Gas lights lit up in the study room. Yu Wenwen came to the bookshelf and looked at the picture frames displayed on the bookshelf. They were portraits of his family.

He looked at his partners and his children, and finally his eyes fell into one place.

It was a portrait of Prince Yuwen Weicheng since he was a child. Yuwen Wen picked up a portrait of Yuwen Weicheng when he was a child and rubbed it gently.

This is his eldest son, the successor he carefully trained. He has been trained from childhood to adulthood, and has been trained for more than 30 years.

Yuwen still remembers how his son was studying when he was in the morning, how he didn't do his homework well, how he cried when he was thumped by Yuchi Chifan, and how he remembers a lot of scenes during his son's growth.

My son has grown up and has been training for more than 20 years. Now that he is more than vague this year, he is already ready to take over.

No matter from any aspect, the prince is his best successor, and his career will definitely be carried forward in the hands of the prince.

As a father, Yuwen Wen wanted to hand over the family business he had saved up with hard work to his son and retire himself. Then he watched his son deal with the government with high spirits and listen to his son accepting civil and military officials and shouting long live.

This is the father’s expectation for his son. He dared not imagine the scene where he endured the prince to death in the future, and the white-haired man gave birth to the black-haired man.

However, his other identity is the emperor, not the chairman of a group company. When his son can take the lead, he can retire with peace of mind and travel around the world.

Because the emperor has no relatives, everyone is the emperor's potential enemy.

There is no two days, and there is no two masters in the country.

The instinct of power struggle told Yuwen Wen that without power, his free and easy life should end.

In order to reassure his son, he must stay in silence and not contact with foreign ministers, just like a bird in a cage, and ignore the external affairs of the palace.

When his son changed his policies, suppressed his old ministers, even bullied his brothers, and arbitrarily abolished the crown prince, Yuwen Wen had to ignore it and not express his opinions.

Even so, the son has to be on guard against him. This is the instinct of power, because the Supreme Emperor who took the initiative to abdicate was too threatening. Even if he was unintentional, having this ability was a threat in itself.

If his son has a conscience, he is extremely impressed to put him under house arrest, provide him with delicious food and drink, and a young beauty who serves him in bed, but cut off contact with the outside world, especially not allowing him to contact his old ministers. He will not appear in the sight of the courtiers unless he has a major festival event.

Just like the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan in history.

If his son has no conscience, he will be placed under house arrest in a cold palace and starve to death, and then he will be neglected in various ways, allowing him to spend the rest of his life in the miserable and desolate state, just like Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty in history.

Yuwen Wen stroked his son's portrait when he was a child, and felt mixed feelings. He could not imagine that the son he raised would be under house arrest and abuse himself, but as an emperor, he had reason to think so.

This is the cruelty of imperial power. In the face of imperial power, there are no fathers and sons at all. Since ancient times, tragedies surrounding imperial power, fathers kill sons and sons kill fathers have been staged.

In order to protect the imperial power, the son killed his father and everything happened. What is the mere abuse?

The supreme imperial power can make people crazy, make people desperate, and destroy family affection.

This is the embarrassment of the emperor's retirement. Those who lose the imperial power, whether they are active or passive, are losers. The outcome depends entirely on the mood and conscience of the winner.

This taste is not good.

Yuwen Wen kept struggling between rationality and emotion, wanting to set a good example, but he had concerns.

The top leader of the real power of an ordinary unit will retire. When facing the cold and cold world of people, it will be uncomfortable for a few years, let alone the emperor retires. If he falls from the peak of power to the bottom, the huge loss may destroy people.

He "retired", and Yuchi Chifan also had to retire. He handed over the power of the harem and his daughter-in-law, and even the management rights of the royal industry must be handed over together. At that time, will Yuchi Chifan bear such a huge gap?

If Yuchi Chifan is depressed and happy, can he be happy if he sees it?

If they could travel around, take trains and steamships around, and see, maybe this lost mood could be relieved.

However, once he retires, he may have to stay in the deep palace, and Yuchi Chifan and other concubines have to accompany him and can't go anywhere.

