APH: Opium

meanie Arthur x tearful Yao
(full view to see his tears )

the theme is opium wars, the wars that happened long
before an alliance was formed..
and those flowers are opium flowers i drew by hand,
sorry if they don't look like 'em
oh, and that thing in arthur's hand is an opium pipe

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facts
The Opium Wars, aka the Anglo-Chinese Wars, lasted
from 1839 to 1842 and 1856 to 1860, the climax of a
trade dispute between China and the British Empire.
British smuggling of opium into China in defiance of
China's drug laws erupted into open warfare between
Britain and China.

China's defeat in both wars left its government having
to tolerate the opium trade. Britain forced them into
signing the Treaty of Nanjing and the Treaty of Tianjin,
aka the Unequal Treaties. Several countries followed
Britain and sought similar agreements with China.
The Opium Wars forcefully and suddenly opened China
to the world.

*cut from wikipedia*