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Yes, Li Qinwu had never intended to establish a feudal system from the very beginning. He had planned to adopt the system the T'au had built instead!
The Imperium did not care what system a planet used. As long as it could pay its taxes and shout, "Long live the God-Emperor," nothing else mattered.
As for whether anyone would find fault with a system built by Xenos, that depended on the circumstances.
The Imperium of Man was simply too vast. Perhaps the system used by the T'au had also evolved convergently on some human world?
In any case, Li Qinwu intended to spend the coming period adapting the T'au system to local conditions, stripping away T'au culture while continuing to use it.
For Water Blue Star, the T'au system was practically the equivalent of a dynastic change.
Li Qinwu had studied it. The T'au system was not particularly ingenious; its main strength was that it was implemented well.
Take the feudal societies on human planets. If the Imperium's decrees could truly be carried out one hundred percent, the humans on those planets would not live too badly. The problem was that there were too many nobles in the middle.
Corruption, bloated procedures, blocked paths of advancement—no matter how good a policy was, once implemented through that system, it would become a policy of exploitation.
Conveniently, the former rebel planetary governor had worked with the T'au to slaughter a batch of old nobles, and Li Qinwu had slaughtered another batch here, wiping out the planet's old interest groups completely!
That gave the planet the soil needed for reform. Li Qinwu might as well give it a push and transform it from a feudal system into a more advanced one!
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