The earliest recorded record is that the opium poppy flowed into the Chinese mainland during the Han Dynasty BC, when it was a tribute artifact brought back by Zhang Qian's "ambassador" who sent to the Western Regions. It is also an anesthetic that became a famous doctor during the Three Kingdoms period. Not only in China, but also around the world, there are also distributions of this crop, so why did the poppy exist in Chinese mainland for so long, and finally it was completely poisoned at the end of the Qing Dynasty, becoming the catalyst of the Manchu Qing Dynasty?
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the peasants and some merchants at that time, because of the cruelty of reality, longed for the legendary spiritualism, hoping to find a paradise without pain, life and death, and without war and strife in another country. In fact, such a place does not exist in reality.
But in the end, the Qing dynasty found a way to comfort themselves - smoking opium made of poppies, hoping to pin their empty hearts in illusion.
Before the Qing Dynasty, many dynasties listed poppy as a controlled substance and used as a medicine with rich medical value. Even if someone can see the other side of this drug hallucinogenicity, it is not well known to the public. Because the people who can afford and have access to this poison are the magnates of every dynasty.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, all this changed, because the rulers did not control the poppy well, resulting in a large number of poppy products flooding the people. Although most people still can't touch this poison, they have never eaten pork, they have always seen pigs run, and the magnificent smoke houses on the street have planted a seed of "poisonous hair" in the hearts of the Qing Dynasty.
However, at that time, opium made from poppies was still a high-end consumer goods, and a large number of farmers and ordinary merchants had no access to them. Until the British forced the Qing government to agree to the legitimacy of the opium trade, everything was on the fast track.
First, through its own oppression of the Qing government, the British dumped a large amount of opium on the Qing Dynasty. The influx of opium also reduced prices to some extent, making it accessible to more Qing dynasty people. Under the leadership of the nobility, from time to time to a bag in the smoke house, it has become an activity that many people envy.
Second, after opium was legalized, poppies were cultivated in large quantities throughout the Qing Dynasty. At that time, during the Qing Dynasty, there were more than 20 provinces that cultivated poppies. By the Daoguang years, China ruled by the Qing government was already full of a large number of large tobacco houses, and some counties even opened more than 300 large smoke houses within a few years.
Although the Qing government at that time also issued an order to ban smoking, local governments and military officials who had long been accustomed to the huge profits brought by opium ordered the ban on smoking in the left ear and the right ear out. Before Lin Zexu, the Qing government's smoking ban was like a piece of waste paper.
Although lin Zexu finally showed his determination to ban smoking, he was not enough to fight against the Qing government of the British Empire and was defeated one after another, and could only be forced to bow his head. Under the guns of the British, opium spread further in China.
Speaking of a thousand ways and ten thousand, opium had already defeated the Ability of the Qing Dynasty to fight back at that time, and at the same time, the huge gains also made the Qing government lose itself for a while, coupled with the promotion of the British, the poppy blossomed overnight in the Qing Dynasty and officially became the Qing government's life-telling charm. In any case, staying away from the drugs made by this poison is the most correct way.