Since soldiers and the Keri police officers who resigned along with Saigo returned to the prefecture one after another in 1873, Kagoshima became filled with many unemployed hot-blooded men and young men who were inspired by them (a situation that continued after a private school was established, the details of which are in "the diary of before and after Seinan-eki (Seinan War)").
西郷の下野に同調した軍人・警吏が相次いで帰県した明治6年末以来、鹿児島県下は無職の血気多き壮年者がのさばり、それに影響された若者に溢れる状態になった（この状態が私学校創設後も続いたことは『西南役前後の思出の記』に詳しい）。