林则徐所处的时代,正值清王朝由康、乾的鼎盛时代走向衰亡的转折时期,也是中国几千年的封建社会处于体解的前夕。这一时期的特点是:地主阶级和皇室贵族大量兼并土地,残酷地剥削广大农民,他们过着骄奢荒淫的生活;统治集团内部争权夺利,相互欺诈,勾心斗角,官吏昏庸无能,政府腐败黑暗;广大人民在残酷的压迫、沉重的剥削下,生活十分贫困,挣扎在生死线上。这时的国际形势也处在一个历史大转折时期,即:西方一些国家已完成了资产阶级革命,资本主义的生产方式已经确立,封建制度已被摧毁。资产阶级为了加快实现资本的原始 The era in which Lin Zexu was located was just the turning point in the dynastic era of decline and decline by the Kang Dynasty and the dry heyday of the dynasty. It was also the eve of the dissolution of the feudal society in China for thousands of years. The characteristics of this period were: the massive annexation of the land by the landlord class and the royalty of the royal family, the brutal exploitation of vast numbers of peasants who live a life of arrogance and prodigality; the struggle for power, mutual fraud and infighting within the ruling group, the frivolous government officials, the dark corruption of the government; Under cruel oppression and heavy exploitation, the people live in very poor conditions and struggle on the line of life and death. At this time, the international situation was also under a period of great historical turning point. Some countries in the West have already completed the bourgeois revolution. The capitalist mode of production has been established and the feudal system has been destroyed. The bourgeoisie in order to accelerate the realization of the original capital