The scenes from many years ago were spinning in Gordon's mind like a lantern. In 1862, just before Wall died in battle, Li Hongzhang led the Huai Army to Shanghai.

It was from that moment that the Changsheng Army was incorporated into the command of the Huai Army by the court, and Li Hongzhang became the direct superior of these three European and American adventurers!

The cooperation was still very pleasant at the beginning, because the leader of the Changsheng Army was Wall, and although this person was greedy, he was very slippery, at least giving face to the Qing officials.

This made Li Hongzhang and the others very pleased. These Qing Dynasty officials were afraid that foreigners would be difficult to manage, while Huaer only wanted money but knew how to give face to Qing Dynasty officials. This was the manifestation of the Tao.

However, the good cooperation did not last long. At the end of 1862, Wall was killed in the battle. The Changsheng Army cooperated with the Huai Army to attack Cixi. In this battle, Wall was shot and injured and eventually died!

Li Hongzhang was also very sad about Huaer's death. Finally, according to Huaer's request before his death, he was buried in Chinese clothes and buried in Shanghai, and a temple was erected to worship!

When Wall died, Bai Qiwen naturally became the top leader, Gordon became the deputy, and this was the moment when contradictions began to accumulate!

Holding Bai Qiwen's pistol relics, Gordon's palm was covered in sweat. Cheng Beile had already asked the slave to move a few chairs and even the Eight Immortals table, and sat in the courtyard looking at Gordon's complicated expression meaningfully.

Gordon didn't say a word, he had been silent for almost half an hour!

The scenes of the funeral after Wall's death were in front of him, and of course there was also a conversation between Bai Qiwen and him while drinking alone after the funeral!

Gordon is in a bad mood! After Wall's death, Gordon and Bai Qiwen actually embezzled the 180,000 taels of silver he left in the military camp!

Wall is from Massachusetts, USA. He studied in a military academy when he was young, but he fled overseas before he had time to graduate due to crime!

Gordon didn't know what crime Wall had committed, and Wall didn't tell them, but this crime must not be light, because in the United States, he could only go into exile in Europe.

Wall smuggled into Mexico, joined the French army as a mercenary here, and began to fight Napoleon III!

He was a member of the French army in the early stages of the Mexican War and the Crimean War. Later, he came to the Qing Dynasty after the war ended.

Bai Qiwen and Gordon were very clear about the situation of Wall's family. There was a Chinese daughter-in-law who was the daughter of Yang Fang of Daotai. It seemed that the United States had a sister and nephew. It was logical that with Wall's reputation at that time, it was still very simple to ask the US government for help to find relatives!

You should know that when Wall was just hired by Wu Xi, the Songjiang Daotai, Wu Xi was also working hard to win over Wall out of her love for talent, so she made a request to the US consul in the name of the Qing government, demanding that the United States pardon Wall for his crimes!

For the sake of interests, the United States actually agreed to Wu Xi's request. Wall was pardoned by the United States and became a guilty man!

Now that Wall is dead, as long as Bai Qiwen and Gordon make a request to contact their relatives to the US consul, the US government will never interfere!

The 180,000 taels of silver collected by Wall from the Qing Dynasty should be left to his wife and sister!

But what kind of guy is Bai Qiwen? He is a ruthless man who is ten thousand times more ruthless than Wall's rogue! Can money run away even if it enters his eyes?

Bai Qiwen threatened Gordon not to talk nonsense, and half of the 180,000 taels of silver were embezzled!

This thing was done too unreasonable, and it was very conscientious. Gordon was also resentful, but he was not a pure moral gentleman after all. He was greedy and would not compete with money!

The friendship between Bai Qiwen and Gordon is actually just an alliance of interests!

The story after 180,000 taels has something to do with Li Hongzhang!

Bai Qiwen was born in North Carolina, USA. His father was a French immigrant. Even after immigrating to the United States, Bai Qiwen's father still served in the French army and participated in the Crimean War.

The young Bai Qiwen followed his father to fight a war in Crimea!

It is worth mentioning that when Wall was recruiting foreign soldiers in Shanghai, Bai Qiwen was only 24 years old when he defected to Wall's foreign gun team!

He was only 24 years old, and he was fighting for the French with his father in Crimea!

What does this mean? This shows that Bai Qiwen has never received formal school education at all, and he is even worse than that of the student Wall that dropped out of the school!

He was young, had not received higher education, and his family influence made him very arrogant and risk-taking. Such a young man was too dangerous. How could he not be arrogant if he gave him a little bit of power?

In 1862, when Bai Qiwen officially became the leader of the Changsheng Army, he was only 26 years old!

A 26-year-old man has not received any moral education, nor has the Western aristocratic spirit, and is full of ruffians and adventurers... In the end, he became the commander of a 5,000-man army!

How can you not be inflated? How can you not be arrogant? In the next few years, Bai Qiwen can be said to offend all the people in the Qing Dynasty officialdom of Jiangnan.

Raid Jiading, rob Qingpu, and beat Yangfang, Daotai!

This guy was too arrogant. When robbing Jiading, their foreign gun team was the first to break through the city and rushed in. When Li Hongzhang's Huai army saw that the Changsheng Army had begun to rob, how could they fall behind?

As a result, these friendly troops started to attack and asked Bai Qiwen to beat him up!

The arrogant Bai Qiwen even shouted in public: "Your Emperor of the Qing Dynasty allows our ever-winning army to rob the victorious city! We are not allowed to take action until we have robbed anyone!"

Come on, this is definitely eating alone! You get rich but don’t leave any of the friends!

Not only robbery, but when looking for military pay from Yangfang, Daotai, no subordinates respected the superiors, when they were excited, they went up and beat Yangfang on Daotai!

This incident made some foreign soldiers in the Changsheng Army unhappy!

Although Yang Fang in Daotai was an official of the Qing Dynasty, his daughter was granted to Wall as his wife. This is your father-in-law of your old boss Wall!

You just have no affection. Isn’t this an ungrateful wolf cub?

Where did they know that Bai Qiwen even embezzled the money left by his old boss to support his family, and would he care about a father-in-law from the Qing Dynasty?

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Bai Qiwen, who caused the anger of heaven and people, was eventually dismissed and investigated by Li Hongzhang!

The furious Bai Qiwen ran to Beijing to make trouble and joined forces with the British and American ministers to put pressure on the Zongli Yamen. However, Li Hongzhang had already hated this guy and refused to agree to withstand the pressure!

The court could not afford to offend these big Han warlords at this moment, and the court was even more afraid of foreigners leading troops to grow bigger, so it did not defeat Bai Qiwen's blackmail!

In the end, Bai Qiwen actually did something earth-shaking!

He led more than a dozen of his loyal subordinates to rob the "Takahashi" of the Changsheng Army's ship!

He headed straight to Suzhou and surrendered to the Taiping Army!
Chapter completed!