Speaking of Di Renjie, everyone has heard of the famous name for a long time, and he is a well-known celebrity in China, women and children! Nowadays, many film and television dramas and novels are created with him as the protagonist.

So what is his real experience and image in history? Limited by theme and space, this chapter can only explain this person through the method of peeking at the leopard in the tube, and knowing the whole leopard at a glance.

Di Renjie served as a judge in Bianzhou after the Ming Jing and the first, and when he first entered the workplace, he was engaged in mediating conflicts and disputes, judging the merits and other complicated and difficult things.

Wandering in the whirlpool of disputes between right and wrong, it is inevitable that people will be misunderstood, and Di Renjie was also falsely accused by a small official. At that time, the envoy of Henan Province was the famous painter Yan Liben, who once painted a step diagram and designed the Daming Palace.

Yan Liben personally interrogated Di Renjie, and Di Renjie was justified and well-founded, and his answers were fluent.

Yan Liben said happily: "The Analects of Liren says: The mistakes of people are also different from their own party. By observing the nature of your mistakes, this officer knows that you are a pearl in the sea! Ha ha. ”

Yan Liben immediately wrote a letter of recommendation to the imperial court, and Di Renjie was a blessing in disguise and was promoted to the governor of the prefecture. This incident fully illustrates the benefits of being around great people! If you are good yourself, then the probability of meeting excellent people will be greater.

Although he is a seventh-grade official, he is the executive of the law of the Tang Dynasty within a state, and he has a great responsibility. From this time on, Di Renjie was determined to take Zhang Shizhi, the court lieutenant of the Western Han Dynasty, as an example, enforce the law fairly, and judge the case accurately!

During the Yifeng period, Di Renjie was promoted to Dali Temple, and from the sixth grade, he wore a turquoise official robe. Dali Temple is in charge of the daily affairs of Dali Temple, judging the culpability of prisoners, and can determine the severity of sentencing.

The new official took office three times, Di Renjie changed from a local official to a Beijing official, and the excitement went without saying, and immediately after taking office, he began to deal with a large number of cases in Dali Temple.

Within a year, Di Renjie had completed the verdict of a large number of backlogged cases, involving 17,000 people, and not one of them had filed a lawsuit. Peers praised him for being upright and honest, not enforcing the law, picking up treachery and ambushing, and judging cases like a god!

After this battle, Di Renjie became famous all over the world and was known as the contemporary Zhang Shizhi. Since then, he has served in various positions such as the history of the imperial palace and the history of assassination, and has become a very rich, tortuous and legendary figure.

Just after the Boyu Rebellion was put down, the Holy Mother appointed Wenchang Zuocheng Di Renjie as the assassin of Yuzhou to appease the people of Yuzhou who had been traumatized by the war, which has been mentioned in the previous chapters.

In order to appease the people, Di Renjie resolutely resisted the extortion and unreasonable demands of Prime Minister Zhang Guangfu.

Afterwards, Wu Cao discovered Zhang Guangfu's problem, took advantage of Xu Jingzhen's case to kill Zhang Guangfu, and transferred Di Renjie, who was the master of the people, to be the Sima of Luozhou!

After Wu Cao ascended the throne, Zhu Wu soared to the top, supported the whistleblower Luo weaving faction, and rejected the old ministers of Li Tang. The heir of Wu Chenghe, the king of Wei, is strategizing to compete for the crown prince's position.

And Wu Cao also wanted to take this opportunity to observe the attitude of Li Tang's old ministers towards her martial family. At the critical moment when the two factions were fighting openly and secretly, Di Renjie was promoted from Sima of Luozhou to the rank of local official, I don't know if it was a blessing or a curse!

Di Renjie's boss is the local official Shangshu Ge Fuyuan, and a court meeting incident occurred within a few days of Di Renjie reporting to office. The cause of the incident was that Wang Qingzhi, a native of Luoyang, led hundreds of people to the table and asked Liwu Chenghei to be the crown prince.

A discerning person knew at a glance that this incident must have been conspired and planned by Wu Chengsi. After Wu Cao accepted Wang Qingzhi's statement, he handed it over to the courtiers in the Vientiane Shrine.

Cen Changqian, the left minister of Wenchang, came out of the column with an ivory wat in his hand and said: "The minister thinks that the emperor's heir Wulun is still in the East Palace, and there should be no such discussion, so please ask Your Majesty to reproach the people who wrote the book and dismiss them!" ”

Wu Cao didn't say anything, and asked the local official Shangshu Ge Fuyuan. Ge Fuyuan played: "The minister agrees with the opinion of Wenchang Zuoxiang, the imperial heir is still in the East Palace, and the crown prince Wu Chenghei of Wei cannot be appointed!" ”

Wu Cao still did not say anything, and the other courtiers did not speak. In fact, at that time, Di Renjie, the local official waiter, Ren Zhigu, the Fengge waiter, Pei Xingben, and others were all standing in the front line, and they also agreed with Cen Changqian, but they didn't dare to speak, firmly believing that silence was golden, and kept silent!

