The origin of the tyrannical landlord power in the Eastern Han Dynasty: mainly produced in the late Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang's rebellion, and the strength of the Han royal family was no longer enough to pacify Wang Mang and rule the world. In this case, Liu Xiu, an outstanding member of the Han royal family, had to turn to the landlords who had begun to develop and had the ability to reorganize the world. In this case, the autocratic power of landlords began to grow wildly without restriction.

(1) Function:

(1) Scale and diversification. After decades or even nearly a hundred years of land annexation, the grange, a powerful landlord in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was very large. A large-scale grange, with agriculture as its main industry, is also engaged in forestry, animal husbandry and fishing, and also engaged in some handicrafts or certain commercial and usury activities, so that the means of production and living can be self-sufficient.

(2) Cohabitation, Hakka, clan and patriarchal clan are strong, and class contradictions are relatively relaxed. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the landlord's grange often lived in groups with clan as the core. When the society is in turmoil, every grange is a dock. The owner of the manor is not only the big landlord who occupies the whole manor, but also the leader of the clan. Clans, guests, apprentices, sects and handmaiden have different positions in the manor, and they have strong dependence on the manor owner and strict generational order. Farm owners often comfort their clansmen in the name of clan leaders, and class contradictions and confrontation are relatively relaxed, thus showing strong cohesion.

(3) having private armed forces. Powerful landlords have private armed forces, mainly composed of young and middle-aged men attached to farmers. They are called "Buqu" or "Home Soldiers". Their task was to guard the house and protect the hospital, and later they became the armed forces of powerful landlords, suppressed peasant uprisings and supported the army.

(4) Compared with the white farming economy, the landlord grange has a strong ability to survive and develop. The landlord's grange is powerful, which can organize large-scale agricultural production, build water conservancy projects, manufacture and popularize farm tools, and promote new farming techniques. This is impossible for individual farmers.

(2) Historical position:

With the formation of landlord manor economy, the clan organization and patriarchal clan system in the early feudal society of China also developed. However, the regime of the Eastern Han Dynasty was established on the basis of the strong patriarchal clan system from the beginning, which was also an important reason for the continuous development of the local patriarchal clan system in the Eastern Han Dynasty, so that it controlled the local political, economic and military forces, resulting in serious feudal separatism, warlord melee and tripartite confrontation.