What Was a Consequence for the Later Han Dynasty of the Landed

What was a consequence for the Later Han dynasty of the landed elites' manipulating tax regulations?

A) Free peasants were forced to become tenant farmers whose rents rose rapidly.
B) Merchants saw declining wealth and power as long-distance trade decreased.
C) Buddhist monasteries were supported by the landowners to compensate for their treatment of peasants.
D) Political authority was increasingly centralized within the hands of the newly rich scholar-officials.