THE NOT-GOOD MAN Book 8
by Meiling Cao · Vast Fiction
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Chang'an, winter 755. Three thousand li away an army marches, and nobody in the capital knows for six days — and when the news comes it arrives as the price of millet two days before it arrives as a fact. Within three weeks the city is raising a hundred and ten thousand men, and the whole apparatus of the levy runs on the household registers, which are wrong. Within four there is an office taking denunciations faster than anyone can read them, and the criterion for sorting them is not plausibility but paperwork. And in one ward a warden of twenty-two years' standing refuses a neighbor something because it is not his, and is dead in a lane four days later.