First Opium War - The Righteous Minister - Extra History - Part 2

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📜 The First Opium War - Part 2 - Extra History
The tea trade flowing from China had left the British government in staggering debt. They had loaned huge amounts to the Honourable East India Company (EIC) to conquer India, and to pay their debts, the EIC turned that land into poppy fields and manufactured opium in huge quantities. Since China had banned the opium trade, the EIC set up a market in Calcutta (part of their Indian territory) and turned a blind eye to the black market traders who smuggled it into China. By 1839, over 6.6 million pounds of opium were being smuggled into China every year. The Chinese DaoGuang Emperor appointed an upright official named Lin Zexu to halt this opium trade. Lin orchestrated a massive campaign to arrest opium traders, force addicts into rehab, and confiscate pipes. He even laid siege to British warehouses when the merchants refused to turn over their opium supply, instead taking it all by force and burning it. The outraged merchants sought redress from their government, but although the Chief Superintendant Charles Elliot promised them restitution, the government never had any intention of paying them back. Amid the unrest, two British sailors brutally murdered a Chinese man. Lin Zexu demanded their extradition, but Elliot insisted on trying them aboard his ship and sentencing them himself. Lin Zexu had enough. He halted the British food supply and ordered the Portuguese to eject them from Macau. They retreated to a barren island off the coast (now known as Hong Kong). Since the island could not support them, Elliot petitioned the Chinese to sell them food again. He received no response. Then he sent men to collect it directly, but on their way back they were halted by the Chinese navy, and the first engagement of the Opium Wars began.
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@thewingedcroc 8 лет назад

Fascinating to learn how Lin Zexu waged his war on drugs. He threw drug users in to rehab and put the traders in jail instead. How bout that now.

@abcdaw22 5 лет назад

@@ordinarychef no they dont. The Government brings the drugs into the country.

@ankyfire 5 лет назад

Funny how he had this solution all those years ago and yet USA still doesn’t

@chrismain7472 4 года назад

Consider the different goals. If what you really need is slave labor and profit, you enslave the addicts and tax the dealers.

@maggiemeng7567 4 года назад

giorno giovanna intensifies

@jackmccoy7435 4 года назад

thewingedcroc Ronald Reagan would of loved Lin Zexu

@LPwatcher 8 лет назад

I've heard many stereotypes about how the English love their tea. I had no idea they were so understated.

@Grumplebumple 5 лет назад

Super duper late but having tried a proper cup of British tea I can understand the high demand. That stuff is so good

@adam-uy6qg 4 года назад

@@Grumplebumple Hope you tried yorkshire tea, thats the best.

@jatovic3542 4 года назад

adam spiffing Brit is that you

@Samthebritishgent 4 года назад

adam I agree being a Brit Yorkshire tea is the best despite what Tetly says

@tylermech66 4 года назад

@@adam-uy6qg I've had a fair few cups, I vastly prefer Twinings Earl Grey (though i am open to other options)

@crazygarrett007 6 лет назад

When your tea addiction is so bad that you become a global drug dealer to feed your tea habit

@user-ti8ry4uu7k 5 лет назад

Crazy Garrett what’s wrong with that?

@christophercranefield 5 лет назад

I cant see the problem

@flyingspinners1 4 года назад

And your colonisation habits

@U-V-H 4 года назад

SpudFellow selling drugs to feed an addiction.

@dirtydan4661 4 года назад

STONKS

@jomarabelguilas3945 7 лет назад

there is always that one mediator who always tries their best to get a peaceful agreement but the two sides pride and stubbornness always get in the way. Captain Elliot was a good man from this story and Lin Zexu is a man who was looking out for his people

@ecoideazventures6417 Год назад

Thanks for recognizing the role played by mediators! In fact if the Chinese had agreed to buy something the British had to offer, this whole war wouldnt have happened!

@luisfilipe2023 Год назад

More like looking out for himself. He didn’t understand The british empire is not something you mess with

@virusj216 Год назад

@@ecoideazventures6417 except trade is supposed to be well... trade! Both sides needed to see value in what each other brought to the table. If China doesn't see value in British goods, what gives the British authority to rob them of that free will?

