Complex sentence: As a result, corruption continued to be widespread both in the court (Wei Zhongxian, Heshen) and among the local elites, and became one of the targets for criticism in the novel "Jin Ping Mei".
Split into simpler sentences: As a result, corruption continued to be widespread both in the court (Wei Zhongxian, Heshen) and among the local elites. It became one of the targets for criticism in the novel "Jin Ping Mei".