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19. Schools were ordered in connection with all the Chinese
legations in foreign countries for the benefit of the children of
Chinese in those places.
20. Commercial bureaus were ordered in Shanghai for the
encouragement of trade.
21. Six useless Boards in Peking were abolished.
22. The right to memorialize the throne in sealed memorials was
granted to all who desired to do so.
23. Two presidents and four vice-presidents of the Board of Rites
were dismissed for disobeying the Emperor's orders that memorials
should be allowed to come to him unopened.
24. The governorships of Hupeh, Kuangtung, and Yunnan were
abolished as being a useless expense to the country.
25. Schools of instruction in the preparation of tea and silk
were ordered established.
26. The slow courier posts were abolished in favour of the
Imperial Customs Post.
27. A system of budgets as in Western countries was approved.
I have given these decrees in this epitomized form so that all
those who are interested in the character of this reform movement
in China may understand something of the influence the young
Emperor's study had had upon him. Grant that they followed one
another in too close proximity, yet still it must be admitted by
every careful student of them, that there is not one that would
not have been of the greatest possible benefit to the country if
they had been put into operation. If the Emperor had been allowed
to proceed, making them all as effective as he did the Imperial
University, and if the ministers and provincial authorities had
responded to his call, and had made "some effort to understand
what he was trying to do," China might have by this time been
close upon the heels of Japan in the adoption of Western ideas
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