"Not to mention the former, but the latter... could it be something like 'will of the world'?"

Even the "Immortal Power", "transparent" and "spiritual energy" emerged. Even if there was an extra extraordinary concept of "world will", Qingdeng would not be surprised!

Okao pursed his lips, shook his head after a while of silence:

"Sorry, Juju, about this... I can't tell you too much."

Qingdeng was stunned:

"Why?"

"It's not that I hide my own personalities, but because instead of telling it out in full, it's better to let you understand it yourself, which will benefit you more. But..."

As the conversation changed, Okabaya's facial lines relaxed again, and the playful look floated on his cheeks again.

"Although I can't tell you too much, I can give you a little tip - 'One is everything, everything is one'."

"Hmm? What?"

Okaba ignored Qingdeng's surprise and said to himself:

"As long as you understand this proverb, you will know who the 'Juqingdeng' you met is - that's all I can say."

Qingdeng blinked and murmured to himself and retelled the proverb, his face full of confusion.

“‘One is everything, everything is one’…”

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...

Half a month later—

Qinjinfan, Otsu--

Today's Otsu is very lively.

"Is this Otsu..."

"Where is King Ren's residence? It's rare to come to Otsu once. I want to see King Ren with my own eyes. If I could see King Ren at one glance, I would be able to brag about it with my fellow villagers after returning to my hometown."

"Don't be stupid! Are you able to see a big man like Nioh as long as you want?"

"Don't crowd! Don't gather! Don't block the road!"

"Please go forward! The 'Recruitment Office' of the newly selected group is ahead!"

Young people with various accents—including samurai with swords at their waists and ordinary civilians—crowd the streets and alleys of Otsu.

The officials responsible for maintaining order worked hard to perform their duties with great difficulty and carefulness.

The reason why Otsu is so lively today is nothing more: today is the day to hold the "second recruitment" of the newly selected group!

In order to supplement the soldiers lost in previous wars and to further expand their military strength, Qingdeng was already planning related matters of the "second large-scale recruitment" as early as the eve of his expedition to Mito.

This time, Qingdeng's goal is to expand the total strength of the newly selected group to 10,000! It greatly increases the proportion of musketeers, gunners and cavalry!

Qingdeng originally wanted to expand his army by 30,000 in one go, but considering that his financial resources are limited and his grassroots officers are limited, he could only reduce this number to 10,000... But, it's better, he has to eat one bite at a time, and the road has to be taken step by step.

It is not necessarily a good thing to over-inflate the size of the army in a short period of time.

Although there is a variable of Western powers, in general, the "Southern Shogunate" led by Aoden has a significant advantage in Japan's power territory today.

Qingdeng now occupies the Gyeonggi Plain, the Ooe Plain, and the Kanto Plain - the three largest plains in Japan, all in his hands!

Edo, Kyoto, Osaka - the three largest cities in Japan, are also in his hands!

Judging from the land area, Qingdeng only occupies half of Japan. However, if we judge by actual productivity, Qingdeng occupies at least two-thirds of Japan!

Although the Aoyu, Jiafei, and Nanwei are nominal possessions and cannot be completely transformed into Qingdeng's power, Qingdeng's potential is still far better than the southwestern vassals.

The reason why the situation of "balance between the east and the west" is purely because the Satsuma Domain in the Western countries and the Himema Domain has the highest industrial capacity and technological level, while the shogunate internal corruption and backward system, so it is impossible to exert its due strength at all.

However, the above are history.

Nowadays, anyone with ambition can see that as Qingdeng completely grasps the real power of the "Southern Shogunate", the situation of "balance between the east and the west" will be broken sooner or later!

With the overwhelming prestige of the "King of Belief", although it is impossible to completely eradicate the chronic diseases such as corruption and backward system, these problems can be alleviated.

When productivity gradually recovers and industrial capacity is improved, the comprehensive strength of the "Southern Shogunate" will be enough to crush the Western vassals!

Such a situation is the same as that of Wei, Shu and Wu during the Three Kingdoms period.

The land area of ​​Shu and Wu seems to be quite large, but their productivity is not even as good as that of Wei.

This is the underlying logic of Zhuge Liang's six outings to Qishan - it's not that he doesn't want to hide his strength, it's not that he doesn't do anything, but that he can't.

The longer the time goes by, the stronger the national strength of Wei will be. No matter how Shu Han hides his strength, he will not be able to surpass Wei. The gap between the national strength of the two sides will only wider and wider, so we must recover the lost territory before the national strength of Wei has recovered! Even if we cannot recover the lost territory, we must weaken the Wei Kingdom as much as possible!

The same is true in Japan at present.

Anyone with a little strategic mind can see that time is on Qingdeng's side.

The longer the time delays, the more you will continue to expand Qingdeng's advantage, leaving the strategic window for the Western vassals very short, just in the past few years.

To sum up, if the Western vassals really plan to defeat Qingdeng and seize the world, they will definitely do their best to fight the east in recent years - at most no more than 2 years - to compete with Qingdeng!

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