"Oh, let's hear it." Director Jin smiled: "Is there still a hidden relationship between you and me?" ”

Wu Jie: "A little cranky, I'm afraid that you will laugh at your seniors when you say it." ”

"What's the joke, everyone is alumni, and our liberal arts students are all literary youths, and it's understandable that we occasionally have some weird thoughts. Besides, aren't we chatting, let's say whatever we want. ”

"Well, that's the case, some time ago, I read a lot of alternate historical novels in my idleness, and I just heard you mention the ancient imperial examinations, and suddenly I had an idea." Wu Jie considered his tone, pretended to be very casual, and said: "The protagonists in those novels, once they travel to ancient times, they plagiarize the poems of later generations for a while, and plagiarize other people's works for a while, and they are very popular. The most outrageous thing is that someone copied out all the novels like "Journey to the West" and "Water Margin" word for word, is it completely nonsense? How can a person have such a good memory, and suddenly travel to ancient times, it is impossible to prepare in advance. ”

"Oh, you're talking about time-traveling novels, I've also read a few books, such as "New Song" or something, just watch it for fun, not really."

"Also, I suddenly thought just now that if I traveled back in time to ancient times, if I wanted to get ahead, I would have to take the imperial examination. The problem is that I can't write eight-strand essays, I can't learn and sell now, and I can't stand out in an exam room like a single-plank bridge. Therefore, the final conclusion is that if I travel to ancient times, and I have no background in life, and I can't carry it on my shoulders, I guess I can only starve to death. ”

"Haha, brother, you can't be presumptuous!" Listening to what Wu Jie said interestingly, Director Jin was also interested, and said with a smile: "The premise of your hypothesis is based on a sudden crossover, and at that time, I can't be mixed up." However, our modern people have strong learning ability, from elementary school to university graduation, in terms of exam experience, I don't know how much better than the ancients. It's just an eight-strand essay, it's not that complicated, formatted writing, and the official article is best written. ”

"That's an ancient text, it's written, and it shows flaws."

After all, Director Jin is a historian, although he is not serious, his learning is there. Hearing Wu Jie's words, he nodded: "Also, there are many rules and avoidances in the writings of the ancients, as well as many allusions. If you get it wrong, you're in big trouble. Of course, if you know in advance that you will cross, or know the exam questions in advance, it will be easy to do, and if you find a model essay in advance and memorize it, are you afraid that you will not be able to pass the test? ”

"Know the exam questions in advance, and then memorize the sample essays to prepare for the exam?" Wu Jie straightened up suddenly, his hands trembled slightly, and he asked with a stutter: "Is it okay, is this easy to do?" ”

"Nonsense, isn't this easy?" Director Jin pointed to this Wu Jie: "You, you, you have been working in the library for several years, and your professional quality is really poor, so I have to criticize you for this." Baguwen has been tested for hundreds of years from the Ming to the Qing Dynasty. The scope of the questions is limited to the Four Books and the Five Classics, and by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the topics have been exhausted. It can be said that there are several model essays for each sentence, and there is a set of eight-strand essays in your library's collection, more than 200 volumes, and tens of thousands of sample essays, from the Hongwu year of the Ming Dynasty to the Xuantong period. For example, if you and I know in advance that we can cross, and we know the exam questions in advance. Hehe, things are simple, just find a few model essays to memorize, even if you take a Jinshi exam, you can pinch the snail with three fingers ---- take it steadily. ”

"Ah, we have a model in the library, how did I forget." Wu Jie slapped his forehead and scolded himself: Pig, Wu Jie, Wu Jie, you are really a pig.

That's right, there is indeed such a set of eight strands of anthology in the library, with more than 200 volumes and more than 30 volumes.

It's just that the eight strands collected in these 20 or so books, except for a few articles by Zhang Juzheng, Su Dongpo and others, are all long and worthless, and they are thrown in the most remote corners of the library and no one cares about them.

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

Indeed, as Director Jin said, with these model essays, even if it is a Jinshi, it is a common thing.

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

Tens of thousands of sample essays, calculated by 2,000 words per article, that is hundreds of millions of words, my Wu Jie is not a humanoid computer, turn on the power and check the USB flash drive, you can download it into your mind word by word.

If you really want to memorize, with your memory from elementary school to college graduation, you can memorize tens of thousands of words or 100,000 words, no matter more, it is better to die.

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

The problem is that in the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, the examination room above the township examination was held every three years, because it was related to the personal future and life destiny of the scholar, and it may be possible to find out from the historical materials. The children's test below the township test is held once a year, which year, which county, government, and province ...... I can't find it at all!

In just an instant, Wu Jie even had the idea of breaking the jar and wanting to give up.

But although he seems to be easy-going on the surface, he is a very strong person in his surname, and when he encounters a problem, he is used to gritting his teeth and carrying it, and there is no word decadence in the dictionary.

After thinking about it, I had to ask the historian in front of me, Director Jin.

So, Wu Jie told him about his concerns in a joking tone.

"Xiao Wu, you are stupid, this matter is not simple." Director Jin pointed to himself and smiled proudly: "You have forgotten who I am, I am the director of the Municipal Zhi Office, and I have a lot of information at hand." Not to mention anything else, as far as the imperial examination in the city from ancient times to the present day is concerned, from the enke of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty to the last examination in the Qing Dynasty. There are detailed files of the exam questions and the top three sample essays. I also thought about writing a book about the imperial examination before, and I collected a lot of information. Later, when I thought about it, no one bought this book, so I gave it up. If you're interested, I'll email you. ”

"Well, thank you very much."

Director Jin said that it didn't matter, and said that he had studied history for many years, and it was rare to meet a colleague like Brother Wu, and he happened to exchange ideas. While talking, he took out an iPad from his bag, asked Wu Jie's QQ number, and transferred all the information to the QQ hard drive.

In fact, the information passed on by Director Jin is not of much use to Wu Jie. His identity in another world is a dead citizen in Xinjin County, Sichuan Province, where his household registration is located, and even if he wants to take the exam, he has to register on the spot, and the exam questions in this city are of no value to him.

If you really want to make a difference in the imperial examination room, you can find out the examination questions of the previous Jinshi subjects after the 39th year of Jiajing, and even the questions of the previous township examinations in Sichuan Province are not difficult. But if you want to get the test questions of the following third-level children's exam, I'm afraid it's not so easy.

So, what to do?

By the way, didn't Director Jin just say that the Municipal Chronicle Office has all the questions of the imperial examination of the local history institute, so the county chronicle office of Xinjin County must have similar archives.

It's just that I don't know anyone in the Xinjin County Chronicle Office.

I don't know if Director Jin has a way, whatever, just ask, try your luck.

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