Chapter 52 Chapter 3 The outside world is too scary

In fact, the civilization of the Chinese Empire is just a child stage in terms of the progress of civilization, and the power civilization hedges against the capital civilization, which itself will suffer a big loss.In this situation of inevitable losses, we finally ushered in our first great man: Lin Zexu.Lin Zexu is known as the first person who opened his eyes to see the world.What does this sentence mean?That is to say, everyone closed their eyes and selectively ignored any information about the West and civilization. It’s not that they don’t know, but these things don’t stop in their brains like the east wind. Lin Zexu thought about it seriously.

Before the start of the Opium War, Lin Zexu had already been attacked by his ministers.Once Lin Zexu reported that Emperor Guang said that several countries such as England and Portugal exerted pressure on us. At this time, the officials suddenly yelled, saying that Lin Zexu, you traitor, there is no such thing as England or Portugal. These countries!What lies and rumors are you telling to frighten the emperor!Lin Zexu explained that these countries do have them, and they do have sharp firearms, but don’t be afraid, we also have our weapons to defeat them.What are our weapons?It is a bamboo pole.

The officials asked: What is the use of this bamboo pole?Lin Zexu said: Let me tell you, according to my research on foreigners, the knees of foreigners are straight, and he can't kneel down, as long as we take a bamboo pole and poke him on the knee. He just "plopped" down.If he can't get up after falling down, we win. It sounds ridiculous now, but this was the most advanced civilization insight of the empire at that time.Because what Lin Zexu knew was much better than his colleagues at the time, at least he admitted that Chinese culture was already at a disadvantage.Although he didn't know how to deal with Western culture, he was the first to open his eyes to see the world, and he was already the best at that time.Because he was the best, he was pushed to the fore and encountered his opponent in the Opium War, Elliott.

The British Empire at that time, as well as Portugal, the Netherlands and other capitalist countries, were trying to penetrate China's business window and want to establish commercial relations with China, but all their demands were blocked at the door.At this time, the unscrupulous British businessmen discovered a secret: Chinese people love to smoke opium.When a British businessman brought this opium and wanted to sell it to others, everyone knew that it was a drug and would not buy it, but the Chinese would. Why is this?Because this is self-narcotics under power.Power civilization is actually a hierarchical civilization, which completely negates life, personal ability and personal effort.For the lower class people in China, if he succumbs to power, he will never get ahead in his life.

Want to get rich in business?Not allowed!Want to gain an equal position with power through knowledge?Not allowed! Nothing is allowed, only a dead end.In this desperate state of mind, the public can only choose to self-anesthetize.This is one reason why opium is so popular in China. On the British side, long before opium flowed into China, the huge trade deficit made Britain unable to afford it.At that time, a British guy opened a small shop specializing in Chinese tea in England. The Chinese tea sold there was very expensive, and it was specially used by the nobles in the palace to show off.

But Chinese tea has a characteristic: it can be addictive. These British people want to buy more after drinking. The demand for Chinese tea is getting bigger and bigger. A large number of British businessmen came to China by boat.During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, Hong Renhui came to China to buy tea when he petitioned. These British merchants bought tea and shipped it back, making a fortune.During this process, British silver flowed to China in a rush, and the British could not accept such a large trade deficit.So the British asked China to open its doors and export some of their products to China, so as to reduce the trade deficit and achieve trade balance.

But as we know, this suggestion was completely rejected by Emperor Qianlong!It is against this background that the unequal hedging between power culture and money culture has led to the occurrence of the dirtiest rule, which is the opium rule.