鸦片战争前夕,英国的东印度公司派遣一艘“阿美斯德勋爵号”商船北上,侦察寻找新的通商口岸。当主事的林赛和郭士立站在黄浦滩头时,顿时为这里得天独厚的自然条件震惊了。事后,他们在给东印度公司的报告中说,上海可以垄断全国的贸易!作为英国资产阶级向中国沿海地区投石问路的代表林赛直言:他一到上海,就被黄浦江上众多 On the eve of the Opium War, British East India Company dispatched a “Lord Amherst” merchant vessel northward to scout for a new treaty port. When the main event of Lindsay and Guo Shili standing Huangpu Beach, suddenly here for the blessed natural conditions shocked. Later, in a report to the East India Company, they said that Shanghai can monopolize the nation’s trade. As the representative of the British bourgeoisie in the coastal areas of China, Lindsay said bluntly: As soon as he arrived in Shanghai, he was greatly accredited by the Huangpu River