Excuse me, what is the joke about feet in Laughter in the Woods?

Have a lifetime plan, a lifetime plan, and an immortal plan. After a long time, the scores of chaos control are all because of it. For the country, it has been a long time since Hongwu, but maintaining peace is becoming more and more urgent. Self-reliance, bureaucracy, military occupation, fiscal revenue, land reclamation and salt law are all extremely bad. Clean up what you can't do and rectify what you don't have. Speaking of doing things, if you are in our boat, you will always be afraid of drowning. Counting the days and months, Ji Xing moved to stay, and later, later generations stayed, one person after another, and year after year, the more they got. Although there are heroes, what is Ann doing?

The foot sore man in Gavin's room was in unbearable pain and said to his family, "You dig a hole for me." When the hole is finished, put your feet into the hole and allow them to enter the neighbor's feet. The family said, "What does this mean?" Answer: "It's none of my business for him to go to his neighbor's house and feel pain." Another doctor who claimed to be good at surgery had long planned to return to the battlefield and go deep into the membrane, which delayed the treatment. He took out the sagittal tube with Bing scissors and knelt down to thank him. The general said: "those who gather in the membrane must be treated urgently." The doctor said: "This internal medicine thing is unexpected, blame me."

Hey, my feet are in my neighbor's house, but they are still my feet; It is also a doctor's business to cluster on the membrane; Through a wall, think about it, through a film. However, the pain can be alleviated and the responsibility can be blamed? You are in charge today, you can't do anything when you see it, but if you act according to the law, you will be left behind. You blame your neighbors and internal medicine.

-"The Novel of Xue Tao"

[Notes]

The phrase "there is a plan" means that the amount of state disorderly control depends on the length of the plan. Hongwu: The year number of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ranges from 1368 to 1398. Zong Fan: The royal family who was enfeoffed. Fear of drowning: fear of addiction. Ji Xing was moved: I hope I can get promoted and transferred by luck. Captain: Captain. Return: Return from the battlefield. Y: please. Bingzhou: the name of Guzhou, in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, is famous for producing scissors. Cluster (cù): arrow. Entrust your feet to others: Entrust your feet to others. Already: stop. Strange: refuse.

The author has something to say.

Jiang Yingke had a clear understanding of the social reality at that time, and many of his humorous fables were aimed at major political and social problems in the Ming Dynasty, especially this one.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, "the afterlife scene" emerged from all aspects, especially in official management. Among them, the most harmful thing is the style of procrastination and prevarication of officials at all levels, who are usually helpless. This kind of work style makes the normal operation of the state machine fail, all reform and flexible ideas fail, and all the good laws and good intentions tried to be implemented above are dashed. The author hates this style and is helpless. He wrote "The Stone Man" in an attempt to arouse the officials' consciousness of "the stone man", so as to save the decline and save the disadvantages, so that the ship of the Ming Dynasty would not be addicted. He relayed that since Hongwu, the country has been stable for 240 years, and various systems and laws in economy, finance, politics and other aspects are extremely harmful. This huge house in Ming Dynasty is in danger of collapse. The disadvantages of laws and systems are directly related to the style of their executors. Because any administrative measures have to be implemented by people, officials drag their feet, buck passing, not to mention saving the bad, that is, they can't even carry out their daily work. The author vividly depicts the lack of official responsibility consciousness with jokes.

In the joke, the protagonist seems to be a fool. He thinks it's none of his business to extend his sore foot to his neighbor's house. This is more stupid than beggar-thy-neighbor Bai Gui in ancient times. Bai Gui has really led the disaster to its neighboring countries, and the pain of fools is still on itself. At this point, Jiang looked at the problem from the perspective of the entire ruling class. He believes that the disadvantages of state affairs are related to the pain of every scholar-bureaucrat and every official. When the ship sinks, everyone will drown. In fact, by the end of feudalism, most literati had already lost their tolerance of taking the world as their responsibility. After all, the drawback of the imperial court is not the sore on one's own feet, it has nothing to do with the heart of the person who has the sore. The tendency of weakening individual's independent personality in China culture actually weakens individual's sense of responsibility.

The jokes of "surgical" doctors more typically reflect the bureaucratic style of shirking responsibility. The "surgeon" said that it was a "medical problem" to take out the arrow that shot into the general's skin. When the general asked him to take out the arrow, I was surprised and said, "I was surprised and blamed myself." I didn't expect to be asked to do all the internal and external operations. ) This way of working, Li Zongwu, a Sichuan freak in the Republic of China, called it "the method of sawing an arrow shaft". At that time, Li talked about "theft" and revealed that people who achieved great things in feudal times were "thick-skinned and black-hearted." Among them, there are two wonderful ways to do things in officialdom, and the "saw arrow pole method" is one of the "two wonderful ways". He said: "at present, most of the big managers in various organs adopt this method. For example, the submission was approved:' It is really out of place to submit according to certain feelings. I hope to order the county magistrate to find out and strictly implement it.' The word' dissatisfied' is sawed shaft, and' county magistrate' is internal medicine; Or' when you transfer to supervision', then' supervision' is internal medicine. For example, someone asked me to do something, and I said,' I am very much in favor of it, but I have to discuss it with someone.' The word' very much in favor of' is sawed shaft, and' someone' is internal medicine. Or,' I'll do some first and the rest later. First' is the saw shaft, and' after' is the internal medicine. In addition, some people saw the arrow shaft and didn't ask him to find the internal medicine department, and some people told him to find the internal medicine department without even seeing the arrow shaft. For various reasons, please refer to the enlightenment in detail. "(see Zhang Mosheng's biography of Jorge Posada). He described the style of official prevarication incisively and vividly, and put its disgusting, hateful and ridiculous places in front of readers. This can be confirmed from the jokes written by Jiang, and it can also be seen that as long as bureaucracy exists, this style will not disappear automatically.

The author thinks about the reasons for this bureaucratic style. The last part we deleted, the author thinks, is because the reward and punishment of the imperial court are unknown. Yu Qian, who stood up to save her from the crisis, was finally beheaded. Who will be a loyal minister in an era when loyalty and treachery are indistinguishable and right and wrong are reversed? Of course, the problem is actually not that simple. Other reasons, such as the lack of clear regulations on the duties of each official, the lack of a practical assessment system, and the unnecessary punishment for dereliction of duty, are the reasons for this style of work. The most crucial one is the official, who is only responsible to the superior and not to the subordinate. People can't and don't realize the necessity of supervising officials. Of course, this is far from being solved by feudal society.