James James Matheson's greatest ambition is to occupy Taiwan Province province, and he has repeatedly demanded that Chaton's proposal be included in the aggression plan. Haidong, on the other hand, thinks that Taiwan Province Province is too big for Taiwan Province Province to control, so it advocates occupying Xiamen and Kinmen, cutting off the connection between Taiwan Province Province and the mainland, and prefers to occupy Zhoushan and Hongkong. In fact, the whole deployment of Bamazun's invasion of China was mainly based on Chatton's suggestion. The Australian and Portuguese authorities imposed the above restrictions in the early opium trade, which led to more and more British opium ships sailing to Huangpu, Guangzhou. In Macao, British opium ships have to pay high taxes to Portuguese authorities; In Huangpu, you don't have to pay any taxes because the opium trade here is illegal smuggling. In Macao, British opium dealers must trade opium through Portuguese agents, and part of the profits from the transaction should be shared by Portuguese agents; In Huangpu, foreign opium dealers can trade directly with China tobacco dealers, and the profits will not be sidelined, but the risks will increase. Therefore, Huangpu gradually became a prosperous opium trade base, and opium trade began to enter a great "prosperity" era.

There are many ways for opium to flow into Huangpu: British opium dealers or China tobacco dealers collude inside and outside to take opium out of the ship and smuggle it to the mainland before entering Huangpu; Or hide opium at the bottom of the cargo ship to cover other goods and enter Huangpu in disguise; Or collude with honest officials and insurance businessmen to smuggle openly.

18 19, some new British businessmen joined the opium trade. When James James Matheson 18 19 arrived in Huangpu, he reported to his Indian opium consignor: "Hong merchants generally refuse to insure opium ships and need to be lured into a trap." It was also in this year (18 19) that Zha Dian came to Guangzhou. As a free agent, he started the opium business for Meiniche.

The soaring price of opium has made these opium operators on pins and needles. Taylor wrote excitedly, "Opium is like gold. I can sell it at any time." Davidson, one of the major opium dealers at that time, proudly said, "Nothing is simpler than selling opium." Menik, another major opium agent, asked customers in Bangladesh to buy as much opium as possible. He thinks that an opium dealer who just sent him 25 boxes of opium from Calcutta is too timid. He wrote to emphasize: "We sincerely hope that you can send ten times the money." However, after the opium price soared, it was followed by a sharp drop. "The strict measures just taken by the current government to ban opium consumption in China" led to a sharp drop in prices. Therefore, Meiniche soon sold opium in large quantities. At the same time, Meiniche sent an urgent letter to Calcutta, demanding that the contract for purchasing futures be cancelled immediately. Taylor died of depression in August 1820, when opium prices were low and James James Matheson almost went bankrupt.

The reason why opium prices fluctuated so greatly was that the Qing government's determination to enforce the law was erratic. 1in March, 820, the government ordered Davidson to sail the opium ship Honest Man from Huangpu, and declared that it was useless to send money. In April and July, the Governor of Guangdong, Guangxi and Guangdong Customs again ordered Hong Kong businessmen to search all foreign ships for opium and take full responsibility for the ships they guaranteed.

However, when the official ban on smoking is loose and tight, the attraction of selling opium always exists, and opium business is still the first choice of British individual businessmen.

182 1 In July, James James Matheson became a partner of Ishari. Ishari, a Spaniard, is closely related to La Lori, a big enterprise in Calcutta. After James James Matheson found a new partner, he gradually embarked on the road to success.

The cautious Zhadian is already familiar with the East at this time. In the second year (1822) when James James Matheson became a partner of Ishari Bank, 38-year-old Zhadian made up his mind to focus his business on Guangzhou, and set up an organization dealing in opium in Malva to concentrate on opium trade.