Lin Zexu, born on July 26th (1August 30th, 785) in the 50th year of Qianlong, was a lower feudal intellectual family in Gudong Street, Houguan, Fujian (now Gulou District, Fuzhou). My father Lin Binri teaches reading and lectures for a living. It is impossible to live on the meager income of my father who teaches in a private school, so my mother uses manual labor to share the family's embarrassment.

In the imperial examination era, Lin Zexu's parents expected their son to develop and rise in his official career. Lin Zexu is very clever. At the age of 4, my father "hugged the school" and dictated four books and five classics.

Under the careful cultivation of my father, I read Confucian classics earlier. After being a scholar in Jiaqing for three years (1798) and 14 years old, he went to the famous Aofeng Academy in Fujian and studied under Zheng Guangce and Chen Shouqi who had practical knowledge. Under the influence of my father and relatives and friends, I began to pay attention to practical learning.

In the 11th year of Jiaqing (1806), Lin Zexu served as Tongzhi Secretary of Xiamen Haiphong, responsible for handling the documents and records of merchants' foreign ships and rice. At that time, opium smuggling in Xiamen was a serious problem. Former Xiamen coastal defense colleagues were corrupt officials, and bribery by foreign businessmen became the norm, and no one cracked down on smuggling. forest

So Xu saw the opium problem and the tricks of cigarette dealers, and his eyes were wide open. During his tenure, he was appreciated by Tingdao Bailing and Fujian Governor Zhang Shicheng, and was recruited as a staff member.