How did the Eastern Han Dynasty recover?

In 8 AD, Wang Mang, who was in power, immediately embarked on economic reform in an attempt to ease class contradictions. However, the failure of Wang Mang's restructuring not only failed to save the social crisis, but also intensified various contradictions, which eventually led to the great peasant uprising in Greenwood and Chimei. In 23 AD, Wang Mang was killed and the new dynasty perished. In AD 25, Liu Xiu, a royal family of the Western Han Dynasty who joined the peasant uprising army, acceded to the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, with Luoyang as its capital, which was known as the Eastern Han Dynasty in history. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, * * * was passed on to the emperor 13, and the country was founded 196, and he died in 220 AD.

In order to alleviate the social contradictions during Wang Mang's reign, Liu Yi adopted a series of policies to adjust his rule. The following measures are ordered to release slaves, reduce taxes, build water conservancy projects, resettle wasteland and resume production. He also adjusted the ethnic policy, so that the Xiongnu in the north and south and other ethnic minorities in the border areas were successively attached to the Han Dynasty. Ban Chao was sent to the Western Regions to re-establish friendly relations with all ethnic groups in the Western Regions. After a period of adjustment, at the end of Liu Xiu's rule, there was a scene of prosperity, which was called "Guangxu Zhongxing" in history.

After the mid-Eastern Han Dynasty, consorts and eunuchs ruled alternately, and politics became increasingly dark. During the reign of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling, some upright bureaucrats, scholars and students were severely suppressed by eunuch forces because they opposed eunuch dictatorship. Some were killed and imprisoned, and some were banned from being officials for life, causing "the disaster of the party." At the same time, the tyrannical landlords wantonly annexed land, which made many peasants displaced and became slaves and tenants of tyrannical landlords, and class contradictions became increasingly fierce. Finally, in A.D. 184, the Yellow Scarf Army uprising led by Zhang Jiao, a giant deer man, broke out.