Furthermore, such incidents came to often happen and they began to think that, behind those incidents, there were political wars in provincial units, concerning positions of government officials such as gunji and so on, or intentional concealment efforts of absence of shozei payment or illegal confiscation of kanmotsu.
更にこうした事件の頻発によって、次第に事件の背景に郡司などの役人の地位を巡る地方単位における政争（政敵の責任追及）や国司・郡司らによる正税虚納や官物押領の隠蔽などを意図したものであると考えられるようになった。