time

"Who will be the leader of this alliance?"
　
If this war is chess、Ōu might had win.
But they were aggregates of many intention．
War could not do with only their friendly relations.

Sendai had been overwhelmed others in point of territory.
Date of Sendai lord.
They were originally champion of Ōu region from era of Hideyoshi.

But Uesugi of Yonezawa lord.
When Uesugi Kenshin was lord of Echigo.
They were present Nobunaga was look up.

Tug-of-war of alliance was exists already between Sendai and Yonezawa.

"I do not want subdue Aizu and Shonai.
However,I do not also want fight against west military."
Of course like this lords was also present.
　
But this was a matter of course.
　
 　
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New government had not been established suddenly.　
　
For example，between Satsuma and Choshu had a war.
Tosa had a power struggle within.
Choshu also had internal coup war.
Of course they did war against Tokugawa.
　
Many people died.
　
They also had idea of antiforeigner at first.　
They fought with the Western countries.
And suffered large loss.

”Antiforeigner is ridiculous.”
As a corollary，they became thought so.
 　

"We help the Tokugawa and will do the expulsion of the foreigners.
"And make fellowship of  Imperial court and Tokugawa for Japan."

Next.
　

”We have understand.
Tokugawa regime Does not have the ability to overcome this crisis in first place.
Above all，there is not legal basis to rule Japan to them. 　
They are just a local lord.
Nevertheless they act as Japan regime for only the interests of Tokugawa.
We must overthrow Tokugawa regime as soon as possible.
　
After that we will determined the national policy of Japan at a meeting of lords.”

　
Finally.

”Overthrow of Tokugawa does not make sense for Japan.
Cause of a problem was not Tokugawa regime.
The current social system of Japan became not fit the real.
It is it.

We have understand clearly.
Feudalism had finished its mission already.

We must established a modern constitutional monarchy in Japan.”
　
At least,some of them.
They had reached this thought.
　
　
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The thing that Ōu most needed.
It was time.

"We will subdue them as soon as possible and should recover Tokugawa regime."
This was their idea at this time.
　
If they was able to have a time.
After repeating the conflict and collision，they would have been able to have their philosophy.
　
But reality they were thrown into the war suddenly from a quiet life.　
Of course there was no unified intention and philosophy at there.
 　
”We must established a modern constitutional monarchy in Japan.
In order to do so，we need to unify Japan as soon as possible.”
This was their enemy.