What was a consequence of the landed elites of the Later Han dynasty manipulating tax regulations? a. Political authority was increasingly centralized within the hands of the newly rich scholar-officials. b. Buddhist monasteries were supported by the landowners to compensate for their treatment of peasants. c. Free peasants were forced to become tenant farmers whose rents rose rapidly. d. Merchants saw declining wealth and power as long-distance trade decreased.

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