after the middle of the eastern Han dynasty, consorts were in power, eunuchs were authoritarian, and political affairs were corrupt and dark. Especially after Emperor Andi, there were frequent floods and droughts against Qiang, Xianbei and other ethnic minorities in successive years, which caused great damage to the feudal economy and intensified the contradiction between farmers and the landlord class. In order to stabilize the feudal rule in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wang Fu not only actively advocated respecting talents and abilities politically and economically, but also innovated official management, paid equal attention to agriculture, industry and commerce, and opposed extravagance and lewdness. He also attached great importance to immigration and frontier defense on population issues. It is wrong for the Eastern Han Dynasty imperial court to give up the border land and force the border people to move inward in the war with the Qiang and other ethnic minorities. This not only brought great losses to the lives and property of the people in the border area, but also gave the enemy an opportunity. "There are many people and few people, so we can't make use of their materials. It is called a virtual scholar and can attack and cut." ("The Diver's Theory of Real Edge". The following quotations in this article, where quoted from this book, only note the title of the article) Therefore, if we want to consolidate the border defense and "secure China" (ibid.), we should move a large number of mainland people to the border areas to "fill the border" (ibid.). Secondly, only by a large number of immigrants guarding the border can we change the situation that "the border counties are thousands of miles away", "there are no people in the air, and the fertile land is abandoned without reclamation" and "within Zhongzhou", "there is no room for many people" (ibid.), rationally distribute the population, make full use of the land and develop production rapidly. Wang Fu's proposition, although conducive to strengthening border defense and "land and people must be commensurate" (ibid.), is difficult to achieve in the case that the Eastern Han Dynasty court repeatedly adopted the policy of seeking peace and giving in.
Wang Fu also pays great attention to educating the people and improving the quality of the population. "Heaven and earth is expensive, people also. The sage's return is righteous. What is achieved by virtue and righteousness is also wise. Those who seek wisdom are also learned. " ("Zanxue") He believes that educating the people is not only the foundation of building the country, "the husband is the country, enriching the people, and learning the truth" ("Wu Ben"), but also the foundation of improving people's moral habits, making the social atmosphere simple and stabilizing social order. "Kings rule the world, view the people and teach, but can change customs, so that peace. Not only that, but he also thinks that education can be divided into the beginning and the end. "Those who teach should take morality as the foundation and sophistry as the end" ("Wu Ben"). Only by educating people with integrity and inducing them to be good, they will not violate the law and discipline. On the other hand, educating people about evil deeds, that is, "to learn prostitution is to cheat and falsify" (ibid.), will ruin the integrity of society and is not conducive to stabilizing the feudal order and consolidating feudal rule. Wang Fu advocated strengthening the education of the people, which inherited the views of predecessors, but he thought that education also had the difference between the beginning and the end, which was unprecedented.