Du Fu: At the border posts, shed blood becomes a sea, The martial emperor's dream of expansion has no end.

At the border posts, shed blood becomes a sea, The martial emperor's dream of ex — Du Fu

At the border posts, shed blood becomes a sea, The martial emperor's dream of expansion has no end.

Du Fu

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