Analysis of the reasons for the existence of opium transportation

In the 18th century, there was frequent trade between China and Britain. During the same period, the Qing government set up a single foreign trade port in Guangzhou. But there are still a lot of British businessmen coming and going. Britain is eager to obtain many valuable and rare commodities from China's trade market, such as tea, silk, porcelain and so on. Tea has almost become a luxury for the British nobility, popular in the upper aristocratic society.

However, China's market was not very interested in British goods, which led to the fact that British goods could not open the Chinese market; moreover, the trade market under the Qing Dynasty was limited to silver trading, which made Britain under the gold standard feel embarrassed and the trade deficit between China and Britain was expanding.

Many British businessmen have tried their best to reverse the huge trade deficit and their ambition to expand the Chinese market. The East India Company, organized and established by the British, thought of and manufactured opium, a highly addictive commodity, and sold it to the Chinese market in large quantities.

The temptation of new-type commodities; the early low-cost advocacy of peddlers; the illegal operation of middlemen; the clandestine activities of officials and businessmen, which provided a strong driving force for opium to seize China's market share; the huge interest temptation made more greedy Chinese officials and businessmen join the ranks of trafficking, and the huge addiction of opium prompted the Chinese people's increasing demand for it In addition, the market share of opium in China is increasing. And the British can get a huge amount of silver, not only that, but also can damage the health of the Chinese people and make the resistance of the Chinese Army decline. The ambition of seizing the Chinese market is also growing in this change. The benefit of killing two birds with one stone is very necessary and important for British businessmen to transport and sell opium to China.

In addition, there are also British merchants' equipment for transporting opium, such as ships, which are very advanced, reliable and guaranteed, so that opium will not be attacked and plundered by pirates on the way of transportation, and the sudden occurrence of natural disasters and the best preservation and transportation of opium can be achieved.

Opium transportation is a matter of course, although its existence is very inhumane and immoral; although it is unilateral to the benefit of the British people.