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The mentality of becoming an official was the dominant mentality of literati in the feudal era. It was limited to knowledge and values, and had long been on the fringes of mainstream academic vision. This book is limited to the late Tang Dynasty, starting from region and class, to study the innate factors that generated the mentality of literati seeking officialdom; starting from the process of seeking tribute, seeking rank, and serving as officials, it studies the acquired efforts and mentality characteristics of literati; starting from party struggles, wars, and the fall of the Tang Dynasty, it studies the manifestations of literati's mentality of becoming officials in extraordinary historical periods. By advancing layer by layer and interlocking with each other, we will explore the reasons why the literati in the late Tang Dynasty became secular in their mentality. This book has both academic reference value and reference significance for modern public employee management issues.