Lin Zexu was called the first person in China to see the world, mainly because he was the first official in China who took the initiative to understand the external history, geography, manufacturing, law and medicine.

Moreover, in order to systematically understand the history, geography and politics of all countries in the world, Lin Zexu also specially wrote and translated foreign language books and wrote The History of the Four Kingdoms, which is also China's first systematic work on world geography.

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Entrusted by his good friend Lin Zexu, Wei Yuan was compiled on the basis of the annals of the Four Kingdoms and other books. It is also the first time to put forward the viewpoint of learning from foreigners to control foreigners in the annals of the sea.

It is precisely because of Lin Zexu's systematic understanding of various systems in the West that he refuted the evil deeds of the British when British sailors later killed farmers in China. And Lin Zexu's understanding of the law also made him occupy a dominant position in the later anti-smoking movement.