One of the main reasons why Empress Dowager allowed the Boxers to exist was because "<span>She wanted to use the Boxers to get rid of the foreigners," since the main part of the Boxer Rebellion was to rid China of foreign influence and culture. </span>
The orders were to take everything that they can, and burn and ruin everything that they can't take. The idea was to destroy infrastructure completely so as to weaken the southern population and the southern support for the war. They would burn farms and pillage everything leaving nothing standing.
My answer is b
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I believe is the Boomerang effect
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