当初,狄仁杰曾为并州(今太原)法曹(主管司法的官员)。有一次,他的一位同事郑崇质接到了一道命令,担任使者出使国外。出国在现代是件美差,可在那时,没有飞机,也没火车,就靠骑马或坐车,走一趟短则数月,长则几年。更要命的是,出国的路途往往充满艰险,有去无回是经常的事。因此唐朝政府规定,什么级别的使臣出使如果死了,会享受什么级别的抚恤,可抚恤再高,也没人愿意拿生命冒险。所以只要碰到这种事,官员们都 At the beginning, Di Renjie was a lawyer in Jiaozhou (now Taiyuan), a judicial officer. On one occasion, one of his colleagues, Cheng Chong-seng, received an order to serve as messenger abroad. Go abroad in the modern is a beautiful, but at that time, there is no plane, no train, rely on riding or car, take a short trip to a few months, then a few years. Even worse, the journey abroad is often full of difficulties and dangers, it is not uncommon to go back. Therefore, the Tang government stipulates that what level of envoys to exercise if the dead, what level of pension will be able to pension higher, no one is willing to take life adventure. So long as this kind of thing happens, officials are