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TIL that a 3rd century BC Emperor’s son named Modu Chanyu tested his guards’ loyalty by ordering them to kill his favorite horse and then his favorite wife. Those who refused he executed, and those who didn’t he later ordered to shoot his father. None failed to do so, and he became Emperor.

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