Yasunori commented that the better method was to quell the Ifu by leniency rather than suppression, like which was carried out under the imperial government, and the imperial government accepted that the revolution ended without the use of military force (Gangyo War).
追討を命じる朝廷に対して保則は寛政により夷俘を鎮撫することこそ上策であると意見し、朝廷はこれを容れ反乱は武力を用いることなく終息した（元慶の乱）。