 Iwamura so outraged Shima that Shima decided to throw his lot in with Etō and his rebels.Etō decided to take action on the 16th of February 1874, by raiding a bank and occupying government offices within the grounds of old Saga castle.Etō had expected that similarly disaffected "samurai" in Satsuma and Tosa would stage insurrections when they received word of his actions, but he had miscalculated badly, and both domains remained calm.