The joint examination of the ten colleges of Luyang Mansion and the assessment of the business department are about to begin. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Among the nine major divisions of the human race in the Shenwu Continent, each department has a unique role.

If the martial arts department is the "orthodox system" that masters the core orthodox power of the human race, the rune department is the "noble department" that only people with noble status can hope to be admitted, and the beast control department is the "cold door department" where the majority of disciples of the cold sect are located.

Then, the business department is the person with the lowest status, and will go to the "cheap business department", which is the lowest department among the nine departments.

Because the Shenwu Continent respects the "Martial Dao", all other departments are auxiliary departments. No matter which departments a martial artist has cultivated, he must have something to achieve in martial arts after all.

Only a breakthrough in martial arts, from a martial artist, to a martial artist, a martial king, a martial emperor. Only then can we hope to break through the bottleneck of strength and longevity, live longer, and be stronger.

The Shang Department is the farthest department from the martial arts, and it can earn a lot of money, but it can't explore the true meaning of the martial arts. This also led to the Shang system being at the bottom of the nine major departments.

Even the children of the poor family are not very happy to take the business department. Only those who have a very low status, those who have atoned for their sins, and those who really have no other way out, will participate in the assessment of this department.

All the real descendants of wealthy families will take the initiative to avoid suspicion and not participate in the business assessment.

However, the wealthy families will send some disciples of the side branches who are not valued or degraded to study business, and after completing their studies, these children are responsible for taking care of the family property, shops, fields and other industries in various places.

If there is another better way out and be admitted to other departments, even most of these side branch children are unwilling to take the road of business. It's just to eat for a while that I have no choice but to take the business department.

Most of the martial artists from these merchant families will deal with some trivial and specific chores for wealthy families and shops and pavilions in the future, and once they are entangled in chores, it will be difficult to make an inch of progress in martial arts cultivation, and they will become low-level stewards and miscellaneous servants for life.

Among the eight wealthy families in Luyang Mansion, none of them are mainly engaged in business.

However, there is a very tangible benefit to the business system.

That is, there is a "business world" inside the token of the business system, something similar to the "beast world". It can purchase all kinds of treasures circulating among all human merchants within the entire Zixuan Dynasty.

For the mammoth stone egg to be resurrected, several important sacrifices are required.

With Ye Fan's current strength, it is impossible to hunt and obtain these sacrifices by himself, and he can only buy them through business tokens, which is the only way.

He had to take the test in this business department, and he had to strive to get the best ranking.

Ye Fan walked into the examination room of the business department of Luyang Mansion Academy.

At this time, there were already thousands of candidates in the examination room.

"Look, it's Ye Fan!"

"Why is he here?"

"With his current prestige, he is in the middle of the day in Luyang Mansion, and he doesn't use it to wade into the troubled waters of the business system at all. ”

"That's right, the business department has the lowest status among the nine departments, and it is known as the 'cheap business department'. Even if you get the first place, there is no honor at all, so why bother to fight for it! Not many people will care about the list of business departments. ”

Many candidates were stunned and puzzled when they saw Ye Fan in the examination room.

They couldn't figure out why Ye Fan came to participate in this business department assessment with Ye Fan's current prestige.

Among the candidates, there was a young man from the Zhao family who had a blue nose and swollen face and was wrapped in gauze.

The gaze he looked at Ye Fan was filled with incomparable hatred and hostility.

"Ye Fan, why did you come to participate in the business department assessment?"

The bloated-faced young man asked hatefully.

"Zhao Xing, why did you become like this?!"

Ye Fan passed by the young man and was taken aback.

He carefully identified the young man's face, and finally vaguely recognized that the person in front of him was his former classmate Zhao Xing.

"Don't pretend to be garlic here, it's not all because of you! The clan suspected that I was colluding with you and helped you send the stone egg to the examination room, and I was punished by the family. The head of the family has deprived my master of the qualification to cultivate the martial arts department, and let me participate in the business department assessment, and take care of the shop property for the family in the future as atonement. You cut off my martial arts path, I'm not done with you!"

Zhao Xing touched his swollen face and said hatefully.

He was also injured by his tribesmen during interrogation.

"Didn't you inflict your own blame on yourself? Who let you suffer so much and come up with a trick of stone eggs to deal with me! The Zhao family punished you for not cultivating martial arts to take the business exam, you should hate your family for being too cruel to you, what does it have to do with me. ”

Ye Fan was speechless and sat down at his examination table.

In the entire examination room, all the teenagers looked at him strangely, and they wondered why Ye Fan came to the business department. The top of the list of other departments is an honor, but the top of the business department is the only exception, not much of a glory.

Another half pillar of incense time passed.

When it was time for the exam, the chief examiner and the assistant examiner of the business department finally appeared. They were also very surprised that Ye Fan appeared in the examination room.

