The British name Gordon seems to be inseparable from blind tossing, China's Gordon wants to duel with Li Hongzhang, and Gordon in 17th century In Russia, there was a big news of changing the world.
In the 19th century, the Qing Dynasty hired the Englishman Gordon, a foreign gentleman who was in charge of the foreign gun brigade. This Gordon does not care what the ultimate goal is, at least not in terms of being a person. During his time at the helm of the Yankee Brigade, the military discipline of this group of mercenaries improved greatly, at least much better than that of the Huai Army of the Xiang Army. Gordon's character was also trusted by the Taiping Army, and there were many Taiping Army soldiers who surrendered, and after the Suzhou prisoner killing incident, Gordon even had to fight with Li Hongzhang.
In 17th-century Russia, there was also a surprise Gordon, that is, Patrick. Gordon. The dude was a Scottish mercenary, the most widely practiced profession among Scots at the time. Since the middle of the 17th century, mercenaries have been the most widely engaged occupation of Scottish men, because Scotland at that time also suffered a Xiaoice period, poor Scotland can not afford to feed too many people, the Scottish Parliament simply passed a bill, let the urban police all over the world to arrest street slips, the mercenary export as a pillar industry.
Patrick. Gordon was different, he was one of the few Catholics in Scotland (most of the Scotland was Protestant, and mercenaries were also traitors to protestant countries and Catholics - France), and instead of following the mercenary leader designated by the Scottish government to make a living, he chose his own career. He did not stay long in the Swedish army, and before joining the Russian army, he mainly followed the Polish army against Sweden, fought against the Scottish compatriots, was wounded four times, captured six times, successfully escaped from prison twice, and became famous in the mercenary circles of Eastern Europe, and was hired by the Russian royal family to come to Moscow.
After the Romanov royal family laid the foundation in Tsarist Russia, they felt that the shooting army that made trouble without giving money was too bad, so it recruited a large number of foreign mercenaries to be seed troops for the Russian army, trying to establish a Western-style regiment. The Russian royal family gave so much money that Charles II asked Patrick. Gordon returns home, Patrick. Gordon's heart went up for a moment, but he stayed in Russia. As a military worker, Patrick. Gordon was not involved in politics at first, and he didn't even see the heads of the nobles killed by the shooting army in Moscow. Because the regent princess's good friend Golitzen still paid mercenaries high salaries, he was promoted to serve as a staff officer on an expedition to the Crimean Khanate.
Patrick Gordon is a typical mercenary, believing that there is alcohol today and getting drunk today, and also likes to play some pranks after drinking, and shouting when nothing is wrong. Golitsyn valued his military prowess, but couldn't really mix with him in life. The Duke's family came from Golitsyn's life to be relatively elegant, rich in books, keen on cultural undertakings, and was a rare cultural person among the Russian aristocracy, drinking only foreign goods imported from France.
Patrick. Gordon and the mercenary drinkers were hanging out in a foreigner's neighborhood on the outskirts of Moscow, and while drinking, they met a teenager who looked a little familiar, who was 1.9 meters tall and had some leg problems. This young man is not big, but the amount of alcohol is extraordinary, you can drink more than a liter of vodka at a time, the voice is as big as them, the ability to make trouble after drinking is also up to the senior drunkard, for foreign wine is not rejected, beer, whiskey, brandy is often mixed to drink, is a good drinker. Patrick Gordon and the others initially thought the teenager was amusing, and several people taught him how to seduce the German waitress in the tavern, and Gordon's cousin, Leforte, even introduced his mistress to the teenager and let the teenager open the meat.
Patrick. After Gordon and the teenagers became acquainted, the teenagers also invited them to their home and asked Gordon to be a teacher for himself and his friends, the teenager's surname was Romanov, his name was Peter. Because he was so familiar with Peter, when Peter the Great launched a coup, Patrick Gordon defected to his drinking friend Peter, abandoned Golitsyn, and took control of Moscow with Peter's friends.
After Peter formally took power, Patrick. Gordon and the others are still his drinking buddies, in addition to busy work every day, that is, drinking with him day and night ("all members must drink every day, never go to bed soberly"), and after drinking, they have to carry out various pranks, and they are Peter's favorite "happy partners", but the titles of several people have changed. Patrick Gordon was in charge of the Russian Guards and was the commander-in-chief of infantry at the First Battle of Azov; swiss mercenary Franz Lefort became a Russian admiral and field marshal; and the French mercenary Croy became commander-in-chief of the Battle of Narva.
Peter ran to holland to learn shipbuilding techniques after Patrick. Gordon became one of the four giants of his country (the other three were Fyodor, the head of the secret police, "Duke Caesar", his uncle Lev Nareshkin, and boris Golitszen, the head of the Golitsyn family, who was Peter the Great's teacher). Patrick Gordon's greatest influence on the Politburo in Tsarist Russia was to kill the unruly shooting army, which was Peter the Great's nemesis, and the shooting army once threw Tsar Alexei (Peter the Great's father) to the troublesome masses (the Tsar was not killed with a portrait of the saint at the time), and the shooting army, encouraged by Sophia, almost destroyed Peter the Great's uncle's house, and Peter the Great always used the shooting army as cannon fodder.
The Marksmen understood this and simply declared that Peter the Great had been stripped of his bag by the Germans and wanted to support the new orthodox Tsar. Unfortunately, when they rebelled, they did not find a replacement. In 1698, the firing army stationed in the Sea of Azov carried out a mutiny, and their biggest resentment was to return to their hometown in Moscow. When Patrick Gordon negotiated with them, he directly offered the condition of "either die or return to moscow". Gordon's answer was naturally bullets, and the resistance of the shooting army was not stubborn, they killed four of Gordon's men, and after paying the price of 22 deaths and 40 serious injuries, they gave up resistance.
It turned out that they were very wrong not to fight hard, peter the great returned to Moscow and killed thousands of shooting troops in one go, he personally hacked five, the Tsarist Manchu dynasty civil and military loyalists also had to make cameo players, and Menshkov even killed 22 people in a row.
Patrick. Gordon's situation in Tsarist Russia is similar to Wei Xiaobao's, but unfortunately he encounters the drunkard Peter the Great, who has no regard for the body of the old iron, and let Patrick Gordon die of alcohol excess. The two Gordons in the United Kingdom are different, but they are also the Lords who can be particularly tossed and turned, and especially make people feel gordon.