.Given the strategic level of Leo's indiscriminate deterioration of the physical condition, the giant bear army did not want to stay with him for a second, but at the same time, given the various noble identities of Leo, it is really hard to leave him alone.

Being friends with this old man will certainly suffer, but if you hate this old man, you will be even more frustrated.

Fortunately, the old man Leo is also very tactful... or he is very nervous. After meeting with Feili and others, before these people racked their brains to consider how to use sweet words and send him to a corner, they took the initiative to express their willingness to continue to stay outside Kyoto.

According to him, on the one hand, this is to observe the ghost city nearby, so as to write a detailed report on this rare vision and submit it to the Joint Conference of the Great Arcanist; on the other hand, it is to be able to help those refugees who fled from Kyoto, to do their best to carry out missionary work from it, from which the goddess of pain, Aimetta Church of the Goddess of Pain.

"...This is my first time seeing this energy circulation channel that is different from the magic network and called the "spiritual veins" by the Easterners. I think the Great Sage of Ilminster will definitely be very interested in... Pursuing knowledge is the job of our magicians, what is it to take a little risk?"

In the dim light of the morning light, Leo pointed to the Kyoto city where demons danced in the distance, and explained to Feili and others, "...The work of spreading doctrines for my Lord in this country has been delayed for too long due to various interferences. This destroyed city is the ideal place to spread the way of my Lord. Those citizens who struggled in war, violence, plague and monsters are also the most ideal potential believers. Because only in the deepest pain can they truly realize their sins and seek physical and mental liberation..."

When he said this, Leo was really full of compassion and sage. However, everyone was already afraid of his terrifying fortune and was as moved as a tiger. When he heard that this guy was willing to stay, everyone was overjoyed and quickly became a flattering word.

Then, in order to allow the old man to stay with peace of mind, everyone generously donated money to sponsor him 300 taels of gold, a few pieces of record crystals, some paper and pen stationery, and more than a dozen field tents. Then, they squeezed out more than 160 stones of rice from the military rations, as well as some cement, wooden boards and other building materials, and threw them all to Leo, serving as the start-up capital for him to build the Kyoto Observatory for the Miscellaneous and Goddess of Pain and the Far East Branch of the Ameta Church.

Anyway, according to the idea of ​​the landlord Mitsui Ryuki, instead of letting him run around the island to preach missions and harm more places with invincible fortunes and letting this tragic country that has already become a hell on earth, and to further fall into the real hell, it is better to let him continue to live in the ghost land of Kyoto. This Kyoto City has now been tortured into a demon city by his fortunes. It is so bad that it cannot be worse. In the future, if the declining people Leo is harmed, no matter how bad luck is, it is probably not going to decline...

But what Feili and others never expected was that the old man Leo was truly a super declining person who was unparalleled in the world. The Kyoto City was already in such a miserable appearance, and he still had a way to make the fortune of the city worse...

Of course, this will happen a few months later.

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On December 18, the Giant Bear Legion subverted the Kyoto court in just six days without fighting and completely eliminated the enemies in the entire Kinki region. In fact, except for the Kinki city, the tragic land of natural disasters and man-made disasters had been almost slaughtered into an uninhabited land by waves of "Kingwang-stricken righteous men" - thus victoriously returning to Osaka Castle for winter rest.

At the cost of only single-digit casualties, the battle to pacify the capital ended successfully.

At this point, the Eastern Army camp easily annihilated more than 100,000 Western Army troops in just two months, achieving a brilliant victory of completely turning the situation around. After a long expedition, she still had the strength to pursue the victory and directly attack the Kyoto base camp, causing the power of the Kyoto court to be devastating. Even Emperor Hitoko, the supreme leader, had to leave the capital and palace and flee in panic and flee to the foreign vassals.

The good news spread, the whole country was sensation, the vassals were terrifying, the Osaka chaebols celebrated the enemy's bombings, and the Kansai princes were in panic all day long.

At this point, there are many vassals of Shanyin and Shanyang, the eleven countries of Jiuzhou Island and Siguo Island, which seem to have a lot of strength and can continue to compete with the Eastern Army.

But in fact, long before the Giant Bear Legion entered Kyoto, the winner had already been decided between the two courts.

As the saying goes, "Those who have constant property have perseverance." Generally speaking, no matter what kind of social system, those vested interests who enjoy most of the benefits are usually the most conservative in their political attitude. No matter what kind of changes in the world are, they like to just live as much as possible. They can delay for a while, and they will never be willing to change the status quo unless they have to.

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If the emperor's flag is used to launch a reform, these vassal lords will certainly have a certain chance to take advantage of the situation and make themselves better, but the greater possibility is that they are digging their own walls and allowing some rebellious subordinates and retainers to "resist" the incompetent vassal lords to "grasp" the vassal lords with the great power given by the emperor... The princes in the wartime are much more difficult and dangerous than those in the peaceful and prosperous vassals.