I feel depressed and I cannot go out to relax at will. With such a state of mind and living environment, I will get sick without illness.

Maybe everyone could have lived for twenty years, but after suffering changes, they would probably die if they lived for three or five years.

If Yuchi Chifan couldn't let go of his eyes and died of depression, would he hate his son and daughter-in-law?

Yuwen Wen kept struggling with thoughts, thinking about whether he could set an example, whether he could withstand the various negative emotions brought by retirement, and whether he could adapt to the "retirement life" that was like house arrest.

The more you think about this kind of thing, the more terrifying he becomes. He doesn't want his fate to be in the hands of others.

However, there are gains and losses. If he wants to avoid the "learnings" of the emperor's longevity, he has to pay the price to solve the political stubborn problem of the emperor's father and the prince's guess and even breaking.

In short, if he wanted to set an example, set a good start for his descendants, and take the lead in implementing the emperor's retirement (inner Zen) system, it would cost two costs.

1. After giving up supreme power, he "don't ask about the world" after abdication, and lived in the deep palace. Except for reading newspapers and journals, he no longer easily contacted the outside world. One day, he should not look at a son. The old minister was wronged and went to the theory of Yuwen Weicheng, who was already the emperor.

He must reassure his son and his team.

2. Sacrifice yourself. No matter whether you live well or badly after inner meditation, you must have no regrets, just like seeing through the world and becoming a monk.

The first point is that it is difficult to do. Except for the Emperor Xiaozong of Song, who took the initiative to abdicate, who was not holding power? The supreme power is released at will. Since ancient times, few people have been able to do it.

Second, even if he can do it, what effect will it be? Will future generations learn from it?

In the future, will your son have the courage to "retire at the right time" like him? Where is the grandson?

If a son and grandson cheat and do not implement this retirement system, what can he do if he is a "spirit in heaven"?

At that time, who dares to supervise the emperor to implement the retirement system?

If there is such a person, he will definitely be a powerful minister with great power, and he will not be far from changing dynasties by then.

Therefore, this is the biggest fatal point of the emperor's retirement system: the system is easy to establish, and the question is who will supervise the implementation of this system? If there is no effective supervision and he sets an example by himself, but his children and grandchildren are spoiled, then wouldn't he sacrificed in vain?

Moreover, the emperor and the crown prince are not the same person. They have their own teams and involve the interests of many people. This is not a transfer of power between two people, but actually a transfer of power between two political groups.

Once the emperor wants to retire (Nei Zen), the old emperor's team will then retire, leave the center of power, lose power, stand aside, and even settle accounts by the political enemy afterwards. Can these people be willing?

Similarly, when the old emperor is about to "retire on time" and the crown prince is about to "replace formally", the crown prince's team can be said to be "a long-term daughter-in-law who has become a mother-in-law". Seeing that power and status are about to be obtained, can they tolerate someone making a bad thing?

At that time, the old emperor's minister cried, "Your Majesty abdicates, what will happen to the people of the world!" If you use any trick, will the old emperor's determination to retire be shaken?

The crown prince's team is holding back his energy to make the old emperor "retire on time" and beware of the long night and dreams. At that time, the two political groups will fight openly and secretly, and the contradictions will inevitably intensify.

The consequences are either the father deposed the son or the son forced the father.

This is the political reality. Yuwen Wen thought about it for a long time and had to admit that the emperor's retirement system is beautiful to imagine, but difficult to implement.

Unless a constitutional monarchy is established, the parliament supervises the emperor's retirement and elections are conducted, so that political groups can get to power through the system's power game.

The problem is that by that time, it no longer matters whether the emperor retires or not, because the real power is in the hands of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, and they are all elected.

The emperor under the constitutional monarchy system is just a mascot. No matter how old he is, it will not have too many negative impacts on state affairs. Whether or not he retires is irrelevant to the overall situation.

Yuwen Wen sat by the couch with his son's portrait of his childhood, looking at him, feeling embarrassed and his eyes blurred.

It's not that I don't want to, it's really... it's really...
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