About twenty years ago, the sixty-seventh year of Emperor Qin Ming's reign, the forty-second imperial examination of the Western Qin Empire that made quite a stir was publicly acknowledged as the most fruitful imperial examination since the empire rose under the rule of Emperor Guang Wu, except for that one held at the first year of Guang Wu's reign. That was because from that imperial examination came forth four strongest figures who later became the governors of those major provinces of ...