Joseph was not welcomed with unequivocal enthusiasm, especially because many of the highest office holders were replaced at the same time, which seemingly signalling a regime change. Before he was sent to Buda, the new governor received an education in Hungarian law from the Josephinist canon lawyer György Zsigmond Lakics, chosen by Izdenczy. He also received instructions from King Francis, advising him to 'keep [his] house in order, manage it well, [...] treat [his] entourage humanely and [to not] tolerate intrigue'. He suggested that he travel around Hungary to get to know his new subjects while avoiding spending too much on this tour. Overall, he reminded him that his first duty would be justice to his people. Archduke Joseph entered Buda on 19 September 1795, heading a procession among a cheering crowd and marching under triumphal archs. On the 21st, he was inaugurated as főispán of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, followed by mass in Matthias Church, a lunch hosted by Prince-Primate Battyhány with six hundred guests and a ball at night. On the next day, he took his seat as president of the governing council. He continued studying Hungarian history and law from Lakics, and started learning the language from who had participated in the Hungarian Jacobin movement. Work as governor The first case he needed to take on was that of eight university and secondary school teachers who had allegedly been associated with Imre Martinovics and freemasonry. The ongoing investigation brought on allegations such as one of them translating La Marseillaise, organising gatherings with convicted freemasons and Martinovics co-conspirators, or teaching pantheism. The king ordered an investigation, which was not in the interest of János Németh, head of the Royal Directorate and close ally of Izdenczy, as he lacked substantial proof. Thus, he persuaded Joseph to propose to the king the dismissal of five of the accused teachers, which Francis accepted. His biographer Domanovszky writes that in this first matter, which he had to solve only three weeks after arriving in Buda, the governor did not seem to have a mind of his own yet and relied entirely on a referral he had received from Németh. The other important issue Joseph needed to settle in his first year in Hungary was that of the Royal University of Pest. Since 1790, there had been plans to move it to a smaller city, namely Nagyszombat (today Trnava, Slovakia), Esztergom, Vác, or Eger. In