War of Faith (追风者)

What is this smell?

Silence!

Everyone, be quiet!

Focus on your own exam papers!

What is this smell?

Can't you see the heavy smoke over there?

Where is this smoke coming from?

None of you can leave before you finish the exam!

Do not move!

Stay put and take the exam!

Fire!

Everybody run! It's on fire!

Run!

Finish the exam before you go!

Fire!

Finish the exam first!

You haven't finished your exam papers!

Come back here!

Come back and finish the exam before you go!

The building's on fire.

Just forget about the exam and leave!

I'm working on the last question.

Hurry up! Hurry!

Please be quick!

Leave right now or it'll be too late.

Just give me a sec.

It's all done!

Hurry up!

What a bunch of simpletons!

Only one person passed such an easy test!

Tunan,

many of the exam takers this time

are from influential families.

By making that comment,

aren't you afraid of antagonizing the privileged and the powerful?

What can they hate me for?

There were seven exits,

near each of which

I placed a key for the candidates,

along with all sorts of tools in plain sight.

Should they have an ounce of sense,

they wouldn't have reduced themselves

to such an awkward situation!

You're recruiting bankers,

not members for the marine corps!

Haven't you just mentioned a concept?

Rationality.

For those who'll work in finance,

it's true

that we want them to be poised and tough-minded,

but people with those qualities

still aren't good enough to work in the Central Bank.

This time, I created a desperate situation

where their lives were at stake.

I was testing

their intelligence, courage and willpower,

as well as their abilities to

analyze the environment and make judgments,

plus their reverse thinking skills.

Only one candidate passed it and went through the whole drill.

He performed quite well in

both the written and survival tests.

He didn't choose the best route,

but

at the last critical moment,

he managed to help the others.

I've found an exit!

Come on! Come with me!

Go!

Go! Hurry up!

Go!

There's an exit! Just go!

Hurry!

Besides, before the flames spread to the archive room,

he was even able to fight the fire.

Bad news! Bad news!

It's on fire!

There are documents in the room!

Can someone help me?

I think he displayed

a valuable quality.

Didn't you tell me

the archive room was empty?

But I didn't tell him that!

He didn't know the archive room was empty.

Plus, there's something interesting

I want to tell you.

The exam supervisor asked him

why he did that.

Guess what he said?

Didn't you say there were documents

inside?

If they got burned,

the Central Bank would suffer huge losses, right?

To be frank,

he's quite an honest young man.

He is.

Anyway, I've read the answers

on his written exam papers.

He has got full marks.

Plus, he finished the last question

when thick smoke was surrounding him.

I think he's very level-headed.

Where does this young man come from?

He comes from humble origins and hasn't been to college.

He has only received an 18-month education

in Lixin Accounting Institute on accounting and finance.

A night school?

How dare you employ such a man?

If word gets out to Nanjing, aren't you afraid

of being held to blame?

As I said, the Central Bank hires

based on the candidates' abilities instead of their social backgrounds.

Congyun.

Sir.

Make some arrangements.

About Candidate No. 47,

Chief Deng and I would like a private interview with him.

Come in!

Sir,

Wei Ruolai has arrived.

Mr. Shen.

Hello.

You don't seem very nervous.

Being nervous

isn't exactly helpful, is it?

Do you know the functions and duties that the Central Bank serves?

Is it like a mud loach?

What do you mean?

I grew up in the countryside.

Sometimes, to help with the family expenses,

I had to catch fish and sell them in the city.

During these time-consuming journeys,

the fish would die due to a lack of oxygen.

When there were wriggling mud loaches

in the midst,

the fish would be able to live longer.

That's a vivid metaphor,

though not quite accurate.

Maybe

it's like a snakehead fish?

Care to explain yourself again?

As long as there is a snakehead fish,

it'd eat up all the other fish or shrimps in the same bucket.

Which would you say the Central Bank is,

a mud loach,

or a snakehead fish?

In prosperous times,

it should be a mud loach,

as it acts as the central macroeconomic regulator and controller,

designing the most reasonable financial policies

to safeguard the national economy.

What about in chaotic times?

In chaotic times, the Central Bank would be a snakehead fish.

It'd first secure its own survival and strength.

After all, the private sector wouldn't cover military spending.

The country can't make other plans unless it wins whatever war it is in.

Is now a prosperous time or a chaotic time?

Mr. Shen,

I'm interviewing for a job as a clerk,

not a bank president.

Okay.

Introduce yourself then.

My name is Wei Ruolai.

I'm 23 years old.

I graduated from the extension school of Lixin Accounting Institute.

What are you strengths?

I'd say I'm good at calculating.

I also have a good memory.

The fact that you could solve the last exam question

proves that you're great at math.

I'd like to test how good your memory is.

Turn to a random page and spend 5 minutes

reading it carefully.

Okay.

I'm finished.

I said you could have 5 minutes.

I've memorized the content.

You've memorized it?

Tell me the third line from the left.

"The study of the Chinese language consists of three parts.

First,

the structure of each character.

It's about how elements are arranged and combined to form different characters.

Second,

the meaning of each character.

It's about telling apart the characters' former and current meanings.

Third..."

Have you read this book before?

No, I haven't.

You can pick another book for me to memorize.

Read this.

I'm finished.

Tell me the total expenditure in the fourth quarter.

It's...

176,174.25.

Tell me the administrative expenses in July.

7,064.78.

Hold on.

The numbers don't really add up, do they?