These waist cards and letters of appointment in Qin Tai's hand, if they were changed to the previous or other provinces, would definitely be a lot of wealth. Officialdom is a place of "seniority", and the promotion and transfer of an official is related to the future of a large number of people. It's not like you can be promoted if you want to be promoted, especially if you skip the ranks.

Qin Tai was originally a scholar, and he was a jinshi who was tested step by step, so of course he knew the procedures. A child begins to enlighten at the age of six to eight, and is admitted to the child at the age of thirteen to fourteen. Only after passing the qualification for children can they continue to study. Then there is the county examination for Xiucai, and the government examination for examiners, as long as Xiucai is examined, you can receive a certain amount of "tribute rice" every month. Those who have won the lift can not only be respected by officials, but also can participate in the "township test" held by the province. The so-called "township examination" is the real examination, and everything is handled in accordance with the rules of the central scientific examination. The first place is Xie Yuan, and there is a certain number of admission places in the township examination every year. Anyone who passes the exam is a jinshi, but it belongs to a list of jinshi, which means that he cannot be an official directly. Only after going to the capital to participate in the triennial "big competition" can you become an official. The so-called "big competition" is what the common people often call "the top scorer". "Dabi" is divided into two sessions, the first is the chief examiner of the emperor's seal to preside over the exam, three days to test three questions, in the middle of the room must not leave the field and not turn heads, candidates are a person in a room, ten people in a row, there are two soldiers before and after the guard, the invigilator of the patrol may patrol at any time. Once fraud or violations are discovered, not only will the candidate's reference qualification be cancelled, but the candidate's criminal responsibility will be investigated afterwards. If there is fraud, not only will the candidate be deprived of all his fame, but he may also lose his life. Among the three days, the first day is to test the "scriptures", that is, to explain the examiner's proposition. Explain the origin and meaning of this sentence. On the second day, the examiner takes the "History", that is, the examiner proposes a thing, and the candidate must give an example to prove his opinion based on this passage or this proposition. This is the historical knowledge of the test takers. On the third day of the test, the examiner gave a proposition, and the candidates handed over their most satisfactory way to deal with it, so as to see the candidates' minds and abilities. The three propositions are written by the examiner in advance, and they must not be changed or disclosed. After passing the first exam, the shortlist will be announced ten days later. Anyone who is selected is a two-list jinshi, and he can directly wait to become an official. But by the time of the Ming Dynasty, due to the large number of officials, the two Jinshi could not get official positions immediately. The two lists of Jinshi have the right to participate in the last item of the "palace examination", "palace examination" means that the candidates are personally assessed by the emperor in the main hall, and there is a list of the top three by the emperor. The first place is the champion, the second place is the list eye, the third place is Tanhua, the fourth place is the big perch, the fifth place is the small perch, these five people are collectively called "five kui", also called "five kui stars".

Except for the "Five Kui Xing", all the two Jinshi can only be seven-rank officials, and it is good to be able to teach a county. After three years and five years, as long as the governor can see it, if he is rated as a middle or upper class in the year-end approval, he may be re-elected or transferred to another place to become a county magistrate. In this way, it is possible to be promoted to the prefect or the same governor after serving two terms as the county governor, otherwise he will have to be re-elected as the county governor. After the third term of the county, if there is no possibility of promotion, your officialdom career will come to an end. The prefect of the county lasts six to eight years, and the prefect can only serve as a Taoist or political envoy, an envoy according to the inspection, and then a governor, at least twenty or thirty years in the officialdom before he can become the governor of one of the princes. In ancient times, there were very few young talents, and those who passed the two lists of jinshi were not young. After another twenty or thirty years, they are all too old to walk.

Taking Qin Tai's Jinshi as an example, their average age is 28.85 years old. If it weren't for Qin Tai, who was a little more than seventeen years old and didn't have an eighteen-year-old little brother, their average age would have been more than thirty years old. There are even fewer people like Qin Tai who are young and have been promoted by one level in a year or two. Most officials leave office after serving a full term, because they feel that they are not suitable, or because someone behind them will come up. One-third of the "same year" will bid farewell to officialdom, leaving two-thirds of the "same year" to continue to fight in officialdom. Ten years from now, less than one-fifth of the remaining officials will be mid-level cadres, prefects, and governors. Fifteen years later, there will be less than 20 remaining officials in the same year, who will serve as political envoys or envoys of a certain province, or foreign ministers or langzhong of the six departments of the capital. Twenty years later, there will be less than a dozen people left, and there will be people who will serve as local governors or six ministers, and of course many more will die or return to their hometowns. Twenty-five years later, it is possible that an official of the same year will become a member of the cabinet if he becomes a member of the cabinet or a local governor. However, according to the rules of the court, officials who are 55 years old and above cannot serve as officials in the court if they have a serious illness or three or more diseases, and officials who are 60 years old are no longer arranged to work in actual work, and they are not promoted to their posts or ranks. Even if an official enters the cabinet, he will not be able to work for a few years before asking the emperor to "beg for bones" and ask for retirement.

