However, how to push the Minas oil field to the British, this is very necessary to use a brain, first of all, Gulf Oil or Imperial Oil will definitely not work, in that case, the smell of conspiracy is too strong, the British are not stupid, at a glance, they know that this is Emperor Yang, such a time to do this, the purpose is undoubtedly obvious.

Fortunately, there are not many Britons in Southeast Asia who are looking for oil everywhere, including many on the island of Sumatra, after all, the world's crude oil supply is almost monopolized by Yang Feng's OPEC, and those oil tyrants bully Britain must rely on crude oil imports to support the war, and the price has risen again and again. They completely control nothing more than the Nigerian oil fields, and because the are constantly attacking extremely unstable production, the production of the wells in Myanmar and the newly arrived Netherlands is too low, and now there is an urgent need to develop the big oil fields that really belong to the United Kingdom.

Now that oil has been discovered in Sumatra, it is natural for the British to continue looking for it there, so that they only need to be provided with a certain amount of inducement.

This point is very easy to solve, the British are currently the most important oil companies in Southeast Asia are scallops, and they only need to let the commercial spies of Gulf Oil in the scallop company lead their exploration to the Minas oil field, and in addition, it is not as good as letting Gulf Oil make contact with the Sultan of Aceh and make a gesture of interest in Sumatra oil development, which can also put some pressure on the British, and at the same time reveal some clues to the commercial spies of the scallop company within Gulf Oil. There is no need for His Majesty the Emperor to personally care about these specific operations.

At this time, Emperor Yang, who was studying how to continue to plague the Indonesian monkeys, suddenly got good news.

"Your Majesty, Portugal joins the Entente in declaring war on Germany and Austria." Zhang Quanxing ran over and said impulsively.

In fact, Portugal was forced to join the war by the British, because the recent war did not go well, especially the bankruptcy of the Dutch landing plan, which disgraced the British, and the huge losses in the naval battle were also severe and demoralized the domestic population. At this time, Britain urgently needed a lifting news, although whether a small country like Portugal joined or not would have no impact on the war situation at all, but it would become an excellent material for public opinion propaganda.

As for Portugal, to be honest, this country really didn't want to get involved in the war, but they had nothing to do, at this time Portugal was not the same as it was back then, at best a small third-rate European country, economically completely dependent on the handouts of the British, and now the British want them to join the Entente. Portugal could only pinch their noses and admit it, but fortunately they didn't have many obligations to fulfill, and they could send 18,000 people to the battlefield for a while.

This news was indeed good news for Yang Feng, but it was nothing more, but Portugal's entry into the war made Emperor Yang dissatisfied with his previous work.

"It seems that there are still many places in this world that have not been fought, this is our strict zhòng dereliction of duty!" The guy was carrying a scepter and looking at the huge world map in front of him. said with a look of self-reproach in Zhang Quan's inexplicable gaze.

Of course, what he said was pure nonsense, as the originally peaceful and quiet Indonesia made him war-torn and miserable, except for those who strategically cannot be involved in the war. There are really few countries that are still enjoying peace.

In Asia, for example, the Ottoman Empire had to be kept for the time being, Persia had to be kept for the time being, and there were no other countries left. There is also Siam, which can be ignored, and then there is Japan.

Japan actually entered the war. It's just that these dwarfs participated on both sides, and both the Entente and the Central Powers hired a large number of laborers from Japan, including more than 300,000 in France alone, and even hired those who had received military training to be cannon fodder. The Germans did not do this casually, but the number of trenches was also quite large, and Yang Feng has always taken encouraging measures for their behavior, because the Germans are not good at transporting to Europe, and these Japanese coolies are transported by Chinese merchant ships, just like selling piglets and back then, and it is normal for one hundred and eighty people to die on the road.

The Japanese can't do it now, although these dwarves are not very expensive, but they are very capable of giving birth, not counting the Japanese colonies of China, Germany and Russia, the population of the two islands of Honshu and Shikoku alone is close to 40 million, and the supply of polluted agricultural products has been very tight in Yangfeng's factories over the years. Although these factories also brought a certain amount of wage income to those Japanese workers, but this thing could not be eaten, only imported grain from outside, after the European war, world food prices went up, the Chinese do not care, make money crazy, do not care about food prices at all, not to mention that the emperor is often in a good mood to directly pull a boat from the United States to reward the people.