Because at that time, at the time of the Wuzhou Revolution, the wind of whistleblowing was prevalent, and everyone in Li Tang's old ministers was in danger, and the contemporary Zhang Shizhi was also a mud bodhisattva crossing the river - it was difficult to protect himself, so he didn't dare to speak.

After the embarrassment of the court discussion, the King of Wei, the King of Liang and other Wu family members gathered around Wu Cao and denounced the old Li Tang faction, saying that they had united to form an anti-military group and must be severely cracked down!

Wu Cao weighed in her heart, she knew that there were many ministers of social affairs in Li Tang's old ministers' faction, who were the masters of the people and were beneficial to the country, but in order to consolidate the rule of the martial arts world, she had to abandon some and strike at some.

Thinking of this, Wu Cao threw out Cen Changqian and Ge Fuyuan, and ordered Lai Junchen to arrest them and put them in prison. Lai Junchen sent Cen Changqian and Ge Fuyuan to Lijingmen for detention, and arrested their families.

Cen Changqian and Ge Fuyuan adhered to their principles, and even if they were punished, they did not implicate others. Lai Junchen turned to use torture tools to coerce Cen Changqian's son Cen Lingyuan, and finally opened the gap.

Cen Lingyuan grew up in a family of anointed people, how could he stand a big punishment? As soon as he saw the loss of soul and the death of the pig, Cen Lingyuan was so frightened that he peed his pants, and immediately did what the cool officials wanted, implicated dozens of people including Nayan Ouyang Tong, and falsely accused them of participating in the rebellion.

On October 12 of the second year of Heavenly Grant, Cen Changqian, Ge Fuyuan, Ouyang Tong and other ministers were all killed.

In fact, Cen Lingyuan really didn't want to cheat his father, but Lai Junchen's torture instrument was too ruthless, forcing him to cheat his father!

After the chancellor was killed, the position became vacant and needed to be filled. Soon, Di Renjie was promoted to the local official Shangshu, and together with Pei Xingben, Ren Zhigu and other officials, he was awarded the Tongfeng Pavilion Luantai Ping Zhang, and went to the political hall to discuss matters.

When these new prime ministers saw the fate of their predecessors, they all became cautious, and they all respected the Wu family such as King Wei and King Liang, but because of their different beliefs, they and the Wu family still looked like they were separated.

Di Renjie, Pei Xingben, Ren Zhigu, Wei Yuanzhong, Si Liqing Cui Xuanli, Dongguan Shangshu Li Youdao, Qiuguan Shangshu Yuan Zhihong and other officials often had dinner and drinks together after work to talk about world affairs.

One day, the ministers came to the Chunfeng Restaurant in Luoyang South City for dinner and drinking, and invited geisha to perform.

After Di Renjie drank a glass of spring storm wine, he said: "Today's situation reminds me of what the madman of Chu said when he visited Confucius!" ”

Yuan Zhihong asked: "Oh, Di Xianggong, what did you say?" I'd love to hear about it! At this time, the music sounded, but it was not loud, and the geisha were making various movements.

Di Renjie followed the rhythm and said: "Phoenix bird, phoenix bird!" How did you come to this decaying Chu country with great virtue! The world of the future cannot be looked forward to, and the past time cannot be recovered. There is a way in the world, and the saints follow the trend; There is no way in the world, and saints can only survive! ”

"In this day and age, if you are lucky, you can only avoid being killed. Happiness is lighter than a feather, and you don't know how to get it; Woe is heavier than the earth, and I don't know how to avoid it! ”

Yuan Zhihong clapped his hands and said, "That's right! The words of the madman of the Chu State are not only applicable to the Chu State at that time, but also to today! ”

Li Youdao ate a piece of mutton, took a sip of soup, put down the spoon and said: "We are walking on the road, although we are hugging in front of the people, majestic, but our real situation is not good!" Do you feel like you're in a difficult situation? ”

Cui Xuanli replied: "I have a feeling of being in a difficult situation, I have come to Junchen, Wang Hongyi and others to organize hooligans and scoundrels to weave false accusations, and the kings of the Wu clan are complicit with them, inside and outside the court, the officials are not happy!" ”

