The Yellow Turban Rebellion

The era of the three kingdoms was a prolonged period of instability and disunity in china. Families and lands linked to the imperial court would show favoritism for their own as well as the court eunuchs who had been emasquerated. This corruption would create a neglectful rule of the empire where peasants were being mistreated by greedy landowners, without there being any policing or consequences. Local chiefs would begin to take control of lands and so ties and operate on a military level to defend their land and even expand to take others. When sau sa died in two 20 his son sa pe osed the ineffective emperor, thereby ending the hand dynasty. And this is known as the era