defeatist

"Government will attack surely against Kan'eiji."　
The man who made a prediction like this.
It was Katsu of former Tokugawa Navy Admiral
And another person was present.

It was Shibusawa Eiichiro of leader of the Shogitai.
He was a confidant of Yoshinobu.

"Government of country does not allow the existence of such."
They knew it.


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"Enemy will attack surely against Kan'eiji.
Therefore，Edo city become battle field.
But Edo city is not suitable to protracted struggle.
Nikko is stronghold land and is suitable to it.
We should move to Nikko.
Let's fight the enemy there!"
Shibusawa proposed so.　
　
Nikko is 100 km north of Edo.
There was the mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu of first king.
　
But there was violent opposition from within executives of the Shogitai.

"In order to return the favor to Tokugawa，we should fight in here."
They said.
　
"Edo city is caught up in the war.
Yoshinobu did not want it.
So he made a bloodless Kaesong.　
The Shogitai were formed in order to protect him in the first place.　
We should respect the will of him.
　
For example，Tokugawa navy at the day of kaesong bloodless.
They were able to do a naval bombardment against enemy troops.
As result，They would have been able to give a heavy blow to enemy.
It will might still be possible.
　
But they never run it.　
Because they respect the will of Yoshinobu as vassals."
Shibusawa insisted to them.

"Above all，members of the Shogitai.
Edo city is their home town.
I believe they don't want it."


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"Shibusawa is defeatist.
Enemy has been just surrounding us from a distance.
They does not have the ability and courage to attack us in the first place.　
　
Yoshinobu may have tricked by him like Young emperor of Kyoto.
And he is trying to trick us now.
He is a snake in our's bosom..
We should kill him."
Eventually executives of the Shogitai had began to try to kill Shibusawa.

Shibusawa had left the Shogitai.
After this，He had fought against the new government until the end.