"Your main task this month is to finish reading this article." Chen Kan handed over to Jiang Kai an academic journal and chose one of the articles written by a Peking University professor on the land system during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty.

"After reading this paper in a month?" Jiang Kai asked with a frown slightly, feeling quite disdainful in his tone. Although the level of this magazine is very high, it is just a journal paper, and the number of words is only over 10,000 words. Not to mention it for a month, he can read it ten times a day.

"Do you think this is very simple?" Chen Kan asked with a smile.

Chen Kan was not surprised to have this idea, because when he first received this kind of training, he felt a little disdainful. It was not too easy to read a paper less than 20,000 words a month.

"This is indeed a bit." Jiang Kai replied with his head down, his voice a little small.

"I haven't mentioned my requirements yet. Reading a paper a month is not that simple, there are requirements." Chen Kan said with a smile.

"Oh, teacher, you said." Jiang Kai nodded as if he suddenly realized.

"But since you want to learn, you must follow my requirements." Chen Kan said seriously.

"Yes!" Jiang Kai nodded solemnly. He also came to Chen Kan to better train his academic foundation. The stricter Chen Kan is to him, the better.

"If you want to do academic work, then writing a paper is necessary. An academic paper is mainly divided into arguments and arguments."

"Um."

"A good scholar will closely combine arguments and arguments, which is called deduplication, and this is the most basic thing in history, so you will train this specifically for the next year."

"Um."

"The best way to train is naturally to guess, learn other people's excellent papers and see how others write them. This time I chose this paper very well, so my requirement for you is that you must find all the arguments used in these papers and combine them with the original text to think about how the author uses this argument and how the argument is made."

"Okay." Jiang Kai nodded. Although this is a bit complicated, it is actually not difficult as long as you are willing to work hard.

"If the source of the original text you found is still a paper, you should read this article in the same way, that is, to the end, all your arguments must be returned to the most original historical materials, and then interpret and review them. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Ah... Oh, I understand." Jiang Kai was startled first, then nodded. His face was no longer as relaxed as before, and he even felt a little nervous when he heard it. Now he was a little doubtful that the decision he had made to find Chen Kan was correct.

Because according to Chen Kan's requirements, it is definitely a very large project and it may not be possible to complete a paper within a month. On the surface, it is just reading a paper, but in fact there are no less than 500 papers hidden behind it.

This paper cites more than eighty materials, of which about forty are original historical materials, which means that there are still forty that use other papers. According to Chen Kan's requirements, he has to read all of these forty papers.

The reading of these forty papers is exactly the same as the method he has in hand. This is simply an explosion function, and the number is scary.

"This is very hard, you'd better be mentally prepared, and it's not just about reading the paper, but you have to read other professional books, so you can't leave them behind." Chen Kan said.

At this time, Chen Kan's smile was no different from the devil's smile in Jiang Kai's eyes. This was too cruel. If he followed this approach, he would have no time to do other things. He would probably be with these papers and books all day long in the future.

However, smart people use stupid methods. This is a "stupid method". Although it seems like a waste of time and energy, it is the best way to lay the foundation and hone historical thinking. It is not one or the only one. Chen Kan was attracted by Teacher Sang and accepted as a student after suffering such "torture".

Jiang Kai did not answer immediately, gritted his teeth, thought for a while, and looked at Chen Kan and said, "Okay, I understand, I'll give it a try."

"Okay, then you can try it, this is not easy."

Chen Kan smiled. Jiang Kai was thinking about reading the huge number of papers now. In fact, this is the easiest task. Chen Kan had done this kind of training back then and had a deep understanding that this seemingly large number of papers read is actually the simplest part of this work.

The most difficult thing is to review, because they all revolve around one topic, so these papers revolve around one topic. Therefore, there must be a situation in those papers, that is, the same material, interpretations are different or even opposite in different papers.

This is very troublesome, because Chen Kan asked Jiang Kai to take detailed notes and then review them. The interpretations are different. It is extremely difficult to review them. He had to first judge the relationship between these materials and different arguments, and then have his own choices. This is very painful. If there is difficulty in choosing, he would probably even have the desire to die when doing this.

However, it will only be known after Jiang Kai practiced this himself. It is not easy to read one article a month. However, this is how it is to follow the path of history and academic studies. If you want to succeed, you have to endure loneliness. As the saying goes, "You have to sit on the bench for ten years." If he can't stand it for a month, then extinguish that heart.

From then on, Chen Kan had two students, one in Wen and one in Wu, Jiang Kai and Han Wenfei. Under Chen Kan's guidance, they each carried out this painful study.

Chen Kan assigns Jiang Kai the task assigned to Jiang Kai. By the end of May, Jiang Kai will complete less than one-third of it. This is also expected by Chen Kan. The more the paper reaches the middle part, the more difficult it will be and the slower the speed will be. However, he is still persevering. After he gets through this period, he will feel like he is completely reborn.

As for Han Wenfei, it is also very hard, even harder than Jiang Kai. Jiang Kai is at most just trying to squeeze his brain power. Han Wenfei is mental and physical strength. He practices boxing every day and takes a lot of time to read books and pay attention to various current affairs. However, his degree of resistance to pressure is much stronger than Jiang Kai. For Chen Kan's tasks, he will definitely complete within the time specified by Chen Kan.

Of course, Chen Kan is mainly doing his own research. Chen Kan just assigns tasks to them. When he is practicing in the morning, he asks about the progress and will not supervise or urge them. Both of them are adults, and have their own judgment ability and must be responsible for their own choices. Chen Kan is at most a leader.

May passed slowly, June approached and it was time to board the boat.
Chapter completed!