Candidate for Deputy!
According to the Garrison Commandant's Office ranking system, this was a level that qualified one for Fish Scale Armor.
In the Nanquan Alley Town Patrol Office, this was considered the upper echelon in the truest sense.
If an ordinary family could produce someone of this rank, it would be a blessing upon their ancestors.
Even with the right opportunities, it would take an ordinary person at least ten to twenty years of steady work to reach this level!
One would have to start as an unlisted temporary constable, then advance through the ranks of official constable, Preparatory Constable, and Constable, among many other tiers.
Finally, one would have to overcome the bottleneck between Constable and Inspectorate, a process of indeterminate length.
In other words, Mu Wanjun's decision had just saved Chen Ping'an twenty years of struggle.
