the Romanian Empire and the Locke Republic into friends, it means that in the near future, there will be one, or even two great-power-level opponents on the Western Continent. Historically, the overlords of the Western Continent would covet the Trident in the hands of the Bran Kingdom. Whoever dominates the Western Continent will set sail next to challenge the Bran Kingdom.

As the saying goes: people have no long-term worries, but they must have near-term worries.

The reverse is true.

If you have near-term worries, where will you have long-term worries?

This is the situation facing the kingdom of Bran.

When the security of the homeland is not guaranteed, where is the energy to care about the on the other side of the world?

Moreover, even in its heyday, the Liangxia Empire rarely made land claims when it expanded abroad, and only pursued economic interests.

From the point of view of national security, the only option for the Bran Kingdom is to shrink strategically and deal with the threats around it first.

At a time when the international situation is undergoing drastic changes, it can be said that it is understandable to choose to consolidate the basic market first, and the other powers are also the same.

In addition, there are economic reasons.

In the aftermath of the Great Depression, only the Liangxia Empire was encouraged to increase trade, especially before Lofos took over the Grey Palace.

For the first four years, the Liangxia Empire could be said to be the hope of the whole world.

During those four years, when almost all the great powers erected barriers to trade protection, only the Liangxia Empire opened its mind to the world.

The key to the rapid recovery of the Luosha Empire is the Liangxia Empire.

Without the huge profits made from the Liangxia market, the Empire would not have been able to recover quickly after the war, surpassing the Locke Republic again to become the number one industrial power on the Western Continent before the Great Depression arrived. Otherwise, why did the Locke Republic make overtures to the defeated Empire?

Not to mention the Luosha Federation, the first pot of gold in its industrialization was earned from the Liangxia Empire!

By selling oil and other resources to the Liangxia Empire, the Luosha Federation completed primitive accumulation in the golden decade, laying the foundation for industrialization.

To say, the same is true of the kingdom of Bran.

Being able to survive in the past few years, orders from the Liangxia Empire, importing oil from Bosha Bay, buying ore from Austria, wood from Red Maple Country and other raw materials, and even importing farm products from the Bran Kingdom's colonies in the Xuan Continent have all made the Bran Kingdom taste the sweetness.

In that case, why do you still have to fight against the Liang Xia Empire?

Even after Lofos moved into the Gray House and began to implement the New Deal, the Newland Federation became the second engine of global economic growth, and the economic and trade exchanges between the Bran Kingdom and the Liangxia Empire were not greatly affected, and the Liangxia Empire was still the number one trading partner of the Bran Kingdom.

The reason is also very simple, only the Liang Xia Empire imports oil and other resources around the world.

Newland Federation?

Even with its huge domestic market, the Newland Federation is one of the world's largest producers of resources.

Take oil as an example, the Nuland Federation is the world's largest oil producer and a major oil exporter, not only will it not import oil from the Bran Kingdom, but it will also compete with the Bran Kingdom for the market. In the past few years, the competition of the Nuland Federation has caused the Kingdom of Bran to keep a low profile of the oil market of the Narrow Empire.

The same is true in other respects, with the Nuland Federation being more of a competitor than a partner.

The most typical incident was the transformation of four "Golden Steel" class ships to fast battleships by the Imperial State of Sakuyi.

At the very least, the Narrowish Imperial Kingdom planned to introduce high-pressure boilers from the Bran Kingdom, but the Newland Federation came out halfway and snatched the contract that originally belonged to the Bran Kingdom with an almost unprofitable offer. This incident also had a serious negative impact on the traditional good relationship between the Bran Kingdom and the Sagai Imperial Kingdom.

The arms trade has never been a simple trade!

Profits aside, the political mutual trust built through the arms trade is irreplaceable by any other means.

Also, trust this thing, if you don't have it, then you really don't have it.

The key is why the Bran Kingdom is involved in a war that has nothing to do with it?

As soon as the cannon sounded, there were ten thousand taels of gold.

When the Liangxia Empire and the Narrow Yi Imperial Kingdom fought, arms orders and oil contracts would be sent out in a steady stream, and the war windfall would soon be made.

The kingdom of Bran is in a two-pleasing position.

On the side of the Liangxia Empire, it will definitely increase the import of oil. Even if you don't need it, you can stock it up in case you need it in times of war.

Even if the price of oil does not rise, just the expansion of the scale of exports can make the Kingdom of Bran a lot of money.

The military productivity of the Narrow Empire could not meet the needs of wartime, and even if it mainly relied on the Newland Federation, it would definitely purchase arms from the Bran Kingdom.

In addition, there are a variety of supplies.

No matter how powerful the Newland Federation is, it can't eat all the orders, and a large part of it will definitely fall into the hands of the Bran Kingdom.

Who would have thought that just when the Bran Kingdom was about to make a big war windfall, the Newland Federation jumped out to do something.

It can be said that he didn't ventilate with the Bran Kingdom in advance.

Even if he followed the Newland Federation to conquer the Imperial Kingdom, the entire Bran Kingdom was not ready to go to war, at least not at least at this time!

Needless to say, there was no need to say much about the strategic power, but Lofus did not agree, or even consider compensating the Kingdom of Bran for the losses suffered by the implementation of the embargo.

This became the basis for continued negotiations between the Bran Kingdom and the Liang Xia Empire, making a fuss about the scope, method and duration of the embargo.