Lao She's book is a collection of short stories. The first article, the article used in the title, "The Non-Problem," is a somewhat ironic one with a rich connotation.
The protagonist of the article is a farm director. He is a delicate person, can handle interpersonal relationships, left and right, see everyone is very affectionate, good to anyone. He was very familiar with people to cook dishes, whether it was the boss or the hired worker, they could not say anything bad about him.
But the farm he runs, a place where money should be made, is losing money in his hands. The shareholders all know what is going on, mainly because he has lost public wealth and private wealth, but because he has received gifts from him, he has helped him in big things and small things in the family, so he can't open his mouth if he wants to dismiss him.
The farm is running at a loss, and some employees leave without seeing hope here. When another person wants to leave, he uses his past memories to say the other party's hometown, pretending to be a fellow countryman, so that the other party can find a sense of closeness, so that he is embarrassed to leave.
In order to be able to continue to be the director of the farm, he was very lenient with these remaining employees, working hours were not required, work results were not checked, petty theft did not care, causing employees to work badly, and often took the farm things for himself, which he turned a blind eye to.
However, when an employee offers him the money sold for farm products, he refuses to accept it and reminds him that he will not be polite at the poker table. No matter how many games he plays, he will win many times, and most of the employee's extra money will go to his hands.
Since then, the farm's employees have neglected to work, played cards and entertainment, stole chickens and dogs, and did not do their jobs, and the farm was in a business crisis.
At this time, a idle man came to the farm, this person described himself as a talented man, suffering from the uselessness of heroes, and laughed at the world's tacky, did not know his ability level, Huai Cai did not meet him, he met the slippery farm director.
Through a brief contact between the two, the farm director saw that he had a use value, and the two became "friends" with similar smells.
The farm could not continue, and the shareholders sent a new director, a really capable director who returned from studying in the United States.
The arrival of the new director, the old director is completely unaware, he did not panic and stabilized his position, at the same time superficially supported the work of the new director, secretly arranged for people to use a ruse to move the new director down.
The new director is a farm operations expert and very experienced in farm management, and he has quickly formalized all aspects of the farm's management through a series of measures, but in doing so, he has violated the interests of farm employees. Because these people have been corrupted by the old director's sugar-coated shells, they have developed the habit of idleness and stealing chickens and dogs, and now let them work every day, and then there is no chance to steal things, how can they be willing?
The wife of the new director does not understand her husband's work, but also a woman who loves vanity, she has no brain, she can't see that the situation is not good for her husband, she is not only unable to help her husband avoid risks, but also hit the old director and those bad employees, want to let the husband and the staff get along well, so they collude, take the eggs from the farm, this fatal mistake, the husband's future is completely ruined.
The old director grasped the new director's problem, took the problem as a breakthrough point, and at the same time united the staff, taking advantage of the recklessness of the talent, to make the matter public, the old director left the farm at this time, went to find a relationship, let him be the deputy director, when he returned to the farm, he was warmly welcomed by the staff, as if the hero had returned triumphantly.
Because of the scandal, the new director himself was dismissed.
The old director succeeded, but he wouldn't use this talent and found a reason to send him away.
It's a seemingly absurd story, but it's a very real life. This life is played out every day.
The reason why the old director can succeed is mainly because he has grasped the weaknesses of human nature, he knows that many people like to be valued in their bones, like to take advantage, like to be lazy, like to get something for nothing, like to be flattered, like to be touted, these weaknesses of human nature He has mastered the essence, tried and tested.
He will also know that if he wants to gain benefits, he must let others get a little profit, and at the same time pull the people around him into the water, and he will be able to fish in muddy waters. It can also be cleverly plundered.
A so-called "talented man" who has been abandoned by society can make waves here, not because he really appreciates the talent, but because he knows that many things he has to do need the help of the talent, and the talent is just a pawn of his, and after it is useless, he will abandon it.
Such a selfish and greedy, self-enriched, and cunning person can actually drive away the experts studying in the United States, which is surprising and terrifying. What is the reason behind his energy being so powerful?
Lao She's article is set in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which has been decades away. Now that I read the image and deeds of the characters in the article, I feel a sense of déjà vu. People like the old director also abound in life, and although their deeds are despised, they are often mixed well.
I don't know what went wrong, but there must be a problem. Is this the question the author calls "The Problem Of Not a Problem"? The answer is known only to you.