In the reform of the New Deal at the end of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the education and industry and commerce that people paid more attention to, the education reform was also a focus of the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty, and since 1901, the provinces have successively established various levels of schools according to the New Deal, and even more so after the official abolition of the imperial examination.

Fengtian has been under Russian control in the past few years, and in 1904 the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and Zengqi, who was the general of Shengjing at the time, had no way to do even if he wanted to do a new deal, and he had been trying to engage in the Fengtian Standing Army in the first two years but had not succeeded, and after the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the situation was even more difficult.

Therefore, while all provinces in the country are carrying out various new policy reforms, Mukden has been standing still, especially in education.

Before 1905, the education situation in Fengtian was relatively bad, the primary schools in the prefectures and counties were okay, and there were still some of them, but there was no new school above the middle school hall, and there was originally a Fengtian University Hall, which was later changed to a provincial school, which was barely a middle school or higher school, but after the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the school building was occupied by the Russian army, and the school was naturally forced to close classes.

Therefore, when Zhao Dongyun took over Fengtian, except for a few primary schools, Fengtian did not have even a middle school hall and a university hall.

After Zhao Dongyun became the general of Shengjing, although the Russo-Japanese War was still continuing, Zhao Dongyun's control of Fengtian was incomparable with Zengqi.

As for the Liaodong region, although Zhao Dongyun was unable to exercise military control, relying on the patrol police system and the reform of the government, he regained the civil power in the Liaodong region, and although Andong, Yingkou, Dalian and other places dealt with the Japanese army, and Fengtian, Tieling and other places were under the control of the Russian army, Zhao Dongyun was still able to control the local administrative department to handle civil affairs and then collect taxes.

Strong control is also the basis for Zhao Dongyun's implementation of the New Deal reform in Fengtian, in order to avoid some of the new policy measures being resisted by the local people, for example, when Zhao Dongyun set up the State Administration of Finance, he also announced an increase in a number of taxes, such as tobacco and alcohol taxes, and at the same time increased the proportion of some commercial taxes, which must have been opposed by local businesses, but those merchants only opposed them privately, but they did not have the courage to oppose them publicly.

Compared with the resistance of other new policies, the local gentry in Fengtian were very supportive of education, and even many wealthy people would take the initiative to donate money to run schools.

Under such a background, Zhao Dongyun first prepared Jinzhou Middle School to recruit excellent graduates of the primary school, and at the same time accepted the teachers and students of the original Fengtian Provincial School, and re-established the Fengtian Provincial School, but did not continue to use the name of the Provincial School, but changed back to the original name of 'Fengtian University Hall'.

Therefore, on the one hand, Zhao Dongyun opened primary schools in Huludao, Jinzhou, Liaozhong, Panshan, Zhangwu and other controlled districts, and on the other hand, he also sent personnel to Fengtian, Yingkou, Andong, Dalian and other places under the control of Japan and Russia to prepare for the establishment of primary schools in various places.

Because there were too many primary schools to be opened, but there was a lack of sufficient teachers, Zhao Dongyun was under the guidance of Xu Hongbaojian of the Fengtian Education Bureau, and prepared the Jinzhou Normal School in Jinzhou.

And it is also preparing to set up the Fengtian Higher Normal School, which is relatively formal, with a semester of three years.

The above schools are all organized under the official name, and they require a lot of funds, but Zhao Dongyun doesn't have any money, even if he has money, it is impossible to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to carry out this educational reform, so many of the above schools are officially run in name, but in fact, Zhao Dongyun did not come up with much money.

So how did these schools come about?

The largest number of these schools are primary schools, which are mainly funded by donations from the local gentry, with a small amount coming from local prefectures and counties, and the subsequent maintenance funds mainly coming from students' tuition.

Seeing this tuition, you can know that Zhao Dongyun is not engaged in a compulsory education system, but a paid education system, and students need to support a lot of money.

As for the middle school hall, Zhao Dongyun originally wanted to run a few more, but this middle school hall is not much easier to build than a university hall, and now Fengtian does not have too many qualified primary school students, so the middle school hall is not urgent, and he will set up one for the time being. And the cost of this school is not small, the cost of the middle school is more, if all the students are asked to bear the maintenance costs, it will cause a very large burden on the students' families, so it is basically half a send and half study, the official solution is part, and the student's tuition fee is partly solved.

Although the Fengtian University Hall has hung up signboards, there are only a few dozen students, and there are not even a few qualified teachers.

