Great Tang: My Mother Is Yang Guifei, and My Father Is An Lushan

In the 28th year of Kaiyuan, Emperor Xuanzong issued an order and took my mother to a Daoist temple.

It was only after two months there that my mother realized she was pregnant with me.

She had spent five years in Prince Shou's residence without a child, yet now, of all times, she was expecting one.

So she decided to risk everything and give birth to me. In December of that same year, I was born with the memories of my previous life.

The Yang family and Prince Shou conspired to switch me with the stillborn baby of An Lushan's concubine. And so An Lushan became my father.

At my first birthday ceremony, in front of a hall full of guests, I grabbed an abacus: in this Tang Dynasty, soon to be plunged into chaos, money and grain are everything.

At three, I accompanied my adoptive father to the capital on official business. Holding a bowl of goat's milk, I kicked open a tavern door and recited to Li Bai, the Poet Immortal, "Fine horses and a thousand-gold fur coat." I slapped a gold ingot into his hand. "Today's meal is on me."

I will improve salt production, infiltrate the Three Garrisons, and win loyalty from an early age. Before the flames of the An Lushan Rebellion rise, I will turn An Lushan's coffers into an army of my own.

The age of prosperity crumbles, and the war drums of Yuyang thunder across the land.

As wind and rain lash Mawei Slope, armored cavalry charge toward us.

On one side are my birth parents, whom I cannot acknowledge; on the other, the treacherous rebels of An Lushan.

Caught between the rebel camp and the Li Tang dynasty, with command of troops, money, and grain in my hands, I will rewrite the tragic song that was destined to be the Tang Dynasty's fate.