Later, Rengo adopted his younger paternal brother Jitsugo (who was known to call Kaga Province 'country governed by peasants'), but Rengo disfavored Jitsugo when a conspiracy that Jikken, Jitsugo's older maternal brother, was put up to be the head of the sect ('Osaka Ichiran' [Osaka-ichi War]) was discovered in 1505 and furthermore when Jitsugo had his biological child Sanenori in 1508.
やがて異母弟の実悟（後に加賀を「百姓の持ちたる国」と呼んだ事で知られる）を養子に迎えるが、永正2年（1505年）に実悟の同母兄実賢を法主の擁立しようとする陰謀（「大坂一乱」）が発覚し、更に同5年（1508年）実子の実教が生まれるとこれを疎んじた。