hahahaha holy shit the corruption in this rebellion is breathtaking my favorite part is that army commanders often were able to simply steal death benefits from the families of soldiers killed, and so they went out of their way to see as many of their own slain as possible
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ok so basically the chinese banned western women from canton, and then the local director of the EIC brought his wife in and paraded her around in public everyone groaned they asked him to please for the love of god send her back to macau he threatened to land troops
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the EIC director eventually backed down but wrote back to England asking parliament to launch an invasion to avenge this slight to their credit parliament laughed his request out of its halls but still good god CALM DOWN DUDE
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