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The Opium war started by China selling tea , silk and porcelain to the British by giving it to them through the silk road and earning lots of money.
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The British were getting very angry beacause they were going broke and China was getting richer so they started selling opium to China, wich they knew was poisonious.
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Lin Zexu was appointed by the emperor as a special commissioner to stop the opium trade. He and his troops traveld to foreign factories to make people surrender chests of opium.
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In order of losing the war China had to sign the treaty and had to give Hong Kong to the British for a 100 years. It is now calle the treaty of nanking.