A Discussion about the Relationship Between the East State Refugees and Liu Yan and Liu Zhang

During the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty,the political corruption and the incisive social contradictions,the Yelow Turbans Uprising which broke out in the first year of Zhongping and then the separatist warlord regime and their tangled warfare,and moreover,the natural disasters — all these caused the exiled people to appear in Nanyang and Sanfu.Some of them flew into Yi State and they were called East State people.After this gang of refugees entered Shu,the refugees and the rulers of Yi State,Liu Yan and Liu Zhang,took advantages of each other,which exerted important influences on the political situation of Yi State.