Di Renjie in history,

Di Renjie (630-700), whose name is Huaiying, was a native of Taiyuan (now Taiyuan, Shanxi), a politician in the Wuzhou and Zhou dynasties of the Tang Dynasty, and was praised by Yan Liben as "the pearl of Haiqu and the treasure of the southeast". In his early years, he served as the judge of Bianzhou and the Sima of Luozhou. In September of the second year of Tianzhu (691), Di Renjie was promoted to prime minister, serving as a local official and a servant of Tongping Zhangshi, and was later framed by the cool official Lai Junchen for rebellion, seized his post and was imprisoned, and was demoted to Pengze County Order after rehabilitation. In the first year of Shengong (697), he visited the prime minister again, served as the Luantai squire, Tongping Zhangshi, and entered the worship of Nayan. In the first year of Jiushi (700), Di Renjie entered the history of worship, and died of illness in September of the same year. After the restoration of the Tang Dynasty, he posthumously presented Sikong and Liang Guogong.

Step into the career

Di Renjie participated in the imperial examination when he was young, and was awarded the title of judge of Bianzhou with the Ming Jing and the first, and was later recommended by Yan Liben, the deposed envoy of Henan Province, and was promoted to the governor of the prefecture.

During the Yifeng period, Di Renjie was promoted to the temple of Dali Temple. Within a year, he adjudicated a large backlog of 17,000 cases, but none of them were wrongfully prosecuted, and he was later reappointed as a servant of the imperial history.

In the first year of Tiaolu (679), Di Renjie was reappointed as Duzhi Langzhong, and added Chaosan as a doctor, and then followed Tang Gaozong to visit Fenyang Palace (in present-day Ningwu County, Shanxi), and served as the envoy of Zhidun.

Tired of paying homage to the prime minister

In the second year of the vertical arch (686), Di Renjie was exiled as the history of Ningzhou Thorn. During his tenure, he properly handled ethnic relations and was deeply loved. The people of Ningzhou erected a stele to praise his virtue and politics. At that time, Yushi Guo Han inspected Longyou and impeached a large number of state and county officials. However, when he arrived in Ningzhou (now Ningxian County, Gansu), he kept hearing the local people praise the history of the assassination, so he recommended Di Renjie to the imperial court. Soon, Di Renjie was conscripted as a winter official waiter.

In the fourth year of the vertical arch (688), Di Renjie served as the governor of Jiangnan. At that time, the land south of the Yangtze River was full of obscene shrines (referring to ancestral temples set up by the people themselves and not in ceremonies). Di Renjie learned about the imperial court and burned down more than 1,700 obscene shrines, leaving only four ancestral temples to worship Xia Yu, Taibo, Ji Za, and Wu Yuan. Soon, Di Renjie was reappointed as the right man of Wenchang.

In September of the same year, Di Ren was appointed as the assassin of Yuzhou. At that time, Li Zhen, the king of Yue, raised an army against Wu Zetian in Yuzhou (now Runan, Henan). Prime Minister Zhang Guangfu led an army to quell the rebellion, but connived at the extortion of his generals. Di Renjie refused to listen to anything, and reprimanded Zhang Guangfu with righteousness, saying that his crime was worse than Li Zhen. Zhang Guangfu held a grudge, so he impeached Di Renming for insulting the prime minister after returning to the court. Di Renjie was therefore demoted to the history of Fuzhou Thorn.

In September of the second year of Tianzhu (691), Di Renjie was promoted from Sima of Luozhou to the position of local official and squire, acting as an agent for Shangshu affairs, and was awarded the Tongfeng Pavilion Luantai Ping Zhangshi and became the prime minister. Wu Zetian said to him: "You had a good political performance when you were an official in Runan, but someone is slandering you, do you know who it is?" Di Renjie replied: "If Your Majesty thinks that the minister has done something wrong, the minister should change it; If Your Majesty understands that the minister is not at fault, it is the minister's luck. I don't want to know who the person who slandered me is, and I think of him as my friend. Wu Zetian was impressed.

