However, as time progressed problems arose, including conflicts among temples over the post of kanjinshoku and the emergence of kanjin shoku, which monopolized profits, concurrently with the decline of the Risshu sect; kanjin shoku became a kind of post that involved vested interest, because the chotei (Imperial Court) and the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) not only made direct contributions to the Kanjin shoku monks but also offered a shoryo (territory) (for example, all of Sue Province) for making money for the destruction of temples.
だが、時代が進むにつれて朝廷や幕府などが勧進職に対して直接的な寄付を行うだけではなく、所領などを与えて（東大寺の周防国一国など）その収益から再建費用を捻出させるように取り計らったたために、勧進職は一種の利権の絡む役職となり、更に律宗の衰微も加わって、勧進職を巡る寺内の抗争や、その収益を私する勧進職が出現するなど問題も生じた。