晚清年间,西方国家尤其是英国在中英贸易中通过各种途径向中国大量输入鸦片,同时用武力维持这种罪恶的贸易,并于1858年通过《天津条约》使其合法化,中国遂成为这种毒品贸易的最大受害国,鸦片的输入不仅摧残了千百万中国人的身心健康,也带来了严重的社会问题和经济问题,清政府受其困扰达一百年 During the late Qing Dynasty, Western countries, especially Britain, imported large quantities of opium into China through Sino-British trade in various ways. At the same time, they used force to maintain such evil trade and legalized them through the Tianjin Treaty in 1858. As the biggest victim of the drug trade, opium import not only destroyed the physical and mental health of millions of Chinese people, but also brought about serious social and economic problems. The Qing government was troubled by this for a hundred years