The joint examination of the Tenth College of Luyang Prefecture and the business department assessment are about to begin.

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

If the martial arts system is the "orthodox system" that masters the core orthodox power of the human race, the rune system is the "noble system" that only people with noble identities have the hope of being admitted, and the beast-controlling system is the "poor system" that most of the poor disciples.

Then, the business department is the lowest-ranking person who will take the exam for the "low-faith karma" and the lowest-ranking division among the nine major departments.

Because the Shenwu Continent regards "martial arts" as the most respected, all other systems are auxiliary systems. No matter which system a martial artist has practiced, he must achieve something in martial arts in the end.

Only by making breakthroughs in martial arts and becoming a martial master, Marquis, King of Wu, and Emperor of Wu, can we hope to break through the bottleneck of strength and life span, live longer and become stronger.

The Shang system is the farthest from martial arts, and can earn a lot of money, but it cannot explore the true meaning of martial arts. This also leads to the Shang system being at the bottom among the nine major divisions.

Even poor children are not willing to take the exam for the business department. Only those who have very low status and atonement are young people who have no other way out to participate in the assessment of this department.

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

However, wealthy families would send some disciples from other branches who were not valued or deposed to study the business department. After the study, these children were responsible for managing the family's family's property, shops, fields and other industries in various places.

If there are other better ways to get into other departments, most of the children of other branches are unwilling to take the business department. They just have to take the business department to make a living.

Most of these martial artists from the business department will handle trivial and specific chores for wealthy families, shops and pavilions in the future. Once they are chores, they will find it difficult to make progress in martial arts practice and become the lower-level manager and chores throughout their lives.

Among the eight wealthy families in Luyang Prefecture, none of them mainly focus on business.

However, the business department has a very real benefit.

That is, there is a "business world" in the token of the business system, similar to the "beast control world". Various treasures circulated among all human merchants within the entire Zixuan Dynasty.

To resurrect the mammoth stone egg, several important sacrifices are needed.

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

He must take the exam for this business department and strive to get the best ranking.

Ye Fan walked into the examination room of Luyangfuyuan Business Department.

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 reputation, he is at its peak in Luyang Mansion and is not used to trek into the muddy waters of the merchants."

"That's right, the Shang Dynasty has the lowest status among the nine categories and is known as the "slow karma system". Even if you get the first place, there is no honor. Why bother to compete! Not many people will care about the list of the Shang Dynasty."

Many candidates were shocked and puzzled when they saw Ye Fan leaving the examination room.

They couldn't figure out why Ye Fan was now at the peak of his reputation, why did he still participate in the business department assessment?

Among the candidates, there was a young man from the Zhao family with a bruised nose, swollen face and gauze wrapped in body.

His eyes when he looked at Ye Fan were filled with incomparable hatred and hostility.

"Ye Fan! Why are you here to participate in the business department assessment?"

The bloated boy asked angrily.

"Zhao Xing, why are you like this?!"

Ye Fan passed by the boy and was very surprised.

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

"Don't pretend to be garlic here, it's because of you! The clan suspects that I collude with you and help you send the stone eggs into the examination room, so I was punished by the family. The head of the family has deprived me of being a master of martial arts, and asked me to participate in the business department assessment, and manage the store industry for the family in the future as atonement. You cut off my martial arts path, and I will never finish it with you!"

Zhao Xing touched his swollen face and said with hatred.

His injuries were also beaten by his tribe members during interrogation.

"Aren't you taking this on your own? You're the one who makes you so hurt? I'm going to use the trick of stone eggs to deal with me! The Zhao family punishes you for not practicing martial arts and taking the business department. 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 exam table.

In the entire examination room, the teenagers looked at him with strange eyes, wondering why Ye Fan came to take the business department. The top spot in other departments was an honor, but the top spot in the business department was the only exception, and it was not very honorable.

Half of the incense stick has passed.

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

The top four-series Luyang Mansion and the number one genius in poor families, how can I take the business exam?

