Ge Saburo's suggestion is quite good, this strategy is a conspiracy, and the result is the same if Tokugawa Hidetada is not fooled.

However, the originally harmonious relationship between the father-in-law and mother-in-law was due to the cracks in the attack case, and if the father-in-law was given a Japanese concubine, it would inevitably intensify the conflict between the two elders, which would not be conducive to the stability of the palace before the father-in-law's death, so the father-in-law Wei felt embarrassed, and he didn't dare to make this decision after thinking about it.

What's more, for such a thing as marrying a concubine for the Son of Heaven, his old man really didn't have the courage to do it directly.

Li Yanzhao, who was one step slower than Ge Saburo in intelligence work against Japan, no longer hesitated at this time, and said in a deep voice: "Father-in-law, the Son of Heaven is a big matter, but the East Palace is a small matter. ”

Hearing this, my father-in-law's eyes lit up, yes, it's not okay to take a concubine for my father-in-law, and it's okay to take a concubine for my eldest brother.

At that moment, he ordered Ge Saburo to take full responsibility for this matter, and immediately contacted Hu Guang of the Propaganda Mission to give a letter of appointment to the Tokugawa family in the name of the Prince of the Ming Dynasty.

As for whether the fat man in the East Palace is willing, it's not a matter for the father-in-law to worry about.

Anyway, the Hezi girl is also young, her father really married her, and Zhu Changluo can't enjoy that blessing.

The father died, the son died, and the sky was destined.

If the fat man doesn't die, his father-in-law will have to change his way to invite him to see his father, otherwise where will the Iron Triangle work.

After deciding on the matter, the father-in-law continued to hold a combat meeting.

There were two plans for the war against Japan drawn up by the General Staff, one was to land on Kagoshima, which was controlled by the Satsuma Domain, attack Kyushu northward, attack Kyoto, and join the Japanese army at Sekigahara.

The other option was to directly attack Edo, the seat of the shogunate, where his father-in-law was located in Tokyo, Japan, and Luoyang, which is now Tokyo.

Both options had their own advantages, and the first option was easier to fight, as the first thing to do was the Satsuma Domain's army, not the shogunate's standing army.

According to the surrendered Japanese deputy general Hirata Masumune, Shimazu Tadatsune, the daimyo of the Satsuma Domain, had less than 10,000 soldiers and horses, plus the Osumi Province and Hyuga Province distributed under his jurisdiction, so as long as the imperial army moved quickly, Shimazu Tadashi could not gather all the soldiers and horses at all, and could only be broken by the imperial army one by one.

Although the Satsuma Domain was a powerful feudal domain in southwestern Japan, Shimazu Tadashi himself was also very famous, and he joined his father in the invasion of Korea at the age of 14.

In the Battle of Sacheon in the Battle of Keichōgō, Zhongheng and his father Yoshihiro were defeated by 3,000 cavalry led by the famous Ming Dynasty general Li Rusong in an ambush, but the father and son still escaped safely, which shows their ability.

After succeeding to the governorship, Shimazu Tadashi contributed greatly to the strength of the Satsuma Domain, but no matter how capable he was, the strength of the Satsuma Domain could not stand against the Imperial Army, because the Tokugawa family had already weakened the Satsuma Domain.

Japan now practiced the shogunate system established by Tokugawa Ieyasu, in which the shogun was the supreme ruler of Japan, and the shogunate was the highest organ of power in the country.

The feudal lords of the various feudal states under the rule of the shogunate were daimyo and they were loyal to the shogunate, and the shogunate imposed a system of alternate pilgrimages to them.

However, each feudal state had a great deal of independence, and the daimyo had administrative, judicial, military, and tax powers in their own feudal states, so to speak, a state within a state.

This system is very similar to China's old feudal system.

To ensure this system, there is a great disparity between the military power of the "central" and "local" forces.

Hirata Masumune confessed that the shogunate had a standing army, namely more than 5,200 people in the flag book and more than 19,300 people in the imperial family, a total of more than 22,600 people, plus their retainers, known as the "80,000 horsemen of the flag book". However, in wartime, it mainly relied on the military service of the feudal domains, and the total number of troops mobilized could reach 80,000.

That is, Tokugawa Hidetada poured out to fight the imperial army, and the central army that he could mobilize was about 80,000 people, and the rest of the troops depended on the scale of the troops sent by the various feudal clans under the shogunate.

