However the reformers met opposition from bureaucrats, politicians, and physicians. However, the reformers met opposition from bureaucrats, politicians, and physicians. To corrupt bureaucrats and politicians became well-accepted business practice. Politics became the arena of fighting factions between old and new elites, bureaucrats, and generals. Relationships between government bureaucrats and companies are often close. N.K. Singh comes from a well-connected family of bureaucrats and politicians. She is also visited by bureaucrats and other government officials. Zhang was assisted after his rise to power by local bureaucrats and civilian elites. Others have been appointed as ambassadors, mayors, provincial governors and senior bureaucrats. Al Jazeera found a document written by a Libyan bureaucrat to other Libyan bureaucrats. Classical Chinese was the literary language of elites and bureaucrats. Lower status was attributed to farmers, craft and tradesmen, shopkeepers, and government bureaucrats. This had a chilling effect on all civilian bureaucrats in the Japanese government. During the Tokugawa shogunate, samurai increasingly became courtiers, bureaucrats, and administrators rather than warriors. He decides to take on corrupt bureaucrats.