Fan Zijin was stunned for a moment before anger surged in his chest. However, he no longer shouted like when he was young. Instead, he only asked coldly, "What if I can't get become a juren through the imperial examination? After all, there are countless young people in the world who became a tongsheng yet weren't able to advance further."
To scholars, becoming a xiucai was just a small step towards officialdom. It was just a title. The real hurdle was the Fall Quarter Examinations. Only by passing the Fall Quarter Examinations and becoming a juren could one obtain the qualifications to become an official. It would naturally be better if one could become a jinshi.
This was because unless one was a jinshi, they would not enter a Hanlin official. If one was not a Hanlin official, they could not be conferred the title of minister one day. This had been a tradition since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
