Peng Joe's Commander-in-Chief suddenly stopped as he was preparing to leave the palace and looked at a small stand beside the corridor.
It was made of deep-red wood with gold-colored edging—not actual gold, but a kind of gold paint.
Sometimes, certain things were truly fascinating, such as people's obsession with goldware.
For example, people would inexplicably make gold paint! This was not merely because of its color. When smelting technology was still underdeveloped, copper and brass were actually superior to low-purity gold in terms of color.
Yet people still used gold to make all kinds of vessels instead of brass.
What had made the Commander-in-Chief stop was not the gold paint, but the stand itself.
It was a four-legged stand about 1.2 meters tall, in a distinctly Gefran medieval style, its luxurious design revealing exquisite craftsmanship.
He walked over to the stand and picked up a vase displayed on top of it. It looked very beautiful.
But his attention remained fixed on the surface of the stand.
He touched the impression left by an object that had rested there for a long time, then compared it with the vase in his hand. His expression gradually turned grim.
It did not fit.
He put the vase back. It was a full size smaller. Clearly, this vase had not originally been displayed there.
Emperor Peng Joe had not ordered the palace to be dismantled yet, so they had done their best to preserve its original appearance. They would then take photographs and keep them on file.
Once word arrived from home, they would remove the objects here and send the portion selected by Your Majesty the Emperor back to the country.
Then, not far from the Peng Joe Empire's palace, they would build a small palace based on the photographs, proving the