An idealist and socialist The governments of the Han had no shortage of idealist officials determined to do something about the chronic problem of economic inequality, and it was under their pressure that emperors agreed to frequent policy Han emperors Zhao Di and Xuan Di however, Confucian scholars began to despair of the way society was developing, and calls for the ruling house to relinquish the throne began to circulate.
理想的社會主義針對漢代貧富不均的痼疾，朝廷始終有一批胸懷改革抱負的士大夫，在他們壓力下，帝王得不時修正，但昭宣之後，西漢末的社會發展讓儒生失望，鼓吹「讓國」之聲遂不斷響起。