宋代建隆年间,有个管理工程竹木材料的官员,对库存的原木长短不齐颇为忧虑,遂上书宋太祖,请求把长的原木锯短一些,使这些原木长短划一。宋太祖在他的奏章上批道:“你的手指、脚趾难道就没有长短吗?为什么不把长的指头截去,使它们也长短一律呢?长的就让它依旧长着吧,短的就让它依旧短着吧。”宋太祖御批, During the Jianlong period in Song Dynasty, an official who managed bamboo materials for construction projects was quite worried about the length of the logs in stock. So he wrote a letter to Song Taizu asking for the sawing of long logs to make the length of these logs uniform. Song Taizu in his memorial batch: “Your fingers, toes, there is no length? Why not cut the long fingers, so that they are also the same length? Long let it still grow, short Let it still short. ”" Song Taizu Royal approval,