From midnight on the twentieth day of July, more than 23,000 merchants packed up their proper packs, either in high spirits or with apprehensions, and drove to the Imperial Village outside the city to assemble.

Aunt Xue and Xue Pan were not worried about Xue Baochai's travel, so they accompanied Xue Baochai together, and the family set out together.

The Jia family also knew that today was the day of the imperial businessman's assessment, and when they saw the Xue family collectively dispatching, they thought that they were just sending Xue Pan, but they didn't know that it was Xue Baochai who wanted to represent the Xue family to participate in the exam.

The Jia family knows Xue Pan's temperament, and if he talks about causing trouble, I'm afraid no one can compare to him, but if you want to talk about learning, I'm afraid it's a May banana holding clear water, thick branches and leaves, without any ink.

Almost everyone is not optimistic about the Xue family, so they only symbolically sent people to condole, and they didn't pay too much attention, and even many people secretly looked forward to the Xue family's return in their hearts.

Due to the different places where men and women gather, the men assemble at the main gate and the women assemble at the north gate.

When the Xue family and his party came to the north gate, they saw that hundreds of carriages had stopped at the door, so they found an open space to stop.

Xue Pan was happy when he saw Hunting, he didn't care about the injuries on his body, and after saying hello to Aunt Xue and Xue Baochai, he kept shuttling through the crowd, where the girls drilled more, and looked at the women who came to participate in the competition with a pair of colored eyes.

It's just that there are soldiers on duty around, and Xue Pan doesn't dare to be presumptuous, so he rashly stretches out his salty pig hand, and can only judge these women in his heart.

When they walked not far from the Xia family's carriage, it happened that Xia Jingui opened the curtain and looked out, and the eyes of the two happened to be in one place.

After Xia Jingui saw Xue Pan, he just glanced at it lightly, then put down the curtain and didn't take it to heart.

After Xue Pan saw Xia Jingui's appearance, he suddenly felt a little itchy, so he kept wandering around the Xia family's carriage.

Xue Baochai has been staying quietly in the carriage, adjusting his mentality, and has the intention to take the lead and win the favor of the queen, if he can get the queen's mother, it may be a turning point in his fate, and there is a faint expectation in his heart for a while.

Aunt Xue saw that her son had been gone for a long time and had not returned, so she was worried that something would happen to her son, so she hurriedly sent someone to call Xue Pan back.

After Xue Pan reluctantly returned, Xia Jingui's delicate face lingered in his mind, so he asked Aunt Xue to inquire about Xia Jingui's situation.

Aunt Xue didn't want her son to marry a merchant girl, and she had to be an imperial merchant at the very least, but she was helpless to be entangled by her son, so she had to perfunctory send someone to inquire.

Emperor Yuan Yong attached great importance to the selection of imperial merchants, and wanted to make it normal like the triennial imperial examination, so he specially ordered the soldiers and horses of the five cities to deploy defenses inside and outside the imperial village, and ordered the Armed Forces Institute of the Internal Affairs Department to serve as the guard of the examination room.

The queen mother knew the emperor's thoughts, and she also attached importance to it, and sent her henchman Lan Yue'er to personally lead the team to be responsible for all matters in the women's examination room.

Almost all the members of the Internal Affairs Office were dispatched to serve as the invigilators, patrol officers, paper awarding officers, paper collectors, paper officers, paper officers, list filling officers, paper printing officers, guide officers, roll call officers, etc.

Although Lu Jing is only nominally assisting the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he has been hiding behind the scenes and secretly leading the matter.

Today, he still did not appear in public, but he sat in the Changchun Building of Huangzhuang and coordinated various affairs.

Because the examination room is divided by region, each state capital has arranged a guide, so the guide officer in charge of each region will hold a sign and shout, gather businessmen from the same region in one place, and line up in the order of drawing lots in advance.

It took more than half an hour to complete the order according to the provincial and state levels, and then the guide officers stood beside their respective teams and waited for the examination room to open.

Businessmen from all provinces gathered in one place, either guessing the questions of the day's exams or encouraging each other.

Some took out the reference books they brought with them and communicated with each other to see if the people in the same examination room had overlapped, whether there were omissions and whether they were complete.

In addition to the necessary food and answering utensils, almost everyone who came to the exam brought books, ranging from one to dozens, in short, to be prepared.

As soon as the hour came, the salute was all in place, the south gate and the north gate of the Huangzhuang were opened at the same time, and the roll call announced that the merchants were ready to enter.

Since there was no need to search, every time the roll call officer read it, the guide officer in charge of the place would lead the merchants of the place into the corresponding examination room.

It took more than an hour to make a thorough arrangement.

As soon as the cannon sounded at the third quarter of the first month, the invigilators of each examination room began to announce the discipline of the examination room: it was not allowed to move seats, it was not allowed to look around, it was not allowed to talk to each other, it was not allowed to make loud noises, and it was enough to raise your hand directly if there was something to report.

In addition, there is no limit to the time for answering questions, as long as the answer is completed, those who feel that there are no omissions can submit the paper.

At the right time, the cannon rang out three times, and the examiner began to distribute the test papers, and reminded everyone to fill in their places of origin and names first.

After Zhang Jingyi filled in the identity information, she couldn't wait to browse the test paper.

After reading it, the heart said that sure enough, the imperial court did not examine any of the contents of the book, and the twelve test questions on the entire test paper were all relatively strange question and answer questions.

