I&;m Sasha. I&;ll answer. This is normal. Because Li Hongzhang, Zeng Guofan and others all passed the imperial examinations, it still took many years to enter the top of the bureaucracy. In fact, if the Taiping rebels hadn&;t attacked everywhere, the court would have handed over power to officials who were not very high-ranking, such as Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan, and let them exert their power, so that Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan could be promoted step by step, even if they would never climb to their later positions. Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan are the winners of the imperial examination, but still so. Zuo Zongtang failed in the imperial examination, and his natural career was even more bumpy. The imperial examination in Manchu Dynasty was an eight-part essay, which was very rigid. It can be said that a person with a very high level of literature may not be able to write a good eight-part essay. When Zuo Zongtang was 20 years old, he was able to take the provincial examination by donating money as a supervisor, but he failed. Attention, Zuo Zongtang didn&;t go to the provincial examination as a scholar after he was admitted to the scholar. But by donating money to get the qualification of a scholar. The only explanation is that Zuo Zongtang was not admitted to a scholar. This time, the examiner is Hu Jian. Hu Jian approved a &”;lack of fluency&”; on the test paper. Everyone should know that examiners are different from examiners, and the requirements for examination papers are very high. Zuo Zongtang can&;t even achieve basic fluency, and it is inevitable that he will fail the list. However, Zuo Zongtang&;s luck is very good. At that time, Emperor Daoguang asked the national examiners to check the failed papers, and gave Hunan six places for juries. Fortunately, Hu Jian suddenly died of illness. At that time, if you want to choose six people from the people who failed the list, it is equivalent to admitting that there was something wrong with the previous examiner reading the test paper. Which examiner will lift a rock and drop it on his own foot? Therefore, they chose the dead candidate Hu Jian and Zuo Zongtang. Thus, Zuo Zongtang stumbled into a juren. Although it is one step away to be an official, this step is not easy, and it is necessary to go to Beijing to participate in the examination. As a result, Zuo Zongtang failed in the exam three times before and after. What&;s even funnier is that the second time, he obviously won the exam with the last place. As a result, the emperor thought that the number of places given to Hunan was too high and decided to cancel several. Zuo Zongtang was eliminated in this way. After three failures, Zuo Zongtang, who had a strong personality, was furious. From then on, he stopped taking the exam and went back to farming in rural Hunan. So, although Zuo Zongtang is a juren, he has never been an official. Under the strict bureaucratic system of the Qing Dynasty, Zuo Zongtang certainly could not have made any great achievements. It was not until 1851 that the 48-year-old Zuo Zongtang finally had a good opportunity. Zhang Liangji and Luo Bingzhang, the governors of Hunan, tried their best to collect talents from Hunan in order to deal with the Taiping rebels who had been killed. At that time, Zuo Zongtang had a reputation as a sage, and he became an aide under the recommendation of Hu Linyi. Facts have proved that Zuo Zongtang was very talented and soon became the number one think tank in the shogunate. Even Emperor Xianfeng knew about it and used it highly. At the age of 53, Zuo Zongtang became a doctor of the Ministry of War. It is funny that Zuo Zongtang became such an important minister, but he was extremely dissatisfied with the failure of the imperial examination in that year. He believes that he is the best example of the imperial examination system being rubbish. A sage who can influence the overall situation of the country, but the imperial examination is stumbling, and finally stops at juren. Empress Dowager Cixi also understands Zuo Zongtang&;s psychology. Until 1874,Empress Dowager Ci &;an and Empress Cixi, who listened to politics behind the curtain in Beijing, issued a decree: Zuo Zongtang was given a special birth as a scholar and was promoted to a university degree in Dongge. Thus, 62-year-old Zuo Zongtang finally became a scholar.