Can Ge: Past Events in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty

During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, with the iron gate closed, Chen Changge, the son of a military household, squatted at the foot of the wall and ate dried naan. He is eighteen years old, thin, dark, and silent, holding the curled sword Chang Ge left by his father. My father died in Shibao City and was buried in the Gobi Desert without even a monument. He doesn't believe in fate. It took him ten years to go from being a chief to being the Protector of Anxi. Nine people gathered around him - the gangster Liu San who stole a chicken to join the army, the stubborn blacksmith Pei Zhu, the silent swordsman Wei Wujiang, the Sogdian businessman Yunzhu, the monk Mingkong who returned to secular life, the party protégé Tuoba Shuang, the failed talent Lu Zhibai, and the escaped female official Shen He. Su Yingxue, the daughter of Yin and Xungui. Nine origins and nine fates were pushed together by the troubled times. Yunzhu read the omens of war from the sacred fire of the Zoroastrian Temple, Tuoba Shuang used sheep bones to divine the fate of the grassland, and Mingkong found relics inscribed with prophecies in the ruined temple. The astronomical officer observed in Chang'an that the Ziwei star was dimming and the northwest general star was rising - while An Lushan was sharpening his sword in Fan Yang. In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, the Anshi Rebellion broke out. Chen Changge led the Anxi army eastward to King Qin and became the marshal of the world's troops. But he discovered that the first decision the general had to make was to sacrifice his brother. This is a story of 700,000 words about the wind and sand at the border, the undercurrent of Chang'an and the broken mountains and rivers. It writes about how nine people who refused to accept their fate searched for their own destiny in the collapse of the empire. The title of the book comes from the curled blade of a long sword - if it is broken, it can be reattached; if it is curled, it can be sharpened again. It's not perfect, but it's there.