Wei Yuanzhong put down his wine glass and said: "The power of hooligans and scoundrels is growing stronger and stronger, while the power of our old ministers of the Tang family is withering day by day!" I shudder when I think about the future! We must expand our power as soon as possible. ”

Pei Xingben said: "When it comes to expanding power, Xia Guan thinks of a person, which can be of great use!" ”

Ren Zhigu picked up a glass of spring storm wine and asked curiously, "Oh, who is it?" Pei Xianggong said it quickly, don't make tongue twisters! ”

Pei Xingben replied unhurriedly: "Zhang Mengjiang, a native of Xiangyang, have you heard of it?" He took the virtuous subject examination the year before last, and at the age of sixty-four, he ranked first, and was awarded the title of official to supervise the imperial history! Ren Xianggong, this person can be recruited to his command! ”

Di Renjie smiled: "Oh, it turned out that it was Zhang Cambodia, no one knows him better than me!" When he was young, he was a student and was appreciated by the national prince to drink the wine Linghu Dedi. Later, he joined the army as the palace of King Xun Cangcao, and helped Li Sujie to present a volume of "Treatise on Loyalty and Filial Piety" to the emperor. ”

Pei Xingben continued: "But this matter was messed up, and it was seen by the queen of heaven, and Li Sujie, the king of Xun, was demoted to the king of Poyang County, cut two-thirds of the food estate, and placed it in Yuanzhou. ”

Di Renjie and the other ministers discussed and sighed again, and after eating and drinking, they left the scene and went home.

Wu Chengsi bribed and arranged some secret agents to monitor the activities of the ministers.

After a while, Wu Chengsi saw that although these prime ministers respected him on the surface, they actually opposed him as much as Cen Changqian, and they had close contacts in private, and they were suspected of organizing an anti-military group.

Wu Chengsi complained to Wu Cao, got her support, and then summoned Junchen, Wang Hongyi and other cool officials to actively plan and attack the ministers.

In the early summer of the first year of Ruyi, Lai Junchen and Wang Hongyi instructed their scoundrels to falsely accuse Di Renjie, the winter official Shangshu Li Youdao, the autumn official Shangshu Yuan Zhihong, Wenchang Zuocheng Lu Xian, Yizhou Governor Shi Renlinghui, Si Binqing Cui Shenji and other high-ranking officials to rebel and send them all to Lijingmen.

This time, Lai Junchen only arrested the officials themselves, did not raid their homes, and did not lose their family members, which can be regarded as saving some face.

Di Renjie was pushed into the cell, staggered a few steps, and after standing firmly, he looked around, and saw that the cell was relatively spacious, and there was a pillar in the middle, equipped with a bed and a commode, which was a relatively high-end cell!

Di Renjie thought to himself: In the past, he always interrogated prisoners by himself to judge whether they were guilty or to redress their grievances, but he never thought that today, a senior judge, would also be imprisoned.

After a while, Lai Junchen came to the prison to interrogate the prisoners. Listening to the wails of the prisoners, Di Renjie thought nervously: What should I do? What can I do? Mrs. Zhao Duoxiang is still waiting for me to go back safely!

Di Renjie has been a judge for many years and is very familiar with Tang Law, judicial procedures, and prison management, so he knows how to avoid risks.

He remembered that there was a provision in the Tang Law: A person who confesses to rebellion once interrogated can be commuted to death punishment in the same way as the first person who admits to rebellion.

He said to himself: "Lijing Gate, the Routine Gate, if you enter this door, you will die as usual!" The matter has come to this point, it is better to save your life first, endure the humiliation, and wait for the opportunity to redress your grievances later! ”

As soon as he thought of this, Lai Junchen named him to interrogate him. The jailer brought Di Renzhuo and knelt down on the straw mat. Lai Junchen was shocked, and scolded: "Prisoner Di Renjie, this official has collected a lot of evidence that you formed a party for personal gain and plotted to rebel, have you pleaded guilty to the law?" ”

Di Renjie sighed and said, "Hey! The Great Zhou Revolution, everything is new, and the old ministers of the Tang Dynasty are willing to be killed. It's true! Di Renjie's confession so happily was beyond Junchen's expectations.

Lai Junchen snorted and said with a smile: "Di Renjie, you are known as the contemporary Zhang Shizhi, you should be strong for a while!" Now it seems that you are also a soft bone, and you are not as hard as your superior Ge Fuyuan's bones! Ha ha. ”

However, the prisoner's plea of guilt greatly saves the judge's energy, and is always a good thing that the judge cannot ask for. Therefore, Lai Junchen was very happy, and since then he has relaxed the control of Di Renjie and no longer takes strict precautions.

Di Renjie was commuted according to the law, and Lai Junchen coerced other officials to admit rebellion.

