Like peasant uprising caused by the land-tax reform, revolts by former samurai warriors, such as Shimpuren-no-ran War (turmoil of Shimpuren, a dissatisfied warrior group) and the Seinan War (1877), were led by former warriors who suffered from drastic reduction of their income caused by Chitsuroku-shobun.
地租改正による農民一揆と並び、神風連の乱や西南戦争（1877年）など明治初期の士族反乱は、秩禄処分により収入が激減した士族階級の不平が原因であった考えられている。