After taking a deep breath, Zhang Jingyi began to meditate on the first question: "In a shoe store, a pair of shoes is priced at 100 yuan, and the price is 150 yuan. Afterwards, the neighboring shop found out that the silver was fake, and the shoe store paid the neighbor a tael of silver. ”

"Q: How much did the shoe store lose in total? Write down the idea of the answer when answering. ”

Note: The official price of silver is calculated at the official price of one to two thousand.

Zhang Jingyi was stunned at first by the shopkeeper of the shoe store to exchange money at the neighboring shop, and the neighbor went to the shoe store to ask for money, and finally calmed down, carefully simulated the transaction process, and came to the answer that the shoe store lost 1,950 yuan, but he doubted that it should not be so simple, so he did not write down to answer the question, but turned to the second question.

"A merchant sells ginseng, buys a ginseng for 50 taels on the first day, sells it for 60 taels on the second day, buys 70 taels on the third day, and sells it for 80 taels on the fourth day."

"Q: How much does the merchant make in the end?"

Q: What do you think of this person's trading behavior? Write down the idea of the answer when answering. ”

After finding that the second question was more winding than the first question, Zhang Jingyi took a deep breath again, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart, it is worthy of being the test questions selected by the imperial merchants, one is more strange than the other, and one question is more difficult than the other.

After thinking about it for a long time, he finally came up with the answer of ten taels of profit, but out of caution, he didn't dare to write it up, and began to look at the third question.

"There is a transaction, there are three ways to trade: first, you can make a profit of 100 taels every day; 2. Make a profit of ten taels on the first day, and increase the profit of ten taels on each subsequent day compared with the previous day; 3. Make a profit on the first day, and double the profit every day after that. ”

"Please choose one of the trading methods and explain why!"

Seeing this, Zhang Jingyi breathed a sigh of relief, and finally encountered a normal problem, so she hurriedly picked up the abacus and began to fiddle with it.

After calculating for a long time, I finally found that the third type had the most profits, and I was about to write down the answer, but suddenly I thought that the time was not mentioned in the question, and if it was only one day, wouldn't it be a big loss to choose the third one.

So the abacus beads crackled again.

In the women's examination room, Lan Yue'er was entrusted by the queen and presided over such a thing for the first time, so she was very serious, and took a few palace maids to keep patrolling back and forth, and occasionally stopped to watch, which made all the women in the examination room a little nervous.

But at this moment, Wang Suxiu is writing hard, and since she got the test paper, she just skimmed it roughly, and then began to write non-stop.

Lu Jing told her the first three questions last night because Wang Suxiu cooperated with her plan, but did not tell her the answers.

Wang Suxiu had already discussed with her father many times last night, so she was already familiar with the first three questions.

After writing the first three questions, I looked at the fourth question: "A foreign businessman wanted to rent a house in the east city of Beijing, so he took out five taels of silver and bet it on the tooth shop, and he wanted to see the room first, and then decide whether to lease it." The shopkeeper of the tooth shop asked the man to lead the merchant to see the house, and he took the five taels of silver to the butcher's house next door and paid the meat money that he had been owing on credit. ”

The butcher got the money, and then came to Zhang San's house, which raised pigs, and returned the money for buying pigs. Zhang San took the money to the hospital again and returned the medical money. The shopkeeper of the hospital got the money and hurriedly came to the dental store to pay off the money owed for the rental house. At this time, the merchant returned, and because he was dissatisfied with the house, he took away the five taels of silver that had been kept in the hands of the shopkeeper of the tooth shop. ”

"There was no transaction in the whole process, but the shopkeeper of the tooth shop, the butcher, Zhang San, and the shopkeeper of the medical hall all used the money temporarily paid by the merchant to pay off the debt, and finally the money returned to the merchant, please analyze the truth contained in the whole incident, and the inspiration it brings to you!"

Wang Suxiu was suddenly a little stunned, the first three questions were already difficult enough, but I didn't expect this question to be even more difficult, the pressure in her heart rose sharply, and her face became serious.

But thinking of the queen's words, he felt that he could not live up to the queen's expectations, so he hurriedly eliminated distractions, thought about it quietly, and decided to analyze it from the perspective of debt for a long time.

After answering the fourth question, he hurriedly looked at the fifth question:

In the previous dynasty, there was a rich family who happened to meet a poor scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam to take shelter from the rain. After the rich man found out that the scholar was very talented, he funded his silver two to enter Beijing as soon as possible, and agreed to give his daughter to him after high school.

The scholar thanked him for his kindness and vowed that if he came to high school, he would fulfill his promise.

After the scholar left, his daughter said to her father: "This is the thirtieth scholar!" ”

His father comforted his daughter and said, "There will always be one who will pass the exam and come to fulfill his promise." ”

In the second year, the twelfth scholar sponsored by the wealthy family lived up to his promise and came to marry.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, two scholars from high school came to fulfill the contract and marry their daughters, and the rich businessman had only one daughter, and when he saw that the matter was revealed, he committed suicide in shame.

Jinshi, who married the daughter of a rich family, learned that the rich family had promised his daughter to a family, but he despised what the rich family had done, so he abandoned his daughter, and his daughter had no shame to live and committed suicide with her father.

Please evaluate the gains and losses of the wealthy from a business and ethical perspective.

After Wang Suxiu saw the title, a burst of anger suddenly rose in her heart, and she scolded the rich family for being a father in vain and harming her daughter and herself.

After calming down, he thought of the story of Lu Buwei's consignment and livability, and began to analyze the matter from the perspective of cost and investment.