1On June 3rd, 839, Lin Zexu destroyed nearly 20,000 boxes of opium collected from illegal foreign businessmen in Humentan, Guangdong.

It showed the determination of the Chinese nation to oppose foreign invaders and dealt a heavy blow to the British bourgeoisie's trade plunder in China.

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1On June 3rd, 839, Lin Zexu destroyed opium in Humen, which started the modern history of China. In fact, the year before the opium was destroyed in Humen, Lin Zexu did another great thing in Susongzhou.

From 65438 to 0838, Lin Zexu and his colleagues in Anhui, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces presided over the construction of Susong Tongren levee, which has benefited the people of Sangluo Prefecture so far. 1838, Lin zexu, then governor of Huguang, joined hands with colleagues from three provinces to build a levee with interest-bearing money donated by merchants.

Therefore, it was named Tongren dike. After liberation, Tongren Dike and Mahua Dike merged and were called Tongma Dike. This is a bank founded by Lin Zexu's predecessor, Hu Guang Governor Li Hongbin.

Li Hongbin, a native of Shahe Street, Jiujiang County, Jiangxi Province, was originally a garrison soldier in Jiujiang and was stationed in Muluo Prefecture. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, his ancestor Li Junying killed Li Zicheng with a hoe, so he was afraid of being implicated in the village and moved to Baihe Township, Dehua County, Jiangxi Province, which is Shahe Street in Jiujiang County today.

During the tenure of Governor Huguang, Li Hongbin advocated the establishment of office managers to eliminate the drawbacks of the salt industry, which was quickly popularized throughout the country. One year, his hometown, Baihe Township, Dehua, was flooded and the water washed away the small bridge. His hometown asked him to use his authority to build a bridge for his hometown, but he refused.

During my stay in Guangdong, I contacted British businessmen and opened up trade. At the same time, I used the trade income to build the Humen hexagonal battery to consolidate national defense. Later, because the Qing Dynasty closed its doors to the outside world, it was attacked by some conservatives and exiled to Urumqi, Xinjiang, which led to Li Hongbin's failure.

Later, Lin Zexu repaired Tongren levee and went to Guangdong to ban smoking. He naively thought that foreigners would die if they didn't bend their knees and drink tea, and refused to contact foreigners.

If he has half the talent of Li Hongbin, the modern history of China will be rewritten. What was wrong at that time was that some people were totally self-sufficient, pretentious and rejected everything.

However, national heroes also have a group of good friends. Wei Yuan's generation totally blamed Li Hongbin for Lin Zexu's mistakes. Instead of looking for problems in themselves, they blamed others for their mistakes, so a vigorous god-making movement began.

In the end, Li Hongbin became the object of historical criticism, while Lin Zexu became a national hero.

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