Egawa was safe, as he was harbored by roju (Shogun's council member) Tadakuni MIZUNO, but Kazan criticized the shogunate's conservative naval defense policy while his house was being searched and, because of that agitation, his personal paper "Shinkiron," which he had refrained from publishing, was found by house researchers, whereupon he was deemed guilty of blaming the shogunate's policy; consequently, he was placed under house arrest in his hometown of Tahara.
江川は老中水野忠邦にかばわれて無事だったが、崋山は家宅捜索の際に幕府の保守的海防方針を批判し、そのために発表を控えていた『慎機論』が発見されてしまい、幕政批判で有罪となり、国元田原で蟄居することとなった。