Wu Zetian and Di Renjie
What is the relationship between Wu Zetian and Di Renjie? Monarch.
Wu Zetian was the emperor of the Wuzhou Dynasty, and Di Renjie was the chancellor of the Wuzhou Dynasty.
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Some people say that Di Renjie is Wu Zetian's lover, which is nonsense.
Wu Zetian had trust and respect for Di Renjie.
The road knows the horsepower, and the people's hearts are seen for a long time. This trust and respect has not come easily.
In September 690, Wu Zetian was proclaimed emperor and changed the Tang Dynasty to Zhou, which was known as Wu Zhou.
In September 691, Di Renjie was promoted to chancellor.
Prior to that, Di Renjie was Sima of Luozhou, the vice mayor of the capital Luoyang.
Rising so quickly, it showed that Wu Zetian had been paying attention to Di Renjie for a long time.
As early as 676-679, Di Renjie was already famous as Dali Cheng.
He was honest and honest, did not enforce the law, worked diligently, and adjudicated a large backlog of cases in one year, involving 17,000 people, without wrongful prosecution, thus becoming a highly respected judge of the government and the public, such as God, and the removal of adultery and evil.
Dali Temple
In the first month of 693, Di Renjie was accused of rebellion and arrested and imprisoned.
The people who falsely accused him were Wu Chengsi and Lai Junchen.
Wu Chengsi was The nephew of Wu Zetian, and Lai Junchen was Wu Zetian's first cool official.
Strong and strong joined forces, there was nowhere to seek injustice, no one to rescue, Di Renjie was dead.
But Di Renjie succeeded in saving himself.
As soon as Lai Junchen was tried, Di Renjie confessed on the spot: "The Great Zhou Revolution, all things are new, the old ministers of the Tang Dynasty, willing to follow the curse, conspiracy is a fact!" ”
After Lai Junchen received the confession, he later pretended to be "Xie Death Table", and then took Di Renjie and others into prison, only to wait for the next day to be executed, and no longer strictly guarded.
Di Renjie was a strategy to slow down the army.
He secretly borrowed pen and ink from the jailer, tore a piece of cloth from the quilt, wrote about the grievances, stuffed them in cotton clothes, and asked to be sent home.
Wang Deshou, who was in charge of the guards, did not suspect anything and asked him to send it to Di Renjie's son Di Guangyuan.
Di Guangyuan took the book and complained to Wu Zetian for wrongs.
Wu Zetian decided to personally interrogate Di Renjie about the conspiracy.
She asked Di Renjie why he had confessed to rebellion. Di Renjie said, "If I hadn't admitted to the rebellion, I would have died under torture." ”
Wu Zetian asked why he wrote "Xie Death Table", and Di Renjie replied that he had not written it. Only then did Wu Zetian know that the seal was forged.
Therefore, Di Renjie was spared the death penalty and demoted to Pengze County Order.
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Come on Junchen
In October 696, Wu Zetian used Di Renjie as the assassin of Wei Prefecture. Soon, Di Renjie was promoted to the governor of Youzhou.
Wu Zetian gave Di Renjie a purple robe and a turtle belt, and also inscribed twelve golden characters on the purple robe to commend Di Renjie's loyalty.
In October 697, Di Renjie was recalled by Wu Zetian to the imperial court and restored to his post as chancellor.
In the autumn of 698, the Turks moved south to harass Hebei. Wu Zetian ordered the crown prince to be the marshal of Hebei Province, and Di Renjie to be the deputy marshal to conquer the Turks.
In 700, Di Renjie entered the Bai Nei Shi (中書令) and accompanied Wu Zetian on a tour of sanyang Palace. At that time, many civil and military officials went with them, and only Di Renjie was given the first house.
Wu Zetian's respect for Di Renjie was evident.
Usually, Wu Zetian never called Di Renjie by his first name, but honored him as an elder of the country, and never approved his retirement request.
She did not let Di Renjie perform the ritual of kneeling, saying, "Whenever I see you kneeling, my body will feel pain." ”
In addition, Wu Zetian also exempted Di Renjie from his duty in the palace at night, and warned the officials: "If there is no very important military and national affair, do not disturb Di Gong." ”
In September 700, Di Renjie died of illness at the age of 71.
For this reason, Wu Zetian abolished the dynasty for three days, and cried bitterly: "The court is empty! ”
After that, whenever the imperial court could not decide on any major matter, Wu Zetian would think of Di Renjie and sigh, "Why did God take away my country elder so early?" ”
Emperor Zhongzong of Tang
Di Renjie's integrity, wit, and ability were one, and there was no one in the world, so he was compatible with Wu Zetian's subjects.
Wu Chengsi had always wanted to kill Di Renjie. Why? Because he wanted to be the crown prince, and Di Renjie was firmly opposed.
Later, Di Renjie successfully persuaded Wu Zetian to give the position of crown prince to his third son, Li Xian.
Di Renjie said that since Emperor Gaozong of Tang entrusted his son to Wu Zetian, then making a son a prince was actually an act of providence, and the relationship between mother and son was more intimate than that between aunt and nephew, and that lizi was a prince, and after death, he could also enter the temple to be worshiped by posterity, and if he made his nephew a prince, there would be no such thing.
When Wu Zetian refused his participation on the grounds of family affairs, Di Renjie retorted to Wu Zetian as a monarch and a subject.
After Di Renjie's words, Wu Zetian woke up slightly.
Later, Wu Zetian told Di Renjie about the dream she had of a large parrot with its wings broken, and Di Renjie compared Wu Zetian to a parrot, and Wu Zetian's two sons to the two wings of a parrot, saying that if Wu Zetian used two sons, he would be able to fly high.
In this regard, Wu Zetian completely abandoned the idea of making his nephew crown prince and decided to make his son Li Xian the crown prince.
Wu Zetian once gave his male favorite Zhang Changzong a piece of Ji Cui Qiu, which was donated by Nanhai County.
As the name suggests, the collection of green fur is a coat woven from kingfisher feathers, which cannot be said to be of great value, at least it is precious and abnormal.
One day, Zhang Changzong wore a jicui qiu and played a double-land game with Wu Zetian.
The two-land game is an ancient board game that is played a bit like today's flying chess.
Di Renjie just came in to play, and Wu Zetian asked him to play Shuanglu with Zhang Changzong.
Di Renjie said, "Three games and two wins, the subject used the purple robe on his body to bet on this leather robe worn by Zhang Changzong." ”
Wu Zetian smiled, "His leather robe costs more than a thousand gold, and your purple robe cannot be equal." ”
Di Renjie said, "This purple robe of mine is the costume worn by the minister when he meets the Heavenly Son, which is noble and priceless, while this leather robe of Zhang Changzong is only a reward for favor." The two pieces are opposite, and I am still not convinced! ”
Wu Zetian had no choice but to agree.
Zhang Changzong felt ashamed and depressed, his momentum was weak, he was silent, and he lost one after another, and finally lost Ji Cuiqiu to Di Renjie.
After Di Ren's outstanding palace, he gave Ji CuiQiu to a house slave to wear and rode away.
People with bones are expensive, and Di Renjie is like this.
Zhang Changzong