Prince Gong Yi was an indispensable and important figure in the entire late Qing Dynasty movement to pacify the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

Although he did not come to the front line to command the battle, his influence ran through the entire war. He was not a soldier but a general in the temple!

What he cares about is not the gains and losses of one or two battles. What he cares about is the composition of the generals of each army. What are their advantages and disadvantages, their personalities, their weaknesses, and which force they belong to!

While ensuring the victory of the war, he also had to ensure that the Qing Dynasty was forever and finally ensure that his own power expanded!

This is a work that takes more brains than fighting. Not to mention that just remembering so many generals’ files requires a good brain!

The Japanese Six knew very well that if you want to use someone, you had to know a person. You had to know all the details of him. You had to know the good and bad things!

Gordon has entered Beijing. It is obvious that this is Zai Chun’s best friend, and there is also the British behind him, and an important role that he cannot buy!

But is there no way Gordon can restrain it? The answer is obviously no. The Japanese Six thought of the person Gordon disliked the most, which was Li Hongzhang!

If you want to talk about the conflict between these two people, it will be a long story!

The earliest leader of the foreign gun team was the American Wall, but in their battle to attack Zhejiang, Wall was seriously injured and died, and the American Bai Qiwen was eventually replaced!

Bai Qiwen is a complete rogue. He not only robbed soldiers but also beat Qing officials. Unable to bear it, Li Hongzhang dismissed him!

Bai Qiwen is also a ruthless character. When he saw that the Qing Dynasty Buliu Ye, he directly brought dozens of confidants, who were adventurers from Europe, and turned around and surrendered to the Taiping Army!

That is, after Bai Qiwen surrendered to the Taiping Army, Gordon became the third commander of the foreign gun team!

Bai Qiwen was not valued under the Taiping Army, and at most he was asked to bring more than a thousand soldiers! In anger, Bai Qiwen defected from the Taiping Army to Gordon's side!

In other words, the Qing government was afraid of foreign devils and did not want to kill people to cause diplomatic disputes, so it did not kill Bai Qiwen, but just sent him back to his country!

When Bai Qiwen arrived in Shanghai, the US consul was in a state of great atmosphere for this troublemaker. Finally, he ordered him to go to Japan for recuperation and treatment. He was not allowed to come to Qing Dynasty again without orders!

I thought Bai Qiwen's page was turned over, but I didn't expect that this guy was simply stubborn and secretly ran from Japan to Shanghai after staying for a few months.

When I arrived in Shanghai, the US consul arrested me, but I ended up bombing him to Japan again!

Unwilling to give up, Bai Qiwen still thought of taking risks in China, but ended up smuggling from Japan again, not in Shanghai but heading straight for Fujian!

Who is he going to surrender to? It is Li Shixian, the leader of the Taiping Army in Fujian!

Alas, the princes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are all very familiar with the Chinese people, because the Taiping Army, which are far away in Iquik, South America, and most of the Taiping Army veterans in the South China Sea are actually subordinates of the Assistant King Li Shixian!

Unfortunately, Bai Qiwen was not lucky. It was already 1865 when he smuggled into Fujian. This was the end of the war when the Qing Dynasty completely had an absolute advantage!

Nanjing was conquered, and Xiao Letian became famous in the imperial capital because of his book Traveling to the West!

It is conceivable that Bai Qiwen was caught by Zuo Zongtang’s men as soon as he smuggled into Xiamen!

Fujian was Zuo Zongtang's sphere of influence, and at that time Li Hongzhang was the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Zuo Zongtang was too lazy to act against foreign devils. When he saw that he was your old subordinate of Li Hongzhang, he would hand it over to you!

In this way, Bai Qiwen fell into Li Hongzhang's hands!

The rebellious Bai Qiwen has a very bad reputation in the Jiangnan officialdom. This person never respects Qing Dynasty officials, and even beats local officials and robs local officials!

Coupled with the rebellion back and forth, Li Hongzhang was so angry that he said, "I can't kill you openly, it's okay to cause an accident!"

Li Hongzhang ordered Bai Qiwen to drown in Lanxi, Zhejiang, and claimed to the outside world that he accidentally drowned. The US government had no choice but to suffer the loss!

However, after this incident reached Gordon, who had already returned to China at that time, it aroused Gordon's extreme disgust!

Because Bai Qiwen and Gordon have a good relationship, and Gordon has always believed that Bai Qiwen cannot be assassinated even if he is guilty. Li Hongzhang's actions are really rude!

Is this a little bit of conflict? Actually, they still had conflicts before!

In the spring of 1863, Li Hongzhang led the Huai Army and the "Eternal Victory Army" to successively conquer Changshu, Taicang, Kunshan, Wujiang, Jiangyin and other places, and prepared to attack Suzhou in mid-November.

The Taiping defenders in Suzhou City fought bloody battles under the leadership of Mu Wang Tan Shaoguang and repelled the Qing army's attacks again and again.

The Taiping generals guarding the city under Tan Shaoguang were Na Wang Gao Yongkuan, Kang Wang Anjun, Ning Wang Zhou Wenjia, and Wang Wuguiwen's "Four Kings", as well as Zhang Dazhou, Wang Huaban, Wang Youwei, and Fan Qifa's "Four Days Generals". They controlled three-quarters of the troops in Suzhou City and four of the six city gates.

This is also a feature of the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which is the crazy title of kings. In order to ensure the loyalty of their subordinates and let them fight for their lives, there are as many kings as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom conferred on them in the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

Gordon learned through the foreign soldiers led by Bai Qiwen, who defected by the Changsheng Army in Suzhou City, that the Four Kings and Four Heavenly Generals were incompatible with King Mu, and that Gao Yunguan still wanted to surrender.

From this we can see that Bai Qiwen has provided a lot of help to Gordon!

Li Hongzhang bribed eight rebel generals of the Taiping Army, including Gao Yongkuan, in Suzhou City, and promised to induce surrender with second-rank military officers. He also protected Gordon, the leader of the ever-winning army, and broke arrows into an alliance.

These eight Taiping generals did not break their promises. They killed Tan Shaoguang and opened Suzhou City to welcome Li Hongzhang's army into the city!

After Li Hongzhang's Huai army entered the city, he massacred thousands of Tan Shaoguang's confidants and finally completely controlled the entire city!

Just as the Eight Kings were dreaming of getting promoted and making money, Li Hongzhang set up the Hongmen Banquet the next day!

The Eight Kings were invited together. During the banquet, Li Hongzhang asked the eight martial artists around him to present to eight people with red-topped flower-collared military uniforms. When Gao Yongkuan and others were about to accept it, the military artists immediately used their waist knives to slash Gao Yongkuan and other eight surrendered generals.

Then the Eight Kings' subordinates were carried out. According to unofficial historical statistics, Li Hongzhang killed 20,000 people in Suzhou at that time!

Gordon still has the chivalrous spirit of the medieval European era, and he is also a devout Puritan. Such a person is used to what Li Hongzhang did!

The angry Gordon even broke into Li Hongzhang's camp with a pistol and insisted on asking for an explanation, but was eventually stopped by many officials.

It was from that time that Liangzi buried it. After Bai Qiwen was drowned, the two of them had no friendship at all, and the rest was hatred!

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