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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-Chungs 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 Tai-ping
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.

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