Lin Zexu's famous sentences through the ages
Vernacular explanation: the sea is vast because it can accommodate all rivers and streams; People's virtue should be broad, but also have a broad mind like the sea. The mountain is so tall and straight because there is no worldly desire to intrigue.
2. If the opium is not exhausted for a day, this minister will never leave the matter from beginning to end, and there is no reason to stop.
Vernacular explanation: as long as opium is not eliminated, I will fight this matter to the end without interruption if I don't return for a day.
If my children and grandchildren are like me, what should I do with the money? If you are virtuous and have more money, you will lose your ambition; My children and grandchildren are not as good as me. What should I do with the money? Foolish and rich will increase their excesses.
Vernacular explanation: If my children and grandchildren are like me, why should I leave them money? A sage with too much money will only damage his ambition; If my children and grandchildren are not as good as me, why should I leave them money? Being stupid and rich will only make them worse.
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Lin Zexu's Smoking Ban in Guangzhou
In the process of banning opium in Guangzhou, Lin Zexu realized that the British colonists refused to give up the evil opium trade and planned to invade China by force. In order to resist opium aggression and defeat the enemy, he carried out a large number of military reform practices of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners". While banning smoking in Guangdong, Lin Zexu actively prepared for war, built forts, pulled wooden chains to block rivers, and believed that "people's hearts can be used", and recruited more than 5,000 fishermen to form water brave, which repeatedly defeated the British army's provocation. 1839 In the second half of the year, it won the counter-offensive campaigns such as the Battle of Kowloon and the Battle of Chuanbi Piping.
From March of the 19th year of Lin Zexu's Daoguang (1839) to March of the 20th year of Lin Zexu's Daoguang (1840), he became the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Lin Zexu presided over the military struggle against smoking in Guangzhou for *** 19 months. May 18, used for 34 days, * * * collected 19 187 boxes and 210/9 bags, with a total weight of1188/kloc. On June 3, under the command of Lin Zexu, Humen destroyed opium for 23 days, which declared to the world the determination of the Chinese nation never to yield to aggression.