Reprinted 2016-04-1107: 53: 35.

Lin Zexu is a great national hero of the Chinese nation in the process of resisting foreign aggression. He advocated banning opium, resisting western aggression and safeguarding China's sovereignty and national interests, and was deeply admired by Chinese all over the world.

In the 18th year of Daoguang (1838), Daoguang appointed Lin Zexu as an imperial envoy to Guangdong to investigate the smoking ban. In the 19th year of Daoguang (1June 3rd, 839), on April 22nd, Lin Zexu seized nearly 20,000 boxes of British opium in Humentan and destroyed them in public, which dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the invaders. 1In June, 840, the British Empire launched the Opium War, and the Qing government defeated the soldiers and made peace. After withdrawing the forest in Yili, Xinjiang, Xu became an army.

In the first year of Xianfeng, 65-year-old Lin Zexu was re-used as an imperial minister in Guangxi. Although Lin Zexu was terminally ill at this time, as a former governor of China, he was still willing to accept his orders regardless of his illness. 1 65438+1October1,Xianfeng imperial edict went to Fuzhou,1October 5 165438, and Lin Zexu left. On the 22nd, Lin Zexu died in Puning County, Chaozhou, on the way to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Xianfeng wrote a letter to Prince Lin Zexu as a gift, and gave him a shirt according to the example of the governor. All the punishments during his tenure were recorded. Shi Wenzhong.

As for the cause of Lin Zexu's death, officially and generally speaking, Lin Zexu died of illness. Lin suffered from various diseases for a long time. On the way to his post, he was overworked, which led to a sharp deterioration of his condition and eventually died of sudden illness. But now more and more evidence shows that Lin Zexu was killed by Ren Shaorong, the head of Guangzhou Thirteen Foreign Firms, who was bribed by the British.

Ren Shaorong sold his soul, colluded with British businessmen, sold opium and acted as a traitor for his own interests. This time, Lin Zexu was reused by Emperor Xianfeng. The British and Ren Shaorong were afraid that Lin Zexu would be bad for themselves after being reused, so they killed Lin Zexu. At that time, a confidant of Ren Shaorong, the head of the 13th foreign firm, was seen in a hotel in Guangzhou and found a chef named Fazheng. The soldier secretly gave him 1200 silver and told him to obey the arrangement. Later, Fa Zheng was arranged to be a chef next to Lin Zexu.

On this day, Lin Zexu wants to eat millet porridge. Lin, who was waiting beside his father, immediately ordered the chef to cook millet porridge. After a while, the cook Fazheng cooked millet porridge, and Lin Zexu took a few sips of millet porridge. Soon after, Lin Zexu soon felt unbearable abdominal pain and diarrhea. On the fourth day, Lin Zexu was so weak that he could not speak. "Xindoulan, Xindoulan", a street called "Xindoulan" where the thirteenth foreign firm in Guangzhou is located, where Ren Shaorong, the general manager of the thirteenth foreign firm, lives. At this time, Lin Zexu clearly knew that Fa Zheng, the chef who sold Ren Shaorong, had committed suicide.

Cen of Lin Ze, Xu's great-grandson, said that all the businessmen in Guangdong 13th line were greedy and hated it. They were afraid that he would do something bad again, so they bribed the chef to let him eat croton soup, so they got sick and died.

Black-hearted chef Fa Zheng cooked porridge with croton, which made Lin Zexu diarrhea, aggravated his illness and eventually died with hatred. Later generations wrote in a poem mourning Lin Zexu; The sad new beanstalk is still there. When will ghosts see the light?

Because Lin Zexu died suddenly on the way to his post, there was no detailed record of his entourage, and there were different interpretations of Stars in the South, so the cause of Lin Zexu's death became a mystery. The fact that Lin Zexu was killed is not accepted by the new world because there is no real evidence, but it shows people's expectation for a loyal minister like Lin Zexu and their hatred for traitors and traitors.