Read page 25+ in The Great Transformation. The relationship between aristocracy and peasantry, and the despotism in china goes back forever.
Conversely, why was that relationship different in europe?
Militia.
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Transformation-Beginning-Religious-Traditions/dp/0375413170/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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