Therefore, Kaoru INOUE, who was a senior assistant minister of the Ministry of Finance, proposed the remission of Christians in February, 1872, because he was engaged in the negotiation of the revision of the unequal treaty when he was in the government of Nagasaki Prefecture.
そこで、明治5年（1872年）に大蔵大輔の職にあった井上馨は、長崎府庁在任時に関わった事から、明治5年正月に教徒赦免の建議をした。