However Toshimichi OKUBO, acting with the authority of the Satsuma clan, got Montblanc and Hiroyasu MATSUKI (a.k.a Munenori TERASHIMA) to write a declaration from the new regime to foreign countries to gain the approval of the new regime and declare the continuation of diplomacy.
しかし薩摩藩要路の大久保利通は新政権の諸外国への承認獲得と外交の継続宣言をすべく、モンブランと松木弘安（寺島宗則）に、新政権から諸外国への通達詔書を作成させている。