Ban Chao Everyone knows that he is a great hero who has opened up the Western Regions and made indelible contributions to safeguarding the unity of the Great Han Dynasty and the unity of the nationalities. Liang Qichao once said: "Looking at the world today, only Klevo can be compared with Ban Chao. "This evaluation can be said to be very high.
So who is Klevo?
The next thing I want to introduce to you is a hero that the British people admire.
In 1773, the British Parliament, in recognition of Clevw's outstanding contribution, gave him a high evaluation: "He has made great contributions to the country, he is a hero of the British Empire, and he is also a mob that makes Indians smell different." ”
In 1725, a boy named Robert Klevow was born in Shropshire, England, to a lonely aristocratic family whose father was a township councillor. Born into such a low-level aristocratic family, Klevo would certainly not be an honest child.
Little Klevoy has shown extraordinary ability to die from an early age, and while other children are busy going to school, Klevo has created excellent results and was expelled from three schools within 5 years. If there had been a Guinness Book of Records at that time, it is estimated that he would have won a world record.
By the time he was 13 years old, Klevo had formed his own criminal gang and began extorting money everywhere in his hometown town, and he usually stole chickens and dogs. As a result, little Klevoy received the title of "Little Villain".
By the age of 17, Klevo had become the town's big brother, and if nothing else, he would have become the Godfather of the British version in the future. However, the accident came, and this year Klevo did a thing that people and gods were indignant about, he stripped off his clothes, and hung upside down under the statue of the church, almost scaring the old priest in the church to see God in advance.
The townspeople were furious, and they clamored to send Klevo to prison. Fortunately, his father still had some face in the local area, and under his father's maneuvering, Klevu was spared from imprisonment. In order not to let him continue to plague his neighbors, the old father had to rely on connections and sent Klevo to the East India Company as a clerk.
In 1743, at the age of 18, Klevo was forcibly sent by his parents to a merchant ship bound for India. It is said that on the day Klevo boarded the ship, the residents of the town also held a celebration ceremony, which shows that Klevo's reputation in the local area is rotten.
In 1744, after several months of paperwork in the East India Company, Klevo was somewhat unable to sit still. For a person who is born to love trouble, how can he sit in his office and drink tea with peace of mind? So Klevo turned and joined the army, becoming an armed officer of the East India Company.
It was the time of the East India Company's great expansion in India, and although he was working in such a powerful company, Klevo was not happy because there was no war to fight. For a rioter like him, war is the best medicine.
At one point, Klevoy even lost the confidence to live, and he tried to commit suicide twice, both because of the gun dud. In Klevo's view, this may be a more important arrangement for fate for him, so he gives up the idea of suicide and is always ready to accept the baptism of fate.
In 1746, the British and the French, due to conflicts over commercial interests, the French secretly attacked the British Madras. Klevo, who was stationed in Madras at the time, escaped and ran to St. David's Fort, a British position in southern India. Here Klevo finally had the opportunity to show his fists, he actively participated in defensive operations, was considered a warrior born with a military temperament, and thus became the flag officer of the army. After this, he became famous for holding his position during the French sneak attack.
After the end of the Anglo-French War, Clevu was promoted to quartermaster for his outstanding performance on the battlefield, responsible for purchasing food and necessities for the army. The position, while it brought him great financial benefits, also taught him how to deal with local Indians. But for Klevoy, living without war is worse than being in prison.
In July 1751, the French attacked the pro-British Prince of Navab, Ali, just as Klevo arrived to buy munitions. Hearing that there was a battle that could be fought, Klevo was excited at the time, and he felt that this was another guide of fate. So Klevoy, with 300 barefoot Indian soldiers and 200 disorganized British soldiers, marched furiously to the French stronghold of Algod.
As a result, the funny thing came, because the French scouts could not judge the number of troops led by Klevo, and out of fear, the French voluntarily abandoned Algoud and let Klevo occupy the city without a single shot. In the months that followed, Clevu commanded the troops, repelling the French counterattack again and again, saving Algoud and incidentally helping Ali hold the city.
