That started a feverish controversy, and now it is regarded that Hiromoto's proposed policy; 'imposing tax on rice (five-sho per tan) regardless of private estate or public estate' was not for 'all the provinces,' but for 'Goki (Yamato, Yamashiro, Settsu, Kochi and Izumi Provinces), the Sanin (mountain provinces behind the Sanyo or Inland Sea provinces), the Sanyo (Inland Sea provinces), the Nankai (southern provinces), and the Saikai (provinces on the western seacoast).'
そこから盛んな論争が巻き起こり、現在では広元の献策「権門勢家の庄公を論ぜず、兵粮米（段別五升）を宛て課す」は、「諸国平均」ではなく「五畿・山陰・山陽・南海・西海諸国」であるとされている。