The government carried out a tax reform through the land-tax reform and Chitsuroku-shobun (measure to abolish hereditary stipend), and imported industrial technology by establishing the Ministry of Industry in 1870, hiring many people from Europe and sending students abroad in conjunction with the Iwakura Mission that was sent to Europe.
地租改正や秩禄処分で税制改革を行い1870年には工部省を設置、ヨーロッパからお雇い外国人を多数採用し、岩倉使節団に合わせて留学生を派遣するなど産業技術の移植に務めた。