And it was Okitsugu TANUMA who got promoted from the grand chamberlain to "roju," and who took the initiative in reconstructing the bakufu finance from the last days of Ieshige's reign to the next tenth Shogun Ieharu TOKUGAWA's one; incidentally, the reforms of politics after that were mostly led by "roju."
家重時代の末期から続く10代徳川家治時代にかけて幕政を主導し財政を立て直したのが、側用人から老中となった田沼意次である（なお、これ以後の幕政改革は、ほぼ老中が主導することになる）。