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After the first Opium War, Shanghai became one of five Chinese ports open to foreign residence and trade.
Straightened out for a while, Humayun came back in 1555 with his Persian army to recapture the Punjab, Delhi, and Agra, but the next year his opium habit caused his death (see page 64).
To Queen Victoria, Lin addressed a famous letter, pointing out the harm the “poisonous drug” did to China, and asking for an end to the opium trade; his arguments are unanswerable, but the lofty though heartfelt tone of the letter shows how unprepared the Chinese were to negotiate with the West in realistic terms.
In the aftermath of the Opium Wars, trade in “foreign mud” was resumed at a level even higher than before, although the major traders, by now respectable and diversified, stopped their trading in 1907.
He demanded that the British merchants in Canton surrender their opium stores, and to back up his ultimatum he laid siege to the traders, who, after six tense weeks, surrendered over 20,000 chests of opium.