I just looked this up. William Jardine of a humble family never married. He founded the Jardine Matheson group and incited the Opium Wars against China 1839-42. Those wars gained the UK Hong Kong and access to five major ports including Shanghai. He didn't have descendants but his older brother David did (at least four sons who worked for Jardine Matheson, including Sir Robert Jardine, ancestor of the Buchanan Jardine baronets) and a sister Jean Johnston, ancestress of the Keswick family that now owns Jardine Matheson. David Kandace's mother was a daughter of a Jardine baronet of Applegarth, an unrelated family. I wonder if Jardine Matheson knew that David Landale was apparently no relation. Since he was appointed Taipan (head of the company), I suspect not. But the company historians now do. I don't want to go into details about the opium trade about which I know little. Opium production was legal in British ruled Bengal and Malwa. Its trade was legal in the British empire. But opium trade was illegal in China. Jardine Matheson and its Indian partners smuggled an illegal addictive product into China. They (and other European powers) then used force to make it legal.
Americans, British, France and India brought opium to get China to open their country for trade. They got Chinese people guarding their ports on opium so they could force themselves into China. The King of China saw this opiate crisis and went to visit Queen Victoria about both countries opioid addiction. The King found out that the British were not addiction to the drug. That's what started the Opium wars. Because Queen Victoria didn't want to discuss why those traders used a highly addictive substance to force China into trading. That was the last of "Kingship" in China. China had all the resources at one point in history, that's why they did not need to trade goods for another. Shameful of how badly the European countries did many dirty things to get what they wanted.
Its not a minefield, opium was popular amongest social Chinese elites and intellectuals from 1810-1950. My Shanghainese grandma said the wealthy family rather let sons take opium, than to gamble the family fortunes away. Because the cost of smoking opium a month was around the price of 50-70kg rice. I gather that opium house costed more, but still relatively affordable by middle class.
From what I remember, Matthew has a gateway ancestor (member if aristocracy whose pedigree is documented), which led back to royalty, and God. ALL medieval kings were directly descended from God.
So after they fight a war to control opium shipping he actually asks if the company stayed in opium. Uh... yeah... that's why the guy Britain to go to war with China. It's not like, "Well we won. Cost lives and ships, but we were just kidding. China, you can have all the opium trade now." 🙄
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They have a past connection in china... It doesn't make her Chinese cos of birth location.
Make that "family who lived in China..." not Chinese lol
Yeah..
Exactly...🙄🙄🙄
ugh seriously?
@Tigerman writer 100%, was thinking the same.
I apply the same rule with foreigners in Britain.
I just looked this up. William Jardine of a humble family never married. He founded the Jardine Matheson group and incited the Opium Wars against China 1839-42. Those wars gained the UK Hong Kong and access to five major ports including Shanghai. He didn't have descendants but his older brother David did (at least four sons who worked for Jardine Matheson, including Sir Robert Jardine, ancestor of the Buchanan Jardine baronets) and a sister Jean Johnston, ancestress of the Keswick family that now owns Jardine Matheson.
David Kandace's mother was a daughter of a Jardine baronet of Applegarth, an unrelated family. I wonder if Jardine Matheson knew that David Landale was apparently no relation. Since he was appointed Taipan (head of the company), I suspect not. But the company historians now do.
I don't want to go into details about the opium trade about which I know little. Opium production was legal in British ruled Bengal and Malwa. Its trade was legal in the British empire. But opium trade was illegal in China. Jardine Matheson and its Indian partners smuggled an illegal addictive product into China. They (and other European powers) then used force to make it legal.
Americans, British, France and India brought opium to get China to open their country for trade. They got Chinese people guarding their ports on opium so they could force themselves into China. The King of China saw this opiate crisis and went to visit Queen Victoria about both countries opioid addiction. The King found out that the British were not addiction to the drug. That's what started the Opium wars. Because Queen Victoria didn't want to discuss why those traders used a highly addictive substance to force China into trading. That was the last of "Kingship" in China. China had all the resources at one point in history, that's why they did not need to trade goods for another. Shameful of how badly the European countries did many dirty things to get what they wanted.
Some doors better stay unopened....
Why would China “granted” a district in Shanghai to the British? I hope it’s been taught in history classes.
It wasn’t “granted.” Google “Opium Wars,” it’s pretty awful.
He's the Descendents of kings going all the way back to Adam and Eve...
Grandfather was a drug dealer😂😂😂😂😂😂
Its not a minefield, opium was popular amongest social Chinese elites and intellectuals from 1810-1950. My Shanghainese grandma said the wealthy family rather let sons take opium, than to gamble the family fortunes away. Because the cost of smoking opium a month was around the price of 50-70kg rice. I gather that opium house costed more, but still relatively affordable by middle class.
And to think that I only have tracked until 7th generation behind me :/
He have arrived beyond !
From what I remember, Matthew has a gateway ancestor (member if aristocracy whose pedigree is documented), which led back to royalty, and God. ALL medieval kings were directly descended from God.
don't be intentionally stooopid
So after they fight a war to control opium shipping he actually asks if the company stayed in opium. Uh... yeah... that's why the guy Britain to go to war with China. It's not like, "Well we won. Cost lives and ships, but we were just kidding. China, you can have all the opium trade now." 🙄
Trading in opium////
The British were right #!&*.
So Opium fulled the gold medals?
yees