There is a story told, when Yasunori was at Bitchu Province, a gang of robbers who came from a different province heard about Yasunori's administration, and were so ashamed that they turned themselves in.
保則が備前国にあったとき、他国から入った盗賊が保則の善政を聞いて恥じ入り自首した話が伝わっている。