Author: Jun Zhiyi
In the last year of Yongping, Cai Lun, who was only thirteen years old, was selected to enter the palace as a eunuch.
Although Cai Lun was young, he was very precocious, and after entering the palace, he was careful everywhere and paid attention to everything, which was deeply appreciated by the chief of internal affairs.
The following year, Cai Lun was promoted to Xiaohuangmen, and soon after, he was promoted to Huangmen Waiter.
His important job was to be responsible for the transmission of affairs outside the palace, as well as to guide and arrange for people to sit in the imperial court, and so on.
The advantage of this errand was that he had frequent access to the maharajah's ministers and harem concubines.
Over time, Cai Lun was unconsciously involved in the open and secret struggle in the harem.
Emperor Zhangdi's empress Dowager Dou was unable to have children, so whenever any concubines gave birth to the imperial seed, she was extremely jealous, and secretly tried to knock these concubines down in order to maintain her position.
In the harem of feudal society, if you want to consolidate your position without being threatened, and not to be at the end of the road, you must understand a truth: the son is precious to the mother, and the mother is precious to the son, and the two complement each other.
The harem is as deep as the sea, and the surface of the sea may be calm and calm, but in fact, the undercurrent is turbulent inside, and if one does not pay attention, it will be secretly calculated, and even harm the Nine Tribes.
The fierce and jealous Empress Dou will use thirty-six counts of borrowed swords to kill people to achieve her ulterior motives.
So she targeted Cai Lun.
Cai Lun is also extremely intelligent, and he thinks to himself: This clearly shows that he is using me as a pawn! Be a knife maker! But if I don't listen to Dou's, my little life will definitely be over!
Empress Dou was not a fuel-saving lamp, fierce, sinister and cunning, and there were many means.
Cai Lun was eventually forced by Dou's obscenity to become her accomplice.
In order to kill a hundred people, Empress Dou was the first to attack the mother of the crown prince Liu Qing, Song Guiren, who instructed Cai Lun to frame Song Guiren, saying that Song Guiren had specially created crooked ways to deceive the emperor.
The emperor was faint and incompetent, listening to rumors, the Song nobles were deposed, and according to the mother-child relationship in the court, the crown prince Liu Qing was deposed as the King of Qinghe.
She also coerced Liang Guiren to recognize Liu Zhao, who was still in his infancy, as her son, and asked the emperor to make Liu Zhao the crown prince.
Cai Lun assisted Empress Dou in removing the nails in her eyes and thorns in her flesh, and Cai Lunjia was naturally out of the question.
In 88 AD, Emperor Zhang of Han died, and the ten-year-old Liu Zhaoshun succeeded to the throne, and Empress Dou bowed to the government and monopolized power.
Cai Lun was entrusted with the heavy responsibility of accompanying the little emperor and could participate in major state affairs if necessary.
Ten years later, Empress Dowager Dou died, and Cai Lun, with a keen sense of smell, defected to his new master, Empress Deng Sui of Liu Zhao.
Empress Deng was a talented woman who liked to sing poetry, so she needed something better than paper to write, draw, and so on.
Cai Lun thought to himself: His opportunity has finally come.
Cai Lun is a very intelligent person, his brain is very flexible, and his hands-on ability is also quite strong.
On the basis of summarizing the experience of artificial paper, he improved it himself, and finally invented a particularly advanced papermaking technique, which was highly praised by Empress Deng and others.
His own invention was so powerful, Cai Lun was complacent, when a bad news came, Han and Emperor Liu Zhaoying died prematurely, leaving Empress Deng and the young emperor under the age of two.
Just as the so-called misfortune was not alone, Empress Deng's young emperor unfortunately died, and the country could not be left without a master for a day, and after careful selection, Empress Deng decided to make her own imperial nephew Liu Hu the crown prince.
Although Empress Deng still held real power, Liu Hu was just the blind man's eye- a decoration, but this news also scared Cai Lun half to death.
Because Liu Hu was the son of Liu Qing, the King of Qinghe, who had been framed by Empress Dou and himself, and the grandson of Song Guiren.
However, even so, during Empress Deng's reign, she was still very fond of Cai Lun, who still lived an unusually beautiful life, and he was also named the Marquis of Longting, and the paper he invented was called Cai Hou Paper.
Empress Deng also gave him an official position: Changle Taishi.
When the empress dowager had no time to handle official affairs, Cai Lun could legally handle it on her behalf.
As the saying goes, the middle of the day moves, and when the moon is full, it loses.
Just when Cai Lunquan was leaning toward the opposition, a bad news reached Cai Lun's ears, which was tantamount to a thunderbolt on a sunny day.
Empress Dou is sick! The backer behind Cai Lun collapsed violently.
The first thing Emperor Liu Hu did after he ascended the throne was to counterattack and reckon, giving his father and grandmother a bad breath.
The mastermind Empress Dou is long gone, so this debt must always be repaid, and naturally, Cai Lun was dismissed from his post and investigated.
Cai Lun suddenly stopped and completely ignored it, he knew that his qi was exhausted and the death penalty could not be escaped, in order to die more decently, he chose to take poison and commit suicide.
His life was like fireworks, after experiencing the brilliant splendor of the moment, everything fell and fell silent.
As a scientist, Cai Lun participated in the political struggle of deception and became a victim of the political struggle, which really made the world sigh.
However, Cai Lun's historical achievements have also been recorded in the annals of history and have been widely praised by the world.
The history books record that Cai Lun was the founder of the first of the four major inventions in ancient China - papermaking.
Among the hundred celebrities who influenced the course of human history, Cai Lun ranked in the top ten.
【Author's Profile】Jun Zhiyi, a lover of literature, loves to read and write.
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