posted two posts before, and several people told me privately, banned betel nut What are Hainan farmers eating? What does Hunan’s economic development rely on? If I lose my job, I will pay my salary? Someone asked me funnyly, "You can do business if you have a market. Can you control me if you are willing to buy it?" It seems that in our country you can buy anything you want. Whether it is guns or drugs, there is a market where you can buy and sell contraband.
Many people think that because it hurts Hainan’s farmers’ income and Hunan’s economic industry, we cannot and should not ban betel nut. If this reason can be valid, then the national hero Lin Zexu of that year will have much better vision and insight than yours. He still lives in . The Qing Dynasty had no mobile phones or the Internet. He only faced the coercion, inducement and strong ships and cannons from the great powers. In this way, he still destroyed more than 22.3 million kilograms of opium in in Macau, Humen and other places.
Lin Zexu bans smoking
This cigarette is big smoke, that is, opium, just like betel nut, is toxic, addictive, and harmful to the body . Many people don’t know what the concept of 2.3 million kilograms of opium is. According to the documentary records in 1840, a box of opium generally contains 80 opium balls, while an opium ball is about 1.4-1.5 kilograms. According to this calculation, a box of 120 kilograms is about 120 kilograms. Lin Zexu will probably destroy 20,000 boxes of .
According to relevant records of China's prices, a box of opium could be sold for 600 taels of silver at that time, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty it could be as high as 2000 taels of . If calculated at 600 taels of silver, then a pound of opium will cost about 5 taels of silver . If calculated at 2000 taels of silver, a pound of opium will cost more than 16 taels of silver .
So how much did Lin Zexu sell in total? Calculated at 5 taels per catty, that is html more than 211 million taels of silver , and 16 taels of html more than 236 million taels of silver . Everyone knows that our country’s first unequal treaty, “ Nanjing Treaty ”, did the Qing government pay a total of how much silver? ——14.76 million taels . If we compare it according to the highest price, the total value of opium destroyed by Lin Zexu was more than the compensation of the two Nanjing treaties. In 1843 (the 14th year of Daoguang), the entire Qing government's treasury was only 27 million taels of , and the construction cost of so many warships in the entire Beiyang Navy was only 30 million taels of . From this, we can imagine how strong and strong the banned smoking was, and how strong the confidence and determination were.
Is the current output value of betel nut as high as opium? Can it be equal to or even exceed the entire treasury? Not to mention the national treasury, it is less than one-tenth of the entire Hunan Province GDP. Why can't be banned? Why don’t you dare to ban it? Why shouldn't it be banned?
This is just the part of the opium that was destroyed by Lin Zexu, far less than half of the country held at that time. There are also many smuggled cigarettes wandering in the Lingding Ocean and local poppy planted in domestic fields. Faced with such a large-scale and large-scale area, the inaction-free Qing government dared to issue an order to "ban smoking" , , we are not even as good as the Qing court?
The origin of the sick man in East Asia
Look at the income of Chinese people at that time! In 1840, the total income (or total expenditure) of an ordinary family of five was probably 30-40 taels of per year, which is already a well-off level. The poor and lower-middle peasants and tenants are not even able to reach double digits, just to ensure that they do not starve to death. At that time, 28-year-old Zeng Guofan worked as the seventh rank, and his total salary for one year was only 120 t. .
If we calculate this income, we will calculate it based on the cheapest 6 taels of silver per kilogram of opium. If it is a poor family, the total income of a year is probably enough to buy per kilogram of opium. Even if it is a wealthy family, they can only buy 5 or six kilograms of in total.So the question is, if a person who smokes opium for a long time, how many pounds should he buy in a year?
According to statistics from a very famous Shason Foreign Company at that time, the average opium consumed by an adult smoker in my country is between 1 kilograms and 1.5 kilograms of in a year. Of course, rich people may double. In other words, if you are infected with opium in a poor family, the money you work every day is only enough to maintain the expenses of opium. If it is not enough, you can only sell your children and girls. The key is that if you are a person who smokes opium for a long time, you will not only be pale and thin, but also be weak and weak.
1936, at the Berlin Olympics in Germany, the 69-member delegation sent by the National Government was wiped out except for one of them who entered the rematch. After seeing the performance of the Chinese, foreign media directly published a comic in the newspaper: , under the Olympic Fifth Ring Road, a group of Chinese with long braids, long robes and jackets, described as thin Chinese people carrying a big duck egg on a stretcher, titled "The Sick Man in East Asia". So, how many people were smoking opium in the late Qing Dynasty?
In the book "The Dangerous Words of the Prosperous Age", according to the records of Zheng Guanying , in 1890, the total number of people who smoked opium in my country may have reached 80 million. Based on the total population of the country at that time, one in every five people smoked opium. Looking at Hunan, this ratio is mainly concentrated in cities such as Changsha, Zhuzhou and Tan and and Yiyang . One-fifth of people should be conservatively estimated to eat betel nut. Therefore, the ban on betel nuts in should not start from other places, but should be spontaneously organized from these major production and sales areas. Of course, if the local leaders do nothing and just live by, then let’s watch it! The history of the shame of "Sick Man in East Asia" has been washed away by less than a hundred years.
Betel nut is not opium?
Many people say that betel nut is not an opium, nor a drug, nor a carcinogen. Whether it is a carcinogen is not something you can draw a conclusion. Please check the list of carcinogens published by the United Nations World Health Organization . It is clear at a glance. As for why betel nut causes cancer, it is clearly written in it, and you can't argue with it at all. Of course, the betel nut products produced in Hunan also add various harmful seasonings, which further increases the risk of cancer.
As for what impact it has on chewing people, many people like to give some examples, saying that I have eaten it for decades and have not seen anything wrong. I personally recommend that you go to the hospital for a comprehensive examination before saying this. In addition, the effects of ordinary people such as , black and yellow teeth, foul odor, loss of taste, avoiding sourness and ice , etc. do not need to be said more. Most people who eat for a long time have the above problems.
There is another type of people who say that you can control the amount of betel nut, and you won’t be banned. In fact, this is the same as the opium mentioned above. Can be "addicted" be self-controlled? Have you ever seen any addict who successfully quit drugs by himself? As for why betel nuts become more addictive the more I eat, there are a lot of authoritative explanations on the Internet, so I won’t repeat them here.
Of course, there are more people who can cheat, and it is better to say whether betel nut is banned and cigarettes are also banned. Do you think it is very difficult to ban cigarettes? There is almost no country that dares to ban cigarettes? To be honest, in addition to the fact that taxes do account for a relatively large proportion, cigarettes do not find a reason to exist, so it should be banned. For many smokers in our country, such as those who smoke in supermarkets, stations, restaurants, and even in front of women and children. Do you go to Singapore to check it out? If you dare to draw one casually, you will be fined every minute so that you can't afford the return ticket. People dare to ban smoking in public places. There are almost no smoking areas in the country, unless it is in your own house (I tried to legislate that year, and I can't smoke at home, dare you believe it?) .
can be banned. It should be banned.
industries without any prospects. If they are not banned, will they still harm the party? Will the model that builds economic development on harming the public's health last for a long time? When did opium be eliminated? You don’t know, but in fact, it was only after the founding of the People’s Republic of China that it completely disappeared from the farmers’ fields, and it has been less than a hundred years since then. Do you want to grow another "opium" now?
is absolutely not allowed, we will not agree!
