Historical Event

At the nineteenth century, the rulers of the Qing dynasty emperor corruption and incompetence throughout the day eat, drink.They even could not govern the country as one thing. So there are a number of British colonists trafficking in a drug called opium to China, poison the Chinese people's body and make them addicted to the opium to earn money. At that time, smoking opium are stronger each day from the royal and to the civilian population as much as several million. Lin Ze xu who is a governer of the royal, he can not bear it and he knows that if keep this situation the Chinese government will decline, so he wrote to the emperor demands to ban opium, the emperor agreed to the appointment as the Imperial Commissioner Lin Zuxu, let him answer for the opium ban. Lin Zexu set a military order: If he can not stop the opium, he would never return to Beijing.
Therefore, he went to Guangzhou. First grasped the whole situation, and tell them they must surrender all opium within three days. The sellers disagree and try to muddle through so just surrender of a thousand boxes of opium. Lin Zexu knows the sellers were cheating at him so he get they all arrested together. After that the sellers realized the importance of the ban, so in the few days later, they surrender a total of more than 20,000 containers, weighing of more than 2.5 million pounds. Finally, on June 3, 1839, all confiscated opium were destroyed. Therefore, Lin Zexu become a national hero in the modern history of China.
This historical event called HuMenXiaoYan, and it finished the decades of foreign protest against the trafficking of opium. It shows the Chinese people's will to resist aggression. That is a great event of China 's history.