Lin Zexu
Chinese name: Lin Zexu
Also known as: Fu Zi Shaomu Old Man Wanhao Village.
Gender: male
Year: Qing Dynasty
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Date of birth and death: 1785 1850
Related events: the opium war in the destruction of opium in Humen.
Related person: Wei Zizhen
biography
Lin Zexu (1785 1850) was a patriotic politician who advocated banning opium and resisting aggression during the Opium War. Historians call him modern China? The first person to see the world? . Chinese characters and strokes are also less words, the elderly in the village at night. Fujian Houguan (now Fuzhou, Fujian) was born. Nine years of Jiaqing (1804). Sixteen years of Jinshi. Together with Gong Zizhen, Wei Yuan, Huang Jue and others, he advocated the study of practical application. Since 25 years ago, he has served as the salt transport ambassador of Hangjiahu Road in Zhejiang, the provincial judge of Jiangsu and the minister of Jiangning. He was ordered to rectify salt affairs, set up river engineering, plan shipping, and take measures such as persuading the people to be peaceful, prohibiting hoarding, and helping the poor and the people. Later, he was promoted to the governor of Hedong, personally inspected the Shandong Canal and the project along the Yellow River in Henan, and put forward a plan to change the Lijin Yellow River in Shandong into the sea to control floods. Twelve years awarded to the governor of Jiangsu. Drought and flood disasters are serious in Jiangsu province. He took advantage of the people's hardships and insisted on postponing the expropriation of Cao Fu in the affected counties. Committed to the construction of water conservancy projects. In order to overcome the shortage of silver and facilitate the currency circulation, he opposed the total ban on foreign currency and put forward the idea of self-casting silver coins, which was the pioneer of China's modern currency reform.
In seventeen years, he was promoted to Governor of Huguang. At that time, opium had become a serious evil, and Huang Juezi's Book of History advocated the use of capital punishment to severely punish smokers. Lin Zexu proposed six anti-smoking plans, which were first implemented in Huguang. In August, he pointed out that the failure of banning smoking in these years was that it could not be banned. In September, * * * went to Beijing to emphasize the importance and strategy of smoking ban. 1 1 month served as an imperial minister and went to Guangdong to ban smoking. /kloc-arrived in Guangzhou in the first month of 0/9. He and Deng Tingzhen, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, called together foreign businessmen, demanding that foreign tobacco merchants hand over opium within a time limit and confiscate all opium on British barges. On April 22nd (June 3rd), Humen Beach sold cigarettes. Within 20 days, 2,376,254 kilograms of opium 19 179 boxes and 210/9 bags were destroyed. During this period, Lin Zexu paid attention to understanding foreign situations and organized the translation of western books and newspapers for reference in formulating countermeasures and handling negotiations. Translated works such as Chronicle of Four Continents, Petrochemical Yi Yan, Laws of Various Countries in Sliding Darfur, and Macau Newsprint were compiled one after another, which became the earliest documents to introduce foreign countries in modern China. Lin Zexu made great efforts to rectify coastal defense, actively prepared for war, purchased foreign artillery to strengthen the fort, and collected foreign ship gun patterns for imitation. He firmly believes that people's hearts are available, organizes local group training, recruits water brave in the coastal areas, and practices teaching. In July, the British business supervision law in China refused to hand over the British sailors who killed the villagers in China, refused to make a promise not to carry opium, and ordered the British businessmen in Macau to be cut off. Righteousness and law resorted to force, provoking Kowloon artillery battle and nose-to-nose naval battle. Inspector Lin Zexu defeated the British army several times. 1 1 month to stop Sino-British trade. In December of nineteen years, he was granted the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. After the Opium War began, the British army was trapped in the sea, and then invaded Dagu in the north. Daoguang Emperor was frightened, made peace and blamed Lin Zexu. He was fired in September. In March of 200 1 year, he was ordered to go to Zhejiang to assist in coastal defense. In May, he was demoted to Yili.
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He assisted in reclamation in Yili and advocated building water conservancy and reclaiming wasteland. He also drew a map of the frontier, suggesting that the army and agriculture should be integrated and be alert to the threat of Russia. In twenty-five years, he was re-appointed as the governor of Shaanxi but so do dungans, and transferred to the governor of Shaanxi the following year. In 27 years, he was promoted to Governor Yungui. The ethnic contradictions and people's uprisings in the northwest and southwest have been pacified and suppressed successively, and the mining administration in Yunnan has been rectified. Resigned due to illness in 29 years. In September of 30 years (1850 10), he served as an imperial minister and went to Guangxi to suppress the peasant uprising. On the way, he died in the museum of Puning County, Chaozhou (now Puning North, Guangdong). Give it to the teacher and Prince Shi Wenzhong. Lin Zexu loved poetry and calligraphy all his life, and wrote Wen Chao as a Mountain House, Shi Chao as a Mountain House and Let Yunnan Grass Bloom. Manuscripts, official letters, diaries, letters, etc. All of them are collected by Lin Zexu.