China's 5,000 years of history have given birth to countless historical celebrities, whose stories are familiar to us, and through their stories we feel good character, but sometimes when we look at their entire lives, we find it difficult to understand, and these celebrities also have an unspeakable side.
1. Kong Rong was finally beheaded by Cao Cao on the charge of "filial piety and failure".
The story of Kong Rong let pears we are all familiar with, but everyone may not know that Kong Rong was finally killed by Cao Cao, and one of the charges Cao Cao convicted him of was "filial piety is a loss", it is difficult to understand that a person who knows at the age of 4 and respects the old and loves the young will become a person who is not filial piety.
In fact, the loss of filial piety is only a reason for Cao Cao to kill Kong Rong, and the main reason why Cao Cao killed Kong Rong is that Kong Rong is arrogant and has always looked down on Cao Cao. Feeling that Cao Cao's talent was inferior to his own, he often ridiculed Cao Cao's eunuch origins, and after Cao Cao captured Yecheng, Cao Cao's son Cao Pi snatched Yuan Xi's wife Zhen Shi and made him his wife.
After Kong Rong learned of this, he wrote a letter to Cao Cao, saying: "The King of Wu cut down the silk and gave himself a reward to the Duke of Zhou. Cao Cao did not react and asked Kong Rong if he had this allusion? Kong Rong replied: "Kong Rong replied: "According to the current amount of things, just take it for granted." Cao Cao felt insulted and very angry, he had done a lot of things like this, and later there was a crime of weaving Kong Rong by a minister, and Cao Cao used this to formulate a number of charges against Kong Rong and execute him.
2. Li Shen of "Mercy Nong" became a cool official after becoming an official
"At noon on the day of hoeing, the sweat drops down to the soil", this is probably the first poem recited in our youth, and we often use it to describe the hardships of farmers planting crops.
The poet of this poem, Li Sheng, has also been widely praised by us, known as one of the "Yuan and Three Sons" of the Middle Tang Dynasty, but what you may not expect is that this great poet of Li Shen will become a corrupt official after his career.
After Li Sheng entered the career of Huang Tengda, he gradually became arrogant and lascivious, and transformed into a corrupt official who spent time and drank heavily and abused his lascivious power. With the rise of official positions, Li Shen "gradually became extravagant". It is rumored that Li Shen's consumption of a meal is often as many as hundreds or even thousands of guan. When Li Shen was an envoy to Huainan Festival, he was extremely indifferent to the suffering of the people. The people under Li Shen's rule were hungry and fled across the river one after another. Han Yu, Jia Dao, Liu Yuxi, and Li He, who were contemporaries of Li Sheng, all scorned him. When Liu Yuxi was serving as the Assassin of Suzhou, he was invited to attend a banquet arranged by Li Sheng, the envoy of Yangzhou Jiedu at that time, and he was very angry when he saw that Li Sheng's family was full of prostitutes.
Therefore, Li Shen became a cool official, and after Li Shen's death, he was punished by "cutting the three officials of the gentry, and the descendants are not allowed to be shi".
3. Cai Lun, who invented papermaking, was a despicable eunuch
Although Cai Lun improved papermaking technology and made great contributions to the development of human civilization, Cai Lun's motivation for improving papermaking technology is very unsinkable, and Cai Lun himself is also a villain who can use any means for the sake of the upper position.
Cai Lun's family is very poor, at a very young age, he was sent into the palace by his family to become a eunuch, and found that the most powerful and favored person in the harem was Empress Dou of Hanzhang, but Empress Dou was childless, and after a hundred years of Emperor Hanzhang, The status of Empress Dou would inevitably be very embarrassing, in order to be able to climb the big tree of Empress Dou, Cai Lun deliberately framed the mother of the prince, Song Guiren, causing Song Guiren to commit suicide by poisoning, and the crown prince Liu Qing's position as prince was also abolished, and then helped Empress Dou to take away Liang Guiren's son, just like this, Cai Lun became Empress Dou's confidant.
Later, after the death of Emperor Zhang of Han, Empress Dou became Empress Dowager Dou and began to bow to the government, and Cai Lun was also promoted to the rank of Zhongchang Attendant because of a small eunuch, and was sent to serve Han and Emperor Liu Zhao, in fact, to help Empress Dou monitor Liu Zhao.
During his service to Han and Emperor, Cai Lun also already understood that Emperor Han and Emperor Dou were not compatible, and knew that the Dou clan would not last long, so Cai Lun took advantage of the opportunity to serve Han and Emperor, gained the trust of Emperor Han and Emperor, and became a confidant of Emperor Han and Emperor, and also became the only person who was close to Empress Dou but was not implicated when Emperor Han and Emperor cut off the Dou clique.
After the death of Emperor Han he, the throne fell into the hands of Liu Qing's son Liu Hu, who wanted to avenge his grandmother and father and investigate Cai Lun, who committed suicide in fear of his crime.
So sometimes we look at history and find that people are very complex, and there are many things that are completely different from what we think.