@RainerTheGamer 8 месяцев назад

@@virusj216 precisely, countries dont actually have to take other countries' goods if they dont deem it good for the people

@PavarottiAardvark 8 лет назад

Three points to add (I teach history at a British University) 1. Many Chinese traders wanted opium...but not for its properties as a drug. Trading in silver was hard, while trading in copper meant carrying bulky, heavy, low value currency. Opium fell neatly in the middle for many: it was easy to carry, didn't spoil, and could easily be weighed and divided up into blocks of different values. Thus is had a value beyond addiction, increasing demand despite anti-consumption measures. 2. Lin Zexu's burning of the opium: The day he started (June 3) is now Anti-Smoking Day in Taiwan. The day he finished (June 26) is 26 June is now the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. 3. The burning of the Opium was only partially effective - as Opium had flowed in, prices fell and some traders no longer looked to it for profits. When Lin Zexu burned the stockpiles, the price shot up, making it a more tempting commodity for many.

@AlexLangerak 6 лет назад

was it somewhat a currency then ?

@redornament3248 6 лет назад

What a coincidence.......

@stevenjiang6418 6 лет назад

PavarottiAardvark z

@CrzyLion 5 лет назад

I have a question after watching the video, might i ask you? Was opium useage legal in the UK at the time or was it only legal for people to do it in their eastern colonies?

@bahaykoofficial 5 лет назад

lol. with your reasoning if someone have illegal drugs on hand... it is not for recreational use but as currency exchange.

@lordedmundblackadder9321 3 года назад

"Being the *Honorable* east India company, they would never do that!" [pause] "ok, yes they would"

@CC-tl3zs 2 года назад

We snuck the “Honorable” in there to bamboozle people

@marche800 4 года назад

They literally started an addiction to feed their addiction.

@petertimowreef9085 5 лет назад

An entire Empire literally started slinging dope to satiate their mother trucking tea addiction. Reality is stranger and funnier than fiction.

@Amatsaru29 4 года назад

One of the reasons I like history.

@APersonOnYouTubeX 2 года назад

@@Amatsaru29 “History sucks, so boring” -salty ppl who failed a simple memory-logic subject “[insert all sorts of feckin info]”

@ChaseMcCain81 2 года назад

Yeah, lol.

@addust 2 года назад

*tea*

@Bloodlyshiva 2 года назад

@@APersonOnRU-vidX It's because they never get told the interesting stuff, or are told it in a way that makes it uninteresting.

@davidtownsend6092 2 года назад

As a recovering addict. 8 yrs clean. I LOVE lin. He handles dealers as a crime and addicts as medical issue. This dude is centuries ahead of the world as ND it's awesome.

@kalkuttadrop6371 5 месяцев назад

It should be noted he used this as an opportunity to force the addicts into labor as part of their treatment, and to seize assets from the dealers for money. The end results were postive, but the motives were free labor and free goods

@IAmNotYourProblem 4 месяца назад

Congratulations on your sobriety man, 8 years (now 9 I suppose) is amazing!

@totalgroupwipe 8 лет назад

This Opium War series is absolutely addicting! Y'all got any more of them Opium War episodes?

@spriteman1172 3 года назад

I see what you did there

@casnarrator4043 Год назад

@@spriteman1172 lolol

@ColonelZoren 7 лет назад

So... basically is like Breaking Bad. But with nations...

@azelfdaboi5265 5 лет назад

Breaking Empires

@williamsledge3151 5 лет назад

That sounds awesome.

@azelfdaboi5265 5 лет назад

I'd pay to watch that show

@Autobotmatt428 5 лет назад

And Tea

@ducklinguini6029 5 лет назад

Where’s the dam opuim india!

@Babbleplay 6 лет назад

Inquiry : Was the incredible demand for tea in Britain in this pre-hygenic era possibly based on the fact it was 'healther' than the drinking water, because they boiled the water to make tea?