It is conservatively estimated that if the daimyo from all over Japan responded to Tokugawa Hidetada's troops to help in the war, the total strength of the Japanese army facing the Imperial Army would be close to 200,000, which was four to five times the size of the Imperial Army.

The first plan is based on the strategic guiding principle of "cutting down the sun is like cutting down a tree, first cutting its branches and leaves, and then cutting its trunk" as Wei Gonggong said.

The Satsuma Domain was the first sword cut by the Imperial Army, and it was also the first branch of the Japanese shogunate.

After the occupation of Satsuma, the land of Kyushu could be used as a base for the Imperial Army, and the Catholic Shogunate Army and potential Ming elements from all over the country would enthusiastically welcome the Imperial Army, and the strategic intention of the battle would be achieved.

As long as the Imperial Army was able to achieve successive victories and achieve results in propaganda and bribery, it was certain that the feudal domains under the control of the shogunate would definitely waver in the "Kenshoku".

For this reason, Wei Gonggong once optimistically said that if everything went well, Japan would be destroyed in three months.

The second battle plan was to give full play to the superiority of the Imperial Army and Navy, land at its key points, capture the thief and capture the king first, and force Japan into a state of "anarchy" through a direct attack and occupation of the Edo shogunate.

For this reason, Gonggong Wei has prepared as many as a dozen imperial alliance armies, which can be wholesaled to powerful factions all over Japan at any time.

The premise is that they are willing to participate in the great cause of "respecting the emperor and seeking adultery" and establishing the emperor's paradise.

However, no matter whether it is the first or second combat plan, there is an unstable factor, that is, the attitude of "Kapitan" Li Dan, whose naval strength is second only to that of the Imperial Combined Fleet.

Li Dan actually controlled Japan's foreign trade, and had Japan's de facto "sailor" force, and he had a close relationship with the Tokugawa family, so his attitude would directly affect the battle plan of the Imperial Army's landing on the Japanese mainland.

The work of Hu Guang of the Propaganda Mission against Li Dan did not go well, and according to this, Wei Gonggong had prepared for the worst, that is, if it could not be avoided, then the Combined Fleet would have to deal a devastating blow to Li Dan and the Japanese sea forces led by him by the strongest means.

Without Li Dan's fleet, Japan would be a girl who completely stripped naked to the Ming Imperial Army.

However, if things really come to that point, the war against Japan will not be a surprise attack, but a grandiose attack. Once the shogunate prepared for war in advance, it would be extremely detrimental to the landing operation and subsequent development of the Imperial Army.

Therefore, Gonggong Wei handed over the task of contacting Li Dan again to Ge Sanlang, hoping that Ge Sanlang could make the last mobilization to Li Dan, and give the other party preferential treatment politically, militarily, and trade, and even permanently hand over a certain area of Japan to Li Dan.

Codenamed "Operation May".

While the generals were discussing which of the two options was more beneficial, Gonggong Wei stood up and said that he supported the third option.

The so-called third plan is the plan proposed by Katsuzaburo to land directly in Kyoto and coerce the emperor to order the princes.

Another advantage of attacking Kyoto was that it would cut off the north and south of Japan at once, so that the shogunate in the north and the powerful feudal lords in the south could not respond, which was conducive to bribery and propaganda.

After discussing the feasibility of a direct attack on Kyoto, the Combined Fleet said that it could be done at all.

For its part, the Guards Division said that it needed more flintlock guns and medicines, and that if possible, it would be better to deploy one or two more wings from the mainland to ensure that the Guards Division could withstand possible simultaneous attacks from the north and south after the capture of Kyoto.

Gonggong Wei agreed, let Jiang Xifeng start the matter of increasing troops, and told the generals that there was still an ambush in Japan.

This ambush army was the retainer force who had secretly returned to Japan with the Xuan Mission earlier.

"Then, please go back and prepare!"

After the meeting, Gonggong Wei made a request to Shi Dezheng, the commander of the combined fleet, that is, whether the fleet's warships could be painted black.

This request is not difficult to achieve, although it is a little incomprehensible, but Shi Dezheng promised that as his father-in-law wishes, the combined fleet will become a black ship fleet in a few days.

Then Grandpa Wei asked Lao Jiu to get him a big pipe, because he felt that if there was no big pipe, his forcing would be invisible.