Promoted to roju (member of shogun's council of elders) by the third Shogun Iemitsu TOKUGAWA, Masamori HOTTA was a highly trusted man who was eventually promoted to a daimyo with as much as 120,000 koku of the Sakura Domain in Shimosa Province.
第3代将軍・徳川家光の時代に老中となった堀田正盛は、家光から重用されて下総国佐倉藩12万石の大名にまで栄進した。