In gratitude to Clevou, Ali gave the East India Company a large amount of land and slaves, and conferred on Clevou himself the title of General of The Constant Victory.
In 1753, Klevoy returned to England and began to transform into politics. The result was embarrassing, Klevu, a born thug, had no political talent, and the price of rushing into politics was that Klevo spent a lot of money he had accumulated in India in just a few months. Not only did he not mix with an official and a half-time official, but he was even ridiculed by politicians as a turtle.
These months of political career have made Klevo know that if he wants to get ahead, he can only rely on war. So Klevoy joined the army again and was once again sent to the East India Company.
At the time of the Bengal rebellion, the young local Nawabsi Rajitaola, furious at the long-term frenzied looting of the Europeans, was determined to expel the invaders from his territory.
In June 1756, just two months after his formal accession to the throne, Taula began military action. With the help of the French, he personally led an army of 50,000 to capture Calcutta, which was garrisoned by the British, and passed the captured British masters through the prison later known as the black hole, resulting in the death of a large number of British prisoners.
This time it completely angered the British, and the lords of the British Parliament ordered that Klevoy teach the natives a profound lesson.
When the Battle of Plassi broke out on 23 June 1756, Klevoy once again showed his war talent. With a coalition of 3,000 British and Indians, he defeated the combined forces of Taura and France head-on, killed Milmadan, one of Taura's four military commanders, and successfully captured Taura himself.
After the end of this war, Klevoy's prestige reached its peak, and the lords of the British Parliament, in order to reward him for his exploits, appointed him governor of Bengal, in charge of all the affairs of the East India Company in Bengal.
In 1761, after Plundering a great deal of wealth in Bengal, Klevo's mob gene flared up again. One day he suddenly thought of the past of that year, when he was young, he returned to England with his hard-earned savings, wanted to devote himself to politics, spent all his savings to entertain guests and gifts, and did not succeed, and was ridiculed as a turtle. It was really calm for a while, and the more he took a step back, the more angry he became, so he decided to play a high-end operation.
This year, Klevoy returned to England with more money and as the governor of Bengal. With the experience of the last defeat, this time Clay was smarter, he no longer gave gifts everywhere, but as the governor of Bengal, directly participated in the election of the deputies, and then really succeeded.
After becoming a parliamentarian, Klevu was finally stable for a few years. But this kind of stable life is simply a silent torture for Klevo, who is born to love war.
In 1764, Klevoy returned to the army again, to India as he was familiar with, and again as Governor-General of Bengal and Commander-in-Chief in India.
After hearing that Clevu, the great mob, had returned to India, the Mughal Emperor Alam II, who had been clamoring to get rid of Britain, was instigated at that time. Under Klevo's leadership, Alam II tearfully signed the Treaty of Allah Abad.
The treaty stipulated that the tax collectors in the three provinces of Bihar and Orissa, Bangladesh, would be sent by the British East India Company. In effect, the taxes of the three provinces were given to the British, which shows how bad Klevo's reputation in India is. From then on, apart from the occasional return to England for duty, Klevo was stationed in India.
In 1773, the British House of Commons accused Klevw of stealing public funds while serving in India, and Klevou spent a lot of money to try to exonerate himself, but lost the case.
But the House of Commons' approach infuriated the lords of the British Parliament, who had helped Cléw gain a great deal of wealth during his tenure as Governor of Bengal. So the British Parliament bypassed the House of Commons, declared Clevw to make a great contribution to the country, and directly withdrew the lawsuit against him by the House of Commons. However, at this time, In order to fight the lawsuit, Clevu once again spent all his savings.
This time, perhaps tired of fighting and killing, Klevow did not choose to continue back to India. In 1774, at the age of 49, Klevoy committed suicide at his home in London, exactly thirty years after he first set foot on Indian soil.
Throughout Clévoy's life, he was a very important figure in British history, he made outstanding contributions to Britain and the East India Company, won the Battle of Placi, signed the Treaty of Allahabad, and so on. So in the eyes of the British, he was a hero.
But in the eyes of the Indians, Klevo was an out-and-out thug, and every gold coin he plundered was filled with the blood and tears of the Indian people.