Tap-tap-tap-tap...!
The clatter of abacus beads had started at dawn and had been ringing nonstop before the royal treasury of Japan's palace!
After the Tang army breached Japan's capital, every bit of wealth here had to be meticulously inventoried!
Not only the wealth possessed by Japan's royal family, but also that of the great aristocratic clans within the city!
All the wealth they possessed now belonged to the Tang Dynasty as well and had to be brought over for a full accounting!
All of Japan's other high-ranking figures apart from the royal family, along with their family members, had already been gathered up and imprisoned, ready to be shipped off wholesale to the mining districts!
As for Japan's royal family, who enjoyed breeding among close kin!
As the Tang Dynasty's Imperial Preceptor, Qing Mo understood their bone-deep love for this land, and thus mercifully issued an order!
He had quite a few Wa donkeys who had been scared out of their wits during the Tang army's assault on the city yesterday, yet had luckily survived, personally dig a pit dozens of meters wide and two and a half meters deep!
Then he ordered Tang soldiers to send every member of Japan's royal family down into it in neat rows, regardless of sex or age, before covering them over and tamping down the earth tightly, lest they catch a chill in their sleep!
Letting them embrace this island forever, fused together as one!
"Old Wei, morning!"
"Greetings, Imperial Preceptor!"
Wei Zheng, abacus in hand as he continued tallying the valuables, hurriedly stopped what he was doing upon seeing Qing Mo and cupped his hands in a bow!
Having just arrived at the royal treasury of Japan's palace, Qing Mo looked at the mountains of gold, silver, pearls, and jewels before him,