林则徐神话比林则徐本人更重要,分为前后两期林则徐早在鸦片问题论战爆发以前,就以能员著称。他在福建巡抚张师诚幕府,处理当地盛行的贸易和走私(如果两者还能清楚鉴别的话)问题,颇受上峰赏识。他积累的经验是:走私其实就是官吏和绅商的利益勾结,海盗贸易者是这些人的代理。前者只能恐吓,适可而止。后者必须打击,尽可能消灭。他辅佐张师诚,剿灭了海盗(其实更有可能是武装走私集团)蔡 Lin Zexu’s myth is more important than Lin Zexu himself, and he is divided into two periods before Lin Zexu was known as an energy expert long before the outbreak of the opium controversy. He was greatly appreciated by the Fujian governor Zhang Shicheng’s shogunate handling the issue of trade and smuggling (if both were clearly identifiable) in the area. His accumulated experience is that smuggling is actually the collusion between officials and gentry merchants, and pirate traders are the agents of these people. The former can only intimidate, enough. The latter must fight and eliminate as much as possible. He assisted Zhang Shicheng, exterminating the pirates (in fact, more likely to be armed smuggling groups) Cai