Cai Yong had been treated well by Dong Zhuo before. Later, after Wang Yun and Lu Bu teamed up to kill Dong Zhuo, Cai Yong sighed and showed displeasure at the banquet, so he was scolded by Wang Yun. Then he killed him despite everyone's dissuasion.
Cai Yong is the father of Cai Wenji. He was a famous writer and calligrapher in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was not only proficient in music, but also talented. His calligraphy skills were most outstanding in "official script". He was later forcibly recruited as an official by Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo was also executed by Wang Yun after his death.
After the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, General He Jin took power. In order to deal with the Shi Changshi, he began to recruit local governors to come to the capital to eradicate the eunuchs. Later, the Shi Changshi took the lead in killing He Jin, so the Young Emperor and With no one to rely on, after Dong Zhuo entered the capital, he first induced Lu Bu to kill Ding Yuan, and then supported Emperor Xian of Han to ascend the throne and began to control the government.
Dong Zhuo heard that Cai Yong was famous all over the world, so he began to recruit him as an official, but Cai Yong refused to shirk, so Dong Zhuo threatened to destroy the three tribes, and finally Cai Yong had to obey the order. However, Dong Zhuo always wanted to win over the ministers and celebrities in the world, so he treated Cai Yong well.
After Dong Zhuo moved his capital to Chang'an, some people compared Jiang Taigong with Dong Zhuo and wanted the court to respect Dong Zhuo as "Shangfu". However, Dong Zhuo gave up this idea after heeding Cai Yong's advice. Dong Zhuo had always been interested in Cai Yong's talent and learning, but he was headstrong and self-willed, so Cai Yong often had plans to leave, but could not carry out the plan for a long time.
Later, Dong Zhuo was executed by Wang Yun and Lu Bu, and the barbarians destroyed the three tribes. When he talked about Dong Zhuo with the minister of civil and military affairs at his seat, Cai Yong sighed for him, but Wang Yun scolded him for being unfilial and loyal to the Han Dynasty. Instead, he sighed for the national thief and took him to prison.
After hearing that Cai Yong was imprisoned, all the scholar-officials at that time came to plead for him, but Wang Yun insisted on sentencing him to death, and finally executed Cai Yong at the age of sixty. The ministers and scholar-officials of the Manchu Dynasty Everyone wept for him, thinking that Wang Yun would kill moral people and that disaster would soon come.