@rmsteutonic3686 2 года назад

I mean, maybe

@Berserker3624 Год назад

Mabye, or they just really like tea and were willing sell mass drugs to get it

@ichhamunshi3718 10 месяцев назад

Interesting question, were you able to find some information on it?

@robertweedall2870 8 лет назад

I studied a bit of the Opium war at uni and would like to say that there are some discrepencies here. For one the amount of Opium siezed and burned is generally considered to be Comically overstated by the merchants. They knew that if they said more opium then they would get more cash from the government. These people were not "losing" the money either. They were not being compensated for the drugs they had brought into the country, but most of them were stinking rich anyway.

@Christopher-qq4dl 11 месяцев назад

Lol

@thulx3997 5 лет назад

Opium in 1830-ish: Rated "E" for everyone Opium in 2019:

@nulolove 4 года назад

Unless your Chinese

@Nick-gf2nj 7 лет назад

The Opium wars: A British drinking problem causes debt, which in-turn causes them to start distributing drugs to unsavory peoples.

@mafiapenguin8537 5 лет назад

Nicholas Grgas it was a war that caused all of the debt

@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 5 лет назад

Drinking problem, as in not drinking tea was a problem. All water had to be boiled to prevent diseases. So in practice, it was either tea, or beer. As in, once you are out of breastmilk, you start drinking beer.... thats a drinking problem.

@DeWitherWarrior 2 года назад

I just realized that the acronym for the Honorable british East India Compay is HEIC (heckin' snake) and man thats funny

@ElzariusUnity 7 лет назад

How can confiscation be illegal if opium is illegal?

@xavierreichel8254 6 лет назад

Yeah, and how can theft be illegal if you steal from a murderer?

@srijayasalim3608 5 лет назад

@@xavierreichel8254 no kidding kiddo it is not like the confiscation being done by LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY who make the law. What an apple to apple comparison.

@tosinakin2508 5 лет назад

@@xavierreichel8254 I... don't think that works the same way. You might be thinking more of a medieval outlaw than a modern-day murderer.

@xavierreichel8254 5 лет назад

Tosin Akin I don't see what the problem is, or the need for a distinction. Could you try to explain?

@irrelevant_noob 5 лет назад

Xavier Reichel i don't think someone being a murderer would forfeit their rights of property...

@JorneDeSmedt 8 лет назад

So... Anything about Wallpole?

@GeeNo_ 8 лет назад

All in due time.

@manband20 8 лет назад

He was the Prime Minister when the war occurred :P

@mkvenner2 8 лет назад

Probably involving the East India Company

@baltasarjimenez2091 8 лет назад

About a hundred years too late for him to be directly involved, I'm afraid.

@manband20 8 лет назад

Thanks for pointing that out. I read 1739 on the website by mistake. Oops :P

@PHRCpvh 4 года назад

Pablo Escobar: I'm the greatest drug dealer that ever existed! El Chapo: No, I am! British Empire: Pfffff, amateurs...

@lennartmiau6504 8 лет назад

I like the new direction you guys are taking with EH, with more focus on the politics and economical interrelations rather than war tactics. Great work!

@elegantpiplup 8 лет назад

Last time I was this early, the EU didn't have 1GB of free space.

@labrynianrebel 8 лет назад

They should have reformatted their hard drive when they had the chance.

@MrBigCookieCrumble 8 лет назад

LOL

@MrBigCookieCrumble 8 лет назад

Greoge 13 1GB, as in GigaByte (unit for meassuring memory in a hard-drive) but also short for Great Britain.

@mkvenner2 8 лет назад

+Greoge 13 the English are being arse holes again

@phuyem 8 лет назад

No wonder why a non native english speaker like me didn't get it

@Sylocat 8 лет назад

I would say "And oh how little has changed," but at least in the 1790s they had an actual legitimate grievance against the drug trade.

@eoinharrington2692 8 лет назад

and in the 1790s they also had a tendency to kill hundreds of people in Ireland, just because our annual rebellion was a bit bigger than usual

@Izandaia 8 лет назад

The grievances against against Heroin and Cocaine aren't legitimate?

