The military equipment Grand Supervisor of the Inner Palace Yu Chaoen handed over to Ye Zhen consisted solely of high-powered, strategic-grade armaments, along with five thousand sets of lower-grade town-artifact-level armor.
There were also vast quantities of Healing Pills and all manner of large-scale military talismans.
Ye Zhen made a rough estimate. The number of these strategic weapons was enough to equip at least five armies of one hundred thousand men each.
Under Great Zhou's military system, an army of one hundred thousand could be assigned one hundred Sky Breaking Dragon Slaying Crossbows.
Then there were the enormous quantities of crossbow bolts of various attributes, consecrated and refined by priests of the Great Zhou Ancestral God Hall. Their value was unimaginably staggering.
Grand Supervisor of the Inner Palace Yu Chaoen might have been able to obtain such a vast stockpile of military equipment, but he would never have dared to do so.
If this matter came to light, even with Yu Chaoen's power and influence, Benevolent Sovereign would confiscate his household and exterminate his clan.
These were armaments that not even the main forces of the Great Zhou Imperial Guard had been equipped with. Princess Changle possessed even less influence of that kind.
Then this matter could only have been authorized by one person.
The Holy Son of Heaven of Great Zhou, Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long!
Only this Holy Son of Heaven possessed such power.
Without the Holy Son of Heaven's approval, even if someone held a blade to Yu Chaoen's neck, Yu Chaoen would not have done such a thing.
Because of Princess Changle, Yu Chaoen had always taken especially good care of Ye Zhen, but he had never crossed the bounds of principle.
Then why had the Holy Son of Heaven of Great Zhou, Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long,