At the end of 1838, Daoguang appointed Lin Zexu as an imperial envoy and went to Guangdong to ban smoking.

1June 839 Lin zexu and Humen destroyed opium;

1June, 840, the British army launched the Opium War;

1842 In August, the Qing government signed the treaty of nanking with Britain;

1, China ceded Hong Kong Island to Britain;

2. Compensation of 2,654,380,000 yuan;

3. Open Guangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo and Shanghai as trading ports;

4. The tariff rate of China's import and export goods should be negotiated with Britain.

modern history of China

The modern history of China is a history from the First Opium War (1840) to the collapse of the Nanking Kuomintang regime (1949) and the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC). The semi-colonial and semi-feudal society in China gradually formed and disintegrated after the late Qing Dynasty, the provisional government of the Republic of China, the northern warlords and the national government.