Lin Zexu was a politician, thinker and poet during the Qing Dynasty in China, who presided over the sale of cigarettes in Humen and became a "national hero" in China. In 1839, Lin Zexu led his subordinates to destroy opium in public at Humen Beach for 23 days, destroying 19,187 boxes and 2,119 bags of opium, with a total weight of 2376254 kilograms. Can burn for 23 days, everyone think about it, what a terrible amount!
Opium, commonly known as big smoke, countless people because of the separation of their wives and children, pay the price of life, when the last emperor Puyi's empress Wanrong, because of the opium, and finally died. But when she died, she ended the "anti-smoking" activity tomorrow morning, why are there thousands of people like Wanrong who are infected with opium?
Between 1835 and 1838, that is, the early stage of Humen's tobacco sales, historical records record that the number of opium smokers in China at that time was about 2 million; in 1880, the number of opium smokers in China reached 8 million, that is, 4 times in 40 years, which is not the most terrible.
According to historians, this number is only calculated based on the number of opium imports, and the number of people who actually smoked opium in 1880 should be around 10 million. The more terrible thing than losing the battle is to lose without a fight, the Chinese of that year, living in a smoky world all day, a good young man, drilling into the opium house every day, and when he comes out again, it is basically "wasted".
The Japanese have long realized that the best way to destroy the bodies of our people is to use opium. This brings us to the puppet manchukuo of that year, and Puyi was the "emperor" of the puppet manchukuo.
"Puppet Manchukuo", founded on March 1, 1932, was a puppet puppet regime supported by Japan after occupying the three northeastern provinces of China, and captured Puyi as "emperor", with the era name "Kant". The use of the four words "smoke-filled" to describe the pseudo-Manchukuo at that time is most appropriate.
In 1971, an American wrote a book called The Japanese Emperor's Conspiracy, which chronicled what was happening in puppet Manchukuo at the time—"On these cigarette stalls, a man, a woman, a child, or a girl could embark on a morphine, cocaine, or heroin journey." There are also preferential rates for children and teenagers. "What concept? As long as you have money, even a child can buy a big cigarette, and once you smoke opium, the child's life is over.
In the puppet state of Manchukuo under Japanese control, only five years later, the number of smokers in the three eastern provinces reached the highest number in Chinese history. So were the Japanese, who were also in puppet Manchukuo, attracted by the smoke? The answer is staggering.
According to the data, about 1 in 16,000 Japanese people smoked opium; at the same time, 1 in 3,000 people in China smoked opium. And for those who dare to smoke opium, Japan punishes them very strongly, and the British are not allowed to sell opium to Japan, and the degree of smoking ban is the highest in the world.
There is an even more frightening contrast, how many people in puppet Manchukuo smoke opium? - 1 in 40 people. At that time, the whole puppet state of Manchukuo was full of smoke, people were unwilling to work, rich people's homes, selling property and smoking; people without money smashed pots and sold iron smoke; people who did not have pots and iron could not move their steps when they lay next to them and smelled other people's smoke.
From 1932 to 1945, Manchukuo, which lasted for 13 years, came to an end, Puyi and others fled by plane and prepared to go to Japan, the Soviet Red Army had long been waiting for them at the landing site, directly capturing Puyi and others, and thus the puppet Manchukuo regime was completely destroyed, and the smoke gradually withdrew from the stage of history.