In the seventeenth year of Qing Daoguang (1837), Lin Zexu was promoted to the governor of Huguang. At that time, opium had become a serious hazard to China's national economy and people's livelihood. In the eighteenth year (1837), Huang Jue, an upright official in the crack hon temple, advocated that smokers should be severely punished by capital punishment, and Daoguang Emperor ordered local governors to express their opinions. Lin Zexu firmly supported Huang Jue's idea of banning smoking, and put forward six specific plans to ban smoking, which were first implemented in Huguang and achieved remarkable results. In August, he pointed out that the failure of banning smoking in these years was that it could not be banned. Warning: "If we still ignore it, there will be few soldiers who can defend the enemy in decades, and there will be no money to pay." In September, he was summoned to Beijing and tried to explain the importance and strategy of banning smoking in eight consecutive summonses. 1 1 month served as an imperial envoy, went to Guangdong to ban smoking, and restrained Guangdong navy from investigating Haikou.

In the 19th year of Daoguang (1839), he arrived in Guangzhou in the first month. He and Deng Tingzhen, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, called on foreign businessmen to hand over opium within a time limit. Take just measures, such as taking back comprador workers and closing business halls. Beat the British commercial supervision law in China and the cunning of cigarette dealers, and take away all the opium on the British barge. On April 22nd (June 3rd), Humen Beach sold cigarettes. Within 20 days, 2,376,254 kilograms of opium 19 179 boxes and 210/9 bags were destroyed.

Lin Zexu (1785 ~ 1850) was a patriotic politician, thinker and poet in China in the Qing Dynasty. During the Opium War, he advocated the prohibition of opium, resisted the aggression of western capitalism, persisted in safeguarding China's sovereignty and national interests, seized and burned a large amount of opium, crushed many armed provocations by the British invaders, and showed great patriotism. Historians call him "the first person who opened his eyes to see the world" in modern China. Catch cigarette dealers; Rectify coastal defense; Send people to translate foreign books and newspapers, collect information and understand foreign countries; Sabotaging British government representatives and China's commercial supervision law, ordering to stop Sino-British trade and sending troops to block the commercial pavilion; Destroy opium in Humen.