"Oh, let's talk about it." Director Jin smiled: "Can you still hide something between you and me?"

Wu Jie: "If you think a little bit of random thoughts, I'm afraid you will make a joke when you say it."

"What a joke? Everyone is alumni. We liberal arts students are all literary youths. It is understandable that we have some strange thoughts. Besides, aren't we chatting? Let's say whatever we want."

"Well, that's it. Some time ago, I read a lot of fictional historical novels. I just heard you mention the ancient imperial examinations. I suddenly had an idea." Wu Jie carefully said in his tone, pretending to be a very casual look, and said, "The protagonists in those novels traveled to ancient times, sometimes plagiarized the poems of descendants, sometimes plagiarized other people's works, and made a fortune. The most outrageous thing is that someone actually copied out novels such as "Journey to the West" and "Water Margin". It was completely fabricated? How could a person have such a good memory, and suddenly traveled to ancient times, and it was impossible to prepare in advance."

"Oh, you're talking about time travel novels. I've read a few books, such as "New Song" and so on, just watch some fun, it's not true."

"Also, I suddenly thought that if I traveled to ancient times and wanted to make a name for myself, I could only take the imperial examination. The problem is that I can't write eight-legged essays, learn and sell now, and I can't stand out in an examination room like a single-plank bridge that crosses a single-plank bridge. Therefore, the final conclusion is that if I traveled to ancient times, without my background, and I can't pick my back and carry it, I guess I can only starve to death."

"Haha, brother, you can't be too slander!" Listening to Wu Jie's interesting words, Director Jin also became interested and smiled: "The premise of your assumption is based on sudden time travel. I really can't get through at that time. However, we modern people have strong learning ability. Judging from the exam experience, I don't know how much better than the ancients. It's just eight-legged essays, not that complicated, formatted writing, and official articles are best written."

"That's ancient Chinese. As I write, flaws will appear."

Director Jin is a historian after all. Although he is not serious, his learning is placed there. He listened to Wu Jie's words and nodded: "Yes, there are many rules and taboos in the ancients' writings, and many allusions. If you make mistakes, there will be big trouble. Of course, it will be easier to solve the problem if you know in advance that you will travel through time or know in advance the exam questions. Are you afraid that you will not be able to pass the test if you memorize a sample in advance?"

"Know the test questions in advance, and then memorize the sample essay to deal with the exam?" Wu Jie suddenly straightened his body, his hands trembled slightly, and asked in a stuttering manner: "Is this OK? Is this easy to do?"

"Nonsense, isn't this simple?" Director Jin pointed to Wu Jie: "You, you have worked in the library for several years, your business quality is really bad, I have to criticize you. Eight-legged essays have been tested for hundreds of years from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. The scope of the question is limited to the Four Books and Five Classics. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, all the questions should be published. It can be said that each sentence has several model essays. There are more than 200 volumes and tens of thousands of model essays in your library's collection, from the Hongwu year of the Ming Dynasty to the Xuantong period. For example, if you and I know in advance that you can travel through time and know in advance the test questions. Hehe, the matter is simple. Just find a few model essays to memorize them well. Even if you take the Jinshi exam, you will have three fingers to pinch the snails.

"Ah, our library has a model, why did I forget it?" Wu Jie slapped his forehead suddenly and cursed himself: Pig, Wu Jie, Wu Jie, you are such a pig.

That's right, there is indeed a set of eight-legged essay collections with more than 200 volumes and more than 30 volumes in the library.

However, except for the few articles by Zhang Juzheng, Su Dongpo and others, the eight-legged essays collected in these twenty books are long and worthless, and are thrown into the most remote corner of the library and are reluctant to pay attention.

Now, this pile of waste paper is a treasure shining with golden light for Wu Jie.

Indeed, as Director Jin said, with these examples, even if you take the Jinshi exam, it is ordinary.

Forcibly curbing the excitement in his heart, Wu Jie suddenly thought of the most critical point, and his heart felt as if someone had poured a basin of cold water.

Tens of thousands of sample essays, calculated based on 2,000 words per article, that is hundreds of millions of words. I, Wu Jie, are not a human-shaped computer. If you turn on the power and check the U disk, you can download it word by word in your mind.

If you really want to memorize it, with the memory you have trained from elementary school to college, you can memorize tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of words. No matter how many, it is better to die.

Of course, if you can know the test questions in advance and then prepare in advance, things will be much easier.

The problem is that in the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty, the examination rooms above the provincial examination were held every three years. Because they were related to the personal future and life destiny of scholars, they might be able to be found out from historical materials. The boys below the provincial examinations were tested once a year. In which year, which county, prefecture, province... they could not be found at all!

In just a moment, Wu Jie even thought of giving up and wanted to give up.

But although he seems easy-going on the surface, he is a very strong person in his personality. When he encounters problems, he is used to gritting his teeth and holding on, and there is no word "depression" in the dictionary.

After thinking about it, I still have to ask the history scholar Director Jin in front of me.

So Wu Jie talked about his concerns with him in a joking tone.

"Xiao Wu, you're stupid, this is not simple." Director Jin pointed to himself and smiled proudly: "You forgot who I am. I am the director of the Municipal Chronicle Office. I have a lot of information on hand. Not to mention anything else, as for the imperial examinations in the city from ancient times to the present, from the Enchou-choice in Hongwu year of the Ming Dynasty to the last exam in the Qing Dynasty. The test questions and the first three essays have detailed files. I had thought about writing a book about the imperial examinations before and collected a lot of information. Later, I thought that no one bought the book and gave up. If you are interested, I'll send it to you by email."

"Okay, thank you for that."

Director Jin said it was okay, and said that he had been studying history for many years, and it was rare to meet a fellow student like Wu, who was just in time for communication. While speaking, he took out an iPad from his bag, asked Wu Jie's QQ number, and passed all the information to the QQ hard drive.

In fact, the information passed by Director Jin is of no use to Wu Jie. His identity in another world is a dead commoner in Xinjin County, Sichuan Province. His household registration is there, and even if he wants to take the exam, he has to register on the spot. The test questions in this city are of no value to him.

If you really want to make a difference in the imperial examination hall, you can find all the questions for the Jinshi exams in the past 39 years of Jiajing, and even the questions for the provincial examinations in Sichuan Province are not difficult. However, if you want to get the following third-level boy exam questions, it is probably not that easy.

So, what should I do?

By the way, Director Jin didn’t say just now that the Municipal Chronicle Office has all the questions for the imperial examinations of the local History Institute. So, the County Chronicle Office of Xinjin County must have similar archives.

However, the Xinjin County Chronicle Office itself does not know anyone.

I don’t know if Director Jin has any ideas, so I don’t care about him. It’s okay to ask, and I’ll try my luck.

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Chapter completed!