All-media reporter Zhao Xinchun and Yang Xiaolun
In the past, there were two places to commemorate Di Renjie in Runan County, one was the Diliang Gongmian in the south of the city, and the other was the Sangong Temple in the west of the city, which was dedicated to Di Renjie, Yan Zhenqing, and Pei Du. Yan Zhenqing died because he went to Caizhou to persuade Li Xilie to surrender, Pei Du was famous for quelling the rebellion of Wu Yuanji in Huaixi, all of which are related to Caizhou in the Tang Dynasty, and Di Renjie's enshrinement of Runan is related to his official body Yuzhou Assassin History.
Yuzhou in the Tang Dynasty belonged to Henan Province, and governed eleven counties of Ruyang, Chengyang, Zhenyang, Xinxi, Baoxin, Shangcai, Pingyu, Xincai, Langshan, Wufang, and Xiping, including most of the areas in Zhumadian today except for Miyang. In the first year of Baoying (762), in order to avoid the name of Li Yu of the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Caizhou. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, it was Runing Mansion. On May 16, 1965, the State Council established the Zhumadian Commissioner's Office. On August 1, 2000, the land was withdrawn and established as Zhumadian City.
Di Renjie (630-700), known as Huaiying, Qixi, was a native of Taiyuan (now Taiyuan, Shanxi), and was a famous prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. He served as the assassin of Yuzhou in September of the fourth year of the vertical arch (688), the month when the assassin of Yuzhou and Li Zhen, the king of Yue, were defeated in the crusade against Wu Zetian in Yuzhou.
Li Zhen is the eighth son of Tang Taizong, the elder brother of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, and the uncle of Tang Zhongzong Li Xian and Ruizong Li Dan. On December 27, 683, the first year of Hongdao, Tang Gaozong died, and the crown prince Li Xianling succeeded to the throne as Tang Zhongzong, and appointed him as the crown prince. In February of the second year of Hongdao (684), he succeeded Wei Xuanzhen, the father-in-law of Zhongzong Li Xian, who was abolished as a commoner, as the assassin of Yuzhou.
Because Wu Zetian suppressed the Li family and sealed the Wu family, it caused the dissatisfaction of the kings surnamed Li. In September of the fourth year of the vertical arch (688), Li Zhen, the king of Yue, Li Chong, the king of Langya, and Li Yuanjia, the king of Han, the father and son, the king of Huo, Li Yuanliang and his son, the king of Lu, Li Lingkui and his son, and Li Rong, the son of Li Feng, the king of Yu, made an appointment to plot together to raise troops against Wu Zetian. Due to the hesitation of the other kings, in the end, only Li Zhen's father and son raised troops, and they were stunned, and finally Li Chong's army was defeated and killed, and Li Zhen committed suicide by taking poison in Shangcai. Implicated by this, Yuzhou had "six or seven hundred people sitting in the house, and five thousand people were confiscated", and more than 2,000 people were waiting to be executed.
When Di Renjie was appointed as the assassin of Yuzhou with Wenchang Youcheng, Li Zhen's rebellion had just subsided, and the people of Yuzhou were panicked. The criminal officer wanted to execute these people as soon as possible, but Di Renjie thought that they were not guilty of death, so he sent a secret to Wu Zetian, which means that I want to plead my case to you, and I am suspected of defending the rebellious person. If you don't say it, you are worried that your majesty will be tired of the holy will of the people. Therefore, I wrote and tore this song, and I didn't know how to do it. However, none of these people are inherently evil, and they have only been misled to this point. Therefore, I begged Your Majesty to pardon them. There is art in the words, and Wu Zetian is very useful, so he pardoned the capital crimes of these people and exiled them to Fengzhou.
At that time, Zhang Guangfu, who was in charge of counterinsurgency, was still in Yuzhou. Relying on their own merits, the counterinsurgency army not only massacred the surrendered soldiers, but also forcibly extorted money and goods from the local government in Yuzhou, which was sternly rejected by Shi Di Renjie, the assassin of Yuzhou. Zhang Guangfu was very angry: "Do you dare to despise the marshals of the armies as a small state general?" Di Renjie was not used to him angrily, and told him angrily: You command 300,000 troops, and what you should kill is the rebellious Yue King Li Zhen. At the beginning, the common people in Yuzhou City heard that you had led the official army to arrive, and they went out of the city to welcome the surrender, trampling the surrounding fields into roads. It is good that you not only connived at the plundering of the soldiers, but also took the merit of slaughtering those who had already surrendered, causing blood to flow all over the ground. Now I can't wait to have a Shang Fang sword to cut into your neck, so that even if I die, I will see death as if I were home, as if I were going back to my own home. Zhang Guangfu was speechless, and after returning to Luoyang, he told Wu Zetian that Di Renjie despised the imperial court officials. Di Renjie was demoted to the history of Fuzhou and left Yuzhou.
People are grateful for Di Renjie's merits in Yuzhou, and build Di Liang Gong Temple in the south of Runan County, and worship in the past dynasties. Qin Guan is a professor in Caizhou, and there is "Telling Di Liang Gongmiao": However, in the past, the prince took Shengde as a famous minister of the Tang Dynasty, and tasted the assassination of this state, and the romance existed. The disaster of the king of Yue, the jade was burned, more than 2,000 people were spared from the government, it is advisable to eat the soil with blood for thousands of years, and the descendants of Yu repay the poor people? (Edited by Li Zongwen)