Qin Tai was well aware of the time it would take for a student to be admitted to the Jinshi and become an alternate official. Generally speaking, unless the country needs a large number of talents, or a large number of officials have fallen off the horse, most of them are already in their twenties and thirties when they can come out to become officials. There are not many people like Qin Tai who come out to be officials at a young age, and they will be constrained by age. Even if a young jinshi like Qin Tai is sent to a local area, he will stay in the provincial-level yamen like the governor's yamen for training, and it is impossible to directly serve as the prefect of the county. When they are old enough and have a certain prestige and dignity, they will be appointed as local county governors. Of course, there will be exceptions, but once these people become magistrates, they will be looked down upon by their subordinates or ordinary people, which will affect their future work.

A county magistrate in his twenties and nearly 30 years old, who has been praised for his good work within three years, has been commended once internally, and has been transferred to other important places to continue to serve as the magistrate. In the next three years, he has been well received, and he can be promoted to a deputy position or department head. After another three years, he was replaced by the prefect of the government and served as the prefect or governor of the relatively poor state capital. After another three years, it is well received, and he can be transferred to an important state capital to serve as the chief executive. Within three years, he has been praised for his dedication to his duties, and he can be transferred to the provincial yamen to serve as an assistant to a Taoist or provincial-level official. After three years of trembling and conscientiousness, his work has been well received, and he can remain in the Taoist platform or serve as a deputy envoy to the inspection envoy or political envoy. If you continue to be well received, you may be appointed as a deputy envoy or a deputy envoy for the administration, and you will also serve as the Taoist platform of a certain province. After another three years, it is well received before he can be appointed as a procurator or political envoy. Only if you receive praise again can you be qualified to be governor of this province or other provinces. Six years as a county magistrate, three years as a prefect assistant, six years as a governor of the prefecture, three years as a provincial governor, three years as a provincial deputy as a provincial governor, and three years as a provincial envoy or political envoy, it is possible to serve as a governor. It took a full twenty-seven years of officialdom to be promoted from the magistrate to the governor, and this is still the fastest and best ending. The vast majority of officials are stagnant at the prefect level at best, and more officials have been prefects for nine years. Therefore, the people who can become high-ranking officials at the provincial and ministerial level at the governor level are not only older, but also veterans of officialdom.

The reason why Qin Tai chose to go to the Criminal Department as an official instead of going to the local post was because Qin Tai wanted to do more things for the people and give full play to his strengths, in fact, it was also because of his age. Qin Tai didn't want to become an insensitive officialdom veteran in the provincial and ministerial-level yamen, nor did he want to be discriminated against and stagnant after he became the magistrate, so he chose his most expert criminal investigation work. Otherwise, Qin Tai is now at most a magistrate, or even a retired official who has stepped down and gone home. Qin Tai knew his temper, and it was impossible for him to be in the same league with other officials because of some property, let alone to oppress the common people. In this way, you will offend your colleagues and superiors, and you will most likely ******** or kicked out of officialdom.

However, Qin Tai also knows a way to promotion that is faster than the annual assessment and upgrade. It is unlikely that he will be excellent in the annual assessment, and even then it is impossible to let this official smoothly serve as a senior provincial and ministerial-level official step by step. Zhang Juzheng also served as a local official, but he was an official equivalent to the governor level in his 40s, and by the age of 50 he had already served as a secretary of six ministries and a cabinet member at the age of 53. This is the only way for the cabinet to cultivate reserve talents, and it is also the fastest way for the imperial court to be promoted. If you get good results in the big competition, you will have the opportunity to stay in the Hanlin Academy if you are in the top 50 of the top three. Although the position held in this place is relatively low and not high-grade, it is definitely much better than serving as a local magistrate. Don't look at the magistrate of the county, the ordinary people think that the official majesty of the county lord is actually the most difficult official. Not only must they be oppressed by their superiors, but they will also be discriminated against by the people and subordinates below. After all, the magistrate is the lowest-level official in the officialdom, and no one will offend the entire officialdom for an inconspicuous magistrate. In the Hanlin Academy, he honed his character while boiling his qualifications, and when he was familiar with the rules of officialdom, he could come out and officially become an official. The time of the Hanlin Academy was not in vain, and it was even promoted faster than ordinary officials, and when it was released, it did not have to serve as a local official at the level of the county magistrate. After learning how to be an official in the Hanlin Academy, he had a good relationship with his superiors, and after being released for three years as the prefect or Tongzhi, he came back to be a bachelor of the Guozijian or the Hanlin Academy, which was regarded as an official of the "small open workshop". You can serve as the prince or prince's attendant while serving as a noble position, so as to prepare for further promotion in the future. Three to six years later, this person was appointed as a local procurator or political envoy, the purpose of which was to familiarize himself with local administrative affairs and prepare for important official posts in the future. Three years later, this official returned to the capital to serve as the squire of the six ministries or the imperial history of the Imperial Inspectorate, in order to familiarize himself with the operation of the six yamen in the capital. After three years, he was appointed as a local governor or a secretary of the six ministries, and when he had the opportunity to enter the cabinet as a "cabinet walker" and become a cabinet reserve talent. At this time, he served as a lecturer for the prince or the crown prince and became a big figure in the "Great Open Workshop". Coming out of the Hanlin Academy to serve as a local official, this kind of person is called "Shu Jishi", and it is the first choice of middle and high-level officials. Those who serve as provincial and ministerial-level officials after the "small opening workshop" are called "pilot tests", and they are candidates for future provincial and ministerial-level bigwigs. The officials of the "Great Open Fang" have gone beyond the boundaries of the provincial and ministerial levels and have become important reserve talents of the imperial court and the reserve of the cabinet bigwigs in the future.

It took Zhang Juzheng 17 years to edit the six Shangshu from the Hanlin Academy, plus two years of cabinet training, and finally reached the highest level of officialdom within 19 years. It is the shortest time among the officials Qin Tai knows, and it is also a rare rocket-like upgrade talent.

However, Zhang Juzheng started relatively late, and when he became the editor of the Hanlin Academy, he was already in his thirties. It's not that Zhang Juzheng, who is known as a little prodigy, is unlucky or doesn't work hard, but because he missed the exam twice and "Ding Wei".

The so-called "Ding worry" refers to the death of an elder in the family of a candidate or official, and he has to leave the officialdom or examination room in order to fulfill his filial piety. Ancient people attached great importance to filial piety, once a candidate or official did not "worry", it was a problem with morality, and in the future it would become a handle for others to attack this person. Zhang Juzheng missed his exams twice when he was 19 and 22 years old because of illness, so he was only promoted when he was 25 years old. At the age of twenty-six, when he was preparing to take the Jinshi examination, his grandfather passed away, and he had to stop taking the examination once, missing the opportunity to become the champion for the first time. Three years later, when he was confidently preparing to become the champion, his biological mother died of an illness. After Zhang Juzheng learned about this in the examination room, he sighed and tore up the test paper that he had almost finished answering, and once again passed by the champion. Thirty-two-year-old Zhang Juzheng completed the exam in one go, and he was the best in the world as the leader at that time. The reason why it is the second place on the list instead of the first place is because the examiner got a hint from Yan Song, the first assistant of the cabinet, and forced to give the first place to another person. In the subsequent separate answer, Zhang Juzheng won the champion in this list, and was called the champion by Emperor Jiajing who was not the champion. Because of this, Zhang Juzheng became a disciple of Xu Jie, and since then he has embarked on the road of working against Yan Song. Because of this, he was able to go from a Hanlin Academy to a cabinet member in 19 years.