Cai Wenji

Chapter 368 – Cai Wenji

In history, Cai Yong started his career as a clerk under an official. As he was talented in mathematics, calligraphy, music, and astronomy, Cai Yong was later promoted to work in Luoyang library.

In 175, Cai Yong and many scholars engraved the Five Classics in stone, which became Xiping Stone Classics, and it became a role model for the later generation scholars.

As a royalist, Cai Yong was a part of an anti-eunuch faction. He works conflicted with eunuch clan in the palace, but his political attack was not successful.

In 177 and 178, Cai Yong was exiled to the frontier as he and his uncle were framed by the eunuch faction with a crime he did not commit. He tried to return to the capital later to protect his works, but Cai Yong had to evict himself from the capital city because of the political infighting.