鸦片贸易打破了中国对外贸易的长期优势,使中国由二百多年来的出超国变成入超国,“鸦烟流毒,为中国三千年未有之祸”。鸦片大量输入,使中国每年白银外流达600万两,中国国内发生严重银荒,造成银贵钱贱,财政枯竭,国库空虚。烟毒泛滥不仅给中 The opium trade has broken the long-term advantage of China’s foreign trade and has transformed China from a super-nation over two hundred years into a super-nation. “Opium smoke and poison are the culprit for three thousand years in China.” The massive importation of opium caused the annual outflow of silver in China amounting to 6 million taels. There have been serious shortage of silver in China, resulting in the loss of silver and gold, fiscal depletion and empty treasury. The spread of drug abuse not only to