But that china is not congruent with even today's china minus autonomous provinces.
And both facts about one ruler and confuciusm are not correct.China was ruled by mongols who followed shamanism and buddhism.
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i said mostly not all the time, and it doesn't matter.
the point is they (the emperors) have the exprience to run a large country with huge population, and their exprience and findings were well preserved. even the CCP leaders are following their practise, mostly again .
one more thing, confuciusm is not a religion, it is a pholosophy. mongols learns them too.