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before war: ¡VIVA CRISTO REY! ¡ARRIBA ESPAÑA! after war: ¡王キリスト万歳！¡エサパニャとともに上昇！ On a more serious note though, does this friendship extend towards the Philippine natives?

Speaking of China — how will its imperial government react to these developments?

permanently so, even

to be fair however, I think it was already foreshadowed as early as the chapter of the first embassy towards France goddamnit, I'm ninja'ed thus completes the Finlandisation of the Philippines its denizens must be quite bewildered to see the Japanese of all people coming to its aid though...

The alliance with Maguindanao is probably still extant so they can probably help resupplying from there, which begs the question on how exactly capable are they on doing that, and then on how they have consolidated Mindanao. Also — I just realised — if they indeed got that strong, didn't also...

eh, you can't help me; the Philippines is marinating in this long-term peacetime that I'm now somewhat expecting the expansion of the estates of religious orders to restart — now with a more nativised regular clergy and civil servants at that

I wonder what is happening in the Philippines, Mexico, and Spanish America as of this moment, however.

not likely — it's not as if they're still in the 16th and 17th centuries at this point in time to have that warmongering attitude

All the American Philippines posts have left me concluding that the idea needed a better foundation of PoD's to be able to stand. So — what are the paths that America can go through to so that McKinley (or whoever the advocates and movers can be by then) can sell his idea better to the American...

Also, don't the Japanese use music — drums at least — to help march their armies in cadence?

come to think of it — hasn't Sakai and other cities found themselves in a great fire or two already?

I wonder how much additional land has already been reclaimed in Musashi province with the help of the windmill water pumps.

On the contrary, the Europeans can find Japanese clockmaking interesting even if they won't adopt the system themselves; they can always credit the craftsmanship where it's due, after all.

Now, I am kinda wondering how those European readers will fanboy over the likes of Kusunoki Masashige and Kitabatake Akiie; hell, the more open-minded and humanist of the readers can realise the sympathy for Ashikaga Takauji several centuries ahead of Eiji Yoshikawa's work IOTL.

Political conflict and treachery are some of the important themes of the book; setting the story in the Manji war fits the bill more perfectly than the rather peaceful death of Nobunaga.