Yodo insisted that the Restoration of Imperial Rule, which he had attended and approved of himself, was a conspiracy by certain court nobles such as Tomomi IWAKURA, and Yoshinobu TOKUGAWA, and that being invited to the meeting was unfair; he insisted this because the Restoration of Imperial Rule was fundamentally against his original theory to resolve the situation using a council of feudal lords (i.e., protecting the Tokugawa clan).
容堂は、自分自身直接会議に参加して認めていた王政復古(日本)を、それまでの自分の持論であった列侯会議路線すなわち徳川宗家温存路線と根本的に反するが故に、岩倉具視ら一部公卿による陰謀と決め付け、大政奉還の功労者である徳川慶喜がこの会議に呼ばれていないのは不当であるなどと主張した。