opium wars, qing dynasty, virtue, wealth

During the Opium Wars, a Story of Virtue and Wealth (Part 2)

During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, foreign businesspeople brought massive amounts of opium into China, leading the people to take on incorrect social values and ruin their health. In the eighteenth year of Daoguang (1838), the imperial court appointed Lin Zexu as the imperial minister and sent him to Guangzhou to ban opium. ...

December 29, 2020

Raven Montmorency

Artwork depicting Chinese soldiers fighting the British in the Second Opium War.

During the Opium Wars, a Story of Virtue and Wealth (Part 1)

During the time of the Opium Wars in China, Zeng Guofan led the Hunan army with full authority from the Emperor and was responsible for all the financial management, but he never embezzled any of the army’s money. At the time, the salt trade was a way of making money using coupons to exchange during ...

December 28, 2020

Raven Montmorency