you can't control that many people. They don't fit into neat little boxes of purpose like how Confucius wanted.

>>18369436
The whole "Mandate of Heaven" thing probably made it difficult to bring others onboard. Imagine trying to sell Japan on the idea that the spirits ordained a Chink as a sovereign ruler.

>>18369436
You need to destroy the OG power structures to make it work.
Chineses did it successfully, hence why they had it.
Vietnam is a piece of Chinese imperial state that "failed" to rejoin the rest after Tang and so it could easily adopt it since they lived in the exact same society.
Korea genuinely adopted it, while Japan tried to but botched the implementation. Largely thanks to not even having a functioning fucking state going at the time.

Non-Sinitic states obviously had a bigger problem getting the system since it ultimately was about learning to read and write Chinese (with texts that taught philosophy, governance, maths and other shit like that)... and they never had that institution, nor were they itching at the idea to usurp the local writing system and upper classes using it.

>>18369458
Also, no way that medieval India and surrounding areas, ruled by several kingdoms with different religious inclinations, are going to adopt a Confucian worldview. The caste system was enough. And at any rate the Persian, Arab and Mughal invasions would result in more divergence from their contemporaries in East Asia.

>>18369483
Meritocracy or bureaucracy in general isnt exclusive to confucianism. You can be no confucian but have a functioning bureaucracy based on merit.

>>18369436
What happened to pic related?

>>18369436
>Japan was feudal up till the Meiji Restoration
I know you're not going to read up on Japanese history but you could at least play CK3.