At the beginning, Qin Shi Huang traveled to my home

When Lin Zexu heard about the First Opium War, his face turned pale. "Little Immortal, you are talking about the Opium War? It's the first one, so there will be a second or even a third one."

"No, no, there were only two Opium Wars. However, the results of those two times are so severe that I'll cry if I talk about them too much," Li Wu wiped his face.

"The First Opium War was caused by the destruction of opium at Humen by Mr. Lin Zexu, which led to Britain's dissatisfaction and decision to start a war.

In fact, the fundamental reason was that in order to develop monopoly capitalism, Britain opened up colonial markets, dumped British industrial products, and plundered the Qing Dynasty's cheap industrial raw materials.

In fact, regardless of whether there was the destruction of opium at Humen by your predecessor Lin Zexu or not, they all had their eyes on our Chinese land, and the destruction of opium at Humen was just a point of their outbreak.

The result is predictable. Because the Qing government was too backward compared to other countries, it was defeated and forced to sign the Treaty of Nanjing. It was forced to cede Hong Kong Island, open Guangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai as trading ports, and pay Britain 2100 million Spanish silver dollars in compensation.

The Second Opium War broke out in 1856 when Qing officials seized the Arrow, a Qing ship flying a British flag that was suspected of piracy in Guangzhou.

In fact, the fundamental reason was that the Western powers were pursuing wider trade openness, and the Qing Dynasty imposed some restrictions on foreign rights in China, which made them dissatisfied.

In the eyes of Western powers at that time, the Qing Dynasty was just a small ant. It had no ability to resist at all and could do whatever they wanted to it!

Now that the ants still want to restrict them, they will be beaten until they are convinced!

As a result, the Qing government was defeated again in the Second Opium War.

It was forced to sign unequal treaties such as the Treaty of Beijing and the Treaty of Tianjin, and was forced to cede a large amount of territory and open more trading ports, further weakening the sovereignty of the Qing Dynasty.

In fact, the Opium War had nothing to do with opium. It was Britain that wanted to change the Qing Dynasty’s trade policy and get good things!

Didn’t I talk about Han Dynasty prose, Tang poetry, Song lyrics, Yuan opera, and Ming novels before? In fact, as for the Qing Dynasty, many people joked that there were treaties. Indeed, there were too many treaties, and they were all unequal treaties.

Those treaties were all humiliating and involved various types of compensation and cession of territory.

Where does the money come from? Naturally, it comes from the people. What can the people do? There is nothing they can do at all. Alas," Li Wu sighed heavily, feeling sorry for the people.

"The Treaty of Nanjing," Lin Zexu's eyes turned red. These Western powers were going too far. Too far!

When Zheng Chenggong and Ban Chao heard this, they were furious and clenched their fists. "If these damn Western countries meet me, I will kill them all!"

The ancestors in front of the sky also wanted to destroy all Western countries, especially the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who were so angry that they fainted one by one.

2100 million taels, that all came from the people. This is going to force the people to death. Western countries, what a Western country, dared to blast open their doors with artillery fire, so let them also try the feeling of having their doors blasted open by artillery fire.

The barrage was full of condemnations of Western countries, all suggesting how the Qing Dynasty could destroy Western countries.

Although the previous Han dynasties were very dissatisfied with the Qing Dynasty, a foreign dynasty, after all, they were still their own people. How could they be bullied by Western countries? That was absolutely unacceptable.

They will resolve their internal conflicts themselves. If outsiders want to interfere, just prepare for death!

Sky

"So, it is true that if you lag behind you will be beaten. The enemy wants you to be weak. Only when you become strong will you not be bullied." After a hundred years of humiliation, the Chinese were bullied, invaded, and looked down upon. Everyone wanted to bully them. But now, it is no longer possible. China has become strong and has a say. If anyone wants to bully them, then let's see if we have the courage.

The Chinese people don't cause trouble but they are not afraid of trouble either.

"What the immortal said is correct. If you lag behind, you will be beaten. So I hope you can develop quickly and drive away all those Western countries," Ban Chao patted Lin Zexu on the shoulder. "Don't think too much. This is not just your burden. If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask the barrage. I think many ancestors will be happy to help."

Zheng Chenggong also nodded. Although he hated the Qing Dynasty very much, he did not want the Central Plains to be occupied by those Westerners.

"Oh," Lin Zexu just nodded, he felt uncomfortable.

"Senior Lin Zexu, let me offer you a glass of wine," Li Wu said, holding the glass and glancing at Zheng Chenggong. "Senior Zheng Chenggong, you can't drink."

Zheng Chenggong silently put down the hand holding the wine glass.

Ban Chao smiled at Zheng Chenggong, but Zheng Chenggong didn't want to pay attention to him. He also wanted to drink. He knew his own body. Besides, he had just taken the medicine given by the immortal. How could there be any problem with the medicine given by the immortal? It was a panacea, a magical medicine!

However, since the immortal said so, he had to be obedient and not make the immortal annoyed.

After the three of them finished drinking, Li Wu invited them to eat again. If they were too sad, they could just eat something. Once they were full, they would not feel so uncomfortable.

"Then I will continue to talk about your deeds, Mr. Lin Zexu.

We were just talking about the destruction of opium at Humen.

However, not long after, the British sent a fleet to blockade the Pearl River Estuary, and after attacking Guangzhou and capturing Dinghai, they directly arrived at Dagukou, Tianjin.

In order to please the British, Emperor Daoguang could not defeat the British, so he had no choice but to dismiss Mr. Lin Zexu from his post and exile him to Yili, Xinjiang.

Mr. Lin Zexu, you traveled 30,000 miles in Xinjiang, conducted a lot of field surveys, and discovered the danger posed by Tsarist Russia to the Qing Dynasty in the Ili region.

And formed the national defense idea of ​​strengthening frontier defense.

In 1845, Mr. Lin Zexu was released and returned to Beijing, and the Qing court began to use him again.

In February 1849, Mr. Lin Zexu was ordered to discuss the issue of mining in Yunnan.

In April, troops were sent to suppress the Yi people's riot in Tengyue.

In May, Mr. Lin Zexu asked for leave for treatment due to the recurrence of his old illness.

In June, his condition worsened and he petitioned for resignation. After being approved, he resigned and returned home for treatment.

It was also in this year that Mr. Lin Zexu, who was already 65 years old, ended his political career due to health reasons.

You spent an entire evening chatting with a junior whom you called a genius by the Xiangjiang River at the foot of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha.

You may have also heard of this younger generation, Mr. Lin Zexu, who is the Mr. Zuo Zongtang who was on the list earlier.

Before leaving, Mr. Lin Zexu, you handed over to Mr. Zuo Zongtang all the materials you had collected during your tenure in Xinjiang and the maps you had drawn yourself.

Later, Mr. Zuo Zongtang lived up to our expectations and 30 years later he conquered Xinjiang and recovered 166 million square kilometers of territory. The map he carried with him at that time was the map drawn for him by Mr. Lin Zexu.

In 1850, Mr. Lin Zexu died of a relapse of his old illness at the age of 66!