[Lin Zexu Guangzhou anti-drug is good, but he did it badly]
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to the success of the European Industrial Revolution, britain and other European powers quickly turned the results into strong ships and cannons, thus beginning to dominate the world, in the Asian region of many countries have become their colonies, the Great Qing Kingdom at this time is also under his tiger eye, for many years, the Great Qing Dynasty porcelain, tea, silk continue to be shipped to Europe, for this reason the Great Qing Kingdom earned enough silver, the first rich Britain naturally will not let this phenomenon continue, they found a very easy to dump commodities - "opium", This kind of thing is very addictive, and produces a strong sense of laziness, it seems that using this to open the trade deficit of the Qing Country is the best, in fact, the British really wanted to be right, when opium entered the Qing Dynasty, it got unprecedented sales, British merchants made a lot of money for this, at this point, the trade deficit between the Qing And the United Kingdom began to change, and a large amount of silver began to flow into the hands of the British.
As the ruling class, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty naturally sat idly by, and he asked the ministers of culture and military affairs to discuss countermeasures on this matter several times, and finally came to a conclusion, sending a powerful Minister of Chincha to the only treaty port - Guangzhou Thirteen Lines with administrative orders to prohibit foreigners from selling opium, and for the powerful domestic demand of the Great Qing State, the Qing government decided to grow opium to satisfy, so that the fertile water could not flow into the fields of outsiders, and let the silver remain in China. The Daoguang Emperor appointed Lin Zexu as the minister of Chincha who had gone to Guangzhou, giving him full authority over anti-narcotics matters.
From the perspective of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Zexu's errand was smashed, he used thunderous means to start the drug control is naturally no problem, but the method did not work well, which caused retaliation from the British, the British sent their most powerful navy to launch the Opium War, the Qing army was defeated miserably, and signed the first unequal treaty "The Treaty of Nanjing", in the final analysis, this war let the world see the corruption and vulnerability of the Qing Dynasty, leaving a beginning for the subsequent Second Opium War, the Burning of the Yuanmingyuan by the British and French Allies, and the invasion of the Eight-Power Alliance. A good politician wants to avoid war and maximize the interests of his boss, so this also explains why Lin Zexu was dismissed by Daoguang afterwards and investigated.