Article 1 in the Kaishin no Mikotonori edict, however, banned such private ownership and control of lands and people and declared the establishment of a system that the emperor (the public) should own and rule all the lands and pelple, in other words, the conversion of Shichi Shimin sei (private ownership) to Kochi Komin sei (public ownership).
ところが、改新の詔第1条は、こうした私的所有・支配を禁止し、全ての土地・人民は天皇（公）が所有・支配する体制の確立、すなわち私地私民制から公地公民制への転換を宣言するものである。