Cai Lun, who made paper, became a palace fight and lost in the palace fight

When it comes to the four major inventions, it is indispensable to papermaking, and the important person related to papermaking is Cai Lun.

Cai Lun, born into a blacksmith family, but did not engage in blacksmith work, after the age of 18 entered the palace as a eunuch. Cai Lun, who worked as an errand boy in the harem, won the trust of Empress Dou. Empress Dou, who had no heirs in the harem, was jealous of her concubine Song Guiren, because Liu Qing, the son of Song Guiren, was made crown prince. So he joined forces with Cai Lun to frame Song Guiren, causing Song Guiren to commit suicide, and Liu Qing also became a deposed prince.

Cai Lun, who had made great achievements, began to make steady steps, from a small pawn in the harem to a high-ranking eunuch with two thousand stones.

Empress Dou was promoted to Empress Dowager Dou, and her adopted son later ascended the throne as Emperor He of Han. After Empress Dowager Dou's death, Cai Lun sought a new patron: Emperor He's empress, Empress Deng.

Cai Lun's papermaking is also related to Empress Deng. The queen likes to dance and ink, which necessarily requires paper. Cai Lun threw in his favor and used tree bark, fishing nets and other materials to make paper, and "Cai Hou Paper" was born.

However, good and evil were rewarded, and when Cai Lun helped Empress Dowager Dou frame Song Guiren, he did not expect that he would soar because of this matter, and would also commit suicide because of this matter.

Later, the son of the deposed crown prince Liu Qing became emperor, that is, Emperor An of Han, and after he took the government, he settled the old accounts, and Cai Lun's good days came to an end.

At this time, Cai Lun was the Marquis of Longting, with three hundred households, and was also a figure with a head and a face. Emperor An ordered Cai Lun to surrender himself to Ting Wei (Ting Wei was an ancient official name who was in charge of the trial), but Cai Lun did not go, but after bathing and changing clothes, he took poison and committed suicide.

Cai Lun's life is not necessarily bright and upright, and his character is not necessarily how good. He succeeded in the palace fight and also failed because of the palace fight, but as an inventor he was successful, highly respected for thousands of years, and was regarded as the originator of the paper industry.