Though this would result in the people losing their homes and ending up in the streets, it is said that they were more incensed at Masakodo's "incompetent government" than the prospect of being burned out of house and home by the marauding army, and had already distanced themselves from Masakado.
これによって民衆は住処を失い路頭に迷うが、追討軍による焼き討ちを恨むよりも、将門の「悪政」を嘆いたといい、既に民心は将門から離れていた。