However, Ye Fan wanted to take the business department, but they couldn't stop him. If you want to take the exam, just take the exam.

"The assessment of the business department in our province has officially begun. The business department test questions are the same. All candidates are prohibited from whispering and peeping at the answers. Violators will be expelled from the examination room!"

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

The examination room immediately became quiet.

The examiner then announced the test questions: "Today's business department has three test questions, each with thirty-three points. The first test question is as follows: A small vendor spent 5,000 taels to buy a batch of purple-smoked herbs, and took this batch of goods from the capital of Canglan Kingdom, and went to the capital of neighboring Dongfeng Kingdom for sale. How much taels of silver does this small vendor have to sell this batch of herbs so that they will not lose money?"

Most ordinary candidates were stunned when they heard this test question, and they didn't know where to start and scratched their heads in a hurry.

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

"This question is too simple!"

After reading the exam questions, Zhao Xing curled his lips and immediately felt confident. He looked at Ye Fan not far away with pride.

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

The amount of information contained in the test questions is too small.

What you really need to test for this test is not within the test paper, but outside the test paper, they need to have enough trading experience in life.

First of all, this purple-smoked herb is a dried forage, which is used by wealthy families to incense. After ignition, it can repel mosquitoes, deworms, and odor, and is very popular among wealthy families.

So the question is, you can buy a lot of herbs for 5,000 taels of silver. How many carriages can you carry?

How many coachmen do you hire?

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

These are hidden costs and must be included in the total cost.

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

How many months will it take to arrive?

How many levels do you have to pass?

Many levels require tax collection. The tax burden of a small city level and a national level is different, which is equivalent to peeling off layers of skin.

Only by understanding the above can you answer how much money a small vendor should sell this batch of goods so that he will not lose money.

These are all naked experiences!

The more Zhao Xing thought about it, the more proud he became. The test questions were clearly prepared for him!

This is no longer a simple textbook learning issue, but involves daily life experience.

Zhao Xing was a wealthy family in Zhao's family. Although he had never done these miscellaneous tasks, he had also been influenced by the nearby vassal states. He had seen the size of purple incense herbs and knew the tax burden of various cities.

Faced with such test questions, ordinary candidates are blinded by the eyes, and only candidates from wealthy families are most likely to be exposed to such experiences.

Ye Fan is not very awesome, and he reads a lot of books. Do he actually read archaeological appraisals from those adventure departments?

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

"Canglan Kingdom Capital, heading to Dongfeng Kingdom Capital, one-way trip is one-way for one month. It takes ten carriages to fill 5,000 taels of rosewood. It costs ten taels of silver to hire these coachmen and carriages every day, and a total of six hundred taels will be spent in two months.

There are thirteen levels along the way, and the tax burden is 3,000 taels. This batch of purple-smoked vanilla needs to be sold for 8,600 taels to avoid losing money.”

Zhao Xing was excited and glanced at Ye Fan quietly while writing quickly to answer the questions.

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

“This question…”

After reading the test questions, Ye Fan frowned and did not start writing.

Soon, candidates from Zhongshang Department began to submit the answer sheets of the first test questions.

The fastest candidate, Sun Zaoli, calculated the answer in just half a stick of incense and handed over the paper. This was faster than the children of Zhao Xing and other wealthy families.

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

Ye Fan didn't write, and there was a blank space on the paper.

Zhao Xing passed by Ye Fan's test desk, glanced at the blank test paper, and laughed loudly, "Ye Fan, can you not answer this test question?

Yes, a nerd like you can at most answer some answers in the book, but you can't answer the answers that are not in the book at all. If you come to the business department, you will be humiliating yourself."

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

At least they wrote some answers, but they didn't write a word like Ye Fan.

Ye Fan was the last one to hand in the paper, blank paper.

"Why didn't you write the answer? If you don't understand the business department, don't participate in the business department assessment!"

A chief examiner looked at his answer sheet and frowned.
To be continued...