The objective reason why the rulers in the early Han Dynasty implemented the policy of recuperation was economic poverty. Up to two-thirds of the taxes in the Qin dynasty and the peasant wars in the late Qin dynasty destroyed the productivity level that has not been restored in the warring States period after the war. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the economy was depressed, the country was poor, people lost their land and did not have enough to eat, and cannibalism occurred, with more than half of the deaths. The emperor's carriage is not worthy of four horses of the same color, and some of them can only take ox carts, which is the objective reason why the rulers adopted the policy of recuperation in the early Western Han Dynasty. Therefore, the objective reason why Han Gaozu, the ruler of the early Han Dynasty, and his successor Han Wendi attached importance to the development of agricultural production and adopted the policy of recuperation was economic poverty.