In the morning, the sun was shining brightly, and a grand family gathering was underway. Yuwen Wen and Yuchi Chifan, as parents of the big family, enjoyed the wonderful time in early summer with family members.

Because he worked in the China Securities Regulatory Commission, his whole family is now in Xiyang, Huangzhou (the China Securities Regulatory Commission is located in Xiyang), and King Han and King Wu also work in other places, so they live in other places with their families, not in the capital.

In addition, Yuwen Wen's sons are all in Chang'an, so there are many gatherings in the Imperial Garden today.

King Yuwen Weigan of Chu, who had been on Guangnan West Road for eight years, was the protagonist of the party at this time. He told stories half-true and half-false about what he saw and heard in Lingnan, which attracted a lot of nephews and nieces to listen with relish.

The female relatives surrounded the queen and the concubines, chatting and chatting.

As for all the princes, they sat with the prince and said something with their father.

At this time, there was no wind. Yuwen Wen pointed to a colorful flag that could not move on the flagpole in the distance and asked the prince Yuwen Weicheng: "Did you see that flag?"

Yuwen Weicheng replied: "See, father."

Yuwen Wen nodded and continued to look at the flag. Yuwen Weicheng and several other princes were the same, but they did not understand the meaning.

After a gust of wind blew, and the colorful flags fluttered in the wind. Yuwen Wen asked again: "The wind is rising now, has the flag moved?"

Of course, Yuwen Weicheng replied "moved", and the other princes nodded.

"So, is it the flag? The wind?" Yuwen Wen asked again, looking at the other sons.

This question made Yuwen Weicheng hesitate a little. Without waiting for him and the other princes to answer, Yuwen Wen said: "In the past, when I was away for my father, I met three monks, two of whom argued about whether the wind blew the flags. Is the wind blew or the flag movable?"

"As a result, the third monk said, "It's not the wind, it's not the banner, it's the heart of the kind."

This conversation was quite artistic, which made Yuwen Weicheng and several princes feel the feeling after hearing it. Yuwen Wen changed the subject: "So, do I think the flag does not move, and the flag really does not move?"

"Of course not." Yuwen Weicheng replied, "Even if a person closes his eyes and does not admit that the flag is moving, in the eyes of others, the flag is still moving. This is a fact and cannot be changed."

Yuwen Wen nodded: "So, when you are a person, you must face the facts and not avoid them."

He looked at the prince and several princes and said, "The times are different. Those who do not recognize this fact will only be abandoned by the times."

Yuwen Weicheng could hear something outside his father's words, and Wei Wang Yuwen Weining could also hear that the other princes did not have enough experience and just thought that their father was improvised, so they were still sing about "flag movement? wind movement? heart movement?"

Yuwen Wen didn't know what the prince really thought about the Censorate, but he knew that if his son did not understand his good intentions and succeeded to the throne in the future, he would have a high probability of "stopping" and closing the Censorate, the source of the party struggle.

This kind of thing involves a "generation gap", and it is useless to just preach. Yuwen Wen does not want his own forced indoctrination to make the prince rebellious, so he intends to indirectly attack and guide his son to see the general trend and face the reality.

Times are different, if you don’t adapt, you will only be eliminated. Yuwen Wen began to talk about the facts:

"A factory using steam machinery has a ten or even dozens of times the output of traditional handicraft workshops in the same period."

"A trading company engaged in trade has a profit of several times or even more than ten times a year than a trading company of the same size thirty years ago."

"The iron production of Daye Iron Manufacturing Institute last year is comparable to the total iron production of the world's Guanye in the past fifty years."

"The distance between the various places has been significantly shortened by the steamships, trains, and telegrams that send messages and arrive in an instant."

"What does this mean? It means that the composition of interest groups is different from that time."

"From now on, wealth will grow faster and faster. Emerging upstarts will hold massive amounts of wealth and advocate more political power to protect their wealth and interests, which is inevitable."

"Industry, trade, and finance have supported the current prosperity of the world. The upstarts are combined with the nobles and landlords. Can the court close their eyes and pretend that they cannot see it?"

Facing Yuwen Wen's question, Yuwen Weicheng and several princes were speechless and could only nod their heads silently.

"I have said many times for my father that the economic structure determines the superstructure. Now, the new interest groups have increasingly strong political propositions and are increasingly eager to participate in central decision-making. Their needs are what the court pretends to be invisible and does not exist?"

Generally speaking, the secret of power game only needs to be known to the prince, but Yuwen Wen will not relax his education of the princes, so even though the topic is a bit sensitive today, he still let the princes listen.

