The Great Zhou Military Code was extremely strict, especially when it came to controlling powerful military weapons. The regulations were exceptionally stringent.
For ordinary military equipment, such as Peak Fire Repeating Crossbows, standard-issue spirit armor, and soul armor, if they were reported destroyed in battle, all that was needed was the joint seals of the military sima, a ******, and the user to certify them as scrapped.
However, the control system was different for great killing weapons like the Flame Spirit Demon-Exploding Crossbow and the Sky Breaking Dragon Slaying Crossbow.
The Sky Breaking Dragon Slaying Crossbow in particular was controlled by Great Zhou with a strictness that could only be called abnormal.
From production to distribution to destruction and scrapping, it was subject to extremely rigorous procedures.
For example, if a Sky Breaking Dragon Slaying Crossbow was damaged, its wreckage had to be handed in with the report before the loss could be acknowledged.
Under normal circumstances, this procedure was waived only when an entire unit had been wiped out.
Yet even if an entire unit died in battle, the wartime military code still imposed an iron-blooded order upon commanders at every level—before dying, they had to destroy all controlled military equipment. Otherwise, the crime would extend to their descendants.
The system was strict, but so long as one put some thought into it, loopholes could still be found. Otherwise, Ye Zhen would never have obtained so many Sky Breaking Dragon Slaying Crossbows from the secret armories of Luoyi's kings and marquises!
Today, Chen Keping had allowed a high-ranking Devil Race member to seize the wreckage of a Sky Breaking Dragon Slaying Crossbow. In Great Zhou, that was a grave crime.
Under ordinary circumstances, Chen Keping had ways of dealing with it. It was wreckage anyway; he could damage it