The next day, Judge Wang Deshou came to visit the prison, opened the prison door, and delivered a steaming meal to Di Renjie. After Di Renjie finished eating, Wang Deshou said to Di Renjie: "Di Shangshu's matter is over, and he has been dealt with with reduced death." Deshou is driven by people today and wants to be promoted, so how about asking Master Di to involve Xia Guanshangshu Yang Zhirou in the case? ”

Di Renjie asked: "How is it involved in the case?" Wang Deshou said: "When Di Shangshu was in charge of the spring official before, Yang Zhirou served as the host and guest secretary Wailang, you know him very well, just fabricate a crime to implicate him!" ”

Di Renjie was shocked and said: "Emperor Tianhou Tu, you actually sent a dignified gentleman and a great scholar to do such a dirty villain's thing!" After saying that, he hit his head on the pillar, and his face was bleeding.

Wang Deshou was a little scared, worried that Di Renjie would not be able to get rid of himself if he died in prison, so he didn't force him anymore. The prison doctor came in and bandaged Di Renjie's head with a white cloth.

Wang Deshou hit a nail in Di Renjie's place, and after going out, he coerced and coerced other officials together with Wang Hongyi and Hou Sizhi, the servants of Zuotai.

They used heavy punishments such as breathlessness and sudden roar, and implicated courtiers such as Ren Zhigu, the waiter of the Fengge, Pei Xingben, the waiter of the winter official, Cui Xuanli, Wei Yuanzhong, the emperor of the imperial history, and Li Sizhen, the assassin of Luzhou, and then arrested them one by one and put them in prison.

Wei Yuanzhong had already escaped death once in Xu Jingzhen's case, because he was too upright, he couldn't put sand in his eyes, and he offended the cool officials. Li Sizhen once asked Wu Cao to go up and accuse the cool officials of framing Zhongliang and endangering the country, so the cool officials did everything possible to implicate him.

Besides, Di Renjie saw that the control of the cell was lax, so he asked the jailer for pen and ink, and then quickly opened the white cloth that bandaged the wound in the hood when the person was not paying attention, and waved the pen to tell the grievances.

After writing, he wrapped the white cloth in a cotton coat, handed it to the judge Wang Deshou, and said: "The weather is too hot, please hand it over to my family to remove the cotton from the jacket." ”

Wang Deshou didn't look at the cotton clothes carefully, nor did he suspect anything, so he gave the cotton clothes to Di Renjie's wife Zhao Duoxiang in a daze.

Zhao Duoxiang was anxiously waiting for Di Renjie's news at home, and after getting this cotton clothes, she intuitively felt that there must be something strange in this cotton clothes, so she searched carefully.

Zhao Duoxiang didn't find anything outside, so she took out the scissors to open the cotton clothes, pulled out the cotton in the jacket, and sure enough, she found something. When I pulled it out, it turned out to be a piece of cloth with blood stains.

After Zhao Duoxiang finished reading, he handed it to his eldest son, Sima Di Guangyuan. Di Guangyuan shouted after reading it: "Yes, yes, the case has taken a turn!" ”

Di Guangyuan excitedly hid the blood book, entered the palace to ask to see Wu Cao, and was summoned by Wu Cao. Di Guangyuan reported to the emperor how he had obtained the blood book, and then carefully took out the blood book and presented it.

Wu Cao was surprised after the inspection, and summoned Junchen to ask, "Why didn't the prisoners take off their scarves after they were put in the prison?" Since Di Renjie admitted to rebellion, why did he complain about his grievances? ”

Lai Junchen replied: "After Di Renjie and the others are imprisoned, they should take off their scarves. Danchen saw that they were all honest, not noisy in the cell, and behaved quietly, so he did not take off their scarves. Your Majesty, if there are no facts, how can they admit to rebellion? ”

Wu Cao asked Di Guangyuan: "Di Guangyuan, what do you think?" Di Guangyuan replied: "Your Majesty, there must be something strange in this matter!" There may be a big secret hidden! ”

Wu Cao nodded, and sent Zhou Qi, the general secretary, to inspect the prison in Lijingmen.

After arriving at the prison, Lai Junchen ordered the judge Wang Deshou to entertain Zhou Qi to eat meat and drink, and secretly stuffed a red envelope to him, and arranged the aftermath by himself, how to arrange it?

Lai Junchen ordered the jailer to bring a towel to Di Renjie to dress up, and sent the master to imitate Di Renjie's handwriting to write a letter of thanks.

After the arrangements were made, Lai Junchen took Di Renjie to the west side of the interrogation hall to stand, and asked Zhou Qi to interrogate and interrogate. Who knew that Zhou Qi didn't dare to interrogate and interrogate, and only looked at the east and only promised!