@obelix1996 8 лет назад

What do you mean? The way I understand is that the chinese grievances were that - bloody hell! - it's a drug and that now our citizens spend their money buying that from smugglers which the government couldn't tax. Whereas nowadays it's like: OH HELL NO! IT'S A DRUG! Oh, and it's making the users poor while the smugglers get rich and there's a raise in criminal rates and whatnot... And uh yeah, that's not a real difference in legitimacy, is it?

@obelix1996 8 лет назад

So are you applauding the chinese officials couple a hundred years before for making things worse?

@thedude5able 8 лет назад

+Henri Grohn The way the Chinese understood it was that opium was causing massive addiction and making the populace unable to do ANYTHING productive. You can't have drug addicts who literally cannot work.

@sonowbrand7824 8 лет назад

The moral of the story, don't sell drugs kids.

@josephmarr4711 8 лет назад

two kinds of people

@samw8120 8 лет назад

Opium is not drug at least in the United Kingdom at that time.

@sertu1462 8 лет назад

+Sam W It doesn't matter what it's considered as, it is a substance that is altering your mind and definetly is a drug, a very hard drug, even.

@samw8120 8 лет назад

You cannot use modern standards to judge decisions from the past: Opium is considered a drug in UK after the sales skyrocketed in India.

@sertu1462 8 лет назад

Sam W That's not what I'm trying to say; I do believe you that they maybe didn't define it or name it as a drug, but they propably were aware of the potential of addiction, for example. It has nothing to do with the time or culture you're living in, the effect is still the same: A rush and a possible addiction. For example; in our times, Medications and Alcohol are sometimes not considered as drugs, but an alcoholic or someone who's addictet to painkillers is a junkie, just like from any other drug, no matter what the culture says.

@user-hb4zz4gh5e 4 года назад

Please do a video on Queen Min/Empress Myeongseong of Korea? The way she tried to make changes but continually struggled against people of power around her is just one of many things that makes her life so interesting (and frustrating.)

@blinddevotion08 8 лет назад

This is by far my favorite Extra History series. I'm struggling to not cheer out loud when I see new episodes in my sub feed.

@obliviousoblivion 8 лет назад

something tells me this affair won't end up well for the Chinese

@rjfaber1991 8 лет назад

+Cao Mengde - While it is true that the First Opium War started the period known as the "Century of Humiliation", it does have to be mentioned that Qing China had started to collapse politically and economically well before the 1840s...

@reighfreuden6473 8 лет назад

+Cao Mengde IMO it started declining after the Kangxi Emperor, though the Qianlong reign wasn't too terrible and was mostly just propping up the status quo and not much negative change, little fringes of corruption started getting nestled in during his reign that would eventually tear the empire apart. RIP China's last great dynasty, too bad they're now operating under the Communist dynasty with the Jinping emperor. Honestly the similarities between Dynastic China and the PRC is pretty stark, especially given the harsh bans on criticising the ruling elite and all of the cliques.

@user-em1sf3js9u 8 лет назад

To an extent, the war led to a higher exposure of Western influence in China (they forced us to open up 5 trading ports, one of them became Shanghai), which kind of started our modernisation movement.

@YaminoSeigi 8 лет назад

British may not intend it at first but their Opium war basically starts making China going downward spiral

@pablodonner5213 Год назад

So this is gonna sound weird but why was the action of Lin sezux considered an "illegal seizure of British goods"? The traders knew opium was illegal in China and Lin was an agent of the government so how can the seizure and destruction of explicitly illegal goods by the government be illegal itself?

@danielmitchell6940 2 месяца назад

Because England said so.

@NoName-hg6cc Месяц назад

@@danielmitchell6940So what?

@bemnet7149 3 года назад

"honorable"east india company Honor:😱😶🙈

@obiwanjesus9250 8 лет назад

I love extra credits so much. I can see the effort you guys put into this thing and the outcome is just awesome

@gmosphere 8 лет назад

Calling the East India Company Honorable is a joke

@alexioskomnenos9050 8 лет назад

It's part of the name

@huidezhu7566 8 лет назад

the name is a joke

@alexioskomnenos9050 8 лет назад

Pak Huide Yes, but it was part of the official name of the company.

