Wudi encouraged learning by:
"Yuefu" which was an official conseratory was set up to collect folk songs and ballads. Yuefu poems had a great influence on later periods. Han Wudi raised taxes, nationalized many private businesses and confiscated property of the nobility. Business then ran by the government, which enjoyed an exclusive right and the government imposed heavy property tax on industrialists and businessmen to enhance the income of the court. As for this the western Han Dynasty became unpredicted rich and powerful, centralization strengthened and its feudal economy flourished.
