Yoritomo had already been confiscating shoryo that he obtained by force and giving rewards and punishments to gokenin, but that had been unofficial as far as the Imperial Court was concerned.
頼朝は既に実力で制圧していた地域の所領の収公や御家人の賞与罰則をおこなっていたが、それは朝廷からみれば非公式なものであった。