Let’s talk about the reason why Britain launched the Opium War for a long time

Britain spontaneously launched the Industrial Revolution, producing a surplus of products that could not be dumped domestically. We can only find ways to dump them abroad. China has a population of about 500 million. If everyone buys one, money will be like water.

Unfortunately, China is a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, and there is no dumping outlet for British goods in China. The British believed that the Qing government was causing trouble. In order to open the door to the Chinese market, the British launched the First Opium War under the pretext of Lin Zexu's opium destruction in Humen.

It has been planned for a long time. The British dumped goods in China many times before launching the war, but there was no source of sales. So opium smuggling began, and the Chinese civilian officers were physically and mentally destroyed. If it had not been planned for a long time, opium would not have corrupted so many Chinese people.