In history, there are sages who have been passed down through the ages, and there are also evil people who have been left behind for thousands of years, and more people are known to future generations simply because of the achievements of this person in a certain field, and they do not know much about this person's life.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a eunuch who framed other concubines for the empress, and this empress immediately fell in love with another empress after her death. So what this man did politically was incomprehensible, but he had an invention that influenced us for more than 2,000 years. He is - Cai Lun invented papermaking and made great contributions to the spread and development of culture.
Cai Lun was born into a family of blacksmiths in Dazhushan (present-day Chenzhou, Hunan). When he was a teenager, Cai Lun was cut off his chicks and lived the life of a eunuch. A eunuch who can invent papermaking is naturally not an ordinary person. Less than a year after entering the palace, Cai Lun, with his own small wisdom and judging the situation, became a small yellow door dedicated to serving the emperor, and soon after, he was promoted to a yellow door attendant.
In all 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.
At the behest of Empress Dou, Cai Lun framed Song Guiren, the mother of the then crown prince Liu Qing, for "threatening evil and flattering" and making him drink poison and hang himself, and his son Liu Qing was also deposed as crown prince and demoted to the 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.
Emperor Han, who had been used as a puppet by Empress Dou for many years, 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, but there was no Cai Lun among those who were cut off. It can be seen that during his years of serving the emperor, Cai Lun also won the favor of Han and the emperor step by step.
Liu Zhao, who was hanging 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.
Empress Deng was a strange woman, and 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 her 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 material experiments, we have carefully produced 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.
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.