On August 15, 1655, Gao Junshan convened a joint meeting of the staff of the Second and Seventh Army Corps in the capital, and the content of the meeting was to go to the island country.

The reason why Gao Junshan implemented his plan to go to the island country in advance had a lot to do with the difficulties encountered in the construction of the railway, but he did not reveal his plan to anyone, as the king of a country, no one dared to disobey his orders, so he did not need to tell his subordinates the specific reasons why he wanted to go to the island country.

The meeting was held in the conference room of the Military and Political Yuan, and under the chairmanship of Gao Junshan, 11 people attending the meeting were Cai Zhishan, president of the Military and Political Yuan, Jiang Guorong, chief of staff, He Renlong, commander of the Second Army Corps, Wu Tiantian, chief of staff of the Second Army Corps, Shen Feixiang, deputy chief of staff of the Second Army Corps, Gao Yigong, commander of the Seventh Army Corps, Qiao Fangde, chief of staff of the Seventh Army Corps, Tu Jiankun, deputy chief of staff of the Seventh Army Corps, Shangguan Tian, deputy chief of staff of the Fifth Army Corps, Chen Yingjie, chief of staff of the Eighth Army Corps, and Shao Kejia, deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Army Corps.

This meeting was a top secret, and the entire plan to seize the island was formulated, codenamed "Eating Melons".

The meeting lasted three days, and the entire plan for the expedition had been finalized, and the next step was for the Operations Division to formulate a specific action plan.

The overall plan was to use troops from both the north and south of the island country to form the Southern Army Corps and the Northern Army Corps.

The commander of the Southern Army is He Renlong, which has the jurisdiction of the Second Army and the Fifth Army Corps; The commander of the Northern Army Corps is Gao Yigong, and he has the Seventh Army Corps and the Eighth Army under his command.

The 2nd and 7th Army Corps were responsible for the main attack, and the 5th and 8th Army Corps were responsible for coordinated operations.

In addition, a 130,000-strong Korean Army Corps was formed to participate in the war, and two Marine Divisions were transferred to join the North and South Army Corps.

It is planned to invest 32 full-strength divisions, about 250,000 elite soldiers, plus the navy and Korean corps participating in the war, the total number of troops invested is about 500,000.

This is because there will be great difficulties in fighting across the ocean, and the army must be fully prepared for transportation and the supply of grain and grass.

Therefore, the plan for the whole war began with the acquisition of a base in the island nation.

The Army Corps of the North and the South actively prepared for war, and in accordance with the plan of "eating melons", the trading company of Huaxia in the island country of Hirado launched the preliminary work for the war.

When the Dutch East India Company was in the island country, it already had troops stationed, and when the Huaxia Kingdom took over the Dutch East India Company, it also sent a battalion of troops to garrison the island of Hirado in the island country.

Hirado was a major international trading port before the Tokugawa shogunate's lockdown policy, but after the island country implemented the lockdown policy, only the Chinese were left to trade here, and after the Ministry of Commerce took over the Dutch East India Company, more Chinese came to the island country to do business.

Gao Junshan vigorously advocated foreign trade, so more than 100,000 Chinese settled there to do business, and with the merchants who came and went, nearly 300,000 Chinese came and went in the island country.

The first step of the "melon-eating" plan was to demand compensation of 200 million silver to the Tokugawa shogunate on the grounds that the Japanese were wantonly harassing merchant ships along the coast of China.

Under the policy of Gao Junshan's attack on the Japanese invaders, in fact, the Japanese no longer had the conditions to survive at sea, and the Ministry of Commerce demanded compensation from the Tokugawa shogunate only as a means to wage war.

If the Tokugawa shogunate was willing to settle the situation and pay 200 million silver to the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Commerce would use the pretext of collecting protection money to add more silver to the Tokugawa Shogunate.

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Toei Island Country, Edo Tokugawa Shogunate.

The shogun, Tokugawa Ietsuna, was only fourteen years old at this time, and although he had inherited the shogunship for four years, he was still assisted by his uncles Masayuki Hoshina, Sakai Tadakatsu, Matsudaira Nobutsuna, and Abe Tadaaki.

On October 17, Sakai Tadakatsu, the leader of the Tokugawa shogunate, received a letter of state from Zheng Zhilong, the representative of the Kagawa Shogunate in Hirado, demanding that the Tokugawa shogunate pay Huaxia 200 million taels of silver.

This is not a trivial matter, and Sakai Tadashi hurriedly gathered several auxiliary ministers to discuss countermeasures.

Several ministers, including the lord of the Aizu domain, Masayuki Hoshina, the Tokugawa shogunate, Matsudaira Nobutsuna, and the old Abe Tadaaki, gathered at the shogunate to discuss the matter.

Sakai Tadashi presented the letter of Huaxia to a few people present, and after everyone read it, they were angry.

Abe Zhongqiu patted the case and said: "Eight grid tooth road! 200 million taels of silver, and you want us to give them for nothing? We don't have that much in ten years! ”

Sakai Tadashi said: "The silver taels must not be given, now I invite you to come over, just to discuss how to reply to Huaxia." ”

Bao Ke Zhengzhi: "The Japanese cowards they refer to are actually our wanderers who are scattered among the people and have nothing to do, and these ronins are now becoming more and more disobedient and causing trouble everywhere. ”

Matsudaira Nobutsuna reminded: "In the past few years, these ronins have rioted, and we still have to take more precautions. ”

Sakai Tadashi raised the national letter in his hand and said: "At present, the top priority is that Huaxia Kingdom asks us for 200 million silver, and the problem of the ronin will be discussed in the future." ”

Baoke Zhengdao: "Huaxia's request is completely unreasonable, and the loss of their Chinese businessmen must also be counted on our heads?" ”

Sakai Tadashi said: "As far as I know, all of our ronins were wiped out by the Huaxia Navy overseas, and there is no incident of Japanese robbers harassing Chinese businessmen, they are looking for an excuse to take money from us. ”

Abe Tadaaki said: "Give them back this credential and tell them that we are not obligated to be responsible for such a thing." ”

Several others were in favor of rejecting Huaxia's request.

Sakai Tadashi was still worried, and said, "If we reject them like this, they will definitely not give up, and we should discuss some countermeasures." ”

Abe Tadaaki was dissatisfied: "Discuss a fart!" They asked Lao Tzu for silver, but Lao Tzu just didn't give it, what else could he do with Lao Tzu? ”

"Abe Tadaaki doesn't have to be impulsive, let's reject them first, see how they react, and then we will make plans." ”

Sakai Tadakatsu said helplessly: "That's all! ”

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Takajunsan, who was in the capital, received a telegram from Zheng Zhilong, and the Tokugawa shogunate refused to pay the silver taels.

Gao Junshan didn't expect the Tokugawa shogunate to pay this money, and asked them for 200 million taels of silver, which was just an excuse to start a war against them, since you refused to give money, then don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite. Thinking in his heart, Gao Junshan issued an order to the 503rd Division stationed in the Ryukyus, under the pretext of protecting the interests of Hirado Chinese merchants, the whole division landed on Hirado Island, and if it encountered the resistance of the Tokugawa shogunate army, it would be resolutely annihilated! At the same time, the 1st Marine Division of the Navy in the Ryukyus was ordered to cooperate with the landing operation of the 503rd Division.

In order to cooperate with the "Eating Melons" operation, the Admiralty has transferred the group of steam engine battleships carrying out missions in Southeast Asia to the Ryukyus, and at the same time, it has anchored 1,000 wooden sail warships and transport ships of various types in the Ryukyus, and 800 ships of various types in Vladivostok.