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. Later life

In the first year of Jiushi (700), Di Renjie entered the internal history and followed Wu Zetian to visit Sanyang Palace. At that time, many civil and military officials went with them, but only Di Renjie was given the first house, and his grace was the best. In September of that year, Di Renjie died of illness at the age of 71. Wu Zetian abolished the dynasty for three days, posthumously presented him as the right minister of Wenchang, and gave him the nickname Wenhui.

In the first year of Shenlong (705), Tang Zhongzong was restored, and Di Renjie was posthumously gifted as Sikong.

In the fourth year of Jinglong (710), Tang Ruizong succeeded to the throne and posthumously named Di Renjie as the Duke of Liang.

In the sixth year of Tianbao (747), Di Renjie and Zhang Cambodia, Wei Yuanzhong and other eight people enjoyed the Taimiao together, and sacrificed to the temple of Zhongzong.

In the sixth year of Tianfu of the Later Jin Dynasty (941), Di Renjie was posthumously awarded the title of Taishi by the Later Jin Dynasty.

Anecdotal allusions

There is no time to speak to the vulgar

When Di Renjie was a child, someone in his family was killed. The county officials came to inquire, and everyone scrambled to plead, but only Di Renjie took care of himself and read the book and ignored it. Faced with the rebuke of the county officials, he replied, "I am talking to the sages in the yellow scrolls, and I have no time to deal with you secular officials. ”

A pearl dropped in the ocean--an unnoticed talent

Di Renjie was falsely accused by a small official in his early years. Yan Liben, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, was the deposed envoy of Henan Province at the time, and during the interrogation, he found that he was a talented person with both ability and political integrity, and praised: "Confucius said: 'I have seen the knowledge of benevolence. 'You can really say that you are a pearl in the sea. Later generations then used the "pearl in the sea" as a metaphor for buried talents or buried talents.

Baiyun family

When Di Renjie was an official in Bingzhou, his parents were far away in Heyang (now Mengxian County, Henan). He climbed the Taihang Mountain, looked back to the south, saw a white cloud flying, and said to the people on the left and right: "My parents are under that white cloud." He stood and waited for a long time until the clouds had dispersed. Later generations then used "Baiyun Family" and "Baiyun Flying Alone" as words to live in a foreign country and miss their parents.

Dounan is alone

When Di Renjie served as the law of Bingzhou, his colleague Zheng Chongzhen had to go to a distant place on business, but his mother was old and sick. Di Renjie took the initiative to confront Zheng Chong: "Your mother is seriously ill, but you are going to go far away, how can you let your relatives worry about you who are thousands of miles away?" He went to see Governor Shi Lin Renji and asked to travel instead of Zheng Chongzhen. Lin Renji was very moved, thinking of the discord between himself and Sima Li Xiaolian, he was deeply ashamed, and took the initiative to reconcile with Li Xiaolian. He also often praised Di Renjie to people: "Di Gong's sage, south of the Beidou, is just one person." Later generations then used "Dounan alone" as a metaphor for the unique talent in the world.

Rectify discipline

During the reign of Gaozong, Zuo Shilang Zhong Wang Benli relied on the emperor's favor and was arrogant. Di Renjie impeached Wang Benli and requested that he be handed over to the judicial department for trial. But Tang Gaozong issued an edict of leniency. Di Renjie admonished: "Although the country lacks talents, there is no shortage of people like Wang Benli. Why does Your Majesty cherish this person and lose the royal law? If Your Majesty must pardon Wang Benli, please banish your ministers to no man's land as a warning to loyal ministers in the future! Wang Benli was convicted for this.

Later, Di Renjie impeached Si Nongqing Wei Ji, saying that the palaces built by him such as Suyu, Gaoshan, and Shangyang were too magnificent. Tang Gaozong dismissed Wei Ji from his post, and since then the court has been disciplined.