The top of the four departments of Luyang Mansion, the first day of the cold family, how to take the business department?

However, Ye Fan wanted to take the business department, but they couldn't stop him, so he could take the exam if he wanted to.

"The assessment of the business department of this government has officially begun. The questions in the business exam are the same, and all candidates are forbidden to talk to each other, peep at the answers, and violators will be expelled from the examination room!"

A middle-aged examiner came to the front of the candidates and said solemnly.

The examination room immediately fell silent.

Only then did the examiner raise his voice to announce the exam questions: "There are three questions in the business department today, and each question is thirty-three. The first question is as follows: A small trader spent 5,000 taels to buy a batch of purple incense herbs, and took this batch of goods from the capital of Canglan Country to the capital of the neighboring country Dongfeng Kingdom to sell. How many taels of silver does this little trader have to sell this batch of herbs so that he doesn't lose money?"

A large number of candidates from ordinary backgrounds were directly dumbfounded when they heard this exam question, and they didn't know where to answer, and they scratched their heads anxiously.

Only a small number of candidates immediately buried their heads and calculated them on paper.

"It's too easy!"

After reading the exam questions, Zhao Xing pouted and smiled, and immediately had confidence in his heart, and glanced at Ye Fan not far away quite proudly.

This kind of exam question is really simple, but it is really not something that ordinary civilians can answer.

There is too little information in the exam questions.

What this question really needs to be tested is not in the exam paper, but outside the exam paper, which requires them to have enough experience in buying and selling in life.

First of all, this purple incense herb is a kind of sun-dried forage, which is used by wealthy families to smoke incense, and can repel mosquitoes, insects, and odors after being lit, and is quite popular with wealthy families.

So the question is, five thousand taels of silver can buy a lot of vanilla, how many carriages can be loaded?

How many drivers do you hire?

How much does it cost to hire a carriage and coachman per day?

These are hidden costs that are added to the total cost.

Secondly, how far is the journey from Canglan to the country of Dongfeng Kingdom?

How many months does it take to arrive?

How many levels do you have to pass?

Many checkpoints are subject to taxes, and the tax burden of a small city checkpoint is different from a national capital checkpoint, which is equivalent to peeling off the skin layer by layer.

Only by understanding the above can we answer the question of how many taels of silver the small traders want to sell this batch of goods, so as not to lose money.

It's all a naked experience!

The more Zhao Xing thought about it, the more proud he became, this exam question was clearly prepared for him!

This is no longer just a matter of textbook knowledge, but involves daily life experience.

He Zhao Xing is a wealthy family of the Zhao family, although he has not done these chores, but he has also been to the neighboring vassal states. I have seen the size of purple incense herbs, and I know the tax burden of various cities.

In the face of this kind of exam questions, civilian candidates are blind, and only candidates from the side branches of wealthy families are most likely to come into contact with this kind of experience.

Ye Fan is not very awesome, well-read, will he actually read the archaeological appraisal of those adventure departments?

But the problem is that even the books of the business department do not record such trivial things.

"Canglan National Capital, go to Dongfeng National Capital, one-way travel for a month. Ten wagons were needed to fill five thousand taels of rosewood herbs, and ten taels of silver were spent a day to hire these coachmen and carriages, and six hundred taels for two months round trip.

There are thirteen checkpoints along the way, and the tax burden costs a total of 3,000 taels. This batch of purple incense herbs needs to be sold for 8,600 taels so that it will not lose money. ”

Zhao Xing was excited in his heart, and while quietly glancing at Ye Fan, he quickly wrote and answered the question.

He finally had a chance to surpass Ye Fan and prove that he was better than Ye Fan. Although this is only the business system, it is not as eye-catching as the martial arts department.

"This question. . . ”

After Ye Fan finished reading the exam questions, he frowned and did not start writing.

Soon, the candidates of the Department of Commerce began to hand in the answer sheets of the first exam questions one after another.

Sun Zaoli, the fastest candidate, calculated the answer and handed in the paper in just half a stick of incense. This is faster than Zhao Xing and other wealthy side branches.

The five examiners scored the first question of the candidates on the spot, and unanimously gave high marks to Sun Zaoli's examination papers.

Ye Fan didn't move his pen, and the paper was blank.

Zhao Xing passed by Ye Fan's examination desk, glanced at the blank exam paper, and sneered, "Ye Fan, could it be that you are exhausted and can't answer this exam question?"

That's right, a nerd like you can answer some of the answers in the book at most, and can't answer the answers that are not in the book at all. If you come to the business department, you are humiliating yourself. ”

Although the other candidates did not follow the sarcasm, most of them looked at Ye Fan with contempt.

They also wrote some answers, where like Ye Fan did not write a word.

Ye Fan was the last to hand in the volume, a blank volume.

"Why didn't you write the answer? If you don't know the business department, then don't come to the business department assessment!"

