1904, Zhang Baixi, Minister of Management, Rong Qing and Zhang Zhidong repeatedly revised the school's articles of association, saying that "the purpose of establishing the school is to purify students' thoughts and hearts based on the senior high school entrance examination and the study of China classics and history", and under the guiding ideology of the five educational purposes of "loyalty to the monarch, respect for Confucius, respect for the public, respect for martial arts and respect for reality" set by the later Beiyang Law and Politics School Department,

After the reform of the new academic system in the late Qing Dynasty