In the five-year history of China, countless influential figures have been born, and their stories have been praised by future generations.
Cai Lun of the Han Dynasty was a well-known inventor in China, and he improved papermaking, which led to a sudden increase in paper production and a great improvement in the quality of paper. He rewrote the entire history of human progress. It is regarded by paper workers as the "originator" of papermaking.
Cai Lun
At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the large screen alone showed the papermaking technique invented by Cai Lun.
However, most people know only that he improved papermaking, and what is less known is that this great inventor was a bad eunuch in history, a villain who liked to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, and did everything in his power in order to ascend to the throne.
In ancient times, there was a special mysterious organization in the jianghu called "castration party", and "castration party" was a unique feature of ancient China. Cai Lun's fame in the "castration party" was only lower than that of Wei Zhongxian, the great eunuch of the Ming Dynasty.
Out of the blacksmith's house
In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cai Lun was born in a blacksmith family under the Dazhuo Mountains, and his ancestors lived by striking iron for generations. When he was young, he studied in the Stone Forest Township under the Dazhu Mountain, and learned the Four Books and Five Classics, and when he was young, he was very interested in smelting and raising silkworms.
Later, the imperial court set up an iron official in Guiyang, and the iron official was the institution that managed the smelting and casting of iron. The Cai family established contact with the imperial court through iron officials.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > entered the palace as a eunuch</h1>
At the age of eighteen, Cai Lun entered the palace as a eunuch through the recommendation of cast iron officials in the capital. Unlike other eunuchs, most eunuchs were sent to the palace because of the poverty of their families, asking for food and clothing. Cai Lun is different, one is that his family is not poor, and the other is that compared with other eunuchs, he has read a lot of poetry. He is the most cultured of the eunuchs.
When he first entered the palace, Cai Lun worked as an errand boy in the harem, and he was clever and was deeply liked by his masters. Within a few years, he was transferred to the imperial palace and became a small yellow door dedicated to serving the emperor. Within a few days, he was promoted one after another, and became the leader of the little yellow door.
When he was the head of the class, he naturally could not do those tiring tasks, and he was mainly responsible for conveying the holy oracles for the emperor, so that he had contact with many important ministers and harem concubines.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > queen Dou</h1>
In the han zhang emperor's dynasty, the most powerful was the empress Dou clan, and cai lun, who wanted to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, immediately joined the Dou clan. Empress Dou was a fierce character, born from a famous and prestigious family, and her grandfather Dou Rong was the founding hero of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Empress Dou not only looked like a sinking fish and a goose, but also had a lot of scheming, which was deeply liked by Emperor Zhang of Han.
Empress Dou
In the harems of successive dynasties, it was not uncommon for concubines to compete for power. The mother was precious, and the childless empress Dou clan under her knees naturally had to defend the power in her hands. A great drama staged in the harem is about to begin.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > framed Song Guiren</h1>
In 82 AD, Emperor Zhang of Han made Liu Qing, the eldest son of Concubine Song, crown prince, and if Liu Qing ascended the throne as emperor in the future, Empress Dou would have no place in the harem. People have no far-reaching worries, there must be near-term worries, Empress Dou began to design in the harem, wanting to get rid of Song Guifei.
Empress Dou then instructed Cai Lun behind her back to frame The Song Nobles and participate in the Song Nobles' "Witchcraft" in front of the Emperor. What is a witch? It is to curse others, which is very common in film and television dramas, such as za villains.
Song Guiren
During the Two Han Dynasties, the art of witchcraft was strictly prohibited, so Empress Dou framed Song Guiren with the art of witchcraft, in fact, she wanted to directly trap Song Guiren to death. The emperor also sent Cai Lun, the head of the Xiaohuangmen Squad, to torture Song Guifei severely, and Song Guifei committed suicide by taking poison because of the great humiliation. His son Liu Qing was also stripped of his position as crown prince and demoted to the position of King of Qinghe.
After the crown prince was deposed, the state could not be without a prince for a day, and Empress Dou joined forces with Cai Lun to snatch Liu Zhao, the son of Liang Guiren, into her palace to raise him, at this time, Liu Zhao was just 10 years old.
