Through those shokan, ryoke collected harvests from their shoen as nengu (land tax), and imposed labor service (kuji [public duties]) on the shomin (farmers living in their manor), taking those taxes as their own revenue.
領家は荘官を通じて、荘園からの収穫を年貢として徴収したり、荘園内の百姓（荘民）に労役を課したり（公事）して、自らの収入とした。