Due to its strong professionalism, the Normal School is an accelerated training institution for teachers, and most of the funding has to be paid by the government.

Although the local gentry and local governments and counties have taken on the lion's share of the above schools, the remaining part still feels very great financial pressure on Zhao Dongyun.

After Zhao Dongyun, who had little money in hand, set up these government-run schools, he couldn't afford much money to run education, and he began to set his sights on private education.

He asked the General Administration of Education to introduce several measures to encourage private schools, such as if private schools were run by the government, then the government could provide a vacant land for construction of school buildings free of charge, and the funders would also receive awards from the General's Office.

It has to be said that the gentry class of the Chinese people is still very enthusiastic about running education, whether it is the traditional gentry who cultivate and read the heirloom, or those who are from the industrial and commercial background of the big businessmen are very active in running schools, in the environment of the new policy in Fengtian and the persuasion of the General Administration of Education of the General's Government, many gentry and big businessmen have joined forces, those famous gentry are contributing, and those merchants who are not short of money are contributing, and then preparing to build all kinds of private schools, among which the gentry have the most primary schools in their hometowns.

A number of major businesses in Fengtian have joined forces to set up a middle school.

Even in a certain way, with Zhao Dongyun's encouragement, the development of private education in Fengtian is much faster than that of government education, and what is interesting is that since Zhao Dongyun encouraged the establishment of private education, the government-run schools can receive much less donations, and the reason is also short, this part of the donations went to the private schools.

Although the whole process has been bumpy, the education reform has finally begun, and the results of the education reform will be seen when a large number of new talents emerge in the next few years.

When Zhao Dongyun was engaged in financial reform, military reform, and educational reform in Mukden, the narrator Japan and Russia were not idle.

Since the Russian Navy's Pacific Second Fleet and Third Fleet broke through the blockade of the Japanese Combined Fleet in May and joined forces with the remnants of the Russian Navy's First Pacific Fleet, the Russian Navy has integrated these three sub-fleets into the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet.

Rozhtestvensky, the former commander of the Second Pacific Fleet, served as commander-in-chief and was reorganized into three battleship squadrons, two cruiser squadrons, and two destroyer squadrons.

Due to the large number of the fleet, and the lack of sufficient maintenance facilities in Port Arthur, and more importantly, when the Russian Navy broke through the Japanese blockade and hid in Port Arthur, the Japanese Navy exerted unprecedented pressure on the Japanese Army, forcing the Third Army of the Japanese Army to launch a strong attack on Port Arthur again, regardless of casualties, and guided the strategic point of the Lushun Fortress, the 203 Heights, changed hands many times, and those who knew a little about the Russo-Japanese War knew what the 203 Heights meant to Arthur.

Once the 203 heights were completely lost, then the Japanese army would be able to command the long-range heavy artillery to completely blockade Port Arthur through Guò, instead of shelling the port piecemeal as before, although it caused some trouble to Russia, but it was far more than a heavy loss to the Russian navy.

However, the repeated changes of hands on the 203 heights, and considering that after more than a year of hard fighting, Lushun's troops have actually suffered more than half of the casualties, and the ammunition in stock is even more scarce, even the current commander of the Russian Kwantung Army, who is the main battle faction from beginning to end, that is, the supreme commander of the defenders in the Arthur fortress, Konstantin 61 Lieutenant General Smirno', has to admit that the Russian army in the Lushun fortress has reached the last moment, if the Mukden side does not open the southbound passage, then the Lushun fortress will be lost because of the lack of food.

The Arthur fortress was even worse than Rozhtestvensky imagined, so he did not dare to let his huge fleet continue to stay in Arthur, and after nearly half a month of replenishment and recuperation, Rozhtestvensky led the reorganized Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy to break through from Arthur.

Although he was able to completely conquer the fortress of Arthur, the repeated battle for the 203 heights of Tongguò succeeded in forcing the Russian navy to leave the port.

You must know that after the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Togo Heihachiro of the Combined Fleet pointed at Nogi Noshinori's nose at the joint meeting of the army and navy and scolded him for his incompetence in combat, and he was unable to conquer Lushun after his years.

Nogi Noshinori naturally knew that because he had not been able to conquer Lushun as soon as possible, he had caused great trouble to the Japanese navy, and the first battle off the coast of Lushun in May had caused the Japanese navy to suffer a lot of losses, and the strength of the Japanese and Russian navies had changed.