The bakufu financially oppressed even daimyo obedient to the bakufu, for example, with the Sankin-kotai system (a system under which feudal lords in the Edo period were required to spend every other year in residence in Edo), not to allow them to have the power to resist the bakufu.
幕府に従順な大名に対しても参勤交代などで常に財政を圧迫させ幕府に反抗する力を与えることを許さなかった。