Powerless against the might of the Avatar, the Earth King complied and had no other choice than to give in to Kyoshi's request to hear the peasants' complaints. Outraged by her audacity, the Earth King ordered her arrest, but the fully realized Avatar easily defeated the king's guards. Kyoshi refused and demanded the king listen to his people. Realizing he was unable to handle the revolt, the Earth King summoned Avatar Kyoshi to his court and ordered her to keep the populace in line.
Īfter Avatar Kyoshi defeated his guards, the 46th Earth King was threatened into talking with the peasants. They eventually surrounded the Earth King's palace and demanded he be removed from his position. In Ba Sing Se, this belief led to a peasant uprising thousands of peasants stormed the Upper Ring and destroyed anything that represented the "old government". The massive losses the Earth Kingdom sustained led the citizens to realize many of the government's failures, and popular sentiment grew into the belief that the monarchy was outdated and did not support the people's interests. The government's inability to deal with Chin's rebellion did, however, have repercussions.
Chin easily conquered the kingdom, with the exception of Ba Sing Se and Kyoshi's home peninsula only his death at the hands of Avatar Kyoshi halted his movements to consolidate the empire under him. The most serious of these was a rebellion led by Chin the Conqueror, a warlord from the country's far northwest. Strong-willed and imperious, the Earth King had little support from his people, and his reign was marked by many challenges to his rule which severely tested the Earth Kingdom's government.
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