林则徐是中国近代史上卓越的思想家和伟大爱国者,他不仅是鸦片战争中反侵略的英勇斗士,而且还是一位为探求西方知识而作出不懈努力的杰出先驱者,后人誉之为“清代放眼看世界的第一人”。到广东“禁烟”之前,林则徐对自己的主要对手英国还不是很了解.有过“天朝声威”可“慑服夷人”的天真想法。他对当时世界情况的了解也是极为有限,英船“杉达” Lin Zexu, an outstanding thinker and a great patriot in the modern history of China, was not only a heroic warrior against aggression in the Opium War, but also an outstanding pioneer who made unremitting efforts to explore western knowledge. Look at the world’s first person. “ Before he went to Guangdong to ban smoking, Lin was not very understanding about his main rival, Britain, and had the innocent idea of ​​”sounding heaven“ and ”deterring obscurity.“ His understanding of the world situation at the time was also extremely limited. The British ship ”Shanda"