From ancient times to the present, a country and a regime have regarded the control of the army as its primary priority, and military power is the foundation of a country's stability!

Taking advantage of the historical opportunity of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty conquered the Central Plains by relying on the Eight Banners system of military alliances. Such a dynasty understood the importance of military power!

The military power from the founding of the Qing Dynasty was a process of gradually concentrated recovery. The general power of the Qing government was taken back from the Han warlords during the Three Feudal Rebellion.

The Kangxi and Yongzheng and Gan dynasties continued to centralize power, and concentrated all the military power in the hands of the banner masters of the Eight Banners to the emperor!

It was not until this time that the Qing Dynasty had absolute military strength to expand its external expansion, including Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan... many territory were conquered at that time.

However, this absolute centralized power situation completely collapsed due to a Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement. The corrupt Eight Banners had lost their combat effectiveness. Emperor Xianfeng, who was forced to use Han people to control soldiers.

Starting from the Xianfeng Dynasty, there was a very huge force in the political situation of the Qing Dynasty, that is, the Han warlords!

Faced with the rise of Han warlords, the Qing government was already nervous and restless like an ants on a hot pan. How to weaken the strength of these Han ministers has become the top priority of the court.

In this case, how could they allow foreign devils to get involved in military power? The ever-winning army can fight, but the more they can fight, the greater the threat.

Wall, Bai Qiwen and Gordon developed a foreign gun team with only 700 initially to 5,000 elite troops, forcing the court to form an army alone and win the army!

On the surface, this is honor, but in fact it is all killer moves. From the moment of awarding the honors, the court has already begun to think about how to kill people!

After Li Hongzhang entered Shanghai, the court brought the Changsheng Army into his command. One of the important tasks was to let Li Hongzhang secretly disband the army!

This is a top-secret mission and will never appear in historical materials! It is precisely because of such secret benefits that Li Hongzhang dared to deal with these foreign masters like this!

Wall was in bad luck and died in the battlefield before Li Hongzhang took action himself, which saved Li Hongzhang a lot of effort!

Bai Qiwen is a complete idiot. He can't see the danger of approaching at all. Of course, a young man in his twenties who has not received any advanced education cannot understand this level of intelligence.

Li Hongzhang touched his temper and deliberately angered him, exposing him little by little, losing hope!

I deliberately owe you a few days of salary, deliberately creating some friendly friction, and the young and energetic children use some provocation... Anyway, it is easy to make Bai Qiwen become irritable, and soon offended a large number of people, and then violated many military laws!

There were too many handles, and there was a thick stack of evidence that fell into Li Hongzhang's hands. They were embarrassed to plead with the foreign ambassadors!

It was precisely because of this kind of power that the final dismissal was brought about, including the subsequent drowning!

One by one, this is a large network that was organized from Beijing City to General Zeng’s aides, and then to Li Hongzhang’s command, and most of the Qing officialdom was linked together. The purpose was to destroy the ever-winning army controlled by foreigners!

Bai Qiwen was only 29 years old when he died, and Wall was only 24 years old when he recruited him!

Moreover, this child has not received higher education, and the parents at home are not veterans who are immersed in political struggles, so it is impossible for them to teach their children these tricks!

And who did he face? Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Guizi Liu, Cixi, Ci'an... were old foxes who had been practicing for thousands of years in the Qing Dynasty!

Death is an inevitable ending. Bai Qiwen's tragedy is that he didn't understand the situation. He didn't know at all. These senior Chinese officials actually never wanted him to make contributions!

Li Hongzhang gave him a chance to survive. When he defected from the Taiping Army, the Qing Dynasty did not kill him but gave the US government a face!

The American minister also knew that Bai Qiwen had done too much, so he was directly sent to Japan!

I regret it, I regret it, I regret it, Bai Qiwen is so obsessed with greed and ambitious that he actually went to Fujian to surrender at the end of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

This is his final cause of death!

Li Hongzhang looked at Gordon and said lightly, "Bai Qiwen and Wall are not good... They are just a group of European and American adventurers who come to China to try their luck!"

"Only you! You Gordon is a smart person! I have studied your family background! I deserve to be a noble family, and the education I received since childhood was much better than those two people!"

"The most important thing is that through your family and experience during your work, you have already understood how the political forces in the officialdom fight!"

"You kept observing coldly. You understood this game a long time ago, right? So in the end you took me 390,000 taels of silver and then agreed to disband the Changsheng Army!"

"What a smart person you are! You made the right choice at that time, why are you so unwise now?"

Gordon's cold sweat broke out, and the telegram that was scolded by the British country was still remembered in his mind, and he never forgot every letter!

Yes, the Changsheng Army did not retain its organization in the end, but was disbanded and integrated into the Huai Army for reorganization!

Those Chinese soldiers directly became the backbone of the Huai Army, while foreign officers gave a large amount of severance gift to send them back to China!

Gordon himself collected 190,000 taels of severance fees, plus Li Hongzhang's previous severance fees after killing prisoners in Suzhou.

Gordon collected a total of 390,000 taels of silver from Li Hongzhang!

In addition, he had plundered the Qing Dynasty over the years and had the money that had destroyed Wall and Bai Qiwen. When Gordon returned to Britain, he took away more than 800,000 taels of silver!

With the operation of this money, he was so prosperous in the London officialdom. The British government originally wanted to hold him accountable, but it ended up being left alone!

You should know that the British government has high hopes for the ever-winning army, which is the first nail that the British forces have penetrated into the Qing army!

Unfortunately, this great situation was ruined by Gordon himself!

Why is this happening? After all, it is because Gordon understood Li Hongzhang's purpose and knew that he must have obtained authorization from the senior officials of the Qing Dynasty!

Gordon was also afraid of death! He knew that if he refused to cooperate with Li Hongzhang's withdrawal plan, then he would definitely be the next one to die after Bai Qiwen's death!

After thinking about it, life is important, and money is also important! Li Hongzhang is not stingy at all!

The experiences of Gordon, Bai Qiwen and Wall are actually the stories of early European and American adventurers exploring in China!

Full of bloody storms and bizarreness, everyone uses their lives to gain wealth and rise and fall in the tide of the times! Either they are the best or the corpses on the ground!

He smiled and said that the last one was Gordon, but can Gordon, who came to China again, still laugh to the end? Looking at Li Hongzhang like this, it may be a bit difficult!

Note: Today, it should, maybe, maybe... there will be three updates!
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