To settle the situation peacefully, Mototoshi URA and Hiromichi KOKUSHI, who were in charge of political affairs in the Hagi clan at that time, sent Yozaemon NAGOYA (an uncle of Genba NAGOYA, a chief retainer of the Tokuyama clan, and of Satondo NAGOYA, a samurai retainer of the Tokuyama clan), who had a close connection with senior retainers of the Tokuyama clan, to the Tokuyama domain as a special envoy, but the Tokuyama clan expressed no apology specifically.
この時萩藩で政務を担当していた浦元敏と国司広通は事を穏便に解決しようと、徳山藩の重臣と縁故の深い奈古屋与左衛門（徳山藩家老･奈古屋玄蕃と徳山藩士･奈古屋里人の叔父）を特使として徳山藩に派遣したが、別段謝罪の意思を表明しなかった。