oh and here we have a ming revanchist series of millenarian rebellions. starting in hubei, lol. hmmmm english ambassador looking pretty good right now also the emperor is senile and ruled by a breathtakingly corrupt chamberlain what a country!
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author is giving an overview of chinas opium culture and so far hes inadvertently making a really good case against chinas ban on opium and against western culpability in any way regardless not sure whether this is deliberate
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ok so basically the chinese banned western women from canton, and then the local director of the EIC brought his wife in and paraded her around in public everyone groaned they asked him to please for the love of god send her back to macau he threatened to land troops
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the EIC director eventually backed down but wrote back to England asking parliament to launch an invasion to avenge this slight to their credit parliament laughed his request out of its halls but still good god CALM DOWN DUDE
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*tearing up* what happened to America? where did it all go wrong?
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The more things change...
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