1839 One day in June, Guangzhou City was boiling. A big notice was put up beside the city gate, and people came to watch it. Someone read: "Imperial envoy Lin Zexu destroyed the confiscated foreigners' opium in Humentan on June 3, and coastal residents and foreigners in Guangzhou can go to see it ..." The old man nodded while listening and smiled at his beard.

The young man excitedly waved his fist and was full of praise; Naughty children drill around in the crowd and shout happily: "There is a heavy smoker burning foreign devils. Go to Humen Beach to see where!" " "On June 3rd, crowds of people wore festive costumes, beating gongs and drums, and danced lions and dragons. The children carried a string of firecrackers with bamboo poles, which was deafening.

Huge crowds of people flocked to Humen Beach from all directions. Humentan is crowded with people. At the height of Humentan, two cigarette ponds with a square of 15 feet were dug. There is a culvert in front of the pool, which leads directly to the sea; There is a ditch in the back, into which water can be poured. There are several platforms around the pool, on which Lin Zexu and other civil and military officials supervise the sales of cigarettes.

First, smokers fill the pool with water, then pour bagged sea salt into the pool, cut each bag of smoke soil into four pieces, throw them into the water, and then pour a load of quicklime into the pool after the smoke soil is completely soaked. After a while, the pool seemed to be boiling, black opium rolled around in the pool, and clouds of white smoke evaporated from the pool and filled the whole Humen Beach.

Onlookers cheered. In the thunderous cheers, the culvert leading to the sea was opened, and the destroyed opium was swept away by the roaring sea water. Seeing this thrilling scene, many foreign businessmen were shocked. They walked respectfully to the stage of Lin Zexu, took off their hats and bent down to show their awe.

Lin Zexu said to them, "Now you can see that smoking is extremely strict in China. I hope that when you go back, you will tell your businessman that from now on, you should specialize in legitimate business and don't violate China's ban and smuggle opium into a trap. " The businessman put down his hand and listened, even claiming to be. After 23 days, nearly 20,000 boxes of opium were all destroyed. This feat greatly increased the ambition of China people and destroyed the prestige of foreign invaders.

Original text:

(Daoguang) In the eighteenth year, Huang Jue, secretary of crack hon temple, asked Chinese and foreign ministers to ban opium. Then Xu asked for a heavy code and said, "If this disaster is not eliminated, after ten years, there will be no salary and no soldiers." Xuanzong was deeply impressed by this and ordered him to worship, calling for 19 times. Awarded an imperial envoy to visit Guangdong and arrived in the spring of nineteen years.

Governor Deng Tingzhen strictly banned smoking and arrested smokers, so Chatton on the Ocean avoided returning to China for the first time. Xu Zhishui, the prefect of Guan Tianpei, was brave and good at fighting, and the whole army was prepared. It took the British consul more than 40 days to confiscate the smoked soil, expel the barge, present more than 20,000 boxes of smoked soil, personally hand it over to Humen for acceptance, and burn Yu Haibin. Please convict the foreign businessman of carrying opium. If someone commits a crime outside China, the people will be punished, the goods will be handed over to officials, and the responsibilities will be settled.

All other countries obey orders, but independent laws don't. So we look at the coastal battery, with Humen as the first portal, Hengshan and Wushan as the second portal and Hushan as the third portal. The seaway leading to the crosspiece is divided into two branches, the right side is covered with concealed sand, and the left side passes through the front of Wushan Mountain, which is deep and foreign ships pass through it. Guan Tianpei proposed to set up a raft and an iron training pair here, and to build a fort at the corner of Humen River where British merchant ships had no time to enter. According to the law of righteousness, I let you go to Macao to deliver goods, and I hoard cigarettes and sell them privately. I rebuffed them and sneaked into Tsim Sha Tsui.

This article is excerpted from Zhao Erxun (Editor)'s Clear Draft 19 14 to 1927.

Extended data writing background:

The Draft of Qing History was compiled by Beiyang government in the early years of the Republic of China, which recorded the official history of the Draft of Qing History and was a biographical history book. The book has 536 volumes, centering on biographies, including 25 biographies, 53 forms and 3 biographies. It records the history of 296 years from 16 16, the founding of the Qing emperor Nurhachi in Hetuala, to 19 12, the demise of the Qing Dynasty.

19 14 It has been 14 years since the Qing History Museum was established. Ke Shaowen and others 100 people participated in the abbreviation successively. The style of this book is the same as the official history of past dynasties, which is divided into four parts: biography, record, table and biography, with a total of 529 volumes.

However, when the Draft of History of the Qing Dynasty was edited, most of the editors were old people of the Qing Dynasty and attached great importance to the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, many words in the book that oppose the revolution, vilify martyrs and praise the Qing Dynasty have great political problems.

Secondly, at that time, the archives of the Qing dynasty had not been cleaned up, and historians could only use the original archives according to the manuscripts and related historical records in the original National History Museum, which was of low value.

Third, when the Draft of the History of Qing Dynasty was written, the Kuomintang Northern Expedition Army was about to go to Beijing and rushed to press, and the book was not revised and carefully collated, so mistakes and omissions in historical facts, names, places, years and months were everywhere. In the Publishing Review, Zhao Erxun pointed out that this book is an urgent chapter "published as a historical manuscript" and "not regarded as a book".

In the second year after the publication of the Draft of Qing History, that is, 1929, Yi Peiji, president of the Palace Museum, wrote to the Kuomintang Executive Yuan, suggesting that the Draft of Qing History be banned, so the Draft of Qing History became a banned book.

Yi Peiji said in his submission: "This book was hosted by an old man who died in the Qing Dynasty ... Their generation was proud of being loyal to the former dynasty, and slandered the Republic of China as their skill, regardless of the suspicion of eating Zhou Su, so it was full of absurdity and never took offense for thousands of years ... Therefore, their style and words were full of mistakes, especially when they failed to win. If this book is allowed to be published, it will be a great shame for the Republic of China. "