Toshimichi OKUBO got so alarmed by the radical line of Kido and Okuma, therefore he brought Ryosuke TOKUNO and Masayoshi MATSUKATA into the Ministry of Treasury in attempted to put a brake on Okuma.
こうした急進的な木戸・大隈路線に大久保利通は警戒を強め、得能良介・松方正義ら薩摩藩出身者を大蔵省に入れて大隈を牽制しようとした