Even the scholars who normally supported Fang Yun felt as though they were dreaming.
He had become a second-rank dignitary right after the Palace Examination? Even the ministers of the Six Ministries were only Principal Second Rank!
It was simply too unreal. Not even the sages throughout the history of the human race could have entered the Principal Second Rank immediately after their Palace Examination.
Zhang Poyue had worked himself to the bone all this time, yet he was still only a General of the Front of the Subordinate Second Rank.
Before becoming a Great Scholar, Li Wenying had only been a prefectural academy head of the Principal Third Rank because he was too young.
Even Liu Shan, a genius of his generation in the Miscellaneous School, had already been over forty when he attained the Principal Second Rank.
Fang Yun was not yet eighteen, yet his official rank was second only to the four prime ministers. What were the other officials supposed to do?
"I might as well bash my head against a wall and die," said a supervising secretary from the Ministry of War, unsure whether to laugh or cry.
"I want to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it!"
Every official in the Left Prime Minister's faction remained silent.
The consequences of suppressing Fang Yun back then had finally surfaced.
Between the civil administration, the Literary Academy, and the military, Jing Kingdom had only a dozen or so second-rank posts in total. All were currently occupied, so there was no way to free one up for Fang Yun.
However, bestowing the honorary title of Junior Tutor of the Heir Apparent on Fang Yun first established his Principal Second Rank status. As for the actual post he would hold, the imperial decree offered no explanation.