@GearyDigit 8 лет назад

Hence why Dan's voice drips with sarcasm every time he says it.

@FallenEpic 8 лет назад

As they said, it's in the name. It's like saying the "Democratic People's Republic" of Korea. The official name of North Korea despite it not being any of that.

@ReikaSensei 8 лет назад

After the Brexit announcement the other day, I find this series to be very timely because the tea problem that helped to drive this piece of history still exists and is going to become a problem again over the course of the next few years.

@MasonMediaGroupWirral 2 года назад

Wow, brexit the other day seems so far in the past haha. Still buying my tea with ease lmfao

@twarnold14 8 лет назад

Hey! I appreciate what you guys do. Thanks for making stuff. Thanks for creating content!

@goahnary 5 лет назад

I love the part where Lin Zexu threw the opium addicts in jail to serve time for their.... Oh wait... REHABILITATION??!?!?!! What a silly idea 😂

@stephenjenkins7971 2 года назад

That actually might be a lie; personally I found no reference of Lin Zexu ever forcing people into rehabilitation; only arresting people and destroying opium.

@user-nv7sz4ir4i 2 года назад

"Your country is 67,000 miles away from China. However, merchants who are seeking to increase their income come to do business here. China's wealth is solely in the interests of merchants. In other words, the wealth taken by merchants is only China's proper share. But what rights do they harm the Chinese people with poisonous drugs? I ask if the question is allowed. Where is your conscience?" in the letter of the written LZX

@dphalanx7465 11 месяцев назад

see *@hock41* above

@elongatedpikachu4029 4 года назад

2:53 I really appreciate that E for everyone. I never knew I was so interested in history. Thank you for these videos. New subscriber. Just create history courses like this for school lol.

@Darkknightzoey 8 лет назад

I'm sure this comment section is ripe with civil, intelligent discussion about the historical period presented to us and not an ounce of vitriol mustered against anyone within it.

@aaronwardL69 8 лет назад

Thank you for all your hard work on the series. Always stoked to see a new episode posted. BTW have any of the team read James Clavell's Asian Saga?

@TheBespectacledN00b 8 лет назад

Who needs the Starks and Lannisters when you have the Strauns and the Brocks?

@kevinch12 8 лет назад

I just love all the extra history videos.

@benmanutd2 7 лет назад

as a Hong konger it's interesting to see the western view on opium War even though the facts match, it gives me different insight😃

@doctorwhovian4243 5 лет назад

“Illegal seizure” of illegal drugs in a country that didn’t need nor wanted this problem?...wow

@nooneofimportance2110 8 лет назад

I find this fascinating, thanks for illuminating this topic.

@breandank3026 8 лет назад

I love all your shows on history and everything. I was wondering if you would do something on the United Irishmen rebellion. I really find the rebellion quite interesting.

@rogerhazen3664 5 лет назад

i love love love this channel. thank you for it, Extra Credits

@midimusicforever 4 года назад

That sarcastical undertone everytime the *honorable* East India Company gets mentioned. :D

@kie1845 8 лет назад

you guys are awesome..... you Deserve WAY more views and subs... Keep up the great work!

@epithet052 7 лет назад

Why are so many wars started by a single murder?

@TheIndogamer 6 лет назад

Vengeance on that murder The vengeance for that revenge kill Vengeance for that revenge kill for the first revenge kill. Basically revenge caused it.

@max7890 6 лет назад

1:46 "But when there's power and money to be had, it seems that honour isn't worth my spit" - Sir Robard of Talmberg

@MrRando-cs1sn 8 лет назад

I've been waiting for the Opium Wars to come up for what feels like forever. I'm so excited!

@chicagobreed502 3 года назад

I still amazes me that flavoured hot water had such an impact on nations and overall history.

@comusrules1244 2 года назад

Watch the one about coffee, it’s crazy!

@dinosaurfan123 8 лет назад

I love how you describe them selling the Opium

@Andreasofspades 6 лет назад

Thank you for the explanation, great job!

