I don't know if it was that simple... I mean, sure, some people probably stayed loyal just for honor's sake, at least partly, but that wasn't necessarily the only reason. The Tokugawa shogunate had been in power for a long time, so at least people already knew what they were dealing with, for example. And plenty of people were still opposed to opening the borders or allowing foreign people and goods into the country. It'd be a big change to everything, you know? So I'm sure there were a lot of reasons.
Not counting things like running low on supplies or something breaking with no way to fix it, right?
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Not counting things like running low on supplies or something breaking with no way to fix it, right?