"He didn't even realize that Yilu had confiscated the opium of foreign merchants in the name of the British government, and had turned the merchants' goods into the property of the British government, and Yilu had already made a plan and was ready to use this as an excuse to wage war against the Qing Dynasty."

"On March 28, Yilu handed over 20,283 boxes of opium to Lin Zexu, and on the 29th, Lin Zexu resumed the supply of more than 20,000 boxes of opium to the merchant house, making Lin Zexu think that his anti-smoking work had achieved a successful phased victory, and he was full of joy to report to Emperor Daoguang the victory of Guangdong's anti-smoking campaign."

"Emperor Daoguang also praised Lin Zexu's refinement and living up to expectations, and the monarch and the minister got along."

"On June 3, 1839, according to the edict of Emperor Daoguang, Lin Zexu publicly destroyed all smuggled opium in Humen, Guangzhou, totaling 19,176 boxes, which was the largest amount of opium ever publicly destroyed, and just as Daoguang rejoiced in the victory of the anti-smoking campaign, they did not expect that the war was coming."

"It turned out that as early as March 30, Yilu, who had just handed over the opium, wrote a letter to British Foreign Minister Palmerston."

"Palmerston received a letter from Yilu, and he had already learned about the incident in the country of flowers from other sources, so Palmerston, who had always been intoxicated with the hegemony of power, decided to use this as an excuse to persuade the government to send troops to the country of flowers."

"In October and November 1839, the British government made the decision to invade China and sent an invading army to the country where the flowers were planted, and a war was about to come that would profoundly affect the course of their country's history."

"Strictly prohibiting opium smuggling is the correct national policy, and Huang Juezi's decision to ask Emperor Daoguang and Lin Zexu's ban are all correct words and deeds made for the sake of national interests."

"But during the smoking ban, Emperor Daoguang's ministers were not familiar with the rules of modern diplomacy, so much so that Yilu and others found an excuse to launch a war of aggression."

The monarchs and ministers of the Celestial Empire, including Lin Zexu, who was slightly familiar with "Yiqing", were so dazzled by the long-standing thinking of the kingdom that when he saw the arrival of the British warships, Lin Zexu still thought that it was just opium dealers using armed smuggling. ”

"The closed-mindedness eventually led to the collapse of the Celestial Empire, and the backwardness of the system is difficult to defeat after all!"

Xu Da: It's *****, this group of foreign bastards has long wanted to make a move against Daqing, even if it wasn't for this reason, it would be something else, people have long wanted to fight, but they just gave them a good excuse.

Zhu Yuanzhang: However, you have to admit that we are backward, backward in all aspects, we just can't beat others! Really, why did you retreat in the Qing Dynasty!

"Don't destroy your ambition, this is really good."

There is nothing wrong with saying this, this war is actually a "pretext". ”

"The fundamental reason is that the UK has basically completed the industrial revolution and needs a huge market to digest its products."

"And our flower country is the most populous country, and the market is vast."

However, due to the implementation of Guangzhou's "one-stop trade", Sino-British trade was severely restricted. ”

"In 1825, the first economic crisis broke out in Britain, which had already spread before the Opium War."

"The British capitalists want to use the market in the flower country to alleviate the problem of overproductivity in Britain."

"So this war is going to happen sooner or later, and Lin Zexu is doing a very good job."

"In just one week, Lin Zexu made this group of foreigners compromise, and after a week passed, the foreigners were still immersed in self-righteous fantasies, and none of the foreign businessmen took the initiative to hand over opium to the government."

"Lin Zexu was furious, and directly ordered the blockade of all the ports in Guangzhou, surrounded the three layers of the thirteen lines in Guangzhou, and only allowed the flower-planting people in the thirteen lines to come out, which is equivalent to trapping the foreigners alive in the thirteen lines."

"There were about 300 foreigners in the thirteen lines, and in the end they were so miserable that they had to do their own food, clothing, and daily life, and the British commercial governor in the Qing Dynasty, Yilu, secretly showed favor to Lin Zexu, but Lin Zexu categorically refused."

"In the end, the two sides reached an agreement that the opium could be handed over to the Qing Dynasty government, but it had to be handed over by Yilu, and the Qing Dynasty had to issue receipt documents to the British merchants."

"At that time, the group of foreigners still had illusions, thinking that Lord Lin just wanted to blackmail."

"Unexpectedly, Lin Zexu dug two pits on Humen Beach and destroyed the opium with a handful of lime."

"This is the famous Humen cigarette sales incident."

"Things are doing well, Lin Zexu's letter of appointment is here, and Lin Zexu has been reappointed as the governor of Liangjiang."

"Lin Zexu refused to obey the edict, and in the recital to Emperor Daoguang, he said earnestly, the existing opium has been destroyed, but they will still import it to the Qing Dynasty, and I must wait for them to issue a statement to completely eliminate opium before leaving."

"Yilu heard that Lin Zexu was not leaving, and he had to make a statement from the UK, and he became angry."

"Didn't this mean that two British boats were dispatched to fight with the Cantonese sailors several times, all of which ended in the victory of the Qing Dynasty."

Li Zhi: This Lin Zexu is okay! Isn't this a win?

Li Shimin: How can you only look at the surface of things, and the big army hasn't come yet.

"This battle is really hard to say, if someone in the Qing Dynasty will not necessarily lose, alas!"

"In July 1839, Yilu saw that British warships had arrived, and he had no fear, and repeatedly led LinkedIn warships and merchant ships to provoke at the mouth of the Pearl River, resulting in the Battle of Kowloon Bay, the Battle of Piercing the Nose, the Battle of Tsim Sha Tsui, and the Battle of Guanyong Mountain."

"In all these battles, Britain was defeated."

"This made England realize that the era of being able to challenge the coastline of the country of flowers with a few warships is long gone, and now the scale of the invasion of China must be expanded, and the battle is about to escalate into war."

"In June 1840, the British Expeditionary Force began to blockade the mouth of the Pearl River, and Yilu was appointed commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force."

"The Qing Dynasty was also actively preparing for war, and Lin Zexu stepped up the rectification of the naval division, conducted offensive battles, purchased Western artillery, modified civilian ships, recruited Ding Zhuang, etc., so that Guangdong's defense was further strengthened."

"Soon, the British army began to attack Humen, but was resolutely counterattacked by the Qing army's naval division general Lai Enjue, and the British army saw that there was no opportunity, so they gave up attacking Guangzhou and chose to go north."

"Soon, the British army attacked Xiamen, and the Qing army in Fujian fired artillery to counterattack, but as a result, a warship was sunk, and the British army had to abandon Xiamen and continue north."

"You can see that judging from the battles in Guangdong and Fujian, as long as the Qing army strengthens its defense and resolutely counterattacks, it can win this war."

"However, the governors and governors of Jiangsu and Zhejiang were corrupt and their defenses were vulnerable, which allowed the British army to find a breakthrough."

"On the sixth day of June, the British army broke into Zhoushan, Zhejiang, in an attempt to occupy Dinghai."

"Dinghai County ordered Yao Huaixiang to refuse, and the British army opened artillery to attack, and then landed, and occupied Dinghai in half a day."

"Then, eight British ships went north to the mouth of the Baihe River in Tianjin, and asked the Qing Dynasty to negotiate."

"At this time, Emperor Daoguang's operation is here!"