Yoshino Okoto Shoan' ("Gunsho Ruiju") which records the peace negotiations between Tadayoshi and the Southern Court states the Southern Court demanded that in the event of Tadayoshi's victory, the Muromachi bakufu should dissolve the Northern Court and restore imperial rule whereas Tadayoshi argued that it is actually the samurai at the head of the Muromachi shogunate that preserve the order of the nation and that the Southern Court should return follow his demands and return to Kyoto unconditionally.
直義と南朝との和議交渉を記録した「吉野御事書案」（『群書類従』所収）において、直義勝利の暁には室町幕府は北朝の解体と大政奉還をすべきであると要求する南朝側に対して、直義は実際に天下の秩序を守っているのは室町幕府を筆頭とした武士であり、南朝こそその要求に従って無条件で京都に帰還すべきであると論じた。