Napoleon introduced the following changes in order to make the administrative system in Europe much more efficient.
i. By the Civil Code of 1804, also known as the Napoleonic Code, all such privileges that were based on birth were done away with.
ii. There was a much more efficient administrative system.
iii. The Right to Property was secured.
iv. The administrative divisions were simplified.
v. The feudal system was abolished.
vi. The peasants were freed from serfdom and dues.
vii. Guild restrictions were removed in the towns as well.
viii. There was improved transport and communication.
ix. Peasants, artisans, workers and new businessmen enjoyed new-found freedom uniform laws, standardised weights and the measures facilitated the movement of goods and capital from one region to another.
Reactions to these changes: Businessmen and small scale producers of goods, in particular, began to realise.