上世纪英国商人们进行的鸦片贸易给中国带来的祸害以及中国政府悲剧性的反应已是人所皆知的历史知识了。这部著作提供的则是那个多事之秋里鲜为人知的一面。即英国人从事的这种毒品生意给英国人自己带来的影响。 见利忘义的英国商人主要是在东方贩运鸦片,但是不可避免地总有一部分鸦片流回英伦三岛,总有一部分英国人也成了瘾君子。因为鸦片当时在中 The scourge of the opium trade conducted by British businessmen in the last century and the tragic response of the Chinese government are well known historical knowledge. This book provides a little-known aspect of the eventful autumn. That is, the British people are engaged in this kind of drug business to the British people’s own influence. The British merchants who have lost sight of their interests are mainly peddling opium in the east, but inevitably there is always a part of opium flowing back to the British Isles. There are always British people who are also addicts. Because opium was in the middle