SAIGO resigned his public post before seeing his plan carried out, but Kiyotake KURODA, an undersecretary for reclamation projects, under SAIGO's influence, proposed a Duntian system to the Dajokan (Grand Council of State) in November, 1873.
西郷は計画の実現をみることなく下野したが、彼の影響で開拓次官の黒田清隆が1873年11月に太政官に屯田制を建議した。