1. At the beginning of the novel, we learned that Jiang Feng used to be a promising cadre, but he was sent to a township because he offended his boss. During his work in villages and towns, Jiang Feng met a scrawny Huang Haichuan. Huang Haichuan is a homeless man, leaving his hometown and feeling lonely. He was also driven to the villages and towns.
2. The ups and downs of officialdom is a novel published by Hu Bayi 1987 and published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House. The novel caused great repercussions at that time, and was praised by readers as one of the representative novels of China officialdom, and was rated as a classic of contemporary literature in China.