Feudal Enfeoffment System

The series of enfeoffments before Ming was actually no different from the Feudal Enfeoffment System implemented during the Xia Dynasty in the original timeline. The Four Sovereign Lords were essentially like four Human Emperors.

They would hold the four directions, assist the central Mount Tai City, and handle Great Xia's affairs.

As for the meritorious soldiers and generals who came later, Ming would divide territories among them in turn, allowing them to form eight hundred vassal states like those of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, with the four Human Emperors at their core.

It was not that Ming could not come up with a more advanced method of governing the country. In fact, the commanderies and counties of later generations, or even the divisions into provinces and cities, were all quite good.

They simply were not suited to Great Xia's circumstances. The Great Wilderness was boundless, and even with Teleportation Arrays connecting the entire realm,

unless the Human Emperor constantly monitored the entire territory through the Sea of Destiny Clouds, it would be very difficult to oversee everything.

Not to mention how great the cost of monitoring through the Sea of Destiny Clouds would be, doing so would alone cause the people's support to scatter. It would also burden the Human Emperor's cultivation, leaving him unable to spare any energy for other political affairs.

Just as China had always implemented the Feudal Enfeoffment System before the Qin Dynasty, this was not because the ancestors were insufficiently clever or could not think of a better way to govern the country.

It was simply because transportation was not developed enough, and the imperial court did not possess the ability to overwhelm all directions.

They could only implement what the Confucian School desired most: "a sage Son of Heaven ruling effortlessly from behind