Ji Xiaolan's real name is Ji Yun, the word Xiaolan, so people also call him Ji Xiaolan. Ji Xiaolan's father was an official of the dynasty, and was later released to the outside world. He was away from home all the year round, while Ji Xiaolan's father was well-read and knowledgeable. Later, when Ji Xiaolan was very young, he began to study and worshipped a local celebrity as Meng Kai's teacher. Later, when he was six years old, he took a children's exam. Unexpectedly, he did well in the exam. Many people even called him a prodigy, and then he followed his father to Beijing to study.
Ji Xiaolan was called a child prodigy, so he became conceited and thought the imperial examination was a piece of cake. But because of his conceit, he didn't get into Jinshi for the first time. Later, because of his mother's death, he postponed the exam for several years in order to be filial. Finally, after a year of mourning, he began to take the exam again. This time he finally got in, and then became an official in North Korea. Of course, at first he was just a small official.
In fact, what Ji Xiaolan did at first was to compile history books or write some other documents, and he did not enter the national decision-making body. Later, he was sent to a place to be a magistrate, but Qianlong thought that being a magistrate buried this talent, so he stayed, but he didn't expect that the official at that time was a good friend of Ji Xiaolan, but he committed a corruption case. At that time, Ji Xiaolan not only didn't pick himself up, but tipped off the official, so Ji Xiaolan also went. Later, Ji Xiaolan was recalled because no one was available, because Qianlong wanted to compile books again.
After Ji Xiaolan came back to be an official, he was more cautious, treading on thin ice, obeying the emperor's orders to write books, and was later dragged down by his own son, but at least he was not sent again. Later, Ji Xiaolan's official position was slowly promoted. Although this man is talented, he actually has no suggestions on state affairs, because he is afraid of death, so he dare not say a lot of things. Qianlong knows this about him, so he has always regarded him as a person who can only make books, or he can only be a teacher, so he later became a literary attendant of the prince and was responsible for supervising the prince.
In the later period, Ji Xiaolan devoted himself to royal clerical work, and also made many tours with the emperor. Later, he didn't die until he was 82. In fact, Ji Xiaolan is not as outspoken as in the TV series. He risks his life to give advice. His life can be said to be treading on thin ice, because he is just a scholar, who can't do anything on state affairs, but is responsible for royal paperwork, so he is doomed not to be paid too much attention by the emperor, so he is still easy to be executed by the emperor, so he has been doing his own thing carefully. Especially after he was sent back from Urumqi, he was afraid to get involved with others. He can only write his own articles and compile history books quietly, so Ji Xiaolan probably has no iron teeth and copper teeth.