A generation of empress Wu Zetian, after obtaining the throne, quite a heavy prime minister Di Renjie, obeyed his words, Wu Zetian became more and more faint in his later years, and even liked to find male pets to enjoy himself, Di Renjie saw the situation, risked death into advice, hoping that Wu Zetian could quit color, did not expect the other party to open his mouth to show him and said: "You open your eyes and take a good look!" After Di Renjie saw it, he silently retreated, what exactly was in Wu Zetian's mouth?
▲ Di Renjie hoped that Wu Zetian would abstain from male sex. (Photo/Reprint from wikipedia entry)
In his later years, Wu Zetian was plagued by old diseases and neglected the government, and even began to seek the company of male pets with high appearance and good physique, among which Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong brothers were most loved by Wu Zetian, and gradually became eyes and ears, and then they were even more pampered and arrogant, interfering in political affairs beyond their authority, killing Li Chongrun, Li Xianhui and Wu Yanji, 3 members of the royal family, and the government and the public were therefore a miasma of smoke.
When Di Renjie saw the situation, he had to risk his life to persuade Wu Zetian to quit color, otherwise jiangshan sheji would be destroyed, but after Wu Zetian listened to the other party's suggestion, he did not get angry, but opened his mouth and said: "You open your eyes and take a good look!" Di Renjie obeyed the order to look forward and found that the elderly Wu Zetian had new teeth growing in his mouth.
▲ Wu Zetian is close to male color, that is, he hopes that he will always maintain his youth. (Photo/Reprint from wikipedia entry)
This made Di Renjie suddenly realize that the reason why Wu Zetian, who was old and sick, approached the male color was to listen to the taiyi's art of collecting yang and supplementing yin, so as to preserve his youth forever, so that he could better govern the country, but Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong were chaotic, so that the Qunchen could not bear it, and in the first year of Wuzhou Shenlong (705 AD), he launched the "Shenlong Coup" to force Wu Zetian to abdicate, and in November of the same year, Wu Zetian died of illness, ending his glorious life in history.
Di Renjie is honest and honest, does not enforce the law, and protects the law by example. Ren Dali Temple, in a year, adjudicated a large backlog of cases, involving 17,000 people, and there were no wrongdoers. Dozens of capable officials, such as Zhang Kamzhi, Huan Yanfan, Jinghui, Dou Huaizhen, and Yao Chong, were successively recommended, all of whom were ministers of the Tang Dynasty Zhongxing, and the political style of the DPRK and China changed.
Someone said to Di Renjie, "The peach and plum in the world are all within the public gate." Di Renjie replied, "Raising the virtuous for the sake of the country, not for selfishness." Di Renjie had violated Yan Zhizhi's advice and urged Wu Zetian to continue to establish Tang Si, and Tang Zuo was able to maintain it. During his lifetime, he inherited the rule of Zhenguan and the reign of Wu Zetian in the heyday of the Lower Qi Kaiyuan, and made outstanding contributions to the country.
The "Two Tang Dynasties, The Biography of Zhang Kam and the New Language of the Tang Dynasty" also record that Di Renjie recommended Zhang Kam Zhi during the Chang'an period, and the Tongdian and Tang Huijiao even accurately extended the matter to the second year of Chang'an (702). According to this, some people have examined and calculated that Di Renjie's dismissal of the construction of the Buddha statue was in Chang'an in the fourth year (704), and he died in September of the same year.
References: Old Book of Tang, New Book of Tang
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