But the Japanese can't stand it, even if they eat less, they can't hold on, in order to eat, a large number of Japanese have embarked on the road of leaving their homeland, men as coolies, cannon fodder, women as women, anyway, they have to find a way to live, their lives are so miserable that even Emperor Yang can't help but feel a little pitiful. Of course, the main reason for his concern that if he allowed those mass murder weapons to spread around the world, it would easily affect the bleeding that the European powers were doing to each other, and that if there was no Spanish flu in World War I, maybe it would have been fought for a few more months.

In addition, there is really no other country in Asia, the rest are some colonies, and now they have actually been involved in the war, including the three countries in Europe have appeared, and other Australia, Canada, these Commonwealth members have also sent troops to participate in the war, as for the United States and Mexico, the three of the Confederation must be excluded, so that the only ones who should still participate in the war but did not participate in the war are the South American countries, especially Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the so-called ABC trium.

Now Brazil is a republic, President Alves, a purely civilian president, with no military ambitions or anything, but the Brazilian Navy is currently the largest in South America in terms of tonnage, with two battleships just purchased from Sweden, and four heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, and twelve large destroyers, even more powerful than the Dutch Navy, which has just been destroyed.

As for the Brazilian Army, it is not worth mentioning, and the internal contradictions are very serious, this is a country that has just come out of slavery and military independence for many years, and like the vast majority of countries in the Americas, landlords dominate the country, the industry is underdeveloped, mainly relying on the export of coffee, sugar, rubber and other crops, and the Yang consortium also has an iron mine there, which is mainly used to supply the major enterprises of the Confederacy.

But Brazil's economy is still mainly dependent on plantations, especially coffee farming, the country is the world's largest coffee supplier, the war in Europe has hit Brazil's coffee exports hard, Europeans are fighting each other, how can they sit down and drink coffee.

As for Argentina, this is currently the most dynamic country in South America, a paradise for European immigrants, and its per capita income can be ranked among the top ten even in the whole world, relying on animal husbandry and agricultural exports, it is still a prosperous and powerful scene, but the population is smaller, only about five million, and the Argentines who are not bad for money also have two Swedish-made battleships, and in order to overwhelm their opponent the Brazilian Navy, these two belong to the specially customized version, although slightly slower but have ten 305 mm guns.

And compared to Brazil, which has just experienced a peasant uprising, the country is more stable and prosperous, except that the number of German immigrants in this country is about the same as that of Italians, and it is difficult to join either side because of emotional problems.

As for Chile, needless to say, the world's main exporter of saltpeter and copper ore, China is currently importing a large number of these two things from Chile, and its naval strength is also not weak, although the two battleships ordered from China have not yet been completed, but it already has two heavy cruisers, and they are also large heavy cruisers of 10,000 tons, which are much stronger than the 7,000-ton combat power of Brazil and Argentina.

But the problem is that with Emperor Yang's mind, it is difficult to find these countries that are far away in the world, separated from Europe by an ocean, and basically have no entangled interests, to be involved in European wars, originally Brazil entered the war in history, that is because the Americans fooled, and the Germans always sink their merchant ships and detain their millions of pounds of coffee money, which also makes the Brazilians very annoyed, but even if they participate in the war, they have not really been on the battlefield, at most send a few warships to Europe to brush up the zài, and then make a reputation as a victorious country.

"It's not easy, South America is too far away from Europe, whoever wins or loses, it doesn't matter to them, and these people are not stupid, this is a rare opportunity for their industrial development, and it will be difficult to miss it and wait for the next one, and as far as I know, there are now a lot of American capitalists transferring assets to Brazil and Argentina to build factories there to circumvent our blockade of the United States." Zhang Quan, who is familiar with Emperor Yang's style, naturally understands what kind of sinister intentions he is playing now, if there is still real peace in this world, there is also South America, but it is really difficult to involve South America in the war.

However, his last sentence reminded Yang Feng that this is indeed a problem that must be solved, and he knows that American capitalists transfer assets to Brazil and Argentina, but he has not paid attention to it, after all, it takes time to start anew, and the scale is not very large now, the cultural differences between these countries in South America and the United States are huge, and they are not a kind at all, and those American capitalists are not forced to a dead end, and it is impossible to choose this path. (To be continued......)