This mediocre and inertia situation is completely different from the situation of attacking and annexation between warlords and vassal states in troubled times - the world of the Edo Shogunate has been peaceful for hundreds of years. The vassal lords who ruled various places have become worse than each other in the long peaceful time. Many princes have become wine bags, satisfied with their own acres of land and are not enterprising. They are no longer the group of ambitious military and political strongmen and strategists when they first started their business.

Nowadays, these princes born with golden spoons are mostly just young men with no ambition under the pleasure of the wine and beauty. At most, they are smart and cunning politicians, but there are few talented and stubborn people. Since ancient times, heroes have suffered a lot, and there have never been many great men.

If the world goes from peace to war, and the heroes compete with each other, with the military and political level of these guys, let alone pioneering and enterprising, I am afraid that even the ambitious people in their territory will not be suppressed and civil strife will immediately break out - and it is precisely because they know this crisis clearly that they will stubbornly oppose all changes until they are helpless, or they think they have enough ability to control the chaos.

Therefore, in this era, those who are truly actively engaged in the cause of the king-sacred kingship, and even sacrifice their lives for this, are actually those radical lower-class samurai who are eager to change the dull status quo and seek room for improvement. Since most of the positions of the shogunate and vassal states are hereditary and lack the promotion channels for the lower-class ranks, the phenomenon of "second-generation official", "second-generation rich", and "second-generation power" has become natural. The social class is seriously solid, and even if the lower-class samurai is talented, it is difficult for them to obtain land, official positions and identities.

As a result, some of the nimble people simply abandoned their samurai status and went to join the emerging Osaka chaebols and Western colonists. More stubborn people were indignant about the current social situation. With the name of loyalty to the emperor, they joined the movement to honor the king and carry out various terrorist activities such as "heaven punishment", arson, and besieging the government office, which made the world more and more chaotic, but it was difficult to occupy a solid base.

In the summer and autumn this year, taking advantage of the court's uprising and collapse of the curtain-breaking victory, the old shogunate forces shrank in Kanto, and the various Kansai vassals were usurped by the "king-supporting righteous men" and fled to the court to serve allegiance. It seemed that the situation was very good, and half of the court's country had been restored.

But the problem is that for these radical lower samurais, victory comes too quickly and easily, and they are not prepared enough for it - just like a sudden transformation of terrorist organizations into ruling parties, there will definitely be a lot of chaos.

Moreover, after all, they are mostly grassroots. They do not have enough connections and experience or foundation in their hometown. At most, they can only use bloody means of exile, imprisonment or even killing those hereditary officials and vassal lords to barely maintain the regime, but accumulate more hatred and hostility...

——In fact, even if it can be done like this, they are still capable. More so-called radical rulers are actually just carried out by the conservative old nobles as a guise and offered them like puppets to avoid being attacked by the popular Kyoto court on a whim and suddenly issued an order. As for the actual regime structure, it is still a change of soup and no medicine, which is no different from the past...

Such a power foundation is naturally very unstable. As early as the imperial court's three eastern expeditions successively destroyed, the political trends of the Kansai vassals had gradually reversed. It was just because the Kyoto court's name was still there, so it was difficult to take action rashly.

When Kyoto fell and destroyed, the news of the Emperor's fleeing in panic spread, and it became the last straw that broke the camel's back, making the Kansai vassals look like dominoes, setting off a wave of counterattacks by old conservative officials.

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On December 20, Kyoto fell, and the news that Emperor Hitoki had fled reached the Tosa Domain on Shikoku Island, which immediately caused a stir.

Originally, during this war, the sea route was completely blocked by Westerners and the passage of troops could not be opened, so there was no Tosa Basin involved in the battlefield in Gyeonggi. He just took advantage of the chaos to send a team of soldiers over and showed his face to make a fuss.

However, although the actual combat performance of Tosa's family was not very good, they shouted too high, boasting that they seemed to be the backbone of the king, and their territory was too close to Osaka... As a result, they were in great danger soon and were treated as a punching bag by Osaka, who was full of anger and had nowhere to vent their anger. More than 40 large warships of the Far East Fleet of the Naserel Empire were dispatched one after another, bombarding and ravaging the coastal essence of Tosa's family over and over again.

The only warship of Tosa's clan was easily destroyed as soon as the war started, and its territory was separated from the vast sea from the capital. No matter how brave the warrior was, he could only be trapped on the island and watched his home slowly destruction, but he could not hurt the enemy at all.

Since the flag was raised, the entire vassal state has inexplicably suffered such heavy losses, without any benefit... The ministers in the vassal state have long complained about the young vassal lord who was bewitched by the radical faction. However, the situation in the court at that time was very good, and these opposition voices were temporarily suppressed, but the separation of all the vassal states was inevitable.

Under this circumstance, various internal conflicts in Tosa's vassal gradually accumulated and became more and more intense. However, there was a false fire that had made up for all the losses by taking advantage of the victory of the imperial government army, and could barely maintain people's hearts. However, with the fall of Kyoto, the final hope of the people in the vassal was extinguished, and the rest was how to change the course and find a way out for themselves.