@zeemer7040 5 лет назад

El chapo: I'm the biggest drug cartel in the world! Britain: Hold my tea, mate

@jordanloux3883 8 лет назад

British merchants holed up in an opium warehouse for a month and a half while the Chinese government tried to break in and raid the place. I would watch a movie about that.

@arthas640 4 года назад

I remember hearing a story from around this same time period where they holes up in a trading warehouse. The westerners were outnumbered 10p to 1 and still managed to survive with minimal causalities while the chinese took extremely heavy casualties since a bunch of the untrained conscripts just charged in with melee weapons and got some grapeshot from a cannon for their troubles

@painvillegaming4119 2 года назад

@@arthas640 they didn’t learn anything from the pirate queen

@nigelli492 8 лет назад

I am a Hongkonger and I loved how you guys mentioned it in the description!! Keep up the good work guys!!

@KitsonHeart 8 лет назад

i hope there will be more on this particular topic o.o I really liked it

@pikahela 5 лет назад

Love your videos. Cute and funny. The drawings are simple and nice. It is soo informative. Learning a lot about our history (love the side comments too) KUDOS TO YOU GUYS ❤

@oairyuzaki5168 8 лет назад

Do the Three Kingdoms Era in China please

@JgarnO1 8 лет назад

The three kingdoms period has been so heavily fictionalised that it would take a lot of time and effort to do an accurate Extra History of it

@RubberyCat 8 лет назад

HeWhoWearsGlasses () Less than stellar? China isn't the culprits in this. I do agree that the Three Kingdoms Era should be covered as well, and I think it probably will.

@YaminoSeigi 8 лет назад

Chinese warring states would be better, basically it was precursor to Sengoku Jidai

@user-em1sf3js9u 8 лет назад

Way too complicated my friend.

@Rainbowthewindsage 4 года назад

I had to read that letter to Queen Victoria in my highschool world history class. The basic arguement was "we would never do this to you, why are you doing this to us then?" in case anyone was wondering.

@merajulhuq8200 4 года назад

bro these are saving my life rn thank you so much !

@Overhazard 8 лет назад

I love James's vacant stare and smile for the first 27 seconds of this video. Something must be very interesting offscreen to the right. (I'm guessing assembling the Sistine Chapel's ceiling out of Jelly Bellies.)

@yeeyee5057 4 года назад

British merchants: hey man can we buy some food? Qing: lmao no

@pabloaragon3303 8 лет назад

Lin Zexu, we need you here, in Brasil!

@coopereckroth3874 3 года назад

This is great series so far

@chingading957 3 года назад

Great video easy to follow

@andersonandrighi4539 8 лет назад

United States is heavy breathing. Like this never happened again. EVER!

@Acre00 8 лет назад

+Jenkins More like a mutually antagonist relationship.

@RubberyCat 8 лет назад

Jenkins. *Same thing or No difference.

@Palora01 8 лет назад

actually the same thing is happening in the US now, only in reverse, China is the biggest supplier of drugs to the USA

@andersonandrighi4539 8 лет назад

+Palora so is the CIA. Helping to trafic narcotics to the US.

@RubberyCat 8 лет назад

Jenkins Nope. It is a mix of "same thing" and "no difference" that originally were expressed by people that for got how the expressions were, and by some who just wanted to abuse the language for comical reasons. However, since then people has seen it and mistaken it for meaning those two things, thereby perpetrating the incorrect wording. However, Same difference do not mean the same thing. Let me demonstrate: A has a value of 1, B has a value of 2. C has a value of 1 as well, and D has a value of 2 as well. Mathematically, there is the _same difference_ between A and B as there is between C and D. Mathematically, there is also _no difference_ between A and C, as well as between B and D. I.e. "same difference" is not the same thing as "no difference" (nor as "same thing" for that matter) even though some uses it incorrectly in that way because they don't know better.

@grfrjiglstan 8 лет назад

So you're telling me the strict 'no tolerance' drug policy ended up resulting in massive loss of human life? Whaaaaaaaat?

