China was forced to pay 21 million silver dollars for the destroyed opium and war costs [1, 5].
The war ended in 1842 with a decisive British victory. The resulting was the first of the "Unequal Treaties" [1, 3]: how_britain_went_to_war_with_china_over_opium
This conflict marked the beginning of China's "Century of Humiliation" and set the stage for the Second Opium War a decade later [3, 6]. AI responses may include mistakes. Learn more China was forced to pay 21 million silver
Five "treaty ports" (including Shanghai and Canton) were opened to British trade [2, 3]. 3]. To reverse this deficit
To reverse this deficit, the British East India Company began smuggling , grown in British-colonized India, into China [1, 3]. Although opium was illegal in China, the trade was incredibly lucrative [4, 6].