Admonishing the Emperor

Quan Shancai, the general of Zuo Weiwei, and Fan Huaiyi, the general of the right prison gate, mistakenly cut down the cypress tree of Zhaoling (Tang Taizong's mausoleum) and should be removed from office for their crimes, but Tang Gaozong was furious and wanted to execute them. Di Renjie defended himself, believing that the two were not guilty of death. Tang Gaozong said angrily: "They cut down the Zhaoling cypress tree, put me in a place of unfilial piety, and must be executed." Di Renjie said bluntly: "In the Han Dynasty, someone stole the jade ring of the high temple, and Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty wanted to destroy his clan. Zhang Shizhi admonished: 'If you steal a piece of soil from Changling, how will you punish the crime? Therefore, Emperor Wen of Han killed only one of them. Your Majesty's law hangs on the gate outside the palace, and the sin should be put to death instead of death, how can it win the trust of the world? Now that he killed two ministers just because he cut down a cypress tree by mistake, how will future generations view His Majesty? Gaozong's anger eased a little, and the two were exempted from the death penalty.

When Di Renjie was the prime minister, some students asked to meet the emperor, and Wu Zetian approved it. Di Renjie advised: "The monarch only has the authority of life and death, and cannot pretend to others, and everything else should be handed over to the relevant departments for processing." The students told me that this was the duty of the chief secretary and the chief bookkeeper. If the Son of Heaven even allowed this kind of thing, how many edicts would those noble disciples have to give? Your Majesty only needs to tell them what is clearly written. Wu Zetian listened to him.

When Wu Zetian went to Sanyang Palace to escape the summer, he promised Hu Seng to visit and bury the Buddha relics. Di Renjie knelt in front of Wu Zetianma and admonished: "The Buddha is the god of Rong Di, and it is not worth letting the emperor deign to come." Hu Seng is scheming, trying to confuse the people. Moreover, the mountain roads along the way are difficult and narrow, and there are not many guards to accommodate. The emperor is the honor of all vehicles, and it is not appropriate to go. Wu Zetian turned back halfway and said, "I am in order to fulfill the spirit of Di Gong's direct minister." ”

In Wu Zetian's later years, if he wanted to cast a Buddha statue, he needed to spend millions of dollars, and because the treasury was insufficient, he asked the monks of the world to give a penny every day to help. Di Renjie admonished: "It is impossible to serve ghosts and gods in work, but it must be used to serve manpower; Crops do not fall from the sky, they do grow from the ground. It must be the people who are harming by this. Now that the border is not yet at peace, you should relax your forced labor and avoid the need for urgent work. Even if craftsmen are hired to work to help the poor, delaying the agricultural season is also abandoning the foundation of the country. Casting Buddha statues not only costs the government treasury, but also consumes manpower, if a disaster occurs on one side, what will be used to relieve it at that time? Wu Zetian gave up.

Don't believe in false rumors

When Tang Gaozong went to Fenyang Palace, he passed by the Jealous Female Temple. At that time, the folk believed that wearing gorgeous clothes and passing through the shrine of jealous women would cause a storm and thunder. And the governor Shi Li Chongxuan planned to levy tens of thousands of people and open up another royal road. Di Renjie said: "When the emperor travels, there are thousands of riders and followers, Feng Bo cleans the dust for it, and the rain master comes to sprinkle the road, what are you afraid of the harm of jealous women?" Li Chongxuan then stopped conscription. When Tang Gaozong learned about it, he sighed: "Di Renjie is really a big husband! ”

Prisoner Crying Monument

After the rebellion of King Yue, Wu Zetian convicted six or seven hundred families in order to punish the rebellious party, and confiscated more than 5,000 families. The executioner urged Di Renjie to be executed. However, Di Renjie believed that the verdict was wrong and asked for a postponement of the execution. He secretly played Wu Zetian, thinking that once convicted according to this, it would be widely implicated, not to mention that many of these people were forced to rebel and did not do it in their own hearts, so Wu Zetian could be pardoned, so he issued an edict to pardon their capital crimes and send them to Fengzhou instead. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Glory of Kings: Sanction System Claw Book House" for free for the first time.