英国发动鸦片战争的根本目的是为了扩大商品市场,掠夺原料,但在第一次鸦片战争之后,这一目的并没有实现。在1855年以前的十年间,英国对华工业品贸易始终在二百万英镑左右徘徊。拥有3.6亿人口的中国,1853年人均消费英国棉纺织品的价值只有0.75便士;而仅有14600人口的洪都拉斯却 The fundamental purpose of the Opium War launched by the United Kingdom was to expand the commodity market and plunder raw materials. However, after the first Opium War, this purpose was not realized. In the ten years before 1855, the British trade in China’s industrial products was always around 2 million pounds. With a population of 360 million people in China, the per capita consumption of British cotton textiles was only 0.75 pence in 1853; Honduras, with a population of only 14,600