As a result, the grievances of small-scale farmers mounted up, while the big landowners actively opposed him, and it was one of their families that was eventually to provide the first ruler of the restored Han dynasty--the Eastern Han's Guangwu.
因此不僅原本希望救濟的小農蓄積許多不滿，大地主更紛紛反撲，東漢光武帝劉秀本身就是漢末大家族。