Implementation conditions: After the demise of the Shang Dynasty in the Western Zhou Dynasty, how to maintain its own rule and consolidate the state power has become the top priority for the rulers of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The rulers of the Western Zhou Dynasty established the enfeoffment system based on the patriarchal clan system on the premise of drawing lessons from the demise of the Shang Dynasty.

Through the enfeoffment system, the Zhou Emperor's local rule was strengthened. The Zhou Dynasty developed remote areas, expanded its ruling areas, and gradually built a transportation network all over the country, which formed the political pattern of the royal family in the Zhou Dynasty and broke the state of many countries in Xia and Shang Dynasties. Zhou became a powerful country, which lasted for hundreds of years.

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The Han dynasty inherited the "county system" of the Qin dynasty. This administrative division management system is different from that of the Qin Dynasty. At the same time, the "county system" and the feudal system were implemented, including the kingdom and the vassal state. These two parallel systems are also called "county system". Although the Han dynasty was a parallel system of counties and countries, it was still dominated by the county system.

In the early Han Dynasty, Liu Bang faced the patchwork of the forces of the vassal states and the background of the six countries after the death of Qin. His primary task is to maintain stability, eradicate the princes with different surnames, and reconcile the bipolar deviation between the princes with different surnames and the county system by granting the children with the same surnames the right to vote. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fought and successively enfeoffed seven kings with different surnames.

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