After discovering the high-level resources coming from the Black Plain and the approval of sending troops to the Brown Kingdom by the Counter-Revolutionary Statute, the regional states had not stood idly by without imposing sanctions on Minos' territory.
With all the information about this area and Minos' regional enemy status, five of the six royal families had forbidden their vassals from doing business with the Black Plain.
With that, as much as Minos had trade agreements with families of the Cromwell Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Waves, these sanctions had made it very difficult to import resources through those families.
With the sanctions, the royal families watched the departure of ships and wagons from their major cities, from the sale of strategic resources, those needed to produce pills, arrays, and weapons.