It Wasn't The British That Sold Opium To China (Leading To Opium War)
There was a wealthy j.ew named David Sassoon --- who, like his father, had served as treasurer to the pashas (governors) of Ottoman-ruled Baghdad. Later, the people and a new pasha turned against the Jewish money manipulator. In the 1830's - David left Baghdad to seek new scams in new lands.
David went to Bombay and established the Sassoon Family amongst the wealthiest and influential dynasties in the world. David Sassoon and his sons profited handsomely from different types of businesses. The trade which really raked in the shekels for the Sassoons later dubbed "the Rothschilds of the East" was in selling opium to China.
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THE FIRST OPIUM WAR (1839-1842)
The private British East India Company (Rothschild-owned) had grown opium in India and smuggling it to China. This reversed the trade surplus which China enjoyed while creating millions of opium addicts.
In 1839, the Emperor instructed Lin Zexu to stop the trade. Lin wrote to Queen Victoria appealing to her moral responsibility to stop the opium trade. Little did he know that Queen Victoria was just a figurehead. It were the Rothschilds that ruled Britannia.
Due to the war, by the 1840's, the Sassoons came to dominate the opium trade. Branching out from Bombay, they operated in some of the Chinese cities the British now controlled --- Shanghai, Hong Kong and Canton.