It has been said that the fact that Hideyoshi awarded Yoshitaka, who had numerous achievelents, with the territory of Nakatsu in the Buzen Province far away from Osaka with only 120,000 koku (which seems like a stingy package in comparison to what Hideyoshi gave to the other daimyo such as Kiyosama KATO or Masanori FUKUSHIMA, who had always been with Hideyoshi) proves this.
秀吉が多くの功績を立てた孝高に対して、大坂から遠く離れた豊前の中津でわずか12万石しか与えなかった（加藤清正・福島正則ら他の子飼い大名と比べると小封と言える）のも、それを示していると言われる。