This might be due to the great achievement of his vassals, Yoshimasa TANAKA and others, but another face of Hidetsugu showed his independence, such that he himself punished the local governors who misgoverned and judged his father Yoshifusa MIYOSHI, who was in charge of Myodai (a substitute), 'unreliable.'
これは田中吉政など家臣の功績が大きいとも言われているが、悪政を敷いた代官を自ら成敗したり名代を任せた父の三好吉房について「頼りない」と評価するなど主体性を発揮した面も伝わっている。