Zhang Juzheng once planned the future for Qin Tai, and once asserted that Qin Tai would have a bright future. Zhang Ju is the disciple of the second assistant Xu Jie, and he is also the attendant of King Yu, of course, he has a certain authority. Zhang Juzheng guaranteed Qin Tai's future, Qin Tai had been a criminal officer in the Criminal Department for ten years, focusing on solving cases and not interfering in too many local affairs. Ten years later, Qin Tai was promoted to a member of the Criminal Department, that is, a five-rank official, and a year later, he was sent to a local province as a four-rank prosecutor. After fourteen or fifteen years, he served as a squire of the Nanjing Criminal Department, and soon after being released as a governor or political envoy, he was transferred back to the Beijing Criminal Department and promoted to the squire. As long as Zhang Juzheng has the opportunity to enter the cabinet and become a cabinet elder, Qin Tai will be able to gain a firm foothold in the Criminal Department. It is unlikely that Qin Tai will immediately enter the cabinet, but it is possible that he will become the secretary of the criminal department or a local governor. As long as Qin Tai is not corrupt and Zhang Juzheng does not die early, Qin Tai will be a feudal official or an important member of the DPRK and China twenty years later. At that time, Qin Tai was only about forty, and there was a follow-up period of nearly twenty years, and it was not impossible for him to pay homage to the prime minister.

But now it seems that the situation has deviated from Zhang Juzheng's expectations. Even if Zhang Ju is a disciple of Xu Jie, the future emperor's current attendant of King Yu is the same, and he can't influence the current situation at all. Not only the first assistant Yan Song, the eunuch Lu Fang, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, several eunuchs of Bingbi, the cabinet and many officials of the six ministries, but even Xu Jie, the backstage of Zhang Juzheng, began to be dissatisfied with Qin Tai. Emperor Jiajing said even more lukewarmly: "Are the Ming officials dead?" He needs to be the criminal department to take care of these things. Is there no one in Daming? Check it out, and those who don't do anything will be dismissed from their jobs. ”

Almost the entire cabinet, all the ceremonial eunuchs, plus Emperor Jiajing himself, thought that Qin Tai had "overstepped his authority", and Qin Tai had no way to live. Even if Zhang Juzheng wants to protect him, he doesn't have such a ability. At this time, Zhang Juzheng didn't even enter the cabinet, so he couldn't explain anything to Qin Tai in person. Even his teacher, Xu Jie, warned Zhang Juzheng not to have too much contact with Qin Tai.

Qin Tai's situation was already very dangerous, and he was dismissed from his post soon after serving as the Criminal Division. The officials of the six ministries took turns to send people to reprimand Qin Tai, and needless to say, this year's evaluation was the worst. Now that he has been designated to go to Fujian to review the case, it is estimated that Qin Tai will not pass the test next year. The worst for two consecutive years, even if Qin Tai is not dismissed on the spot, he has no face to do it. Qin Tai was about to leave officialdom at a young age and leave his beloved career of investigating cases. It doesn't matter if you are an official or not, Qin Tai doesn't care at all, as long as Qin Tai can investigate the case and inspect the body to serve the people. But now even this minimum requirement cannot be met. Fujian is at war and belongs to a military region, even if Qin Tai wants to investigate the case, he will be subject to many restrictions. What's more, it seems that the war on the front line is unfavorable now, otherwise so many officials would not dare to go to their posts. Qin Tai hesitated for the first time, he was the only son in the family, and his parents only had one son, and he needed him to support his old age. He was no longer valued by the imperial court, which called him an unfaithful man. If he can't take care of his parents anymore, it's really unfilial. A person who is unfaithful and unfilial will die and will be stinking for 10,000 years. Qin Tai really didn't want to be such an unbearable person.

For the first time, Qin Tai had the urge to drink and went to a hotel to get drunk. He didn't dare to be sober by himself, and he didn't dare to think about the future. He can also follow the example of other officials, leave the waist card and the letter of appointment, and walk away. But his purpose and conscience told him that he could not do so. However, going to Fujian will not only kill you for a lifetime, but you may not be able to complete your task, but you will be said by others to be a mediocre or corrupt official. After dying, not only can he not take care of his parents, but he also has his parents to bear the infamy for himself, which is really unfilial to the extreme. Qin Tai didn't have the courage to think about everything, nor did he have the strength to think about these troubles, he just wanted to use alcohol to numb himself.

When Qin Tai was drinking desperately, a figure looked at Qin Tai from a distance. He is the "old drunkard" master who is also a teacher and friend by Qin Tai's side. With a worried look on his face, he said to himself, "I hope he can hold on." God, why are you so ruthless? Such a good child, such a simple child, can't you let it go? He does not intervene in the party and government, he does not bend the law for bribes, and he does not disregard people's lives. is only for the people, and only thinks about how to establish the image of the court. Is such a child wrong? You have already harmed me, and you have caused me to live as a human and ghost for so long, do you want to create a Qin Tai like me? Qin Tai, he is still a child, a child who has never experienced anything. If he fails, what will happen to his parents? What should I do with this girl? Are you going to kill so many people? You open your eyes. ”