The war is finally over! the three year long struggle for winning is finally over. The war started all because of trading with between China and Britain with trading goods such as tea and other products. Also China was supposed to be payed by silver because the Emperor like that and he wanted all China to pay in a curncy of just silver and not all diffrent kinds of types of money.
Then the British started trading opium and opium was bad because it is a drug that people thought was medicine because it made them feel better like a painkiller but that only worked for a short period of time and people just gt high of it and wouldn't do there job so that was bad to the Emperor because he wanted his work done and this was very bad for his army because they would be slacking and not on there to game.
Then after all of that the golden age of the Qing dynasty ended and then an armed invasion of China by foreign capitalists started and they were forced to sign treaties which said that China had to open trade ports and eventually become a colonized country. that's what started the first part of the opium war.
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