The other side of the story, the history of the Qing Dynasty, and the eastern and western versions are all simplified as "separate statements". For a big country that has always been famous for its shanzhai and shanzhai, we all know the extent of its historical credibility and how much water it contains. For the West, China's textbooks are demonized without exception, blaming all the faults on the West, and the conclusion must be that "imperialism will not die until it dies".
The Opium War was a history that was "demonized" by China. According to China textbooks, opium was introduced to China from the west, with the aim of "bringing down China people's physique", which was the first step for the British to "invade China". However, China people hid one thing:/kloc-In the 9th century, opium smoking was the trend culture all over the world. The royal family in Europe smoked opium, and so did the rich second generation in China. Opium smoking is the culture of the upper class and middle class, just like all young people are playing angry birds with Iphone and Ipad today. At that time, smoking opium was the most fashionable product, but if you don't smoke it, you can't keep up with the times, so opium shops are everywhere in China, and opium is just like now.
Secondly, British people grow opium in India, and China people grow opium themselves-from northern Shaanxi, Yunnan and even Xinjiang, British people don't force China people to grow opium with a gun to their heads, while China people grow opium themselves. However, in this huge market of China, China people only buy British opium and only recognize British products. Why? Just like today, people in China prefer to drive a BMW Mercedes-Benz rather than BYD, it is the gene that worships foreign things and flatters foreign countries at work. The opium in Britain is excellent, well-made, reasonably priced and stable in supply, without adding industrial dyes such as melamine and leather armor. As a result, China people always buy British opium, and they think that opium made in China is third-rate rubbish. Therefore, opium merchants in China hate British opium and think that the British have taken away their business.
So Chinese businessmen complained to the Qing government and then sent people to confiscate foreigners' opium. Lin Zexu declared "confiscation", and the East India Company (the so-called British invasion force in the textbook) sent a demonized "leader of aggression against China" to negotiate justice and law. Yi Fa thought: Since you don't allow me to sell opium in China, that's fine, but please give us back the opium and we will sell it in the west, because this property belongs to the west. But in the end, Lin Zexu burned all the opium (note: Lin Zexu burned only British opium, not opium developed in China), and there was a big problem in language communication at that time, so a war caused by misunderstanding began.
Jardine Matheson's predecessor, the East India Company, was just a businessman. It's not China's imaginary Depth Charge invaded by Britain. There is no grand plan to overthrow the constitution of China people, and then imperialism will send troops. The East India Company monopolized the global opium refining and transportation. The market went to Europe in the west and China in the east. The East India Company is purely a wholesale market. China businessmen voluntarily sell goods in China. In this process, the British never pointed a gun at China people to buy. It was China people who poisoned their compatriots themselves (have you seen Love in the Sea on TVB Emerald Channel? Anyone who has seen it knows that "Dongtai Company" is caused by China people who harm China people. No wonder foreigners. )
Charles Elliot, an Englishman, is called "the number one aggressor in China" in China's history textbooks. But in fact, Charles Elliot is not a heinous person. He is just a small character with a somewhat complicated personality. China history textbooks will not let China children know a true justice: he joined the navy because he worshipped Nelson, and was later ordered to be sent to British Guiana, worth 188. Yi Fa is not imperialism. He also believes in human rights (:-D). But the problem came-because Lin Zexu confiscated opium, Yi Law thought it was not a big problem. Even if the British opium dealer is arrested and beheaded, Yi Fa doesn't care. But then Yi Fa made a mistake, that is, involved the British royal family. He told Dongdi that "the Qing Dynasty confiscated us 1000 boxes of opium, and British businessmen also suffered losses, and the British government was also responsible." How to be responsible? It is responsible to ask the British government to pay the East India Company; In other words, it is also responsible to send troops to get opium back. Asking the British government to allocate money to lose money? There is no choice but to negotiate-this is the key to the Opium War. Because of the lack of communication and unclear meaning, Hong Kong unfortunately-or fortunately-became a colonial year and won various domestic disasters in the later period.
I hope this history will not make the patriots angry, because the duty of historians is to tell the facts and analyze the background, not brainwash and scold the streets. History does not need to have any responsibility to appease some fragile Mao Fenqing, because history is a fact, not an emotion.