Picture Scroll of the Times: Detailed description of the end-time scenes of political corruption (Huan Ling's betrayal of office, the disaster of the Party's imprisonment), land annexation (powerful manor economy), frequent natural disasters (floods, droughts, and locust plague), and refugees in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The authority of the central government fell to the ground, and powerful local powers emerged.
Imperial power and eunuchs: The emperor was mediocre and relied heavily on a group of eunuchs such as the Ten Permanent Attendants to control the government and was in sharp opposition to the scholar-bureaucrats.
Relative: He Jin came to power with the help of his sister, the Queen Mother He, and the conflicts with the eunuchs intensified, and he intended to use external forces.
Aristocratic families: Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and other four generations and three princes, their disciples and former officials are all over the world, and they are intertwined. They control local public opinion and economy, and they are waiting to be sold at a high price.
Poor families and the common people: The upward passage is blocked, taxes and servitude are heavy, land is lost, and they become refugees or tenants. Resentments accumulate, becoming the soil for the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Border troops and foreign tribes: The border troops in Liangzhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou and other places have been fighting against the Qiang, Hu, Wuhuan and other foreign tribes for a long time. They have strong fighting power but poor treatment, and gradually become warlords (Dong Zhuo, Gongsun Zan, etc.). Foreign ethnic groups often invaded the border areas, exacerbating border turmoil.
Taiping Dao: The Zhang Jiao brothers used Fu Shui to treat illnesses as a cover, and widely spread the idea that "Heaven is dead, Huang Tian shall stand" among the people at the bottom, and gathered a huge power that could shake the empire.
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