Chapter 236 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Even though a crazy incident was occurring— the God of Light devouring the Mother of Sea—it did not cause Goddess of Wealth’s mood to turn sour and change Her original plans. She still sent out the promised teachers.

This batch of teachers consisted of eight people. They were experts who were good with ledgers and counting when they were still living. Amongst them, there was more than one officer whose name was remembered by later generations. Sui Xiong gave them each a body to avoid scaring people. They had been turned into Godly creatures and had not possessed physical bodies for some time. They were all quite happy, expressing that this was an experience that was hard to come by, and that it was very interesting.

With this batch of high-level teachers (probably the highest level in the history of mankind), the “Federation of Accounting College” was successfully formed as the first campus of the New Asian Comprehensive Technical School.

Those who were willing to learn first needed basic knowledge from the main campus, including the official language and common mathematics. After completing their basic knowledge lessons, they would go to the accounting school campus to learn accounting skills. That would take one year of schooling. Within this year, they would need to learn about products from all places on the mainland along with their prices, some simple and yet important local customs, writing and checking ledgers, calculating profits and taxes, and last but not least the most advanced knowledge: financial budgeting.

Of course, all these things were to happen progressively. Only when they learned the simple topics well would teachers move to advanced topics. And only when they had learned all other topics with great results would teachers instruct in financial budgeting.

The current graduates who were supposed to be sent out to become local clerks were being gathered to learn accounting. They were all very glad to be learning an extra set of skills and showed tremendous passion for learning.

Just how hardworking were they? It was not as if their heads were hanging off the beams or that they were sitting on thorns in agony. But it was not unusual that they’d purposely sleep uncomfortably, to sleep lightly. In fact, most of the students did not even average four hours of sleep per day. They used all their might to learn desperately. Thankfully the school was close to church and pastors could arrive as problems arose. Otherwise, they were afraid that someone might overwork themselves and die of exhaustion.

Sui Xiong had asked the pastors to talk to them many times, and these students had promised to rest well. But once they turned around they were working hard and learning again. They were all like dried sponges, absorbing all the water they could get to quickly make themselves be more fulfilled and saturated with information.

Even then there were not many who actually had outstanding results.

After one year, only four students out of the batch of 400 could learn financial budgeting.

Surrounding these four students were Leon the archon of Garth City, Olian the lord of Geerteng City, and Rhode, the financial supervisor of Void Mask Theme Park. The three of them had to fight over the graduates, and no one was willing to back down.

At the moment, they could not even think of their friendship. They all wanted the last top graduate to join them in addition to taking in one top student each.

A talented person proficient in finances and accounts, and could even make qualified financial budgeting, was more valuable than gold wherever he went. The three of them even kept the news to themselves with implicit understanding. Even though they were arguing badly inside the conference room, they’d laugh and joke with each other in public without mentioning anything at all.

In the end, the three argued until they reached Sui Xiong. Sui Xiong considered carefully before giving the last top graduate to Leon because his work was really busy. Garth City was developing well these years and the financial jobs were getting more plentiful. He really needed more talented people.

And yet, Rhode and Olian both complained quite a while privately. They had already planned to take action as soon as possible during the next batch of accounting graduates and recruit the best talents for themselves!

As for the average graduates, they had also been widely welcomed. The nobles and chambers of commerce who received the news were all skeptical initially, but they soon found out that these young people who were proficient with accounting were really excellent. They were especially loyal to their duties. This made employers extremely happy and satisfied.

As a result, the first batch of 200 graduates was taken in. There were even a number of nobles who contacted the school directly, hoping that they could reserve a few students in advance.

“You will need to wait another four years,” Principal Wor said. Of course, He used a clone whom common people couldn’t recognize, as well as an alias.

Medium and small-sized nobles thought, only four years; we can afford to wait!