 Assigning the direct supervision of education to Băleanu, Filipescu-Vulpea, and Petrache Poenaru, he initiated the purge of radical teachers, and, on November 1, personally ordered for all schools to be shut down.Ordering the remnants of the revolutionary army, under Gheorghe Magheru, to disband, he took hold of the arsenal of weapons collected by the deposed Lieutenants.He sent these arms to the Transylvanian Saxons, who used them in battle against the Hungarian State.