That feeling was a lot like the Great Sage Equalling Heaven being unable to escape the Buddha's Five Fingers Mountain....
Compared to the complicated feelings of those two, Qiu Tu was much happier. His face was all smiles, and he said with genuine warmth, "Welcome, both of you, to the fold. Let's sit down and talk...."
That day, with the help of Huang Shangzong and Yan Chen, Tang Feifei and Princess Xi formally began integrating the Royalist faction's forces.
On Huang Shangzong's advice, the Dongye State's troops and the Royalist faction's army didn't forcibly merge using clumsy ratios like 1:5 or 1:6.
Instead, they swapped a small number of units to boost communication and cohesion; tweaked the mid-level officer roster; and added Military Governors to each company for ideological propaganda, among other strategies to ease the pain of merging both factions.
