As a matter of fact, while discontented former samurai warriors of various domains revolted against the rapid reform of the Meiji Restoration, the former vassals of the shogun, who would have formed the largest hostile group to the new government, never betrayed the new government.
現に明治維新という急激な改革に諸藩の不平士族たちが反乱を起こすが、最大の敵性グループであった旧幕臣たちはついに背くことがなかった。