Questions about farmsteads in the Han Dynasty

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, powerful landlords had exploited farmers in the form of farms. After the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the prevalence of feudal large-scale land ownership, the rapid development of land annexation, and the wars in the late Western Han Dynasty, powerful landlords established feudal landlord farms one after another. Inside the landlord's farm, there is a self-sufficient natural economy. It occupies a large area of ??land, mountains, forests and rivers, grows food and various cash crops, and also operates handicrafts, fishery and animal husbandry.

Due to the large number of landlords and farms in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the social and economic development of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not reflected in the strength and unity of the feudal country, but in the poverty and weakness of the feudal country and the instability of the political situation.

Although the private armed forces of landlords and farms played a role in maintaining feudal order, suppressing people's resistance, and defending landlords and farms in peacetime, because they were a product of the landlords' farm economy, when the central control was unable to control them, they It can also appear as unified opposites and become an important factor in feudal separatism.