2 Consolidate the rule of the Zhou Dynasty

The significance of the enfeoffment system lies in: (1) It sums up historical experience and organically combines the establishment of local political power with the consolidation of its own rule. In the process of enfeoffment, the Zhou Dynasty formulated a series of systems to enable the royal family to effectively control the whole territory. (2) The system of enfeoffment made the unified social system universally implemented in vassal states. The Zhou royal family used the provisions of rights and obligations to make Zhou a veritable vassal king, which changed the situation that Wang was a vassal in Xia and Shang Dynasties. (3) The enfeoffment system promoted the rapid development of the social history of the vassal States, and unified slavery was established and developed in the vassal States, which made the slave economy have a prosperous foundation. (4) The enfeoffment system accelerated the process of national integration. The remote vassal States that were enfeoffed gradually accepted the culture of the Central Plains, and some big governors continued to use troops against the surrounding ethnic minorities such as Yi, Rong and Di, and then annexed their land for cultural infiltration.