As long as he was born as a Chinese, no one will probably not know the "Humen Gun Smoke" incident and the name "Lin Zexu". "Humen Gun Smoke" can be called the first large-scale crackdown on drugs in China's history, and Lin Zexu is also known as the first person to fight drugs. In fact, Lin Zexu's ban on smoking not only made the people aware of the harm of opium, but also safeguarded the dignity of the Chinese nation, and most importantly, awakened a large number of patriotic young people, so that they knew the face of the British and the crisis that the country is now facing.
Although Lin Zexu succeeded in banning smoking, he still saved the backwardness of the closed country and the corrupt ideas of the Qing Dynasty itself, and he himself died of serious illness in October of the 30th year of Daoguang. Regarding the cause of his death, there are historical records that it is because Lin Zexu has been running away for many years, his body itself has accumulated fatigue and illness, and on the way to Guangxi, because of dysentery, he still has to rush day and night, and finally dies of physical weakness. In the "Min Miscellaneous Records", Shi Hongbao made a detailed record of Lin Zexu's death, "The public hemorrhoids have been leaking for a long time, the body has been cured, until the dysentery starts, and on the eleventh day, he arrives in Chaozhou, and suffers from diarrhea again. The next day, he was buried at the Puning Pavilion. "So in this way, lin Zexu died of illness, but in terms of the social situation at that time, was Lin Zexu really sick and died?" This makes one wonder.
Lin Zexu's "Humen Gun Smoke" incident can be said to have greatly hit and damaged Britain, which was an opium importer at that time, so would Britain let Lin Zexu go like this? The answer is of course not.
Before Lin Zexu banned smoking, British merchants relied on opium to loot a lot of silver and gold Chinese, and they also made the Qing Dynasty, which had been corrupt for a long time, even more corrupt. So the real purpose of these British importing opium was not simply to loot money, their real purpose was to get Chinese land and make China their colony. However, a Lin Zexu suddenly ran out in the middle of the way to disrupt this perfect plan, and these British people naturally would not give up.
Therefore, the mystery of the cause of Lin Zexu's death can be explained, and the cause of Lin Zexu's death was recorded in the "Guo'an Essay": "Since the anti-smoking incident, the thirteen elements of Guangzhou have eaten Yili, and those who hate Lin Gong are Xu Bone... Then he wanted to bribe his cook with a heavy amount of money, plotting to poison, and the cook entered the rice, and then threw it with croton soup, and croton could leak diarrhea, because of the disease, he was caught by surprise. This means that the British businessman at that time bought Lin Zexu's cook, let this chef put croton in Lin Zexu's meal, and let Lin Zexu, who was already suffering from dysentery, recur, and then died of illness.
Although later scholars have explained the poisoning of the chef, it is a figment, but no one can say for sure, and we cannot go back in time to see if this really happened. However, everything lin Zexu did before his death about fighting against the invaders was kept in our hearts, and we would not forget the national shame and work hard.
So, what do you think about Lin Zexu's death?