In the vast thousand-year history of China, there are sages who have been flowing for hundreds of years, and there are also evil people who have been left behind for thousands of years, and more people are known to future generations only because of the achievements of this person in a certain field, and cai lun is one of the most typical representatives. The vast majority of modern people's understanding of Cai Lun comes from the papermaking technology, one of the four major inventions of ancient China mentioned in the middle school history class, and it is precisely because of his improvement of papermaking that paper is not only cheap and of high quality, but also the source of modern paper.
However, the world only knows that Cai Lun's improvement of papermaking has made great contributions to ancient Chinese science, but he does not know that this person is a small person who climbs the dragon and attaches to the phoenix, and does everything in his power in order to ascend to the throne.
Entering the palace for the eunuch Pingbu Qingyun
Cai Lun was born into a family of blacksmiths in Dazhushan (present-day Chenzhou, Hunan). When he was more than ten years old, Cai Lun entered the palace as a eunuch, and as to why Cai Lun entered the palace as a eunuch, there are also many opinions in the history books, some people think that it is because the Cai family is poor and was sold to the palace, but more people prefer that the court officials who manage the cast iron have a close relationship with the Cai family and recommend Cai Lun to enter the palace as a eunuch.
For how Cai Lun entered the palace, we have no way to pursue, in short, after Cai Lun became a eunuch, with his own little wisdom and judgment of the situation, less than a year after entering the palace, he became a small yellow door dedicated to serving the emperor, and soon after he was promoted to become a yellow door waiter.
Become Dou's confidant
Since the day Cai Lun entered the palace, he had secretly made up his mind that he would also be the most powerful eunuch. Cai Lun, who became a waiter at the Yellow Gate, had the main job of conveying official documents to the courtiers on behalf of the emperor, and the convenience of his position gave him many opportunities to contact the harem concubines and princes. In the years when Cai Lun was on duty, the most powerful in the DPRK was the Dou clan.
Dou's power originated from Dou Rong, one of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, the founding father of the early Years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was Empress Dou, who really made the Dou clique gain a foothold in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Cai Lun seized the opportunity
Throughout the dynasties and generations, almost every emperor's harem has a drama of intrigue, and the harem of Emperor HanZhang is no exception. Empress Dou could not give birth to a son, and she was jealous and worried that the concubines and nobles who gave birth to sons would be mothers and sons, and this deceitful palace fight drama began. Empress Dou, as the mastermind behind the scenes, naturally needs a good executor, and Cai Lun seized the opportunity.
Cai Lun was instructed by Empress Dou to frame Song Guiren, the mother of the then crown prince Liu Qing, for "threatening evil and flattering the Tao" and making him drink poison and hang himself, and Liu Qing was also deposed as the crown prince and demoted to the position of King of Qinghe. Shortly after Liu Qing was deposed, Empress Dou took away Liang Guiren's son Liu Zhao, who was less than 10 years old, later Emperor He of Han, of which Cai Lun contributed a lot.
In 88 AD, Emperor Zhang of Han died of illness, and the 10-year-old Liu Zhao took the throne, Empress Dou bowed to the government and controlled the power of the dynasty, and Cai Lun, as Empress Dou's confidant, was also promoted to Zhongchang Attendant, Ming was serving the emperor, and secretly Empress Dou monitored Liu Zhao's eyeliner.
See the wind make the rudder climb the dragon and attach the phoenix
Although it is Empress Dou's eyeliner, Cai Lun's heart and eyes are not many, and in these years of serving the emperor, Cai Lun has also won the favor of Han and the emperor step by step. Emperor Han and Emperor He, who had been used as a puppet by Empress Dou for many years, finally seized the opportunity to disintegrate the Dou clique and take back the power that should have belonged to him from Empress Dou. All the people involved with Dou were cut off one by one, except for Cai Lun.
In addition to pleasing the emperor, Cai Lun could also grasp the mind of Empress Deng at that time, and when he saw the fall of the Dou clan, he immediately hugged Empress Deng's thigh tightly.
Liu Zhao,as short-lived as his father, Emperor Zhang of Han, hung up around the age of thirty, empress Deng became Empress Deng and held real power, and Cai Lun naturally had to desperately curry favor with this master.
Improved papermaking
Empress Deng was a strange woman, and in the dynasty that pursued "a woman's talentlessness is virtue", she liked to dance and ink and recite poems. People who like to engage in literature are more paper-intensive, and the papermaking technology at that time was time-consuming and laborious. Cai Lun thought that if she could make the paper mass production and high quality, Empress Deng was happy, then my career was immeasurable!
As a result, Cai Lun has been immersed in researching how to improve the papermaking technology left by predecessors. After countless repeated experiments on materials, he found that the use of bark, rags, fishing nets and other raw materials, through the process of frustration, pounding, frying, baking and other processes carefully manufactured cheap high-quality and energy-producing paper.
For a time, Cai Lun's reputation became famous, and he was rewarded by Empress Deng, and he was even more famous among the people for a time.
Desperate, he committed suicide in fear of sin
After the death of The Han and Emperor Liu Zhao, he and Empress Deng's son Liu Long, who had just turned 100 years old, took the throne, and if Liu Long could grow up peacefully and peacefully, Cai Lun might still have the opportunity to raise his life, but unfortunately Liu Long did not live long. Liu Long died two years after he ascended the throne, and Empress Deng chose Liu Hu, the son of Liu Qing the Prince of Qinghe, to die in the imperial family, and Cai Lun killed the new emperor's grandmother, causing his father to lose his position as crown prince, so after Empress Deng's death, after Liu Hu took power, Cai Lun, fearing that the emperor would attack him, chose to commit suicide by poisoning himself.
Although Cai Lun made great contributions to ancient science and technology, he was a villain who lost his conscience and became inflamed.
Disclaimer: The article is excerpted from the Internet, and the infringement is deleted!