At the same time, their strategy was to make sure that the Shogunate forces led by Seii Taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians") would be the very ones responsible for expelling foreigners and to take the consequences.
同時に、征夷大将軍が率いる幕府軍こそ最も攘夷を実行すべき責任があり、当然取るべき責任を取ってもらうという算段でもあった。