In addition, he selected for his direct-control territories, which produced rice crop of more than a million koku, his competent retainers, such as Nagayasu OKUBO, Tadatsugu INA, Nagatsuna HASEGAWA, Motomasa HIKOSAKA, Masatsuna MUKAI, Masakazu NARUSE (a military commander in the Sengoku period), and Sadayoshi KUSAKABE as daikan (the Edo government officers placed in the direct-control territories) or other officers.
とともに、100万石余といわれる直轄地には大久保長安・伊奈忠次・長谷川長綱・彦坂元正・向井正綱・成瀬正一(戦国武将)・日下部定好ら、有能な家臣を代官などに抜擢した。