Due to rice stipend being reduced in half and no vassals pressed into service, the lower ranked samurai clansmen (who had been living in the confiscated Fukushima-jo Castle) were allocated homes and farmland on the outskirts of the castle town below Yonezawa-jo Castle,.
石高が半減したのに家臣の召し放ちを行わなかったため、没収された福島城に詰めていた下級藩士は、米沢城城下の郊外に屋敷の他に農地が当てられた。