Degraded Peng Ze

In the first month of the first year of longevity (692), the cool official Lai Junchen falsely accused Di Renjie and other ministers of rebellion and arrested them and imprisoned them. At that time, the law provided that a person who confessed to rebellion upon trial could be commuted to death. Di Renjie pleaded guilty on the spot and said: "The Great Zhou Revolution, everything is new, the old ministers of the Tang Dynasty, willing to be killed, but it is true!" Lai Junchen got a confession and put Di Renjie and others in prison, only to be executed in the coming day, and no longer took strict precautions. Di Renjie borrowed pen and ink from the jailer, tore off a piece of silk from the quilt, wrote down the grievances, stuffed it in a cotton coat, and asked to send it home. Wang Deshou, who was in charge of the guard, did not suspect it, and asked him to hand it over to Di Renjie's son Di Guangyuan. Di Guangyuan held a silk letter to Wu Zetian to complain about his grievances.

Wu Zetian read the silk book and summoned Junchen to question. Lai Junchen argued: "The minister did not torture Di Renjie and others, and even their crowns and belts were not peeled off, and everything was as usual for eating and sleeping. If there is no fact of rebellion, how can they admit to rebellion? Wu Zetian sent Zhou Qi, the general secretary, to the prison to check. Lai Junchen first dressed Di Renjie and the others neatly, and then let Zhou Qi enter to check. Zhou Qi was afraid of coming to Junchen, but he was submissive, and he didn't even look at Di Renjie and the others, so he went back to Wu Zetian to return to his life. Lai Junchen also ordered someone to fake the name of Di Renjie and others, forged the "Xie Death Table", and asked Zhou Qi to present it to Wu Zetian.

Wu Zetian decided to personally interrogate Di Renjie's rebellion. She summoned Di Renjie and asked him why he confessed to the rebellion. Di Renjie said: "If I don't admit to rebellion, I will already die of torture." Wu Zetian asked why he wrote "Xie Death Table", and Di Renjie replied that he had not written it. Wu Zetian asked people to take out the "Death Table", only to know that the seal was forged, so Di Renjie and other ministers were exempted from capital crimes, and all of them were demoted to magistrates. Among them, Di Renjie was demoted to Peng Ze and served as the county magistrate. Since then, Wu Chenghe, the king of Wei, has repeatedly requested that Di Renjie be killed, but Wu Zetian refused.

Reinstated Zaifu

In the first year of Long Live Tongtian (696), Sun Wanrong, the Khitan leader, rebelled and captured Jizhou, and Hebei was shaken for a while. In order to stabilize the situation, Wu Zetian used Di Renjie as the assassin of Weizhou. At that time, in order to resist the Khitan, the former assassin Shi tried his best to enter the city and repair the city's defense equipment. But after Di Renjie arrived, he let the people return to farming. Sun Wanrong heard that Di Renjie was reinstated, and retreated without a fight. The people of Weizhou vied with each other to erect monuments to praise virtue. Soon, Di Renjie was transferred to the governor of Youzhou and was given a purple robe and a turtle belt. Wu Zetian also inscribed twelve golden characters on the purple robe to commend Di Renjie's loyalty.

In the first year of Shengong (697), Di Renjie visited the prime minister again, served as the waiter of Luantai, and the Pingzhang of Luantai of Tongfeng Pavilion, and was awarded the doctor of Yinqing Guanglu. At that time, the imperial court requisitioned the people to guard the four towns of Anxi, which caused a lot of complaints. Di Renjie advised on this, and suggested abolishing the Andong Protectorate, reinstating the Gao clan as the monarch of Goguryeo, suspending the transportation of grain and grass in the south of the Yangtze River, and comforting the people of Hebei. Although his suggestion was not adopted by the imperial court, it was approved by people of insight. Soon, Di Renjie acted as the agent of Nayan and concurrently served as the imperial historian of the Right Su Zhengtai.

In the first year of the sacred calendar (698), the Turks went south to harass Hebei and plundered more than 10,000 people. Wu Zetian appointed Di Renjie as the marshal of the Hebei Provincial March, conquered the Turks, and promised the right to act cheaply. The Turkic army killed all the prisoners and retreated to Mobei from Wuhuidao (in the west of present-day Yi County, Hebei). Di Renjie led an army of 100,000 to pursue, but failed to catch up and had to retreat to Hebei. Wu Zetian also appointed Di Renjie as the pacification ambassador of Hebei Province and asked him to pacify Hebei. At that time, most of the people of Hebei were coerced by the Turks, and after the Turks retreated, they were afraid of being implicated, so they fled one after another. Di Renjie played the Ming Emperor, pardoned the people of Hebei Prefecture, and made them return to their hometowns to give birth. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Glory of Kings: Sanction System Claw Book House" for free for the first time.