One of the examiners looked at his answer sheet and frowned.

"The market price of purple incense in the capital of Canglan is two taels of silver a catty. Dongfeng Guoguo, the current market price of purple incense is two taels and one pound of silver, and the difference is negligible. As long as it is a normal businessman, he will not transport the purple incense to Dongfeng Country for sale, because it is doomed to lose money.

May I ask the five chief examiners, if you buy a batch of purple incense herbs from Canglan Country for 5,000 taels, can you sell them for more than 8,000 taels in Dongfeng Country?

Ye Fan shook his head and said.

"You... ”

"How can it be!"

The five examiners all turned red with anger, and they couldn't hold back.

According to Ye Fan, this exam question itself was not considered and did not take all aspects into account.

They didn't argue with Ye Fan.

As early as the assessment of the Beast Control Department, several examiners of the Beast Control Department had taught Ye Fan how powerful he debated, and if he debated with Ye Fan, he would definitely lose more and win less.

Thousands of business candidates couldn't help but laugh when they saw the five examiners stunned. Ye Fan is really tough, no matter what he takes, he can make it difficult for the examiner.

Several of their examiners discussed in a low voice, and they didn't dare to give Ye Fan a score easily.

The chief examiner said coldly, glanced at Ye Fan, and seemed to be demonstrating, "It seems that among our candidates, some people are very dissatisfied with our business exam questions." Now on to the second question!"

"Now this question is a test of your vision as a businessman to identify the value of goods!"

"There's thousands of items at different prices, so there's a lot of variety. You are asked to find the three items with the highest price in each of them in the shortest possible time. The higher the cumulative total price of these three items, the higher the score. ”

After the examiner finished speaking, he clapped his hands.

Some assistant examiners brought thousands of small commodities to the examination room in dozens of horse-drawn wagons.

These products are extremely complex, and they are all things that can be seen in the market.

Dozens of small bags of wheat, dozens of small bags of rice, large bags of flour, dozens of cheap unknown animal eggs, peanut oil, unknown brilliant gems, some strange animal skins and furs, weapons. Piled up with these dozens of wagons pulling goods.

Not only are they genuine, but they are even mixed with fakes, crippled and defective products - these things are worthless.

The candidates rushed up to the top and scrambled for the most expensive items.

This is a great test for their vision of appraising the value of goods.

Of course, this question is the most beneficial to those side branch children of wealthy families. They will often come into contact with some high-value items such as animal skins, eggs, gems, weapons, etc., and they will be aware of fakes.

Therefore, if you choose three items per person and calculate the ranking according to the total price, the side branches of these wealthy families have a great advantage.

Ye Fan did not step forward to grab the goods, and asked the examiner strangely: "Chief examiner, where is the price of these goods?"

"Of course, it's the price on the market in Luyang Mansion, these things are all collected from the market!

The examiner took a deep breath and said.

Ye Fan nodded and said, "Yes, the price on the market is floating." Just like this wheat and rice noodles, the price of every day and hour in the market in Luyang Mansion is different, one tael of silver can buy ten catties yesterday, and one tael of silver can buy eleven catties today!

There are more than 10 rice shops in Luyang Mansion alone! Prices vary from store to store! Shops are expensive, and shops are cheaper, even in the morning, and in the afternoon. Sometimes I bargain with the shopkeeper and the boss will sell it to me cheaper. Since there is no pricing price, how can we rank the goods according to the total price?"

All the candidates were laughing and watching the examiners make a fuss.

The examiner was stunned for a moment, and was suddenly speechless, and there was no way to refute Ye Fan's questioning.

He was annoyed and angry, his attitude became arrogant, and he shouted: "Ye Fan, are you here to take the exam, or are you here to make trouble? Even if you are the top of the four departments, you can't question the exam questions at will." We're the examiners, we've got this question, you just have to answer it!"

The rest of the examiners were extremely annoyed. You said that you are the top of the four departments, why bother to embarrass these examiners of the business department. If they really have great ability, they would have gone to be the big boss of the chamber of commerce to earn money, so why should they be a small examiner in the mansion.

"Okay! Just a few of you little examiners can't help us as a Luyang genius on the first day! Don't be ashamed!"

A faint girl's voice sounded at the door of the examination room.

The examiners and candidates were stunned and looked towards the entrance of the examination room.

I saw a mysterious girl in a black robe standing at the door. This black robe is very unique, and it is impermeable to the wind, and it feels like a ghost appearing silently. If she didn't speak, no one would have noticed that she had appeared.

The girl's eyes shone like stars and were full of wisdom.

Ye Fan just felt that this girl should be estimated to be no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, very young.

"Your Excellency?"

Several examiners were puzzled.

The mysterious girl stretched out her slender jade hand with a black glove, revealing a dark secret iron token.

"Secret Treasure Merchant Department!"

"Codename: Zero!"