Possibly. I don't know the fine details, but rumor has it that the Empire is looking for canon fodder for their next campaign of conquest, with the promise of booty for the survivors--not that there's likely to be many, in my opinion--and the Shogun will only be choosing one province of the peninsula's three to supply said cannon fodder. Which, of course, is bound to result in a short period where everyone bands together to kill their neighbors for the privilege to get killed in barbarian lands. Because stabbing for the privilege of being stabbed later is so very civilized.

[Sadly, where Byerly comes from they might agree with that statement or at least would have once. He does not.]