Although these high-ranking cabinet ministers were more clear than anyone about the current situation of the empire, after the meeting began, Reinhardt briefly sorted out the current main issues, especially major issues related to the core interests of the empire.

To sum up, it's all about economy.

To put it simply, it is impossible to live a life.

Although there are many reasons, such as the population of the Western Land Group led by the Tyman Empire is far lower than that of the Liangxia Empire, and it is not as good as the Beigu Group led by the Republic of Newland. For example, the overall technological level of the Western Land Group is not as good as the other two super hegemonies, but what really involves the fundamentals are still resources closely related to the sphere of influence and a series of problems caused by lack of resources.

Among the 78 irreplaceable strategic resources, Xilu Group has two, namely coal and iron ore, which can barely be self-sufficiency.

In total, there are 62 types, including oil and natural gas, that must be relied on and heavily relied on imports.

For 14 natural resources such as natural rubber that are closely related to climate and region, Xilu Group relies entirely on imports.

The problems caused by insufficient resources are simply impossible to solve.

Take oil for example.

The Tyman Empire has the world's most complete coal catalytic industry, which is of great significance in wartime, but has no value in peacetime. The Tyman Enterprises will definitely not rely on coal-chemical oil that is several times more expensive than oil to compete with the companies of the Oriental Group and the Beigu Group.

If the energy cost is too high, it will inevitably greatly reduce social production efficiency.

The competition of the three super hegemonies in the economic field is essentially a competition for production efficiency. Those with low production efficiency are destined to fail!

Even within the Western Land Group, there are serious problems of uneven resource distribution.

Take the crucial grain as an example. In theory, Xilu Group can achieve self-sufficiency, but because the grain-producing areas are concentrated in a few countries, it has caused serious problems in internal grain trade, which has led to conflicts that are almost impossible to resolve by conventional methods.

The most typical ones are the Kingdom of Rock and the Kingdom of Raleigh.

Thanks to its unique climate, the Rock Kingdom and the Raleigh Kingdom have always been the main grain-producing countries in the Western Continent. Therefore, after the war, the agriculture of these two countries developed rapidly, and some light industries that rely heavily on agriculture were also highly valued, thus developing into the group's main granaries.

Although after this, with the help of the third and fourth waves of industrialization, the Rock Kingdom once again became a major industrial power in the Western Continent and developed many cutting-edge industries, including military industry, the symbol of Rock Kingdom in the entire Western Continent is still the grain-producing country.

The result is that the Rock State had to increase investment in agriculture through government intervention.

Interventions from the government will inevitably disrupt the market.

This phenomenon is more prominent in the Kingdom of Raleigh.

Because of too much investment in the agricultural field, until now, the industrialization of the Kingdom of Raleigh has been relatively backward and cannot be compared with the Kingdom of Rock. This phenomenon has caused serious dissatisfaction among the Kingdom of Raleigh, and even calls for withdrawal from the Western Land Group.

The same is true in the Democratic Republic of Luosha.

From the standpoint of the Taurus Empire, through intervention, it is not wrong to exert its originally limited power to the limit and thus gain capital to confront the stronger Liangxia Empire, but this situation has lasted for more than 40 years, and it is not a matter of right or wrong.

After decades of tossing and turmoil, the economic system of Xilu Group has become very fragile and cannot withstand any wind and rain.

Unfortunately, God does not have pity for the believers of the Western Continent.

Starting last fall, the entire northern hemisphere suffered a drought that was once unseen in a century. From the Beigu Continent to the Western Continent, and then to almost the entire huge continent, in nearly 9 months, the precipitation was only equivalent to 60% of the average of previous years, and global agriculture suffered a fatal blow!

In this unprecedented drought, the most difficult situation is the Western Land Group, or the Tianman Empire.

The Liangxia Empire also suffered from drought, with local grain output sharply decreasing, and the summer grain yield reduction was close to 15%, while the autumn grain yield reduction may even reach 20%. However, the Liangxia Empire could also rely on the southeast region to expand the scale of imports from the southern subcontinent.

One step further, there is also Austria located in the southern hemisphere.

What's more, the grain output of the Liangxia Empire can basically ensure self-sufficiency, so even if the output is reduced, it can be compensated by expanding imports.

The situation in the Republic of Newland is similar, and no matter how bad it is, it can be imported from the Nangu area.

In addition, the Republic of Newland surpassed the Liangxia Empire more than 10 years ago and became the world's number one food exporter. Therefore, the direct consequence of grain production reduction is actually to reduce the scale of exports.

It is just that the Republic of Newland has reduced its export scale, which has led to a surge in international food prices!

Obviously, the Torai Empire was not so lucky.

First of all, the disaster situation in the Western Continent is the most serious.

According to statistics conducted by Xilu Group, the output reduction of summer grain has reached nearly 20%, and the output reduction of autumn grain is still possible to reach a record 24%.

Secondly, Xilu Group does not have a "reserve granary".

In the Xuan Continent to the south, let alone most countries have good friendships with the Liangxia Empire, even a few countries with good friendships with the Western Mainland Group have no extra food.

What adds fuel to the fire is that international grain prices have entered a fast track of rising.

Since May, the price of several major grains in the international market has risen nearly 1 times as the Republic of Newland, Maple Leaf, Austria and Brazil, which are the four most important grain exporters in the world have been affected by objective factors.

To a large extent, the current contradiction between Xilu Group actually comes from the rise in grain prices.

