Although Yoritomo regretted this order when the rumor turned out to be untrue later on, it was true that he was an extremely dangerous person for Yoritomo who wanted to establish a samurai government; Hirotsune had one of the largest armies among the Kamakura government armies and because of that he was behaving disrespectfully - in addition to which it seemed that he would rather defend local authority in the Kanto area than going to Kyoto to kill the Taira clan.
後に謀反の疑いは晴れて頼朝は後悔しているが、広常は鎌倉政権軍の中でも飛びぬけて大きな兵力を擁しており、その為に不遜な振る舞いが多く、また上洛して平氏を倒すよりも関東での割拠を指向しており、武家政権の樹立を目指す頼朝にとって危険な存在であった。