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Yang Yuhuan and An Lushan 杨玉环和安禄山
The golden age is a lie. Silk robes and feathered headdresses cannot conceal a dynasty's rot. She marries into Prince Shou's household at sixteen and becomes a consort at twenty-two. He is a barbarian from Yingzhou who rises to become a military governor by trading dozens of heads. She calls him her godson, he calls her mother. They both know it's a transaction. The war drums of Yuyang shatter every pretense. The white silk at Mawei Station is the only possible ending. Power demands sacrifices.
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Qin Victory 秦赢
A history of Qin, steeped in blood, sweat, and yellow earth. From the Ying clan, who herded horses on the western frontier by the banks of the Wei River, to the western hegemon who claimed dominion over all under heaven in the halls of Yongcheng, the Qin people took nearly four hundred years to make that journey. Feizi herded horses and received his fief; Qin Zhong died fighting the Rong in the west; Duke Zhuang avenged his humiliation and defeated his enemies; Duke Xiang protected the Zhou co
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Huaiyou 淮右
At the end of the Yuan dynasty, the Yellow River changed course and famine swept across the land. Xu Da, the son of a farming family from Zhongli in Haozhou, joined his fellow townsman Zhu Yuanzhang amid the chaos and embarked on a life of warfare. From the infighting within Haozhou's walls to the flames over Lake Poyang, from the setting sun over Pingjiang to the gates of Yuan Dadu, he spent his life winning ten thousand li of territory for the Great Ming. He surpassed all the other generals in
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