In October, the Iwakura Mission was dispatched for the purpose of revising unequal treaties which Japan had signed with foreign countries at the end of the Edo period, and the reform of stipend was implemented by Rusu-seifu.
10月には幕末に諸外国と結ばれた不平等条約の改正（条約改正）などを目的とした岩倉使節団が派遣され、留守政府において禄制改革は行われた。