Complex sentence: Wealthy merchants could even borrow the servants and personal carriages of officials earning a salary of 2,000 "dan" to engage in leisure activities, resulting in decadence among the upper class while the common people became poorer.
Split into simpler sentences: Wealthy merchants could even borrow the servants and personal carriages of officials for their own leisure activities. This resulted in decadence among the upper class while the common people became poorer.