1883 in Shanxi Province zhang zhidong acquisitive

The annual event: 1883 in Shanxi Province zhang zhidong acquisitive desire leader smoke-free
This year, the sino-french war of sino-foreign spotlight shows enlargementMBT Staka, and persistent trend, the late qing dynasty bureaucrat, zhang zhidong acquisitive desire department leaders inside start in shanxi no-smoking campaign in some extent, Shadowed by the war off. The new shanxi governor, in the face of "no" and almost no county of opium crop, flood the province of shanxi is a "ghost issued the kingdom" lamented. Several years ago, deadly "d e odd shortage" starve, shanxi hardest-hit tens of thousands of people, mbt shoes uk opium cultivation is one of the main flood namely, only the deep bore zhang zhidong, of the court in what they wished to fret, rhetorically: if not smoking, in a few decades, shanxi is all washed up. So, and this year in April, in Shanxi Province zhang zhidong determined to develop a magnificent and victorious anti-smoking movement.

The importance of this movement is not in its results -- because it wouldn't MBT Ema,,have any effect, with zhang zhidong transfer by comparing the then governor, sports - and is: the famous acquisitive desire leader, firm ban shortly thereafter became the opium cultivation of native who firmly fostering. The Times reporter Morrison in saw clearly zhang zhidong this tricky change: "all governor zhang zhidong outside except against suck opium, zhang in theory, but in fact not against opposition", because this attachment is about are opium. Especially: he's in the QuanXuePian "in pain; the danger of opium Chen But at what they wished to court to describe the taxes on the run of opium the importance of westernization irreplaceable.

Zhang zhidong just was a typical example. In order to westernization self-improvement, MBT Pandaat indulge or even promote local opium cultivation and distribution, and reaped a rich "opium tax", actually already became the consensus of confrontations in late qing dynasty. Almost no one realized: this will national interests in the people's livelihood interests above absolute mind-set, since Chinese produce to the bad influence how the history of how horrible a tragedy.