In December of the same year, he was assigned to be a company commander of the Western style military drill court as well as a Junior Councillor of the Ayabe Domain, and he became in charge of Tukaharaguchi of the Tanba Kaido Road, as Sanin Chinbu-sotoku (the general of placating Sanin).
同年11月、綾部藩の洋式練兵中隊長、権少参事などの職に就き、山陰鎮撫総督として丹波街道の塚原口を受け持った。