Retirement, a fact that has existed since ancient times, also wants many people to think that it is not only in modern times that there is a retirement? In fact, this is not the case, in ancient times, there are also such regulations, we all know that ancient medical technology is not developed, and the perennial war so that many people's life expectancy is not long, even in peacetime, a person can live to 60 70 years old is not easy, so some dynasties stipulate that no matter how old you can live, but 70 years old must retire, no matter who it is.
According to what we say now, in fact, retirement is a very beautiful thing, you can go home and do what you like, but there are also people who do not want to fight like this, some people will covet the power in their hands and are not willing to retire, during the Tang Dynasty, there was a person named Hou Zhiyi, Hou Zhiyi grew up poor, he was determined to let the family live a happy life, and then he studied hard, and sure enough, he had an effect, successively became a lot of officials, and finally even became an important position as a military attendant.
In the official position of the soldier's attendant, Hou Zhiyi stayed for a long time, and soon, Hou Zhiyi was 70 years old, according to the regulations, Hou Zhiyi must retire, although he is not at fault, but people are old, their physical functions are regressive, they are certainly not as good as young people, and they are prone to mistakes, so some officials of the bureaucracy began to do Hou Zhiyi's ideological work, wanting him to take the initiative to propose that he wanted to retire, unexpectedly, this Hou Zhiyi is indeed a very cheeky person, he ignored the documents of the bureaucracy, and continued to be his own official.
After a while, the officials really couldn't bear it, so they personally met with Hou Zhiyi, and said to him face to face, "Old Hou, you yearn for the idyllic scenery" Hou Zhiyi naturally knew what he meant, so he replied, "I don't yearn at all, I still have to be loyal to the country" Later, the officials really couldn't do anything, so they told the emperor about this matter, and the emperor also felt very interesting in the face of such a situation.
The next day, when the emperor was finished, the emperor said, Hou Aiqing, why don't you go home and enjoy your happiness at such an old age? Hou Zhiyi knew that he could no longer pretend to be confused, so he said, "Let me take two steps to see" Some people did not understand, and then understood that Hou Zhiyi had told everyone that his physical function was still OK, but in the face of this phenomenon, the officials of the same dynasty were very dismissive, and they laughed at him, really wanting to be an official and wanting to go crazy.
However, we also know that in ancient times, when the official and the retirement is a big difference, from the Feng Lu can be seen at a glance, when the official, some people can give all kinds of gifts, officials do not rely on feng Lu to eat, some gray income is enough to take care of a family old and small, and retired people are not the same, once people retire, it is equivalent to nothing, society is about interests, if it is useless to people, who will go to the knot? This is precisely the reason why Hou Zhiyi is reluctant to retire.