In 88 AD, Emperor Zhang of Han died of illness, and Liu Zhao ascended the throne as emperor, known in history as Emperor He of Han. Because of her young age, she was unable to manage the government, and Empress Dowager Dou assisted in the administration of the dynasty. Cai Lun was also promoted to the position of eunuch at the emperor's side, and Ming served the emperor, which was actually the eyeliner that Empress Dou planted around the emperor.
Empress Dowager Dou
Empress Dowager Dou also appointed her brother Du as the general of Hu Benzhonglang, commanding the palace guards, and also serving as Dou Jing and Dou Huan as lieutenant generals, responsible for preparing edicts and passing on edicts, so that Empress Dou's government was firmly in her own hands.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > to tie up The Han and the Emperor and overthrow Empress Dowager Dou</h1>
As Han and the emperor grew up day by day, Cai Lun also retained a heart eye, he served the emperor for many years, step by step won the trust of the emperor, no matter which side gained power in the future, Cai Lun could save himself.
With Emperor Han and Emperor himself taking power, Cai Lun's wall grass fell to Han and Emperor. When Empress Dou and Emperor Han were at odds, Cai Lun joined forces with the Chinese Wu Baiguan to help Emperor Han overthrow Empress Dowager Dou and disintegrate the Dou clique. The emperor eliminated all those related to the Dou clan, but cai lun was safe and sound, and he was promoted to an official.
Han and Emperor
Cai Lun not only pleased the emperor, he was also an empress, this story is familiar, after Empress Deng's death, he began to seduce the current Empress Deng.
Unfortunately, Han and the Emperor, like his father, were also short-lived emperors, and died young in their twenties. Empress Deng became Empress Deng.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > to improve papermaking by empress dowager Deng</h1>
Empress Deng's son Liu Long, who had just reached the full moon, succeeded him as emperor, and the emperor was a baby, and Empress Deng bowed to the government. After Empress Deng came to power, in order to implement the new policy, it was necessary to print a large number of books and distribute them to various places. But at that time, the output of paper was very small, the price was also very expensive, and the average person could not afford to use it.
Cai Lun was impressed by Empress Deng, thinking that if I could improve the papermaking technique and make the paper produce in large quantities, the empress dowager would be happy. Then I will have a bright future in the future.
Empress Deng
Say do it, Cai Lun summed up the experience of ancient artificial paper.
The earliest ancient artificial paper used linen as raw materials, flax raw materials are few, and the quality of the paper produced is poor. In order to improve papermaking technology, Cai Lun uses bark as a raw material, because the bark is rich in lignin, pectin, and protein, and the paper made is far better than hemp. However, the degumming and pulping of bark is more difficult than that of flax. Cai Lun has repeatedly experimented, failed many times, and improved. This was eventually overcome. Eventually, Cai Lun improved papermaking.
The paper produced by Cai Lun's improved papermaking is not only large in output, but also has good paper effect. For a time, Cai Lun's reputation became famous, and Empress Deng was very happy and rewarded Cai Lun again.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > a hundred causes will have a result, and they will be punished miserably</h1>
Before Cai Lun could be happy for a few days, the young emperor Liu Long died at the age of one. Empress Deng could only establish a new emperor in the imperial family, and she chose Liu Hu, the son of Liu Qing, the Prince of Liqinghe, as emperor, and was known as Emperor An of Han.
The heavens are good reincarnation, and the heavens have spared no one.
Liu Hu's father was once framed by Cai Lun and lost his position as crown prince, and Liu Hu's grandmother was also framed by Cai Lun to commit suicide. These accounts can be counted on Cai Lun's body.
After Emperor Han'an took the throne, he began to overturn the case for his grandmother that year, and found evidence that Cai Lun framed his grandmother.
Then he sent someone to make a look at Cai Lun, and Cai Lun naturally understood.
Cai Lun's death was quite dignified, for fear of others humiliating him, he consciously took a bath, then sorted out his clothes, and finally plucked up the courage to take poison to commit suicide, and died a very decent death.
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