For these reasons, he deliberated on the system of the new bureaucracy, personnel changes in the cabinet, and on the abolition of clans and establishment of prefectures, and he also held discussions with Okubo and Kido both officially and privately, and issued an Imperial prescript of the abolition of clans and the establishment of prefectures that was approved by the Imperial Court on the 14th.
これより新官制・内閣人事・廃藩置県等を審議し、大久保・木戸らと公私にわたって議論し、朝議を経て、14日、天皇が在京の藩知事（旧藩主）を集め、廃藩置県の詔書を出した。