Research Of Opium In Modern Zhejiang

Opium is the fuse of war in modern China,also accompanied by the late Qing dynasty, the focus of hot issues. Long-established opium into China, in Zhejiang province began to spread in the 1930s. Early opium market, largely confined to the vicinity of Guangzhou, in order to further expand the sales of opium, opium traffickers gradually shift the opium trade to the north, opium into the Zhejiang Province is also increasing. Zhejiang From the Tao-kuang period beginning from the poppy cultivation, production of opium, Taizhou is the birthplace and the main opium producing areas of Zhejiang. To the late 1950s, compared to the smuggling of foreign opium imports, Zhejiang, since species of opium poppy, in scope and quantity are limited. Zhejiang medicines really rampant soil, or more precisely from the opium trade was legalized in 1858 began to produce opium in the late Qing, Zhejiang, 14000 Tam. After the legalization of the opium trade, foreign opium, euphemistically described as "foreign drugs" as a legal commodity taxation, every tax-jin silver 12. At the same time, the Qing government of the self-produced opium distribution is also to be lifting the ban. Qing central and local governments to raise funds, one after another on the opium targeting. PCT opium tax revenue in Zhejiang accounted for a large proportion of the financial annual average of 30% of total tax revenue over 1887 and the opium tax levy after determining the amount of more. However, the extent to which the opium revenue did not change the living conditions of the broad masses of working people, because the proceeds return to the last Youyi indemnity form the hands of Western powers, as its industrial development of capital accumulation. .Zhejiang opium of the modern research can not only expand the socio-economic research into the history of modern Zhejiang horizons, enrich the connotation of the modern history of Zhejiang Province, will help us from another side perspective of modern social history, Zhejiang, the process of development will help us from the drug point of view to interpret the history of modern society, Zhejiang, but also for our current anti-drug efforts, Zhejiang, is still an important reference to the meaning and value of the times.