Looking at the Wu Zhou Dynasty, the most "puzzling" is the relationship between Di Renjie and Wu Zetian, Di Renjie, as an old courtier of the former dynasty, should have been jealous of Wu Zetian, but Wu Zetian greatly appreciated him, gave him a heavy responsibility, and honored him as the "Elder of the Country", according to the "Biography of Wu Zetian": After Di Renjie's death, Wu Zetian cried bitterly: "The court was empty", and therefore resigned for three days!
The "Real Relationship" between Wu Zetian and Di Renjie
If Di Renjie is sincerely obedient to Wu Zetian, then Wu Zetian is so serious about him, but Di Renjie, as an old courtier of the former dynasty, has always upheld the belief of "restoring the Li Tang artifact", and he has never hidden his intentions, and has repeatedly advised Wu Zetian to "return the artifact to Li Tang".
What is even more "unbelievable" is that Wu Zetian, who was fierce and fierce, did not execute him for this reason, but listened to his suggestion and finally made Li Xian the crown prince, and even Zhang Kamzhi, who finally launched the "Divine Dragon Coup", was "ascended to the throne" only after Di Renjie's original recommendation twice, which can be said to be a "dark chess piece" left by Di Renjie!
Throughout Di Renjie's life, it seems that he is "calculating" Wu Zetian, but Wu Zetian is extremely important to him, and the relationship between the two is quite "unclear and unclear", until Di Renjie's death, a secret letter found by the family in his study can be regarded as revealing the true relationship between the two!
The secret letter is a handwritten letter written by Wu Zetian himself, with only a few eight words: "The affairs of the court, and the qing push the heart"
The word "pushing the heart" is for the "finishing touch", indicating that the relationship between the two has reached the point of "pushing the heart to the stomach" and talking about everything, which is not like an emperor can say to the minister, the two are not like the monarch, more like friends, so what did Di Renjie rely on to gain this trust?
On this issue, MeSin also explained that it was because of the "matter of the court", so let's take a look at Di Renjie's "resume"!
The Ming Dynasty and the First One handle the case like a god
Di Renjie character "Huaiying", born in 630 AD in Hezhou, participated in the imperial examination when he was young, and with the Ming Jing and the first, he was awarded the judgment of Bian Prefecture, and from then on he entered the career path.
During the Yifeng years, Di Renjie was promoted to the position of Dali Temple Temple, responsible for "investigating and interrogating cases", he handled cases with extremely high efficiency, dali Temple's backlog of old cases for many years was "swept away" by him within a year, there was not a single unjust, false and wrong case, and more than 10,000 people involved in the case were convinced of his judgment, thus leaving the folk legend that Di Renjie "judged the case like a god".
In the second year of the arch, Di Renjie was released as the Assassin of Ningzhou, which is located in the territory of present-day Gansu, and in the old days mostly involved ethnic affairs, but Di Renjie was able to properly handle ethnic relations during his tenure, thus winning the love of the people of all ethnic groups, and the local people even erected a monument to him and praised his merits.
Deeply valued, grace crowns the Martial Mon Dynasty
Despite his outstanding political achievements, Di Renjie was not used heavily in the Li Tang Dynasty, and Wu Zetian heard of Di Renjie's name, so after ascending the throne, he vigorously used Di Renjie, according to the "Biography of Di Renjie": In the second year after Wu Zetian ascended the throne, Di Renjie was promoted from Sima of Luozhou to the position of prefectural official Shilang, acting as An affairs of Shangshu, and adding the title of Tongfengge Luantai Pingzhangshi and becoming the prime minister, which can be described as "one step to ascend to heaven"!
In the first year of his longevity, the cool official Lai Junchen falsely accused Di Renjie, and Di Renjie was demoted to Pengze County Order, and during his tenure as county order, many people in the DPRK requested to kill Di Renjie, but each time wu Zetian refused.
In the first year of Tongtian, the Khitan leader Sun Wanrong rebelled, and Wu Zetian immediately used Di Renjie as the assassin of Wei Prefecture, and when he heard that Di Renjie had "come out of the mountains", Sun Wanrong actually retreated without a fight, and Wu Zetian was overjoyed, not only rewarding him greatly, but also transferring him to the governor of Youzhou.
The next year, that is, the first year of Shengong, Di Renjie once again paid homage to him, serving as a Luantai waiter, Tongfengge Luantai Pingzhangshi, and awarded the Silver Qing Guanglu Doctor, during his tenure for the benefit of the people, speaking out in righteousness, and was deeply trusted by Wu Zetian!
In the first year of the Holy Calendar, the Turks went south to rebel, burning and looting all the way, Wu Zetian appointed Di Renjie as the marshal of the Hebei Province, Di Renjie personally led a 100,000-strong army to pursue the Turks, all the way deep into the desert north, the Turks fled in the wind, did not dare to show their faces! After driving out the Turks, Di Renjie was changed from a marching marshal to a pacification envoy to appease the people of Hebei who were affected by the war.
According to the New Book of Tang, in the first year of the Long Dynasty, Di Renjie entered the History of Bai Nei and accompanied Wu Zetian on his tour of the Sanyang Palace, and there were many important ministers in the court, but only Di Renjie was given the first house, which is enough to show that Di Renjie's grace was crowned wu Monday Dynasty, and in September of the same year, Di Renjie died of illness at the age of seventy-one!
brief summary:
From Di Renjie's "resume", it is not difficult to see that the reason why Wu Zetian was able to "push his heart" towards Di Renjie was entirely because of Di Renjie's outstanding political achievements and was a humeral minister of the imperial court, in other words, Wu Zetian could not do without Di Renjie, according to the "New Book of Tang": After Di Renjie's death, whenever the imperial court could not decide on an important matter, Wu Zetian would miss Di Renjie incomparably, sighing: "Why did God take away my country elder so early"!
It can be seen that Di Renjie is Wu Zetian's "right and left arm" and an indispensable talent of the Wu Zhou Dynasty!
In addition, Wu Zetian was not unaware that Di Renjie was concerned about the "Li Tang Artifact", but Di Renjie was bright and honest, had no selfish intentions, and all he wanted was to return the power to the descendants of the Li clan after Wu Zetian's death, not to overthrow Wu Zetian's rule, wu Zetian was not a faint and incompetent person, how could he mutilate the humerus!
Di Renjie's life was full of eunuchs and seas, and he assisted the country with an anbang, "looking up to the heavens, bowing down to the ground, acting without shame on people, and not being ashamed of his heart", just as Lin Renji praised Di Renjie: "The sage of Di Gong, south of the Big Dipper, only one person"! Regardless of his talent and conduct, Di Renjie is worthy of being a "world-class courtier"!
References: "Wu Zetian Biography", "New Book of Tang"
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