[foreign country] 旧指外国或外族
周公认识到，对于周国这个小国来说，要想统治其他番邦，就不能诉诸武力，而必须转而求之于自己在道德和政治上的表率作用。
The duke realised that for Zhou , a small state , to exercise sway over other feuding states , he could not rely on force of arms . It had instead to draw on its own moral and political example .
番邦