To put it simply, the Democratic Republic of Luosha insists on increasing the export price of natural gas because importing food requires more foreign exchange.

In addition, the Kingdom of Bran made a fuss about oil from the North Sea oil field, which was also related to imported food.

Many people attribute the current "food crisis" to external factors, such as the suppression of the Liangxia Empire, which made no one willing to admit that the Western Land Group itself also had problems.

Fundamentally, it attaches great importance to the heavy industry represented by the military industry. It not only ignores light industry, but also does not even pay attention to the chemical industry related to agriculture.

In addition, water conservancy facilities closely related to agriculture have not been developed for a long time!

From this perspective, this worst drought since scientific records were also a man-made disaster to a large extent.

The disaster between Oriental Group and Beigu Group is not that serious, and it has a lot to do with relatively more perfect water conservancy facilities and huge fertilizer output.

Of course, external factors cannot be ignored.

If you want to say, the Republic of Newland has an unshirkable responsibility!

At the meeting, Reinhardt emphasized this issue.

Long before the situation in Posa Bay became tense, he sent a special envoy to Hwacheng, hoping to get help from the Republic of Newland on the issue of grain imports, and import grain from several countries such as Brazil and Argentina in the Nangu region through the Republic of Newland through the method of state procurement.

As a result, the Newland authorities said they could not help!

Given the situation at that time, the Newland authorities actually wanted to use this issue to force the Taman Empire to accept the referendum on whether the Kingdom of Bran will leave the Western Continental Group.

Simply put, it is to separate the Kingdom of Bran from the Western Continental Group.

For this, the Republic of Newland has been in operation for nearly 20 years.

Even if we cannot get it in one step, we must try to get the Kingdom of Bran out of the Western Land Group and lay the foundation for its next control of the Kingdom of Bran.

To be said, in the decades after the war, especially after its status was confirmed, the Newland Republic had been fighting against the Kingdom of Bran, trying to return to the Western Continent through the Kingdom of Bran, and use this to force the Tyman Empire to make compromises and let the Tyman Empire hand over control of the Western Continent Group.

Of course, fundamentally speaking, it is actually replacing the Takaman Empire and becoming the commander of Western countries.

Reinhardt re-reported the Republic of Newland and told the cabinet ministers not to have much hope for the country on the other side of Xiluoyang.

However, the first one to have fantasy was Reinhardt.

In addition to the negotiations held at the beginning of the year, just last month, he also sent a special envoy to Hwaseong to secretly contact the Newland authorities about Iraq's troops attacking Kuwait.

At that time, Reinhart also believed that the Newland authorities would actively participate.

Unfortunately, a few days ago, the news brought by President Newland's special envoy completely destroyed Reinhardt's fantasy.

Although the Newland Envoy said it was very certain that the Newland Republic would never stay out of the matter and would definitely provide support to the Great Man Empire and the Continental Group, the guy who was talking about the train also clearly mentioned that from the overall situation, the Newland Republic would definitely not participate in the war immediately.

The reason is also clear that the Republic of Newland needs time to complete the mobilization work before joining the war.

According to the envoy, only if the Republic of Newland completes the war mobilization and participates in the best condition can he have the hope of defeating the powerful Liangxia Empire.

From this point of view, in the early stages of the war, the Tyman Empire had to face the Liangxia Empire alone. What the Republic of Newland could provide was to indirectly attack, and use spokespersons in other directions, or take other methods to restrain part of the Liangxia Empire's troops.

To put it another way, the Taman Empire is a stepping stone on the road to victory in the Republic of Newland!

At that time, Reinhardt asked the Newland envoy back.

Will the Liang Xia authorities regard the Republic of Newland as air?

When the war breaks out, will the Liangxia Empire let go of the more powerful Republic of Newland?

When the Liangxia Empire resumed diplomatic relations with the Republic of Newland, the Liangxia Empire had already admitted that the Republic of Newland was the number one enemy.

Even if the Liangxia Empire would not take the initiative to declare war on the Republic of Newland, it would prepare for war in the way of going to war with the Republic of Newland.

In this way, if the Republic of Newland fails, can it still outperform the Liangxia Empire in the construction of arms without mobilization?

This is obviously impossible!

In that case, what reason does the Republic of Newland have to be out of the matter?

In Reinhardt's words, after the defeat of the Goman Empire and the Western Continental Group was over, the Republic of Newland could not be settled in a corner.

After controlling the World Island, the next purpose of the Liangxia Empire must be to dominate the world and declare war on the Republic of Newland at the appropriate time.

It is almost no difficulty to defeat the Republic of Newland with the power of defeating the country.

Don’t forget that the Liangxia Empire has the world’s strongest navy and has already crossed the East Ocean more than 40 years ago.

The envoy of Newland did not answer this question, but pretended not to understand and did not give an answer before leaving Bai Lin.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that the Republic of Newland will never join the war as soon as possible.

It is precisely this that Reinhardt no longer had any fantasies about the Republic of Newland.

In his words, the Newland Republic, which is controlled by the Youzu Consortium, is more willing to eat the meat of the Western Continental Group and absorb the bone marrow of the Tianman Empire to grow and grow.

When the Western Continental Group collapses, it will be fine if the Republic of Newland does not stab the knife in the back!

At this point, the Tyman Empire had no choice.

If you drag on it, it will inevitably be a dead end.
To be continued...