This led the roju (senior councillors of the shogunate) and fudai daimyo (feudal lords in hereditary vassalage to the Tokugawa family) to discredit the domain as well as 'Lord Tsunaeda as being incompetent to become Shogun.'
これにより水戸藩は、老中や譜代大名から「綱條公は将軍の器にあらず」との認識を持たれることとなった。