In reflection of a massive influx of peasants from farming villages to Edo, Tadakuni issued the 'Hito gaeshi-rei' (a law to return peasants to their villages) to reconstruct faming villages, and also banned luxury goods and reinforced tighter discipline on public morals in order to rehabilitate the city which was loosened up during the Ogosho Period.
農村から多数農民が逃散して江戸に流入している状況に鑑み、農村復興のため人返し令を発し、弛緩した大御所時代の風を矯正すべく奢侈禁止・風俗粛正を命じた。