He was worried that he would have to die of the prince for too long, and that other princes would inevitably be "substituted" by then, so in order to avoid having to educate him again, it would be better to educate him together now.

But no matter who inherits the throne, Yuwen Wen hopes that his successor can understand his good intentions and not to go against the general trend and move towards the abyss of mistakes step by step.

Steam ships, trains, telegraphs, and steam engines appeared, and they lived for two or three generations...

The bourgeoisie will also appear.

When the industrial age arrives, how can we use the political structure of the agricultural era to control the new era?

Yuwen Wen knew the right path, but his children and grandchildren didn’t know, but he couldn’t tell them in plain language what to do, because he had a high probability of not believing it.

First, he nodded and said yes. When he succeeded to the throne, he would do his own thing.

Yuwen Wen felt that "then" Zhu Yun made his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang happy, maybe these little bastards would make him happy now.

What can I do? There is no way.

If the crown prince ascended the throne and closed the House of Consciousness in order to prevent the party, what would he do if he was a "spirit in heaven"?

Now, what Yuwen Wen can do can only try to make his sons understand the general trend and make them clear.

"Do you know the strength of these three major industries, trade, industry, finance, and their interest groups?"

Yuwen Weicheng and the princes nodded. They knew that because their own industries included these three major industries.

"Well, how strong will it be for the emerging class of the manor owners to protect their own rights and interests and to ask for more power?"

"Interest groups exist in reality, and they do not exist if the court does not exist. Their interest demands cannot be satisfied. What do you think they will do next?"

This topic is very sensitive, and no one of the princes dares to speak up. Yuwen Wen continued: "It's very simple, find a spokesperson for interests."

"This interest spokesperson can be a minister, a royal family, a prince, or even anyone."

"As long as they can protect their interests, anyone can do it, then..."

Yuwen Wen stared into the prince's eyes and asked, "What should you do if they choose your younger brothers!"

These words were like thunder, which made the prince and the prince pale. Yuwen Wen asked again: "What should you do if they choose your second son or other son!"

Yuwen Weicheng was sweating profusely by these two questions, and cold sweat came out.

Yuwen Wen continued: "What can you do? You can't do anything! Can you eradicate these interest groups? No!"

"Trade prosperity provides indispensable taxes for the court. If you destroy trade, the finances will collapse!"

"The industry is booming, countless workshops and mines employ a large number of strong labor. You ruin the industry. These employees have no land and no income. They are willing to take their families and wait for death. Rebellion is death. What do they choose?"

"Financial activity, countless banks, Guifang manages financial services for the powerful and powerful households, provides low-interest green crop loans for farmers, and provides expansion funds for industry and commerce. If you destroy finance, the whole world will be reversed!"

"The wind is blowing, and you can't keep the flag from moving by closing your eyes. The strength of these new interest groups will inevitably be far beyond that of aristocratic families with hundreds of years of history. If you don't give them power, will they be honest?"

Yuwen Wen pointed to the sky, pointed to the sun in the sky, looked at his sons, and said earnestly: "No one can stop the rise of new interest groups, and no one can stop the conflict between new and old interest groups, just as no one can stop the rise of the sun."

"The only thing that can be done is to let the game of interest groups be carried out under the system, and let Ping Zhang, who represents different interest groups, participate in politics and quarrel with red faces, and decide the outcome according to the rules!"

"If even this system is gone, then they will choose spokespersons from you, from your sons, and then kill them so hard that blood flows into a river. The winner will reach the peak of power with the bones!"

Every word Yuwen Wen said was like a heavy blow, hitting the hearts of the prince and the princes.

Prince Yuwen Weicheng was shocked and realized that the problem he had been struggling with was not a problem at all: it was not a problem that arises in party struggles or not, but a problem that would happen sooner or later, how the emperor should control the party struggles.

New interest groups are tangible, and the wealth of new interest groups is increasing sharply, so these interest groups will inevitably produce more political demands and require more power.

If the old system is still used to suppress it, then these interest groups will look for their own spokespersons from the princes, royal families, relatives, and nobles in accordance with the old rules.

This is a general trend and no one can stop it. Just like the developed floods in ancient times, even a dam built with "stagnation soil" cannot be stopped.

Only when Dayu controls floods, it is better to clear the blockage than to block the party, can we correctly guide this inevitable party struggle and let it play power games according to the rules of the game under the system as much as possible.

The game where one-third of the "players" is "updated" every two years is a "spark" that is not as good as "spark" in the gap.

It’s really ridiculous to be confused about how to prevent party struggles.
Chapter completed!