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Tsai Pen-Chung

While Tsai Pen-Chung is only 37 years of age, he has already accumulated much honor and wealth for his family. At a youthful 24, he earned his chin-shih degree by passing both the local forwarding exam in his own prefecture and the departmental exam in the capital on his first try. His answer to a question on how to handle a subprefecture where tax revenues had declined was especially noteworthy, and he was ranked as A third palace graduate among those who passed the exam that year, meaning that he was third overall of the men taking the test. The Tsai family, an important landowning family in the prefecture of Hsin-Chou, gained much honor from this notable achievement, adding to the honor already achieved in the Civil Service by Tsai Pen-Chung’s cousin, Tsai Wan-li.

Tsai Pen-Chung was immediately made an administrative staff supervisor. Since then, he has been head of a subprefecture, financial inspector at the prefecture level, and vice-administrator of the prefecture of T’ai-p’ing chou. He finally became administrator of the prefecture when the previous administrator was promoted to an administrative position in the capital. During his years of service, Tsai Pen-Chung has helped improve the economic prosperity of his prefecture, and thus increased its population. Tsai is honored everywhere for his upstanding morals and lack of corruption.

Tsai Pen-Chung
Chang Wei

Hung K’o