Therefore, the next day, a military coup broke out in the Tosa vassal. Due to the rebellion of most of the troops, it took only half a day for the hereditary conservatives to attack and kill the newly-dominant radical samurai, and ordered the young vassal lord who was too enthusiastic to serve the king to commit suicide, in order to apologize to the Eastern Army. He also asked the Osaka side to designate a new vassal lord for the vassal lord. In the absence of strength, as long as the vassal system that could be saved to them, these senior samurai who were always loyal and righteous actually did not care who would be the vassal lord.

On Shikoku Island, Tosa vas is the strongest leader among the various vassals. Therefore, with the mutiny of Tosa vassals as the fuse, internal coups broke out in various vassals of Shikoku Island, and they all dismissed and purged the radicals who had just been in power, and the conservatives returned to power. Every day, countless people were forced to seduce the stomach, and more people were imprisoned or exiled to the barren mountains. Because the sea route was blocked, they could not be exiled to the barren island for the time being...

Even the political attitudes of those vassal states that did not undergo a coup immediately reversed 180 degrees...

As of December 24, the entire Shikoku Island had been in full swing, and they had collectively sent envoys to pay tribute to Emperor Kumazawa who was temporarily stationed in Osaka, and at the same time, they also sent a fortune-telling to the chaebols led by Miss Ryuhime Mitsui, and began to negotiate on surrender treatment.

At the same time, this trend of surrender and changing flags quickly spread to Shanyang Road to the west.

Especially in well-informed port cities such as Himeji, Hiroshima, Komyama, Fukuyama, Kobe, those vassal princes who survived the turmoil, fought to "shoulder the upper part" to kill the vassal lords themselves, and even bandit leaders and pirate leaders who took advantage of the chaos to seize certain towns... and other powerful military leaders, after learning that the victory or defeat of the battlefield in Gyeonggi, all rushed to change flags and flags, prepared various gifts, sent people to Osaka to go public relations, and requested the title of Emperor Kumazawa's small court to be crowned and rectified.

Since early December, a wave of envoys have been running back and forth on the road to Osaka despite the plague and cold wind, causing the newly established Osaka camp to be in a hurry for a while, and it is not even time to deal with the letter of surrender and loyalty.

On the north of the Yamano Road, there is a mountain range. The traffic is relatively inconvenient, and it is also destroyed by plagues, bandits and riots. The castles of the princes of the vassal states have been broken and are basically in anarchy. Therefore, not many people have come to Osaka to lose their lives... But don't expect them to provide any assistance to the Western Army headed by Emperor Hitoki - the fools who can easily be fooled to go to Kyoto to serve as cannon fodder have fallen on the marching road to attack Kanto and the vast four fields of Kyoto City.

In the last few days of the year, this trend of surrender and change of flags finally spread to the farthest Kyushu Island.

After hearing the bad news that the 20,000 Shimazu army was destroyed without fighting under Osaka Castle, not long ago, the local princes who were elected as the co-ruler of Kyushu. In order to preserve their vassal state and status, they immediately turned against each other and jointly attacked and killed 200 samurai soldiers who had recently been stationed in Nagasaki Port, the capital of Kyushu Island, and imprisoned several Kyoto ministers who came to fight Akifeng.

Then, they invited the former shogunate Nagasaki Prayer, who had been in prison for half a year, to take the dungeon and temporarily take charge of the overall situation in name.

Finally, the princes of Kyushu Island each wrote a letter and sent it to Osaka Port with a large number of valuable gifts. In the letter, they expressed their helplessness when they were forced to surrender to the enemy, as well as their regrets and awakening now. I hope that you can give them a chance to reform... By the end of this year, most of Kyushu Island had collectively changed their banners at least in name, and became a "loyal minister and righteous man" who worked for the Osaka chaebols. Only the southernmost Satsuma vassal skills were still resisting.

Moreover, although the territory of Satsuma and Osumi, which belong to the Shimazu family Satsuma family, was a 730,000-stone territorial country, it was already ravaged by Admiral Perry and the Far East Fleet of Naserel in early summer. The port towns were all ruined and the harvest of early rice was delayed. Then more than 30,000 most powerful young and middle-aged men were taken away, and they went to the battlefield of Gyeonggi with the family of the vassal lord, and they never returned... You know, this Satsuma family is a rugged and mountainous place with barren arable land, with a total population of only 400,000. It was cut by more than 10% of the population at once, and it was also the most vital young and middle-aged man. He suddenly seemed to have his bones removed and he couldn't rise.

During the plague in recent months, many people in the Satsuma clan have died. What’s more, the male members of the Shimazu family died, and there is no one in charge. Now it’s all up to the widow of the late vassal lord Shimazu Aoshi, who led a group of orphans and widows to fight with guns, barely defending several levels on the territory’s borders. But anyone knows that if the opponent really wants to attack, this kind of defensive force is absolutely vulnerable...

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In short, when Emperor Renxiao was still wandering on the way to "Shizawa", the world belonging to him had once again shrunk most of the time...
Chapter completed!