In villages under the murauke system (village-wide, collective responsibility system for tax payment), most conflicts such as tax delinquency were discussed and handled by the whole village instead of the Gonin-gumi.
また年貢滞納をはじめとする村の中の争議は、村請制の下では五人組ではなく村落規模で合議・責任処理されるのが普通であった