When all was said and done, the Assault Camp was only a five-hundred-man unit. Spending that much money to build a five-hundred-man unit might make them incredibly strong, but from a nation's perspective, it simply wasn't worth it. The cost was far too high.
That wasn't even counting the training costs for each Assault Camp soldier.
Once all those costs were added together, losing even a single Assault Camp soldier on the battlefield would make one's heart bleed.
But even so, Zhou Xu had gone ahead and done it.
It definitely wasn't a rational choice. One could even say it was incredibly willful.
Yet no one had stood up to oppose him.
For the vast majority of the time, His Majesty maintained absolute rationality and composure. One could even say he was restrained.
Under such circumstances, they had to let His Majesty be willful in some areas, right? Otherwise, if he kept suppressing himself, wouldn't he eventually break?
Most emperors indulged their whims by expanding their harems. It was all too easy for them to become addicted to women, neglect state affairs, and even fall into worse situations. Their Majesty, on the other hand, merely couldn't resist an elite unit and was obsessed with building an invincible army.
Compared with the former, this was far better.
That was also the fundamental reason why so many court officials, despite knowing from a rational perspective that this expenditure wasn't worth it, had no intention of bringing up the issue.
Not to mention that ever since Great Zhou was founded, the Assault Camp had performed outstandingly in several major battles, even rendering tremendous services.
So what if they were given a little more equipment funding?
Of course, no one had expected the Assault Camp to be upgraded to this extent by their Majesty.