However, because Tengu-to Party collected funds not only from within the domain of Mito Clan but also from land directly governed by the Tokugawa shogunate, and also because of rampant blackmailing on the pretext of Joi under the name of Tengu-to Party the Tokugawa Shogunate instructed Mito Clan in February of 1861 to restrain the activities of men who carried the idea of Joi; Mito Clan changed its policy [accordingly].
しかし、文久元年（1861年）2月、水戸藩領だけでなく天領でも資金集めをしたことや天狗党を詐称して攘夷を口実とする恐喝が横行したことなどから、幕府から水戸藩に攘夷論者の活動の抑圧が指示され、水戸藩の方針は転換した。