The "accumulated evils" in the late Eastern Han Dynasty were the result of more than a hundred years of stacked contradictions. They were like an old tree that was rotten to the root. It seemed to have lush branches and leaves, but it had long been hollow inside. From the court to the countryside, from official administration to people's livelihood, there are festering wounds everywhere, which eventually broke the 400-year-old foundation of the Han Dynasty.