@Izandaia 8 лет назад

Well, at least he pushed rehab instead of jail for addicts.

@Democlis 8 лет назад

plus the English empire was actually stimulating the increase of addicts, they were not jsut "supplying for existing ones", they were convincing people to consume the drug and become addicts. Nothing against those who want to use this shit, but they should surelly be prohibited from incentivising other to start consuming too.

@MrTrollaid 8 лет назад

Well... TBH you can't compare opium to cannabis or even alcohol since I guess that's what your thinking about. That's a very, very potent drug and there are reasons why it's still forbidden in most countries. But it's true opium isn't a very well-known drug in the west, we mostly know it as... heroin. You see why they had a hard stance against it?

@MrBigCookieCrumble 8 лет назад

Yupp, opium and heroin have very similar addictive qualities. Imagine if Russia or China today started selling mind-blowingly huge quantities of heroin through smugglers in the USA, THAT'S the reason the Chinese emperor and his ministers reacted the way they did, for a VEEEERY good reason!

@mralbum3256 8 лет назад

Opium is a crude form of heroin, which is in turn a crude form of morphine if I remember right. Morphine has legit medical uses as a very strong painkiller, though even there the possibility of patients getting addicted to morphine exists. So it's not like the refined version of the drug is banned from all legit uses, the issue is that the drug is so strong that it shouldn't be used recreationally. If it was, we'd see a large portion of our population turn into hopeless addicts with no objective in their mind except to take more morphine/heroin/opium, much larger than what we see today. That's how powerful this stuff is. It should be extremely regulated for only medical use, as things are today.

@johnallardyce4164 8 лет назад

Great info as usual, I wish school had told us this...

@xxiao5156 8 лет назад

As someone that speak Chinese I must say your pronunciation of Lin zexu is on point. Excellent work.

@bgs2004 5 лет назад

Always remember: the dutch V.O.C was even bigger then the east India company

@wratched 8 лет назад

I believe the Chinese term for opium is still "black foreign mud"

@huidezhu7566 8 лет назад

no. it's 鸦片. 鸦 meaning crow meaning black. And 片 meaning drugs. so it just meant black drugs

@BChen7 8 лет назад

It's pronounced "yapian," so I think it might just be a phonetic loan from "opium."

@barrybend7189 6 лет назад

Well opium when properly used is a good pain killer(when prepared and used properly).

@Kallsie 8 лет назад

I love these history lessons.

@slugfiller 8 лет назад

Things I've learned today: Tea is a highly addictive drug. And Lin Zexu greatly overestimated how much use of force you can get away with.

@Laosit1 Год назад

Our teacher made us watch this video. Everyone loved it.

@courtneywoodbury5198 8 лет назад

2:02-2:08 Best part of the video, had me laughing pretty good. That little 'C'mon!' at the end just great.

@verward 8 лет назад

man this series is as addicting as opium. i should probably save up the episodes to bench watch them later.

@rina3261 6 лет назад

This is so much better than reading from a textbook tho

@therainbowwillow4453 4 года назад

The entire world could be completely different if British people just weren’t so addicted to tea.

@painvillegaming4119 2 года назад

Yeah they would have conquered heaven if they weren’t so distract it with tea

@loudradialem5233 Год назад

5:08 Here in Brazil a similar case involving British sailor happened too around those times.

@CyricZ 8 лет назад

James just keeps smirkin' at all dat sweet sweet opium. >.>

@salahu-dinhussein195 8 лет назад

I wish Extra History episodes comes out on a daily basis.Comment if you do too.

@jayden3814 8 лет назад

I don't think they can work that fast. D:

@Elemental-Phoenix 8 лет назад

no. That'd probably lead to the content being rushed and the animators would want to murder everyone.

@brodown64 8 лет назад

Salahudin I aggre man

@keith3278 8 лет назад

Quality should always win in a debate like this case we have here.

@khoatran-pc6tb 8 лет назад

I want it too,but the thing that makes extra history is special that it comes out just once a week

@MyKaddy420 8 лет назад

Nothing generates more demand than addiction..

