Lin Zexu twisted his livelihood and study into a rope after failing the entrance examination for the first time in Beijing. In the 11th year of Jiaqing (1806), he went to Xiamen to be a coastal defense minister (similar to today's clerk), and one of the most important tasks was to deal with foreign trade. This is the beginning of Lin Zexu's study of politics, and it is also the beginning of his becoming a doer and a generation of famous ministers.
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Be ordered to ban smoking.
In the 18th year of Daoguang 1 15 10, Lin Zexu was appointed as an imperial envoy to investigate and punish smoking ban in Guangzhou. Lin Zexu first found out the opium poisoning situation in Guangzhou, searched various cigarette houses and got a lot of first-hand information. In the 19th year of Daoguang (1March, 839), it arrived in Guangzhou in the first month, and on the fourth day of February (March, 65438+March, 2009), Lin Zexu, together with Deng Yanzhen, summoned thirteen foreign businessmen, ordered them to hand over an imperial edict, ordered foreign opium dealers to pay cigarettes within a time limit, and made a promise that they would never pay them in the future.
He also solemnly declared: "If opium lasts for a day, my Lord will not return for a day, and he will swear to be with this matter, and there is no reason to stop." However, foreign businessmen refused to hand it over. After resolute struggle, they defeated the British commercial supervision law and opium dealers in China, and confiscated nearly 20 thousand boxes of opium, about 2.37 million kilograms. On April 22nd (June 3rd), it was destroyed in public at Humen Beach.
In the 19th year of Daoguang (1839) and in March of 18, Lin Zexu issued two oracles. On March 19, foreigners were forbidden to leave Guangzhou. On March 2 1 day, the business hall was surrounded. On March 22nd, he ordered the arrest of British opium dealers.
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