Presumably, the royal uncles and brothers of the Dayuezhi king, those who had failed in their bids for the throne, would also be quite willing to lend Bingzhou a hand.
"Be that as it may, the Dayuezhi king has certainly taken a load off our work!" remarked a local official, temporarily seconded to the region, with a hint of relief.
Among these officials drawn from local administration, those best suited for warfare enlisted as frontline commanding officers, while the vast majority of the rest were tasked with receiving surrendered troops and handling postwar pacification.
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