Five thousand years in China, China's centralized power history has more than two thousand years, for the sub-feudal system, has always been regarded as a stupid system, many people feel that the sub-feudal system is the king cut his own flesh to feed the wolf, and then eat enough, the person who fed him to give the result, but this kind of inversion of the truth, misled many friends to understand the sub-feudal system.
In fact, the sub-sealing system is not only available in our country, and in the world, many countries have also engaged in a similar system with the sub-sealing system. Let's first see why the Western Zhou Dynasty wanted to engage in a sub-sealing system. Before the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was only a small country, subject to the Shang Dynasty, and later replaced the Shang Dynasty, becoming a central government recognized by various tribes and localities, and thus becoming a unified power.
This is very similar to modern England, they were originally a very small country, in many places are not as good as the Spanish Empire, if you rely on strength alone, you will certainly not be able to win over Spain, so the Queen of England will absorb the pirates in the surrounding seas, coax them to sell their lives, they use the identity of royal pirates to rob various places, the Queen of England will shelter them, as a transaction, they will share the looted things proportionally to the Queen. In today's parlance, the white wolf with empty gloves, the pirates are still pirates, they are still doing what they were before, they have not changed, because of the two words of royalty, they still have to pay tribute to the queen.
Of course, not everyone is so peaceful, and the pirates who are recruited also work against the queen, but most people are still willing to follow the queen, and from the overall point of view, this is another kind of sub-sealing system. Speaking of Western Zhou, after King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, although the world belonged to him, there were many places that Western Zhou had not yet occupied, and there were still some places that were occupied by the Shang Dynasty people left behind before. These cannot be occupied by the Western Zhou Alone, but it is impossible to waste, so there is a system of sub-sealing, distributed to you, and you will pay tribute to me when the time comes.
Let's talk about Britain, in the process of British expansion, there are actually very few colonies that they directly colonize, most of which are commercial groups or Indian companies, who let them occupy after the king gave them permission. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that after King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, because there were many lands that were allies of the Shang Dynasty, and there were many places where there was no one, there might be remnants of the Shang Dynasty people who would gather and unite to rebel, so the simplest way was to seal the princes, these princes had real power, they were assigned to various regions to encircle the land as kings, and then monitor, educate those people, and tame those who did not obey into the people of the Zhou Dynasty.
Therefore, what seems like a fool is actually a means for Western Zhou to become stronger step by step, so we can say that these princes and Zhou Tianzi of Zhou Tianzi support each other, and they support Western Zhou, otherwise, Western Zhou would have long been gone. Later, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhou Tianzi was threatened and challenged by going abroad, and all the princes came out to maintain the authority of Zhou Tianzi and support him. All the Zhou Dynasties can exist in this world for more than four hundred years. He himself knew that his strength was not strong enough, so he only engaged in the sub-feudal system, and if he had the ability to directly rule, he would presumably directly rule the Western Zhou.