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27th August 2022

Post reblogged from the akratic socratic with 33 notes

etirabys:

Wu [a guy who was starting a rebellion against the Qing] offered Emperor Kangxi an amnesty if he would only leave Chinese soil altogether and found a new kingdom in Manchuria and Korea. Predictably, Kangxi refused, and to underscore his anger he executed Wu’s son, who was being held hostage in Peking.

I have a take, which is that if you’re going to take someone’s kid as a political hostage, you should send them back home for about three weeks a year so that the family can become emotionally re-attached to the kid. This has the ~upside that if they refuse to send the kid back, it’s a pretty good indicator that trouble is brewing.

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  6. youzicha said: Seems to defeat the purpose if they can start the rebellion while the kid is home
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    If possible, get two hostages to alternate
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