Meanwhile, the then envoy from Britain, Harry Smith Parkes, who heard the news that destructive riots occurred in Osaka while he was traveling in the Kyushu region, anticipated that the public movement, if and when converged with Joi-ha (supporters of expulsion of the foreigners), would be the second Taiping Rebellion (the widespread civil war in China from 1850 to 1864), so he recommended Nagasaki bugyo (Nagasaki magistrate) Yoriyuki NOSE and others to import rice from Qing Dynasty of China.
一方、イギリス公使ハリー・パークスは九州旅行中に大坂の打ちこわしの知らせを聞き、民衆の動きが攘夷派と結びついて第二の太平天国の乱になると、長崎奉行能勢頼之らに説いて清国からの外米輸入を提言した。