When the superintendent officer of the Mito Domain Hyobu YAMAGUNI heard that Koshiro raised an army and that his younger brother Inanoemon TAMARU was made as the shusho, he went to see them by the order of the lord of the domain Yoshiatsu to talk them out of it.
小四郎挙兵の報を聞いた水戸藩目付役の山国兵部は、弟の田丸稲之衛門が主将に担がれていることを知り、藩主慶篤の命を受けて説得に赴く。