However, Abe and Matsumae held on to their view that if the foreign countries directly started to negotiate with the imperial court bypassing the shogunate, the latter would collapse.
だが、阿部・松前はもし諸外国が幕府を越して朝廷と交渉をはじめれば幕府は崩壊するとした自説を譲らなかった。