But in April, he received a request from Judo SAIGO, who was Totoku governor general and the younger brother of Saigo, who had been in the Taiwan conquest force, and reluctantly agreed to recruiment from Kagoshima, and sent about eight hundred soldiers to Nagasaki.
しかし、4月、台湾征討軍の都督三弟西郷従道の要請を入れ、やむなく鹿児島から徴募して、兵約800名を長崎に送った。