Among this time, the executives of the shogunate who stayed in Kyo-Osaka became more aggressive based on the power of the sixty thousands soldiers there, and they pressed the Imperial Court regarding the punitive re-expedition to Choshu.
この間、京大坂滞在中の幕府幹部は兵6万の武力を背景に一層強気になり、長州再征等のことを朝廷へ迫った。