I recommend reading Opium Wars by Julia Lovell. [1] To answer your question - main lobbyst behind first Opium War was Scottish opium trader James Matheson [2]. The fortune he had made on selling opium to China had been invested in…
> 英国历史学家蓝诗玲（Julia Lovell）也提出了类似的观点。在她的《鸦片战争》（The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China）一书中，她表示英国商人转向鸦片贸易并不是像许多中国历史学家所声称的那样，是一场蓄意要让中国人沦为毒品奴隶的阴谋。……
> Julia Lovell, a British historian, makes a similar point. In her book “The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China”, she says the move into opium by British traders was not, as claimed by many Chinese historians, a deliberate conspiracy to make narcotic slaves of the Chinese.…
建议读读蓝诗玲（Julia Lovell）的《鸦片战争》（Opium Wars）。[1] 回答你的问题——第一次鸦片战争背后的主要游说者是苏格兰鸦片贩子詹姆士·马地臣（James Matheson）[2]。他靠向中国贩卖鸦片赚来的巨额财富后来被投资到了……
I recommend reading Opium Wars by Julia Lovell. [1] To answer your question - main lobbyst behind first Opium War was Scottish opium trader James Matheson [2]. The fortune he had made on selling opium to China had been invested in…
> 英国历史学家蓝诗玲（Julia Lovell）也提出了类似的观点。在她的《鸦片战争》（The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China）一书中，她表示英国商人转向鸦片贸易并不是像许多中国历史学家所声称的那样，是一场蓄意要让中国人沦为毒品奴隶的阴谋。……
> Julia Lovell, a British historian, makes a similar point. In her book “The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China”, she says the move into opium by British traders was not, as claimed by many Chinese historians, a deliberate conspiracy to make narcotic slaves of the Chinese.…