Gordon's thoughts slowly drifted, gradually returning to the time when he first came to the Qing Dynasty!

Gordon was born in a British military aristocratic family. His father was a general of the Royal Artillery Corps. When he was young, Gordon was trained according to typical military standards.

After graduating from the Royal Military Academy, he was assigned to the Royal Engineer Regiment as a second lieutenant. What Gordon is best at is the construction of military fortresses.

During the Crimean War, he was only a lieutenant. Later, due to his military achievements and continued hard work after the war, he was promoted to captain in 1859!

At this time, Gordon encountered an important level in his military journey, which was how to attack the position of the school officer!

In the colonial era, there was a hidden rule in the army, that is, the lieutenant was the head of the army, and the lieutenant was the tail of the general!

In other words, although the captain is only one step away from the major, this step is difficult to reach the sky!

Even if you are promoted to the school official level, you will become a reserve talent for the future general of the Empire, and you will be a seed of potential!

But even if an ordinary soldier spends his whole life fighting, your ceiling will be the captain!

The head of the soldier is the captain, and the tail of the general is the major!

Although Gordon's father was a general, the British Army itself had his special historical reasons. From beginning to end, the British Army was not named Royal!

In the British military system, the navy is the first-class, and the army is raised by stepmothers... There is no way, who has ever let the army kill the king in history?

Moreover, Gordon's father was also a general in the army artillery ranks, and this position was more about honor than power!

So at the critical moment when Gordon attacked the school officer, his father could not provide any help. If there were no historical adventures, maybe Gordon would have sunk in the position of captain and would never be promoted!

Another possibility is that he will eventually be promoted to major, but that will have to wait until he is forty or fifty years old, and he will never be able to be promoted to the general when he is older.

His superiors felt sorry for him and rewarded him with seniority as a school official, so that he would get a high salary after retirement and retirement!

Just two paths are not a good choice!

Gordon struggled to find a breakthrough but failed, and at this time an important historical opportunity emerged!

It was indeed a disaster for other countries, and a carnival for our country. In 1860, Britain-Qing relations deteriorated extremely, and the Second Opium War broke out!

Expedition to China is an opportunity that Gordon must seize, and this is his only chance to turn things around. At this time, Gordon happened to be 27 years old, which was the most energetic period.

If he could rush to the glass ceiling at this age through the record of the expedition, he would become a major at the age of thirty!

God! Then his future is unlimited. He will become a young and strong officer who is worthy of training in an empire!

Thirty-year-old major, how bright does he think his future will be?

Unfortunately, opportunities have never been given equally to everyone. No matter how Gordon begs, the Expeditionary Force finally did not choose him!

At that time, Gordon was working as an ordinary teacher at a local engineer academy in the UK!

Gordon never expected that his request for battle would sink into the sea. After thinking for a long time, Gordon decided to volunteer to go to China. Without the orders of the Imperial Army, he followed the transport ship to China as everyone else.

This is a great adventure. If you leave the military school and join the war as everyone? Will the British local government punish him? Will the commander of the expeditionary force accept him when he arrives? These are all questions, and he needs to bet on Gordon's life!

Why did Gordon fight so hard? In fact, it was related to the British army system at that time. Captains could rely on credit, but the positions of the school officials were all about carrots and pits!

Unless the British Empire formed an additional army, the number of school officials was quota!

If Gordon wants to be a major, he has to wait for the major above to resign for various reasons. Whether it is retirement or death in battle, at least one of the pits must be empty before you can award you a medal!

It can be seen from this that the competition between school officials is ten thousand times more cruel than that of lieutenant officials!

There is only one way: to devote yourself to the torrent of war. If there is war, there will be military achievements and someone will die in battle, and there will be a tangible opportunity!

Gordon volunteered to go to the Qing Dynasty, but he did not catch up with the Battle of Dagukou and the Battle of Baliqiao!

However, he was also lucky. With the coordination of family relations and the appreciation of the Expeditionary Force commander, the army did not kick him away but accepted him. His bet was finally half successful!

As soon as Gordon arrived in Beijing, he encountered the fire in the Old Summer Palace. In his diary, he recorded with great regret that "After looting, he would set fire... These civilized people are destroying these precious property in the most brutal way..."

Did Gordon participate in the looting of the Old Summer Palace? No one knows this, and he himself denied it. He even vowed Emperor Tongzhi!

Gordon had a very good reason. He was one of the late ones. When he entered the army, the Old Summer Palace was already full of flames. Even if he wanted to grab it, he would have no chance!

It was precisely because of his frankness that the little emperor Zaichun had a little more favorable impression of him that his relationship was so close when he was in the UK!

But is Gordon really a moral gentleman?

Far! Gordon's family is indeed a military aristocratic family. They are gentlemen and very civilized, but don't forget that almost all British aristocrats were colonialists in that era!

What are gentlemen who believe in colonialism? It is not a crime to steal what is being taken. They do not have any moral condemnation pressure. They are gentlemen who are internal to their own people, and external to their colonies!

During the expeditionary force, Gordon ran to Tianjin and Beijing for a long time, sending documents to the garrisons and officials in both places, and coordinating and handling matters within his ability.

When he was in Tianjin, the British envoy proposed to the Governor of Zhili that a piece of land on the Haihe River in the Concession was used to build the Concession. As a result, the Governor of Zhili, Hengfu, had not yet made a statement, so Gordon had already taken action!

Gordon was originally from the Engineering Academy, and surveying and mapping were his strengths. He led a team of soldiers to circle the small 500 acres of land from Tianjin's purple bamboo forest to the south along the Haihe River!

The five hundred acres of land finally became the embassy area of ​​Britain and France, and Gordon built five main roads on this land!

This is the famous Five Great Avenues of Tianjin in later generations!

Nowadays, Hubei Road in Tianjin is now called Gordon Road, and the Ministry of Works Building in the British Concession was also named Gordon Tower, and there are still remains of remains!

From this we can see that Gordon is a complete colonialist! How could such a person be clean when he arrives in a colony?

And this Bai Qiwen's pistol opened up a dark memory in Gordon's heart!
Chapter completed!