Along the way, Jing Ke truly broadened his horizons. A single city was practically a country; why did it look so much like the Zhou royal house at the dawn of its feudal system, when the realm was divided among vassals?
If one judged purely by territorial size, the Western Regions indeed resembled the Zhou Dynasty in its earliest days of enfeoffment. Yet, unlike the Zhou, they lacked a vast, powerful, and advanced suzerain state.
It was more reminiscent of the Spring and Autumn period, after Duke Zhuang of Zheng challenged the royal authority, when states took turns vying for hegemony.
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