Di Renjie was a major minister of the two dynasties who had gone through Li Tang and Wu Zhou, and was one of the few high-ranking and upright Qing officials in history who dared to speak out and give advice; he had twice served as prime minister, and when he was first promoted to prime minister, he also concurrently served as a local official shilang and Tongping Zhangshi; he once offended Zhang Guangfu because he bluntly rebuked the chancellor Zhang Guangfu for conniving at extortion by his subordinates, and was impeached and degraded by him; later, he was slandered by the cool officials and put on the hat of rebellion, and was demoted to Peng Ze as a local official.
All his life, Di Renjie did things based on the people, and also made great contributions to the governance of the country, but he was framed and suppressed by traitors many times, and often worried about his life. But Di Renjie's temperament was so, no matter what kind of framing and suppression he was instigated, he still insisted on his own views and practices, and always maintained a clean and clean character.
What is even more serious is that Di Renjie is not only a civilian official who can judge cases and seek political affairs, but also a brave and good warrior, when the Khitan Kou fell to Jizhou, Wu Zetian ordered Di Renjie to assassinate the history and meet the foreign enemy, as a result, the Khitan people heard that Di Renjie led the army to retreat without a fight, and later led the army to go out to resist the Khitan in the north.
Di Renjie's loyalty was approved and commended by Wu Zetian at that time, and he personally inscribed twelve golden characters on the purple robe given to him, and Wu Zetian greatly respected Di Renjie as a talent, often calling him the elder of the country instead of calling him by his first name. In his later years, Di Renjie had the heart to give him a good career, but Wu Zetian was reluctant to let him retire, and he never approved it; after Di Renjie's death, Wu Zetian sighed: "The court is empty!" ”
However, what Zongheng wants to tell everyone is that although the empress attaches great importance to Di Renjie, Di Renjie's highest official position in the Wuzhou period is only the Pingzhang affair of Zheng Sanpin, is it not a bit incredible? In fact, this was very normal during the Wu zhou period!
The official system of the Wuzhou period basically followed the official system of the Tang Dynasty, although there was also the nine-pin Zhongzheng system, but according to the official system of the Tang Dynasty at that time, the civil and military officials basically did not rank in the zhengyipin, because the one-pin and two-pin of the Wuzhou period were basically given to the emperor's relatives, state relatives, state uncles, and the like. Most of the founding fathers or relatives of the emperor and the state like the eldest son Wuji, Guo Ziyi, and Wu Sansi are just good names and have no real power, that is, what ordinary people call high power is not heavy.
Another example is the position of Erpin's Shang Shuling, because Li Shimin once held this official position, so after Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, in order to avoid secrecy, almost no one dared to be this official, Guo Ziyi was also awarded this official position, and did not dare to accept it, so this official position basically existed in name only and has been empty.
Before Li Shimin became emperor, Li Yuan also specially set up an official position for Li Shimin: General Tiance, who belonged to the official position of ZhengYipin, was above the prince and the three dukes, second only to the three divisions (that is, Taishi, Taifu, and Taibao), and General Tiance could recruit talents to serve as officials in the Tiance Palace, mainly because at that time, Li Shimin's meritorious service in the Battle of Hu prison pass was too high, almost helping Li Yuan to lay half of the country, and he could not be allowed to take the position of prince, so he could only set up another official position of "Tiance General" to reward Li Shimin. After Li Shimin ascended the throne, General Tiance also disappeared.
In the period of Wu Zetian's reign, the left and right servants were gradually turned into a false position, the real courtiers were basically Sanpin officials, the Tang Dynasty implemented the three provinces and six ministries system, and in the Wuzhou period, the Zhongshu Province of the three provinces was changed to Fengtai, the boss was changed to Zhongshu Ling, responsible for drafting edicts; Menxia Province was changed to Luange, and the boss was a waiter, all of which were important official positions.
During the Wu Zhou Period, in order to help Wu Zetian inspect local government affairs and observe the people's feelings, and in order to let officials other than the governors of the three provinces absorb the advice of decision-making from outside, it was necessary for someone to wander outside and help Wu Zetian govern the world outside the palace, so Di Renjie's official position of Tongfengtai Luange Sanpin Pingzhangshi also came into being, and this official position was also temporarily granted by the emperor at that time to handle some special foods. Di Renjie was able to be temporarily awarded the official position of Tongfengtai Luange SanpinPing Zhangshi by Wu Zetian, and it can also be seen that Wu Zetian attached importance to and valued him, and the official position of Sanpinping Zhangshi under the Tongzhongshu Men was also to assist the emperor in handling major state affairs, and his power was naturally not small, and it also became the position of prime minister in the Tang Dynasty.
Di Renjie served as the prime minister for a total of almost four years before and after his life, and was a person in charge of important affairs, although he was only a Zhengsanpin official, but he was the prime minister, but in fact, when Di Renjie was in charge of the history of his tenure, he was already an extremely popular minister, plus the one product and two products in the Wu Zetian period were basically useless, and there was no real name, Di Renjie was also a high-powered person, and he did not waste his life's talent and a lifetime of honesty for the country and the people.