Mitsunari had built up more and more works, such as arranging an audience with Hideyoshi for Yoshinobu SATAKE (Ukyo-no-daibu, chief of Ukyoshiki government agency), who was from Hitachi, and becoming a kenchi bugyo(survey magistrate) in Oshu after the clamp-down on Oshu.
なお三成は、常陸の佐竹義宣(右京大夫)が秀吉に謁見するのを斡旋したり、奥州仕置の後、奥州の検地奉行を務めるなど着実に実績を重ねていた。