Therefore, Gonrokuro who belonged to the sonjo party went up to Kyoto and started activities uniquely as an official to procure the state affairs together with Ichizen TOKURA (senior retainer), Ryuhei DOI (head clerk), Yoichiro ITO (head of the servants), Eima EMI (archer), etc., but it is said that Tadaka was outraged and said to 'have Yoshimasa retire' because his scheme to grasp the initiative in the Imperial Court suppressing Satsuma and Choshu domains by linking with the lord of Okayama Domain did not work well as he planned.
そのため、尊攘派であった権六郎は土倉一善（家老）・土肥隆平（番頭）・伊東与一郎（側児小姓頭）・江見鋭馬（弓(武器)組士）らとともに独自に国事周旋方として京都に上洛して活動を始めたが、忠香は岡山藩主と連携して薩摩藩・長州藩を抑えて朝廷での主導権をとる目論見があったが思うようにいかないため「慶政を隠居させるように」と激怒したという。