@croppedhair_31944 2 года назад

this video is going to get me extra credits in my assignment💕

@beerenmusli8220 5 лет назад

Awesome Video!!!!

@eddietorres1313 7 лет назад

Wait, Poppies can make drugs...*goes to check backyard garden*...*cuts off poppy plants* *never again.*

@WeAreSMC96 6 лет назад

Eddie Torres weird that you mentioned poppy here reminded me of that weird “controversial” pop artist with a resembling name. Things start making more sense now…

@zhouwu 5 лет назад

I still have a bit of issue with Anzac Day in New Zealand pressuring me to buy fake red poppies for a gold coin donation to pin 'proudly' onto my shirt to commemorate the glorious fallen dead at Gallipoli. I'm living in New Zealand right now, by the way. I mean, I get that poppies were the last flowers the veterans saw before they died and it's a long tradition, but it's a very bitter symbolic tax to pay for me. Usually, I just pay my due and ask them to keep the poppy, or give it to someone else. It's rather distasteful for me to go around with the raw products of opium 'proudly' emblazoned on my chest to display my patriotism and honouring of my new homeland. But the British were not the only ones to have faux Pas in China. Soviet Russia invited the Chinese delegation to Moscow, kept Mao waiting, invited them to a ballet which they called the 'Red Poppy', which was a fictitious account of drunken Russian sailors rescuing the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Communist party from political persecution and murder, which never happened, implying Chinese Communists are damsels in distress needing rescuing by uncouth Russian sailors who can't even control their own drinking. Predictably, it didn't go down well, with most of the delegation walking out halfway through, some able to stomach a bit more than others. Not to mention a fantastic feast Stalin invited the Chinese delegates to, which did wonders for the rewarming of relationship between the two sides... Until the Russian hosts decided to charge the Chinese guests for the meal, a big no no in terms of Oriental hospitality. Long story short, Chinese-Western relations have always been strained at the best of times, fraught with thin ice, quicksand and other hazards of misunderstanding and differences in cultural cues and understanding, which is still happening today. God help us all, lest we get WWIII out of this nonsense.

@coletakkish4389 6 лет назад

*looks at Chinese opium crisis* *looks at American opioid epidemic* We feel u China, we feel u

@AhJong0 4 года назад

Fascinating, I know nothing about this bit of history!

@Tytoalba777 8 лет назад

Time to go play the game "High Tea" Also, I do hope you mention sometime in this series, or in another series about this era of Chinese History, that while China had a Junk Navy (literally), their land army was still actually quite something to behold and to fear, if nothing else than its' shear size.

@twiggyjali 5 лет назад

Hey, quick question: how does lye "burn" opium? I'm super curious how this science works!

@lewisevans8985 8 лет назад

GIVE ME MORE OPIUM !

@livindeadghoul 5 лет назад

Im bringing on these videos over thanksgiving break my history teach is gonna love me!

@nilaminecrafter5364 Год назад

Ok the tea memes were underestimating britain's madness for tea. I have seen most of series so decided to watch this one too. Didn't expect to remember memes while watching it.

@mr.derpyface558 5 лет назад

2:24 fidget spinners in a nutshell

@bittasweet1605 3 года назад

I'm guessing they had translators during this entire war with the different countries and language barriers.

@HxH2011DRA 8 лет назад

4:58 I think this may be the funniest moment in all of extra history XD

@fien111 6 лет назад

It's always a stable economic situation when the graph explaining it loops back in on itself twice

@leftknee17 8 лет назад

You refer to the seizing of the British opium stores as illegal, saying that the British traders were outraged at the illegal seizure. But wasn't it expressly legal? Len Zexu had the authority of the Chinese emperor behind him, the sale of opium was illegal in China, and the British traders were knowingly violating this, correct? So why would the seizing of those stores be illegal? I totally get why the traders would be upset about it, but unless there's something I'm missing, they were completely in the wrong, and knew it. Also apologies if this appears to be one giant block of text. Apparently youtube refuses to allow line breaks in my comments right now.