•1820s“country trade”and “country ships” they go to the pearl river andunder cover of night rowed small armed rowboats, then sell the things,row back to mainland and then product controlled by Chinese•Volume increases exponentially, 1729- 200 chests/year sold. 1767- 1000chests/year, 1820- 4500/year, 1837- 40 000/year•By 1830 opium dens as common in china as gin houses in England•B find out, lower the price, more market, increase profit by sheer volume•Opium spread from Canton to anyone in the city•Ching govnt had to take action because spreading from city to rural areas•Dope trade draws in all foreign traders•Jardine, Matheson and companyhandles 1/3 of all opium sold toChina•B control large amount of opium market in China, America gets in on it•American traders hook up with Turkish opium producers, then sendopium to China•Roosevelt family got rich off opium trade•B interested in opium, since ppl are more wealthy, they can charge moretaxes B turns blind eye to opium problem, decide only fault of users•China is bleeding silver by end of 1820s, bad enough, but China has asilver(big) and copper(small) currency, because of copper in relation tosilver, taxes become huge•Southern China ppl throw down the plough and turn to banditry becausethey can’t pay the taxes