oooh, the emperor just demoted the guy who advocated legalization its on
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jesus chinese drug czar gets pissed at the smugglers and decides to send a message by executing a chinese drug smuggler in front of the British quarter this sparks in a riot, british are besieged until rescued by chinese police
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the british and chinese governments are both against the drug trade the extremely rich anglo smugglers have a goodbye dinner for a guy who's retiring. the guy gives a speech about how the governments are the real smugglers, man
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chinese get fed up with intransigence and literally brick up the british in their housing british trade representative loses it decides to offer to BUY THE DRUGS from the smugglers and give them to the chinese its unclear whether he has the power to make this purchase
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turns out he does not have this authority uh oh
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queen victoria briefly becomes the largest opium owner in the world
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loooool the smugglers knew he didnt have authority to make the purchase but they signed it away anyway expecting to be able to sue the government into doing it anyway
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british trade rep has absolutely Cracked after exceeding his authority but basically resolving the crisis with the opium purchase, he writes an insane letter to the foreign office asking them to Destroy China
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british government gets the letter and sees how much the trade rep promised to pay for, apprently it is absolutely breathtaking they decide it would be cheaper to just go to war
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its the most british imperial decision imaginable
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