May 1839 British commercial representative

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One: The main purpose was to open the closed doors of China through the Opium War, to open the Chinese market, to sell goods in China, to make money in China for the primitive capital accumulation for the development of their capitalist economy

2. In the First Opium War, some markets were opened in China and some benefits were obtained, but because China is a country with a very dominant natural economy, they spent a year in China and still could not sell a lot of goods, they thought that China's country had not been opened enough to meet their needs for commodity sales, so they launched the Second Opium War to open more doors and markets in China

Question 1: What was the motive for Britain to sell opium to China?

In the Sino-British trade, a large number of ** flows into China. In order to make huge profits, the British smuggled opium into China.

The Opium War of 1840-1842 was a turning point in the transformation of feudal China into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal China.

In the seventies of the eighteenth century, Britain began to import large quantities of opium into China. By the nineteenth century, the importation of opium had increased year by year. In order to counteract the phenomenon of the British and Chinese being supercharged, the British bourgeoisie vigorously developed opium ** that poisoned the Chinese people in order to achieve the goal of opening up the Chinese market.

At the beginning of the 19th century, more than 4,000 boxes of opium were imported into China, and by 1839 it had soared to more than 40,000 boxes. The British bourgeoisie made a windfall from this shameful **. As a result of the sharp increase in opium imports, a large outflow of China** was caused and opium smokers were greatly devastated mentally and physically.

Failure to take measures to stop it will lead to the depletion of the country's financial resources and the collapse of the army. As a result, Qing ** decided to strictly ban the import of opium.

Open the Chinese market.

There's always a process for doing things.