How does confucianism impact the ruling government

  It give them a population of literate people to be bureaucrats. 

The focus on learning was adopted by the government, making an education essential to prospering in the country. 

Confucianism focus on the family resulted in the wide spread use of collective punishments for acts seen as criminal. it was accepted that not only was it proper, but even desirable to punish not just an individual but their entire extended family for crimes. 

Answermost of the time it would be ground into fine sediment,and sometimes they are carried away from the original location;

Answer decreased soil salinity;