There is a saying in "Augmenting the Sages": "It is difficult to draw a dragon and a tiger to draw bones, and it is difficult to know the face and not to know the heart", sometimes the people around us are still difficult to distinguish between good and bad, and with our various historical figures of hundreds or thousands of years, it is even more difficult to distinguish just from the written understanding. For example, the two historical figures mentioned today are positive examples in textbooks and idols of students. However, in real life, he has become a big villain.
First place: Kuang Heng
For Kuang Heng's name, everyone must not be unfamiliar, he is the protagonist of the "chiseling the wall to steal the light" often mentioned in primary and secondary school textbooks, the character Zhi Gui, Donghae County Chengxian people. He grew up in a poor family and made a living as a farmer for generations. Kuang Heng is a very hard worker, in addition to helping the family to do farm work, he spends almost all of his time on studying.
But after doing farm work during the day, it was dark again at night. Where does Kuang Heng have the money to light candles? But it doesn't matter, the clever Kuang Heng found that the neighbor's house was brightly lit, so Hu Kuang Heng secretly punched a small hole in the wall to let the neighbor's light energy penetrate into his home.
In the books almost here to teach here abruptly, and then the teacher will take Kuang Heng as an example to educate the students, you see Kuang Heng family is so poor, the conditions are so poor and so hard to study, you have electric lights and air conditioning blowing so lazy, you have to learn more from Kuang Heng.
Since then, Kuang Heng has become a role model for the majority of students, but the teacher has never said what happened to Kuang Heng? In fact, the industrious Kuang Heng did later become a high official, from Langzhong to Yushi Dafu, and finally became the prime minister of the Han Dynasty. But unfortunately, in the end, he was relegated to a common man.
What brought Kuang Heng back to his original form was not the court's gladiatorial struggle, but Kuang Heng's greed. Kuang Heng accumulated countless wealth when he was an official, and after the eunuch Shi Xian was removed, Kuang Heng had already fallen into power, and the officials at the bottom offered treasures in order to please Kuang Heng, and Kuang Heng received all the treasures according to the order. During the Han Yuan Emperor's time, Kuang Heng had already been enfeoffed as the Marquis of Le'an, but Kuang Heng took advantage of the error of the map to expand his fiefdom by more than 40,000 mu. After Emperor Hancheng ascended the throne, Kuang Heng fell from power and was demoted to a commoner.
Second place: Cai Lun
China's four major inventions, papermaking can be said to be the most widely used. In our lives, we have long been inseparable from paper, and Cai Lun, who summarized people's papermaking experience in the past and improved papermaking, naturally became a well-known historical figure, and is a character who often appears in primary and secondary school texts. Cai Lun's inventive and innovative spirit is commendable, but his character does not dare to compliment.
Cai Lun was originally born in a blacksmith family under nian Dasui Mountain, and in 75 AD he entered the imperial palace on the recommendation of officials who went to Guiyang to do errands in the capital, and the wise Cai Lun leaned on the big tree of Empress Dou and soon became the middle and permanent attendant of Tianzi, responsible for important matters such as edicts, handling documents, and participating in the government of the dynasty, and became a high eunuch in the palace.
After Cai Lun took power, he did a lot of bad things, and in order to protect his own power, he planted the Song nobles to curse the emperor of the dynasty, Han Zhangdi, and not only tortured the Song nobles, but also forced the Song nobles to commit suicide by taking poison, which finally led to the deposing of the crown prince Liu Qing. After Emperor Han and Emperor He succeeded to the throne smoothly, Cai Lun began to exclude Dou's foreign relatives in order to seize power. Eventually, in the first year of Jianguang (121 AD), he lost his position and committed suicide, perhaps for Cai Lun, improving papermaking was also a means of his political struggle.