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Prince Kung Yi was an indispensable and important person in the entire late Qing!

Although he did not personally come to the front lines to command the battle, his influence had covered the entire battlefield. He was not a soldier, but a general in the middle of a temple!

What he cared about was not the outcome of two battles, but the formation of the commanders, their strengths and weaknesses, as well as their weaknesses, all of which faction they belonged to!

While ensuring the victory of the war, he also had to ensure the stability of the Great Qing Dynasty and, lastly, his own expansion of power!

This was a job that was even more difficult to think about than war. He needed a good brain to memorize so many high-ranking officers' files!

You have to know everything about a person. You have to know everything about him, whether it's good or bad!

Gordon had entered the capital, and it was clear that he was Zai Chun's best friend. There was still the power of the British behind him, and he was an important character that he could not bribe himself!

But could Gordon not control it? The answer was obviously no, as General Gui immediately thought of the person Gordon disliked the most, and that person was Li Hongzhang!

If one were to talk about the conflict between these two, it was a long story!

The first leader of the Gun team was the Americans Hua Er, but in their battle against Zhejiang, Walk was seriously injured and died. In the end, the one who succeeded him was the Americans Bai Qiwen!

This Bai Qiwen was a complete scoundrel, even if he beat the officials of the Qing Dynasty, he could not bear it any longer and removed him from his post!

This Bai Qiwen was also a ruthless person, once he saw that the Great Qing did not keep grandpa, he immediately brought dozens of his trusted aides from Europe, and joined the Taiping Army!

In other words, after Bai Qiwen surrendered to the Taiping Army, Gordon became the third commander of the Gun!

He did not receive much attention even when Bai Qiwen was under the Taiping Army. At most, he was only allowed to lead more than a thousand soldiers! Under his anger, Bai Qiwen escaped from the Taiping Army to Gordon's side!

That meant the Qing Government was afraid of the foreign devils, and did not want to kill anyone to cause a diplomatic dispute, so they did not kill Bai Qiwen who had rebelled.

When Bai Qiwen arrived in Shanghai, the American Consul in Shanghai was also extremely enthusiastic about this troublemaker. He finally ordered him to go to Japan to recuperate and treat his illness.

He thought that Bai Qiwen would flip the page immediately, but he never expected that this guy was just a little cunning. After staying for a few months, he snuck all the way from Japan to Shanghai.

In Shanghai, he was caught by the American Consul, but was sent to Japan!

Bai Qiwen who was unresigned still thought of China as a risk, but in the end, sneaked over from Japan once again. Not only did he not go to Shanghai, he instead went straight to Fujian!

Who was he going to rely on? It was none other than the Taiping Army's Leader in Fujian, Assistant King Li Shixian!

Sigh … This Prince of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was very familiar with the Chinese people, because the Taiping Army and most of the older soldiers of the Southern were actually the subordinates of Prince Li Shixian!

Unfortunately, this Bai Qiwen did not have the luck. When he sneaked into Fujian, it was already 1865, and this was already the end of the war which the Great Qing had the absolute advantage in!

Nanjing had been conquered, and Xiao Letian had become famous in the capital for his Journey to the West!

One could imagine, that right after Bai Qiwen sneaked into Xiamen, he was caught by Zuo Zongtang's subordinates!

Fujian is Zuo Zongtang's territory, and at that time, Li Hongzhang was Jiangsu Zhejiang's patrolling officer. Zuo Zongtang was too lazy to use violence against the foreign devil, seeing that it was one of your old subordinates, I shall hand it over to you!

And just like that, Bai Qiwen fell into Li Hongzhang's hands!

The rebellious and unruly Bai Qiwen did not have a good reputation in the Jiangnan government, this person had never respected the officials of the Qing Dynasty, and had even assaulted and robbed local officials' treasury!

In addition to that, there was the constant rebellion that came and went, causing Li Hongzhang to turn furious from embarrassment. "I clearly cannot kill you, it's fine to create an accident, right?"

Li Hongzhang ordered to drown Bai Qiwen in Lan Xi in Zhejiang province, while the outside world claimed that he accidentally drowned him.

However, when this matter reached Gordon, who had already returned to his country, it caused him to feel extremely disgusted!

It was because the relationship between Bai Qiwen and Gordon was pretty good. Furthermore, Gordon had always thought that even if Bai Qiwen was guilty, he couldn't be assassinated.

Was this a contradiction? This was not the case. The two of them had a grudge against each other!

In the spring of 1863, Li Hongzhang led his Huai Army and the "Chang Sheng Jun" to attack Changshu, Taichang, Kunshan, Wu Jiang and Jiangyin places one after another, preparing to attack Suzhou in the middle of November.

Within the Suzhou City, under the leadership of the Mu King, Tan Shaoguang, the Pingping Garrison fought ferociously, repelling the Qing Army's repeated attacks.

The Taiping Army generals under Tan Shaoguang's command were Na Wang Gao, Yong Kuan, Kang Wang Wang, Zhou Wenjia, and Yu Wu. They controlled three-quarters of the Suzhou City's troops and four of the six city gates.

In order to ensure the loyalty of their subordinates, and for them to put their lives on the line in battle, the late stage Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had many king s!

Gordon had heard from the foreign soldiers that the Chang Sheng Jun had betrayed and escaped from the Chang Sheng Jun. The four kings and four days later, they would be at odds with the Mu King.

From this, it could be seen that Bai Qiwen had provided a lot of help to Gordon!

Li Hongzhang bribed Gao Yongbang and the other eight Taiping Army rebel generals, and promised them a second rank military official to lure them down, and with Chang Sheng Jun chieftain Gordon as the guarantor, he broke the arrow and formed an alliance.

As expected, these eight Taiping Army Generals did not go back on their words. They killed Tan Shaoguang, opened up the Suzhou City's great army, and welcomed Li Hongzhang into the city!

After Li Hongzhang's Huai Army entered the city, she massacred thousands of Tan Shaoguang's trusted aides and finally gained complete control of the city!

Just as the eight kings were dreaming of becoming officials and making a fortune, the next day, Li Hongzhang set up a grand feast!

The eight kings were invited together. During the banquet, Li Hongzhang asked the eight warriors beside him to present the red-crowned flower collar's uniform to the eight generals, and when Gao Yongkang and the rest were about to accept it, they immediately pulled out their waist blades and hacked down the eight generals.

Immediately after was a purge of the subordinates of the eight kings. According to wild history, Li Hongzhang had killed a total of twenty thousand people in Su Zhou!

Deep down, Gordon had the spirit of a knight in the Middle Ages, and he was also a pious Puritan. How could such a person get used to Li Hongzhang's actions?

The angry Gordon even rushed into Li Hongzhang's camp with his gun, wanting to demand an explanation. In the end, he was forcibly stopped by the numerous officials.

It was from then on that the enmity was planted, and after Bai Qiwen was drowned to death, the relationship between the two could be said to be completely lost, what remained was only hatred!