康熙二十三年(1684),清政府在统一全国后开海贸易,并于次年设立了粤海关,管理中外贸易。从那个时候起,许多国家的东印度公司,包括英国、法国、荷兰、瑞典、丹麦和奥地利六个欧洲国家和在印度的英国公司,都纷纷来到广州进行贸易。广州一时成了远东最为繁荣的贸易港口。但是,西方人在广州的贸 Twenty-three years of Kangxi (1684), the Qing government opened the sea after the unification of the country, and the establishment of the Guangdong Customs in the following year, the management of foreign trade. Since then, many East Indian companies, including six European countries such as Britain, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Austria, as well as British companies in India, have come to Guangzhou for trade. Guangzhou temporarily became the most prosperous trade port in the Far East. However, Westerners trade in Guangzhou