Lai Junchen was overjoyed, and after introducing Di Renjie's performance in prison, he handed over the forged Di Renjie Xie Death Form to Zhou Qi to take back to Shangcheng Wucao.

Wu Cao didn't say anything after reading the Xie death table, and put the case aside.

Due to Lai Junchen's clever tongue and insidious perjury, coupled with Zhou Qi's timid and fearful character of offending the cool officials, Di Renjie's bloody confession plan was almost ruined!

But that's not the end of it. Luantai squire Le Sihui had been unjustly killed by Lai Junchen before, and his son Le Lang was only nine years old and worked as a slave in Sinong Temple.

When Wu Cao saw this lovely child, he said, "Poor child, if you have any grievances, I will make decisions for you." ”

Le Lang said: "The little slave respectfully told Your Majesty: Lai Junchen is harsh, and the father of the little slave has been unjustly killed, but the little slave can't bear to see more ministers unjustly killed, so that future generations will mourn for future generations!" Please ask Your Majesty to choose a loyal minister at random, accuse him of rebellion, and then let the Junchen interrogate, and the final result will definitely be the same as His Majesty's complaint letter. ”

When Wu Cao heard this, he suddenly came to his senses, praised the child, and gave him a reward.

Wu Cao immediately summoned Di Renjie and asked, "Why did Di Qing admit to rebellion?" ”

Di Renjie replied: "If you don't admit to rebellion, the minister has already died under the shackles, can you still see Your Majesty?" ”

Wu Cao asked again: "Why did Di Qing offer a death watch?" ”

Di Renjie replied: "The minister has never written a thank you death form!" ”

Wu Cao snorted, took out the forged Di Renjie death table in the main book and showed it to Di Renjie, and confronted him face to face. Di Renjie invited pen and ink, and wrote a few lines of words in the death table on the spot, which were presented to Wu Cao.

Wu Cao compared, and sure enough, the handwriting was different, and he knew that Lai Junchen was deceiving his hands and feet. Wu Cao said, "Oops! Di Qing was really wronged! Di Qing, go back and wait, I will administer justice for you! ”

Di Renjie returned to the prison and waited for the results.

Wu Cao held a discussion meeting on the Di Gong case in the Vientiane Shrine, and Wu Chengsi, Lai Junchen, Xu Yougong in Qiuguan Langzhong, and Shi Huo Xianke in the palace attended the meeting.

Wu Cao blamed Lai Junchen for deceiving his superiors and subordinates, but he did not mean to punish him. Lai Junchen said: "Di Renjie is indeed wronged! But he is an old minister of the Tang family, and it is not good to let him go to the Wu family! ”

Wu Chengsi agreed, Wu Cao was noncommittal, and discussed the next prisoner by name. Lai Junchen said: "The crime committed by Pei Xingben, the winter official waiter, is particularly serious, and it should not be spared, and it should be executed!" ”

Qiu Guanlang Zhong Xu Yougong held the fish whisker Wen Zhuwat in his hand, and retorted: "The minister thinks it is impossible!" Your Majesty has the grace to regenerate your subordinates, and you can't take advantage of the situation to promote it, which will damage Your Majesty's grace! ”

Wu Cao supported Xu Yougong. Then he discussed Cui Xuanli, who was Huo Xianke's uncle.

Huo Xianke is a bit of a literary talent, a witty and humorous person, and likes to joke. Hearing that Wu Cao had the intention of forgiving Cui Xuanli, Huo Xianke actually stopped doing it, he imitated Chu Suiliang's approach, and played: "Your Majesty will not kill Cui Xuanli, please die in front of the steps!" ”

Then Huo Xian could touch his head on the jade steps, kowtow so loudly that his forehead was bleeding, and then raise his head to show Wu Cao, showing his spirit of righteous annihilation. Wu Cao didn't want to eat this, so he asked the guards to pull him down.

Afterwards, Huo Xian could wrap the wound under the black turban with a green silk, deliberately exposing the green silk, hoping to attract the attention of His Majesty the Emperor. This is too self-inflicted! The courtiers laughed at him.

After the discussion of the Di Gong case, Wu Cao exempted Di Renjie and other courtiers from the death penalty, and demoted Di Renjie as the commander of Pengze County, Ren Zhigu as the commander of Jiangxia County, Cui Xuanli as the commander of Yiling County, Wei Yuanzhong as the commander of Fuling County, and Lu Xian as the commander of Xixiang County! He also exiled Pei Xingben, Li Sizhen and other officials to the Lingnan area.