The private school was maintained under Saigo's influence, and the sophisticated men of Shigakko started to have great influence in the prefecture, and then Kenrei Tsunayoshi OYAMA could not maintain prefectural politics smoothly without their cooperation, so Oyama employed the these erudite men of Shigakko as the officers of prefecture or police officers, and asked Saigo to recommend a ward mayor and a deputy mayor of the ward on Novenber 1875 and April 1876.
西郷の影響下にある私学校が整備されて、私学校党が県下最大の勢力となると、県令大山綱良もこの力を借りることなしには県政が潤滑に運営できなくなり、私学校党人士を県官や警吏に積極的に採用し、明治8年11月、明治9年4月には西郷に依頼して区長や副区長を推薦して貰った。