After the opium flowed into China, many Chinese were "obsessed", they only knew the advantages of smoking opium, but did not know the disadvantages, under the propaganda of foreigners, many nationalities have bought opium, resulting in destitution, family destruction. It can be said that the sale of cigarettes in Humen was the first large-scale crackdown on drugs in history, and although the sale of cigarettes in Humen indirectly led to the indemnity of land cuts, this incident has safeguarded the national dignity and interests of the Chinese, and also made the people of the world awaken and perceive the harm of drugs.
At that time, why didn't Lin Zexu use fire to soak opium with lime? In fact, this all contains a certain scientific truth. Selling cigarettes is not necessarily to be burned, at that time Lin Zexu considered the problem of burning, because the amount of opium they want to clean up is huge, if they burn opium, then the burning is not clean, after this action, there will be many hidden dangers. And in the past, some people used to make cigarette paste, which was made of opium oil, and if you want to extract opium oil, you can burn it.
If Lin Zexu burned opium, a large amount of opium oil would seep into the ground, and after the tobacco sales operation passed, these merchants would certainly not let go of these opium oils, so that the Humen tobacco sales operation would be in vain. Moreover, a large number of opium is burned, and the smoke generated afterwards will also have a certain impact on the surrounding people, which is simply to make people "forced to smoke opium", so the second method is adopted.
So Lin Zexu thought that when quicklime becomes hydrated lime, it can generate huge heat, which is also a good way to clean up opium. So he soaked the opium with seawater, and after thoroughly soaking the opium, he poured a large amount of quicklime, and the quicklime boiled in this opium pit, and the opium was completely destroyed. After that, these hydrated limes are washed into the sea, and the hydrated lime that rushes into the sea will not have much impact on the organisms of the sea because it has completed a violent chemical reaction.
Humen's tobacco sales have caused many foreign traders a headache, but they also do not recognize their mistakes, but they have also launched a war against China. At that time, China's national strength was weak, and many soldiers' bodies were eroded by opium, and there were really too many people who smoked opium. People buy opium because opium sales were legal at that time, although it was not cheap, but the propaganda of these black-hearted merchants was very attractive, such as what to strengthen the body, replenish qi and blood, aphrodisiacs and so on. After that, many people buy it home as a supplement, which is addictive, but many people don't know it.
China was not the only one cracking down on the opium trade, but the Western powers at that time found an excuse to invade China. In contrast, China sells a large number of tea, silk and other products out of the country, bent on letting Chinese civilization go to the world, while the Western powers only think about how to deliver drugs to China and how to make huge profits in China.
Now with gasoline, the destruction of drugs is basically incineration, the use of gasoline incineration, not only can completely destroy drugs, it is also very convenient to use. At present, drug control is still a problem that the whole world attaches importance to, and the huge benefits of drugs have driven many people, who do not cherish life and do not respect the lives of others in order to sell drugs.