With the Three Valleys Selection complete, Fang Yun began adjusting his priorities in Ning'an County.
The Western Sea Dragon Sage's million Demon Barbarians and Water Race members were an enormous gift, prompting the elders of the War Hall to submit a joint memorial requesting a first-class grade for Fang Yun in the military affairs category before his Saint Enfeoffment.
This meant that, of the Palace Examination's ten categories, Fang Yun had already secured or was certain to secure first-class grades in eight.
However, Fang Yun made no major moves before September fifteenth, because that was the date of the human race's Provincial Graduate Examination, and he needed to lecture the county's Academy Students.
Mi Prefecture was a small prefecture. Even with this year's increased quota for Provincial Graduates, it would admit only a hundred.
After the Provincial Graduate Examination, something happened that astonished people throughout the human race: a full sixteen candidates from Ning'an County became Provincial Graduates, surpassing even the prefectural jurisdiction with the fewest successful candidates.
The education category was settled. Only public welfare and official administration remained undecided.
By this point, Fang Yun's public welfare rating had reached lower second class, and seven other candidates in this Palace Examination had also reached that grade.
Earning a second-class grade in public welfare was not difficult, but reaching upper second class or even first class was exceedingly hard. Public welfare involved too many factors: clothing, food, housing, transportation, weddings and funerals, the people's character, and their wealth or poverty. Few could reach upper second class, and years often passed without anyone earning first class in public welfare.
Fang Yun had already worked on public security, urban development, sanitation, and basic living provisions. His next step was to raise incomes and let the people live more prosperous lives. Only then