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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lol british in canton start firing at war junks months before parliament even meets to discuss it this shortly after the drug czar gets permission to kill everyone involved in opium and cuts off water to the english things are escalating quickly
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british SJWs opposing the war lionize the drug czar as a symbol of Progress, activists go on at length about how china is really powerful and the british would be fools to fight such a mighty enemy
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britains parliament drudges up its resident China Expert, everyone expects him to speak against war, he just yeets out and says "naw fuck them chinese" hes mad about the threats of executing smugglers
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what an incredibly stupid mess the six month round trip for messages probably made this possible
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Wow sounds like the model I was taught - “the British did a war so they could keep dealing drugs to extract china’s wealth” might be a slight oversimplification
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it really is! both governments go in basically just wanting to respect each other and have chill diplomatic relations, similarly most of the traders things just go bad because of series of fuckups by individuals on both sides, some malicious but most just grossly incompetent
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Holy shit there was a Chinese pirate queen with an armada of over a thousand ships!?? How have I never heard of this
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