And also if you have a surplus, and that's a desirable thing to do, you can sell it.

同时如果你还有剩余,这是很理想的情况,你可以卖掉它们

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Such states, of course, did not need a bureaucracy for there were no vast royal or state holdings that needed management and not much economic surplus to support a bureaucratic class.

国家无需官僚体制,因为没有庞大的皇室家族,和国家财富需要管理,也没多少经济盈余能够维持官僚阶级

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