Broken River: Experienced the Fifteen Years of the Taiping Rebellion

On the banks of the blood-stained Qinhuai River, Chen Ashui, an armless veteran, dug out a Xianfeng Tongbao from a crack in the city wall. The blood oozing out of the patina revealed three major unsolved cases of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: the silver from the holy treasury was missing, Hong Xiuquan was reduced from an idealist to a magic stick, and why was the Tianjing butcher knife swung at his siblings? In the past fifteen years, he witnessed the beacon fire of Jintian, the capital of Tianjing, the siege of Anqing, and the fall of Tianjing. When he was the King of Wings, he exposed the lies with his silver spear, but he lost his true love in the silver needles and tea-picking tunes of Xiujin Camp. When the annals of history were wrapped in fragments of missionary diaries and county annals, what was buried under the Nanjing city bricks was not only the jade pipe, but also the truest reflection of a dynasty - the dust crushed by the dragon's chair would eventually see the light of day again in the steamer's whistle.