"My mentor Di Gong once said..."
Recently, " Tang Dynasty Strange Things " starring Yang Xuwen and Yang Zhigang broke through the siege among a number of costume dramas and became the well-deserved "dark horse" in the costume suspense dramas of 2022.
In the play, Su Wuming, who is the closed disciple of Di Renjie , always keeps his mentor Di Gong, and uses his own strength to transmit Di Renjie's name to the streets and alleys of Chang'an to Nanzhou. It can be said that there must be someone in the Tang Dynasty who does not know that he is Di Renjie's disciple, and it is Su Wuming's dereliction of duty!
As the plot deepens, while the audience is watching the drama, they are also wondering, is there really a person named Su Wuming in history? Who is his historical prototype? Is Su Wuming really Di Renjie’s closed disciple in history?
is about to end. Today we will talk about whether Su Wuming is the disciple of Di Renjie, the "No. 1 Detective of the Tang Dynasty"!
Die Renjie, born in 630, entered the officialdom through the imperial examination. He served as the chief minister, governor, prime minister, etc. in Dali Temple. He was a famous politician during the Tang Dynasty Wuzhou period and died of illness in 700 years. During his lifetime, he was highly valued by Wu Zetian and had a very high status. During the period of the Tang Dynasty, he was posthumously named Sikong. When Li Dan was in power, Di Renjie was posthumously named Duke Liang , which shows his respect for his status.
Through the analysis of the weakness of the emperor, the princess and the internal struggle of the princess and the killing of Wei Shuren in "Records of the Strife of the Tang Dynasty", it is not difficult to find that the historical background should correspond to the period when Emperor Ruizong of Tang was in power. The princess in the play should be Wu Zetian and Tang Gaozong Li Zhi's youngest daughter Taiping, and the prince is the future emperor Tang Xuanzong Li Longji.
Li Longji had not ascended the throne at this time, which means that the time was around 710 AD. At this time, it was 10 years since Di Renjie died.
In the play, Su Wuming has always been proud of being a disciple of Di Renjie, and has also "mocked" Lu Lingfeng, who was not accepted by Di Renjie. He is talented and virtuous and has outstanding case handling skills, but in the ten years after Di Renjie's death, he was just a small ninth-rank county lieutenant, and was finally promoted by the princess to be transferred to Chang'an. This situation is hard not to doubt that he was not a disciple of Di Renjie in history.
Why do you say so? First of all, Di Renjie attached great importance to cultivating and recommending talents during his lifetime. He also had another characteristic when recommending talents, which was that he did not avoid relatives when selecting talents. In addition to Prime Minister Zhang Jianzhi , Khitan generals Li Kaigu , and Luo Wuzheng, he also recommended his son Di Guangsi . In addition, as many as a dozen officials have been recommended by him and became famous officials of the Tang Dynasty later, and they can be said to be full of students all over the world!
Su Wuming's ability in the play is so outstanding. If he was really a disciple of Di Gong, why didn't he be recommended by him? He has been just a small ninth-rank county lieutenant for many years? Even though he was still young at that time and Di Renjie was seriously ill in his later years and had no time to take care of him, after Di Gong passed away, he would not have been a ninth-rank Wugong County Captain, thanks to his mentor's connections in the court, right?
So, in the play, Su Wuming is undoubtedly Di Renjie's closed disciple. But if we look at the real history, he should not be Di Renjie's disciple.
So, since Su Wuming is not a disciple of Di Renjie, why is it written in "Records of the Strife of the Tang Dynasty" like this? Who is his prototype in history?
According to a folk novel called " History of Tang " and Tang Dynasty , Su Wuming was a famous folk figure in the Tang Dynasty Wu Zetian period. He became famous for cracking down on Princess Taiping's jewelry theft case. The novel records many deeds about Su Wuming, and the author of the novel is a man named Niu Su in the Tang Dynasty. Many people and things written in the novel are of the same era as him, and most of them are strange stories.Therefore, Su Wuming is probably a real person living in the Tang Dynasty at that time, and is also related to Princess Taiping , and is also famous for detecting cases. The only difference is that he is not a disciple of Di Renjie.
In addition, it is worth exploring that Su Wuming's various deeds can also be found in some unofficial histories of the Tang Dynasty.
However, although Su Wuming really exists, as another important character in "The Strange Things of the Tang Dynasty", Lu Lingfeng, although he and Su Wuming joined forces to solve the case and cooperated tacitly in the play, in real history, there is actually "no such person".
